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I am updating my professional portfolio because a lot has changed in my CV-related life in the last year. If there are any other #writers #designers or portfolio-based people out there who would like to workshop together or even just hold one another accountable for the updates, I’m super keen to connect. It feels like a drag but I know I’ll be glad to have it done.
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CW: here's me in hashtags and keywords
my #introduction:
just outside #boston. #GenX. always earwormed. casual swearing. bullshitter. #innuendo. #sarcasm. #kindness.
#BIPOC. #LGBTG. marginalized communities.
#foodie. #cooking. #photography.
#wholesome content. #animals & #nature.
#nerd. #boardgames. #RPG. #tabletop #GameDesign. video games. #comics. #science & tech. languages. puzzle solving & design.
visual & #ux #design. #illustration.
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Yay! Just added the video/transcript for my #empathy talk at @Dublin_UX last year.
📺 https://d3e.co/dublinuxGreat #UX addresses our deepest human needs. And #CreativeEmpathy for #MeaningfulUX helps us discover those needs.
Go raibh maith agaibh, @PatrickMooney 🙌🏼
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Yes, #Microsoft #SQLServerManagementStudio #SMSS, I really do want you to focus the cancel button on the log-in dialog whenever I get my password wrong. I just love shift-tabbing 3 times to try again.
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True: I tink #OpenSocialWeb apps could have a "river" metaphor in their UX like Current does for RSS, or like in Manton's Inkwell app, old posts could just fade off. This fits well with #Calmtech ideas of app design. "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. In a world of infinite scroll and endless notification, the act of truly noticing something, of giving it the gift of your undivided presence, has become almost countercultural. The river metaphor isn't about… 🧵 1/3
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True: I tink #OpenSocialWeb apps could have a "river" metaphor in their UX like Current does for RSS, or like in Manton's Inkwell app, old posts could just fade off. This fits well with #Calmtech ideas of app design. "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. In a world of infinite scroll and endless notification, the act of truly noticing something, of giving it the gift of your undivided presence, has become almost countercultural. The river metaphor isn't about… 🧵 1/3
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True: I tink #OpenSocialWeb apps could have a "river" metaphor in their UX like Current does for RSS, or like in Manton's Inkwell app, old posts could just fade off. This fits well with #Calmtech ideas of app design. "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. In a world of infinite scroll and endless notification, the act of truly noticing something, of giving it the gift of your undivided presence, has become almost countercultural. The river metaphor isn't about… 🧵 1/3
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True: I tink #OpenSocialWeb apps could have a "river" metaphor in their UX like Current does for RSS, or like in Manton's Inkwell app, old posts could just fade off. This fits well with #Calmtech ideas of app design. "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. In a world of infinite scroll and endless notification, the act of truly noticing something, of giving it the gift of your undivided presence, has become almost countercultural. The river metaphor isn't about… 🧵 1/3
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True: I tink #OpenSocialWeb apps could have a "river" metaphor in their UX like Current does for RSS, or like in Manton's Inkwell app, old posts could just fade off. This fits well with #Calmtech ideas of app design. "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. In a world of infinite scroll and endless notification, the act of truly noticing something, of giving it the gift of your undivided presence, has become almost countercultural. The river metaphor isn't about… 🧵 1/3
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🔡 I’m going to write a blog post about KOReader later, but I had to randomly blurt out that I really like being able to set my own fonts for the books I’m reading, because I can match them to the story type. It’s just a delightful thing that makes my reading nicer. #Random #UX #LittleDetails
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🔡 I’m going to write a blog post about KOReader later, but I had to randomly blurt out that I really like being able to set my own fonts for the books I’m reading, because I can match them to the story type. It’s just a delightful thing that makes my reading nicer. #Random #UX #LittleDetails
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🔡 I’m going to write a blog post about KOReader later, but I had to randomly blurt out that I really like being able to set my own fonts for the books I’m reading, because I can match them to the story type. It’s just a delightful thing that makes my reading nicer. #Random #UX #LittleDetails
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🔡 I’m going to write a blog post about KOReader later, but I had to randomly blurt out that I really like being able to set my own fonts for the books I’m reading, because I can match them to the story type. It’s just a delightful thing that makes my reading nicer. #Random #UX #LittleDetails
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It’s Just a Series of Prompts
After years of work behind the scenes, my wife recently launched KelleyKouture, a high-end fashion female footwear company. Like any new business, it needs a hundred things done, across a dozen different systems, in a particular order, every single day. I have been building with AI long enough to know what it can and cannot do. So I created her something that lets it handle the coordination, without her needing to open a chat window and type instructions every five minutes.
What I built, is something the internet is currently calling an agent framework. ooh fancy!
Here is the thing: once you strip the label off, it is almost embarrassingly simple.
Scroll through GitHub right now and you will find projects with hundreds of stars, breathless README files, and architecture diagrams that look like they were drawn by someone who charges $400 an hour. Words like “agentic pipelines,” “multi-modal orchestration,” and “skill-based execution layers” are everywhere. Consultants are building decks around this. Vendors are pricing it like infrastructure.
