Brian Sweeting

The number of open liquid containers next to electronics and the position of Andy’s laptop create more anxiety in me than anything in Pluribus.

Popeye the Slayer Man (2025) - IMDb 1h 28m | Not Rated

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Not sure I’ve ever laughed harder at anything than I did around the midpoint of S2E3 of #therehearsal.

Love on the Spectrum is the only good dating reality show.

Another day, another automatic removal of an unapproved app (Raycast) by IT from my work computer.

Rewatching Severance S1 before starting S2 and it’s amazing how much different the show hits now, with the job market and employer power differential being what they are, than it did at the peak of the Great Resignation.

Today’s self-inflicted reminder of how much older I am than the people I work with came when I compared White Lotus to Fantasy Island.

In 1989, at age 12, I first started watching SNL regularly. My VHS tapes of Best of Eddie Murphy, Best of Mike Myers, and SNL Goes Commercial were cherished and well-worn. Thanks for the many laughs and amazing cultural moments. #snl50

Google calendar only showing free/busy (hide details)

Okay all you busy bees. Defend why you set your work calendar visibility like this.

The OpenAI brand refinement fixes the different stroke widths that always bugged me with their previous mark.

https://youtu.be/k3d_xeVxEOE

AirPlay → Sonos speakers works so much more reliably than Sonos app → Sonos speakers.

I wish Apple would just buy Sonos.

I have a non-matte and it’s great if you only want to connect it to a Mac.

Here are others you might also want to consider (not all released yet):

- Samsung Viewfinity 5K (S9)
- Asus ProArt 5K (PA27JCV)
- ViewSonic 5K (VP2788)
- LG UltraFine 6K (32U990A)
- Asus ProArt 6K (PA32QCV)

Signs — Grace Leigh Art

Love that! Several Harmon’s grocery stores in Utah employ sign artists. Here are some great ones from the artist at my local store. https://www.graceleighart.com/signs

This might sound weird, but I only listened to 1-3 until Weird Al’s Hamilton Polka became my gateway drug to listen to the full soundtrack.

Streaming services need an “Always Skip Intro” button.

It blows my mind that people are willing to wait 2 hours on a Friday or Saturday night for a table at mediocre chain restaurant, while there are so many great non-chain options with little to no wait at all.

Culinary Class Wars on Netflix has the family hooked.

Drawing Dynamic Visualizations For more information, see: http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddendum Throughout the history of science, diagrams and graphs have been essential…

Trying to create a data visualization component library in @figma.com and wishing someone there would watch and be inspired by this Bret Victor video. https://vimeo.com/66085662

#MorningWalk

Finding a lot of great book recommendations from #UrbanismBookClub

“School” movie posters

“Academy” movies

More “academy” movies

This country used to care about education:

I’ve used the Apple Magic Mouse for 15 years and recently several people have told me the Logitech MX Master 3S would be a game-changer. Anyone else want to add some social proof to that claim?

10 podcasts to get to know me:
(in no specific order)

- The Rewatchables
- Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend
- Accidental Tech Podcast
- Reconcilable Differences
- Bullseye
- Plain English
- 99% Invisible
- The Gist
- The Daily
- RadioWest

My old home town!

This is the way.

Page > Instances > Components > Sub Components

I’ve also found it useful to put instances of all components on a single sticker sheet page so you can get a quick overview of the whole UI kit.

This morning’s walk.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/pVAMI8QYM42n6/200.gif Lloyd Christmas sad and sickened in Dumb & Dumber.

Going back to Chrome after corporate IT prevented me from using Arc Browser on my work machine.

That must have been the background color and border radius that tested best of the 41 variations they tried. 🙃

I think this plugin will give you that and more. https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/799648692768237063/select-layers

It’s hard to stay interested in TV series when there’s a 1-2 year gap between seasons. I miss the cadence of seasons starting in the fall and ending in late spring.