Jake Zukowski

Americans, what is your act of patriotism you will be showing this year? #patriot #patriotism #independenceday #july4th

I think he was freaked out by the fireworks. Happy 4th?

Look folks. I’m counting this as a full super-wide pull up.

Yes! Let me know how you like it. I just finished chapter 7 “when grown-ups throw tantrums” and saw a lot of myself in there. 😅

Everyone's judging you. And it's absolutely fine.

Feel like a fraud? Feel like no one cares? Yeah, me too. All the time. (5:53)

YouTube video by Cosmic Plumbing 088: Dealing Out the Cards

UX meets React: @tres.cosmic.plumbing and @jake.cosmic.plumbing walk through the latest card-based UI they’re building—clean OOUX thinking, slick composition, and real dev muscle behind the polish. Cards are lookin’ sharp. youtu.be/FHL_ahdv3AI

It's not perfect #UI (my simple light theme has a problem with the card title), but I'm really loving how these selectable grid cards are coming together.

I'm loving the direction we are going here!

It’s janky, but it’s progress. We are nearing the finish of our open beta!

If I had to sum up me and @tres.cosmic.plumbing in three words, it would be kombucha, bidet, and metric. 👇🏾 (4:28)

This YouTube cover art is my most morbid creation.

Ummmm how much do I love designing beautiful #ui that should be just fucking boring? 😍 #uidesign #design

Are anti-Swifties going to hell? Weigh in! (6:18)

What is scientifically the best icon for butthurt? Learn today in this week’s episode (23:00) 👇🏾

What’s the formula to determine a true billionaire mindset? We cracked the code at 19:16. 👇🏾

Why in the world would @tres.cosmic.plumbing choose French? (8:54) 👇🏾

Hey #ux! Sophia Prater is hosting a new, free training session this Thursday! A whopping 90 minutes or more about complexity wrangling, asking million-dollar questions, cross-functional collaboration, and intuitive design.

Head over to OOUX.com/levelup to learn more and sign up! #ooux #uxdesign

But does anyone care? (14:03)

What happens when two video podcasters try different communication styles while Mercury Stations and moves Retograde? Lots of editing.

When ChatGPT basically tells you to calm down, you might have a problem. We discuss in this week's episode.

What exactly is the plural of ethos again? Is there a plural? All great questions I'm too lazy to actually look up.

YouTube video by Cosmic Plumbing 075: The Me in Theme

But, the real question is: is it calculus? (14:26) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oamK...

Our internet problems be damned. I guess this is what we get for trying to create an episode from the wilderness of Washington and the mountains of North Carolina. Related: give me an awesome houndstooth pattern any day of the week.

Hey #UX designers. The amazing Sophia Prater has a free course coming up called the UX Level-Up. If you want to improve your UX skills by understanding and designing for complexity faster, you won't want to miss this event. www.ooux.com/uxlevelup

The video podcast Our Cosmic Journey on a Nintendo Switch

A viewer showed me our video podcast Our Cosmic Journey playing on their Nintendo Switch.

Worst. Indie. Game. Ever.

Here's the thing. When you have lists of things, you need to sort the list by something, right? So, for Aspects, I was like, "the default sort should be strength of aspect." But then Hellenistic Astrology was like 🤯 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

Astrology is hard.

Watch this week's episode!

Incense holder that looks like an old man smoking a pipe

Incense burners need to look more like old men smoking pipes

Stop trolling!

A piece of UI showing a task was added on the 13th of December 2017 at 8:02pm and that task was completed on the 27th of January 2025 at 11:35am.

If you want to know why GTD is amazing as a trusted system of tasks and to-dos: I've had a task to move over my husband's HSA now since 2017. I finally completed it today, 2,602 days later. It never bubbled up to the top of the list until today, but it was never forgotten.