Take three high quality projects currently doing the rounds on GitHub.
- Open Montage
Produces full videos, via scripts, calling a variety of APIs and utilizing ffmpeg - Open Design
An open source alternative to Claude Design and Google Stitch for building a UX - career-ops
Suite of skills to automate your job search, preparing tailored resumes/cover letters, including applying for the job for you online
Three completely different domains. Strip them back and the pattern is identical every time. And those are just three. There is OpenClaw, Hermes, a dozen others with names that sound like they were chosen specifically to make you feel like you need a briefing before you can touch them. Different names, same pattern every time.
- Skills are markdown files. Plain text. Instructions written in English that tell the AI what to do in a given situation. Not code. Not configuration files with obscure syntax. A text file you could write in Notepad.
- Tools are scripts. A Node application. A Python function. A Linux utility like ffmpeg already sitting on your machine. Things that do one specific job when called.
- Memory is a file. A JSON object, a markdown document, a YAML config. Something that holds state between sessions so the agent remembers what happened last time.
That is the whole framework. Skills, tools, memory. The AI reads the instructions, calls the right script, writes back to the file. Repeat.
An agent is just a fancy word for a macro. Or a task. Or a workflow. Whatever word your industry used before this one came along and started appearing in conference talks.
The buzzwords are doing a specific job here, and it is not the job you think.
They are pushing you back. They are making you feel like this requires specialists, budget sign-off, and a three-month implementation project. They are making you feel like you need to understand the architecture before you can touch the architecture.
You do not
If you can write down what you want to happen, in order, you can build one of these. Anyone who has ever documented a process already knows how to do the hard part. The rest is telling the AI which text file to read next.
The barrier to entry is not a computer science degree. It is a text editor.
Before you bring in a consultant to implement an agentic workflow for your business, open a blank document and write down exactly what you want the system to do. Step one, step two, step three. What information it needs. What it should do with the result. Where it should put the output.
You just wrote a skill file. You are already most of the way there.
The people selling complexity around this are, almost without exception, the people who benefit from your confusion. The technology is not complicated. The problem you are trying to solve is the complicated part. That was always true. AI just gave it a new name.
The barrier to entry for agent programming is not a computer science degree. It is a text editor. The “agent developer” is anyone who can write down a process and knows which folder to put the file in. Does that sound complicated?
Let me prove it
Here is a complete, working agent skill you can run right now in Claude Code. Create a folder called
.claude/skills/commute/in any directory on your machine and drop in a single file calledSKILL.mdwith this content:# Commute Check You are a commute assistant. When this skill is invoked, start by asking the user one question: "Are you driving or taking the train today?" Wait for their answer, then check current travel conditions between: FROM: 1111 E Broad Street, 3rd Floor, Richmond, Virginia 23219 TO: 11800 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23233 Use web search to find current traffic or service conditions for whichever mode they chose. Return a plain English summary. No more than four lines. Lead with the estimated travel time. Flag anything worth knowing, like an accident, roadworks, or a service delay.Now open Claude Code in that directory and type:
/commuteClaude reads the skill, asks you whether you are driving or taking the train, waits for your answer, then goes and checks. One file. One command. The AI holds a conversation and acts on what you tell it.
That is a macro. That is also, apparently, an “agent framework”. Basic one yes, but still an agent framework.
Congratulations. You are now an agent developer. Go and update your resume and LinkedIn profile.
Now, one thing worth being honest about: what you just built is reactive. It does something when you tell it to do something. You invoke it, it responds. That is still enormously useful, but it is not the whole picture.
Frameworks like Hermes and OpenClaw add a little sugar on top. They invoke skills on a schedule and push the result to you, an email, a WhatsApp message, a Signal alert. Your commute check could run automatically at 4pm every day and land in your pocket before you have even thought about leaving the office. That sounds more impressive than it is. I will show you how those work in a follow-up post, and I promise you, it is painfully stupidly easy. Hint you don’t even need to install one of these to get a lot done.
For now, go create a folder and write a text file. The rest, as they say, is just details.
AI Disclaimer: Gemini Nano Banana Pro was used to generate the photo – from the 1994 Dumb and Dumber movie.
#agent #AI #artificialIntelligence #chatgpt #claude #llm #technology - Open Montage
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I currently have to use a #Windows11 PC with #Office365 for a side gig. And holy crap, does that put all my (still valid, IMHO) complaining about #macOS26 and #LiquidGlass into perspective.
There is so much wrong with Windows’ interaction design, I just cannot comprehend how a company with that kind of resources can ship… this.
I still hope that Apple will get their act together, now that an actual #UX whiz is in charge of their #HCI. Windows, though, definitely is no viable alternative.
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A well-oiled machine:
I ordered an HDR. Welforces shipped an MDR. Via email I pointed this out and they said they'd send me a return courier bag and when they had the wrong one back they'd send me the right one. I told them this was their mistake and that they'd send the right one right now.
