A Time Zone Converter Script Command for Raycast
I’ve just published my first Raycast script command: Time Converter, which takes a time (local to your machine), one or more locations, and pastes the…
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A New Kind of Creativity
I’ve been playing with AI-generated art via Midjourney and DALL-E, which take text prompts and turn them into images. That may not sound impressive, but…
Leaping over portfolio pitfalls
Photo by Jordan Opel on Unsplash Hi, a quick note: I love to hire recent grads, and was on the advisory board of a bootcamp a while back.…
Video Call Super Powers
Two apps that boost my effectiveness as a colleague and leader Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash, modified by Alex As a design leader, I know that how…
Tactics for handling your interview nerves
Strategies from a true story with a happy ending. Photo from Burst, modified by Alex Countless posts affirm what we all know — the job interview…
How to Be a Good Mentee
A mentor can be a huge boon to your career development, but you’ll need to come prepared Photo: Toa Heftiba via Unsplash, modified by Alex When you’re…
The Skilled Manager’s Guide to Dealing With Underperformers
You can’t manage someone’s performance; you can only help them manage it themselves Dealing with someone who isn’t performing at the level they should be…
Get Over Yourself: Being Open to Challenge
To be a good design leader, encourage your team to challenge your decisions Over the last couple of years, I’ve had the privilege to lead…
The Inconsistent & Perplexing Amazon Toggle
A lesson on the importance of using established patterns, courtesy of my frustration today with Amazon. I’ve been lucky enough to work in the realm…
What they don’t tell you about leadership
Being in charge is an alluring idea. You get to make the important decisions, and well, you know what you’re doing, so you’ve got that…
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How to Build a Small Solar Power System »
This guide explains everything you need to know to build stand-alone photovoltaic systems that can power almost anything you want. -
The No Symbol: The History Of The Red Circle-Slash »
One of the best-known icons of modern society is a classic example of a symbol—it’s easy to spot, but hard to explain. Who came up with it? -
MockUPhone »
Free web app to wrap mockups/screenshots in a phone, tablet, or computer
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Giant ‘sand battery’ holds a week’s heat for a whole town »
What a great idea!
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Movie Posters Perfected »
A live, cloud-based library of 3,500+ curated movie posters in 4K or higher resolution
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Anytype – The Everything App »
A Notion competitor with proper offline storage/support: “Everything you create and store is E2E encrypted, local-first, and synced in your local p2p network.”
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State of startup compensation, H2 2023 »
Carta is sharing some interesting stats.
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Okay, Color Spaces »
Great explanation of color spaces, moving from simple to quite technical.
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RSS Anything »
“Transform any old website with a list of links into an RSS Feed”. This looks awesome
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Name Sans »
A beautiful typeface based on the tile mosaic name tablets of the New York City subway.
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StableStudio: Community interface for generative AI »
An open-source interface for Stable Diffusion
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S-GPT »
An Apple Shortcut to Connect OpenAI’s ChatGPT
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Tiny Awards »
“a small prize awarded by an equally-small selection committee of online makers to the website which we feel best embodies the idea of a small, playful and heartfelt web.” Fun!
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Selecting the right product metrics »
Great framework from @asmartbear@noc.social
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Elstob »
A variable font for medievalists (and others), based on types used by the Oxford University Press in the 17th & 18th centuries.Via kottke.org
