Helmsman of @GravityDept — responsive design is my ship and eCommerce my sails. Swayed by vintage motorcycles and photo walks.
Joined July 2007
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9 Sep 2019
Mondays ➔ It's a very exciting time. We've got a lot of work to do. Let's get to it.
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May 29
When the President’s mobile phone grift uses the US flag to sell e-waste and changes the number of stripes which officially dishonors the flag to stay 100% on-brand.
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May 26
Don’t begrudge Jony for convincing Ferrari to let him design the car Apple gave up on.
It’s remarkable he had to start over, and got it done after 20 years trying.
Nobody you will ever speak to in your whole life will see this $600k car once.
So what if it’s entirely for him?
every designer right now is extremely conflicted.
On one hand we all have extreme respect for Sir Jony and the LoveFrom team. On the other hand.. the gut feeling that this feels more like a prius than a sporty, desirable, groundbreaking $640k Ferrari EV at first glance.
Even the sounds used in the reveal video feel more like Apple DNA than Ferrari
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May 20
My former health insurer @capbluecross violated anti-trust law by agreeing to not compete to inflate premiums, and lost the class action lawsuit in 2020.
Settled for $2.67 billion.
Lawyers got $0.7 billion.
6 years later the class member payments go out.
I got $11.59.
USA!
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May 18
Apparently my AI joke tweet is now AI cutting edge practice: x.com/Falkowski/status/20423…
May 18
Soooo @trq212 has straight up changed my life with these 5 words:
"HTML is the new markdown."
It's so obvious in hindsight: while .md is simple to write and agents can read it well, it's a total slog to eyeball as a human.
In this special ep recorded live at Code with Claude, Thariq walks me through how he:
- uses HTML artifacts as interactive specs
- builds throwaway micro-UIs
- maintains a living design system in HTML
- prompts Claude with "whatever is needed" to give it room to actually think
He also tells us what comes after the SWE PM role 👀
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May 12
Oooooooof, you guys are putting up rookie numbers.
My last new computer sat in the box for 6 months easy.
I'm still using that 2019 Intel MBP to this day just to avoid the unbearable mental load of shifting machines.
x.com/Falkowski/status/12925…
May 12
*a month
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May 12
Legal: we need to update the privacy policy and terms of use for the web.
It’s 100 KB of DOCX files.
Me: trying to use AI to convert them to plain HTML, but giving up after 20 minutes of Claude and Gemini churning for nothing.
Handwriting HTML like the heathen kings of old.
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Apr 29
CSS has changed so much in 3 years.
I completely missed that media queries were added to the native nesting proposal.
Baseline 2023! No no no 2023!...
Somehow never heard or saw that until @syntaxfm brought it up here: youtu.be/mbGbPVMSnAQ?si=uQej…
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Apr 22
My "blame your tools" rabbit hole of the day:
`editor.showUnused` stopped working in @code.
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Apr 22
Solved with great pain ➔
The Typescript go-hards at Microsoft made it necessary for my non-Typescript React project to suddenly need this file to continue writing JS in @code without adopting Typescript:
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Apr 22
Implied config is developer cancer if I don’t even know what’s killing me.
This "VS Code standard" (lol) is 11 years old and I've never heard of it because I guess plain JS is a crime.
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Apr 22
✴️ Till I’m 90.
✴️ @GravityDept started 17 years ago.
It’s looking like @Falkowski will be here till he’s 90.
Also, happy Earth Day 🌎🌍🌏🌐
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Apr 12
3:26 pm on a Sunday
Another year of live-tweeting my taxes has begun.
Let’s kick off with the Mortal Kombat motion picture soundtrack.
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Apr 13
Tax return done: 4 hours, 52 minutes
What an exhausting tax system that changes significantly every single year.
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