I just got an email with a shipping confirmation saying that they'd shipped THE WRONG ONE today. I called them and they explained they had shipped the correct one this time but because the paperwork that came with the wrong one was for the right one they had to, for stock control purposes account for the wrong one. I thanked them for the explanation but that told them that this is not helpful from a customer perspective. 😡
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implemented Go (the board game) in uxn!!!
click to place a stone, or press space to pass your turn
good idea to read up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_Go because i didn't implement any rules other than capturing :P
src: https://codeberg.org/notchoc/weiqi.tal
rom: https://codeberg.org/notchoc/weiqi.tal/raw/branch/main/bin/weiqi.rom
run:uxnemu weiqi.romnext step is to write a game server so y'all can play against each other!
(im almost finished with network device v3 i swear just gimme one more week)
#uxn #uxntal #gogame #weiqi #baduk -
I love it when people can think outside of the box and show middle finger to “best practices”. Take the newsletter Dense Discovery as an example. It has reader forum which has no: signup, login form profile, password.
All the links just have session ID in them. It. Just. Works. -
I love it when people can think outside of the box and show middle finger to “best practices”. Take the newsletter Dense Discovery as an example. It has reader forum which has no: signup, login form profile, password.
All the links just have session ID in them. It. Just. Works. -
I love it when people can think outside of the box and show middle finger to “best practices”. Take the newsletter Dense Discovery as an example. It has reader forum which has no: signup, login form profile, password.
All the links just have session ID in them. It. Just. Works. -
I love it when people can think outside of the box and show middle finger to “best practices”. Take the newsletter Dense Discovery as an example. It has reader forum which has no: signup, login form profile, password.
All the links just have session ID in them. It. Just. Works. -
Why is phpMyAdmin the worst DB manager?
Well, that's easy. It's a mess of server and Ajax functionality that does not respect standard browser navigation like Back and Forward, forgetting searches etc.
Their change to AJAX fetch just plainly fucked up good app. I don't understand how 10 years later it still is the same unusable shit.
(Yes, I use adminer when available, but some hosters offer only phpMyAdmin and no remote connections)
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Discord honestly is a good UI/UX for multi level chat organisations. I thought why we couldn't have something like that for matrix.
Then I discovered cinny, which is really cool. And now after using it for a while honestly it just clicked me that matrix way of organising really have true potential coz the method is better than discord.
In matrix everything is a room, so with that as building block we can have any type.
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Discord honestly is a good UI/UX for multi level chat organisations. I thought why we couldn't have something like that for matrix.
Then I discovered cinny, which is really cool. And now after using it for a while honestly it just clicked me that matrix way of organising really have true potential coz the method is better than discord.
In matrix everything is a room, so with that as building block we can have any type.
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Discord honestly is a good UI/UX for multi level chat organisations. I thought why we couldn't have something like that for matrix.
Then I discovered cinny, which is really cool. And now after using it for a while honestly it just clicked me that matrix way of organising really have true potential coz the method is better than discord.
In matrix everything is a room, so with that as building block we can have any type.
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Discord honestly is a good UI/UX for multi level chat organisations. I thought why we couldn't have something like that for matrix.
Then I discovered cinny, which is really cool. And now after using it for a while honestly it just clicked me that matrix way of organising really have true potential coz the method is better than discord.
In matrix everything is a room, so with that as building block we can have any type.
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Discord honestly is a good UI/UX for multi level chat organisations. I thought why we couldn't have something like that for matrix.
Then I discovered cinny, which is really cool. And now after using it for a while honestly it just clicked me that matrix way of organising really have true potential coz the method is better than discord.
In matrix everything is a room, so with that as building block we can have any type.
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Baseball History Project -- Opening Day 2026 Update!!
Just shipped significant performance improvements and UX refinements to the Baseball History Project. Data now runs from 1871 all the way through the 2025 season.
154 years of professional baseball to explore.
Box scores, franchise history, player careers. It's all there, and faster than ever.
https://baseballhistoryproject.com
#Baseball #OpeningDay #MLB #Sabermetrics #WebDev #opensource
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Check this out: https://clip.place/w/ajgJ5Hi69bbbxHCK3nXNdj
I just published a video of the new "end to end encryption" protocol for ActivityPub in #Emissary. The UX is rougher than I'd like, but you can see the client app is coming along nicely.
Today, it sends and receives messages using MLS, a widely used industry standard and successor to the Signal protocol.
By June 2026, it should be ready for you.
For more details on the project and my progress, see: https://emissary.dev/e2ee
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Check this out: https://clip.place/w/ajgJ5Hi69bbbxHCK3nXNdj
I just published a video of the new "end to end encryption" protocol for ActivityPub in #Emissary. The UX is rougher than I'd like, but you can see the client app is coming along nicely.
Today, it sends and receives messages using MLS, a widely used industry standard and successor to the Signal protocol.
By June 2026, it should be ready for you.
For more details on the project and my progress, see: https://emissary.dev/e2ee