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by qkeast 3mo ago
I’m deaf and just got a pair of Even G2 glasses, which have a live captioning mode and no camera. They’re already lifechanging, even if they come with the risk of being taken away at any moment if the company shuts down or discontinues supp
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by qkeast 3mo ago
A cold application just means that the candidate applied directly with no referral or introduction. It’s always been the case that both warm and cold applications went though the same interview processes, maybe just with a different first c
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by qkeast 5mo ago
All the time in Germany.
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by qkeast 5mo ago
>Designing a user inteface involves thousands of small decisions. When trading off pros/cons for each of these decisions… Which needs to be done intentionally in context, not homogeneously as a rapid output of a generative tool.
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by qkeast 5mo ago
>Figma is targeted towards designers who create thoughtful design systems and cohesive UIs and who don't code, while this is targeted towards vibe coders who can't design. Two different circles that intersect to some level. The
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by qkeast 7mo ago
The problem is right now management is not only insisting on their team vibe-coding bespoke replacements, they’re avoiding paying for other SaaS because they can vibe-code their own replacements, often themselves, and they’ve lost sight of
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by qkeast 8mo ago
Arguably that’s the “operations” and “relationship” parts described here. But right now, many companies are choosing to not pay for software because they can build a solution themselves.
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by qkeast 8mo ago
As far as cookie popups go (and recognizing you probably know this so it’s more a general comment), GDPR doesn’t encode cookie popups into law, but the entire industry follows the pattern of cookie popups in response to the underlying requi
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Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney's Full Speech at Davos(cbc.ca)
12 points by qkeast 8mo ago|1 comments
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by qkeast 8mo ago
https://quinnkeast.com
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by qkeast 8mo ago
Personally, been making a low fidelity exalidraw-like calendar app: https://letswalnut.com . There’s a real-time collaborative workspace-oriented version, too. Professionally, working on “Magic Draft,” a feature in Ditto to help
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by qkeast 9mo ago
There’s a similar post that I can’t find that relates to ornamentation and detail in infrastructure as simple as a pole on a sidewalk – an ornate and designed pole replaced with a simple round post. Perhaps someone else remembers the source
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by qkeast 9mo ago
I want to give a go at learning to make chocolate.
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by qkeast 9mo ago
Some highlights from this year include: - The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera - Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - The Devils by Joe Abercrombie - A Frog In The Fall (And Later On) by Linnea
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by qkeast 9mo ago
Also, here's an example of a collaborative public calendar from the "workspace" version! Anyone can pop in and make changes and see what others are doing. https://app.letswalnut.com/calendars/0eff8913-641
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Show HN: We built an uncomplicated calendar tool for low-fidelity planning(letswalnut.com)
5 points by qkeast 9mo ago|2 comments
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by qkeast 10mo ago
Ditto | Product Designer | Remote (US/Canada) | $140-200K + early team member equity Ditto helps teams manage their copy from design to production with a single source of truth. Over 3,600 teams (from Fortune 500 companies to startups!
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by qkeast 10mo ago
What’re you seeing? Seems to be working from my end.
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by qkeast 10mo ago
- One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford - Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky - The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera I keep a reading list at quinnkeast.com/reading. Would love to see others’ if any has one to share!
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The ephemeral design system: impermanence as intentional strategy(dittowords.com)
4 points by qkeast 10mo ago|0 comments
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by qkeast 11mo ago
Ditto | Product Designer | Remote (US/Canada) | $140-200K + early team member equity Ditto helps teams manage their copy from design to production with a single source of truth. Over 3600 teams (from Fortune 500 companies to startups!)
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by qkeast 1y ago
> In 2022, I sent out some then-new Midjourney generations with the caption: If this doesn’t revolutionize design, I don’t know what will. That’s not design, that’s an image.
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What happens when you get hit by a car in San Francisco(sfstandard.com)
18 points by qkeast 1y ago|2 comments
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by qkeast 1y ago
Some more technically-oriented learnings here! https://reedtaylorbarnes.com/blog/building-with-llms/
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by qkeast 1y ago
Using curved, matching quotation marks is typographic design and style, as is using hyphens, en, and em dashes correctly in context. Many tools will automatically use the correct typographic symbols in context in the same way they’ll automa
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by qkeast 1y ago
Does the 15-year period for non-US developers only apply to developers? What about roles like designers, product managers, and so on?
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by qkeast 1y ago
>Still, it's a bit ironic that your own website advises people to use bots to get apartments (thus bypassing the work put into the adverts and apartment hunting sites), whilst also decrying bots who would bypass your site. I believe
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by qkeast 1y ago
Video to accompany the paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azDaPm13CT8
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Which typeface's capital "I" makes the best I-beam?(researchgate.net)
4 points by qkeast 1y ago|1 comments
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Making Crash Bandicoot(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
3 points by qkeast 1y ago|0 comments

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