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Jun 9
I was foolish to think that this was the bottom of the UX slop barrel...
Today I learned that my Google Pixel randomly interrupts calls with an auto-response when I decline a call instead of going to my voicemail. It's a weird middle finger to anyone calling when I can't answer.
16 Apr 2024
I will never understand how some UX decisions get made.
I'm on a call, waiting on hold. Android offers "call assist". All I expect it to do is listen to the call and let me know when someone picks up so I don't have to listen the automated hold recording every minute.
Instead, it answers the call itself with a robot voice and gets it hung up on every single time. How was the leap made from "assist" to "replace yourself on a call with what sounds like a robodialer"?
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May 28
After my phone broke, I was forced to upgrade from Samsung S24 to Pixel 10 Plus. I love the camera and the 128 GB storage. The rest? Not so much.
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May 28
After it reset and I logged back in, I got a marketing page for AI features I already had — then a prompt to restart for an update. Chose "now." Nothing happened. Because the update had already completed. 🙃
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May 28
This is already more bugs than I remember dealing with on Android since the S4 era. Somehow the Google version of Android feels worse than Samsung's. Not the upgrade I was hoping for.
You can really tell that Google was serious about going all in on AI.
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May 21
Recently learned about Judith Herman's work and found it to be really predictive of recovery from alcohol addiction and complex trauma. Funny thing that inspired me to read this was getting a puppy. Nothing speedruns grief like raising a living animal.
neurodiversecounseling.com/c…
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Mar 15
My Notion is a disaster.
I want to go back to it, but I can't bring myself to clean it up manually. And I don't want to just nuke it.
There's stuff in there I actually care about. Budgets, podcast and blog post ideas, recipes, project notes...
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Mar 15
So I'm wondering: is there a way to use AI to quickly sort a messy Notion database into logical groups?
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14 Nov 2025
Love this idea. I just hope it doesn't get abused. But less generic articles written by AI would make for much better information searching.
SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search | Kagi Blog blog.kagi.com/slopstop
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27 Sep 2025
Thoughts on my recent digital detox. Not sure if I'm a fan of this image formatting thing anymore tbh.
ALT Screenshot essay titled 'Use technology. Don't let it use you'. The text discusses the author's experience at a digital detox retreat called Camp Reset. As a software engineer, the author reflects on their dependency on technology, including social media and productivity apps, and the challenge of taking a break from devices. They describe the initial discomfort of disconnecting but ultimately embrace the creativity and joy that comes from it. The author acknowledges the usefulness of some apps while promoting mindfulness in tech use. The essay encourages others to consider a break from compulsive tech habits to improve their quality of life.
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27 Sep 2025
Here's a link to it on Medium, in case anyone wants to read it on a proper blog platform. (friend link so it should be accessible).
medium.com/@matthewweeks/use…
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27 Sep 2025
This is what I wish Google looked like.
What are your current favourite non-ad-pocalypse / -AI-ified search engines you are using these days?
I miss the days when I could search for a topic and find a decently written, well-linked, and relevant article that actually worked.
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8 Jul 2025
Hey @mattpocockuk it's been a while since I did your Total Typescript course, but there was a plugin you used for inspecting types that I really loved, and I can't seem to recall it or find it.
You'd type // ^? and it would print out the type of an object or the value of a type
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Matthew Weeks retweeted
8 Mar 2020
This is a nice read about how one engineer fell in love with managing state as a finite state tree. It's interesting how old patterns reemerge in new frameworks, and seeing folks learn them for the first time.
My love letter to XState and statecharts ♥ buff.ly/39A3d1Y
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6 Jun 2024
The more I use it, the more I love @browsercompany arc. The ability to have all my tabs for a project together I can leave it for weeks come back and know exactly where I was.
Today, I found out about the Pull Requests smart folder right as I was about to start a folder for PRs!
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25 Apr 2024
Why did Apple choose to make apps completely hidden behind the notch?
There must have been some discussion about it on the ux team, and how it potentially breaks many applications if the menu item is hidden...
Such a bizarre oversight that has never been addressed.
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