Gina Trapani

notetoself.studioNote to Self by Gina TrapaniA blog & newsletter about creativity over productivity, by Gina Trapani.

Hi friends. Blogging is fun, so I started again. I hope you’ll take a look and follow along at @notetoself.studio notetoself.studio

chrisandgina.coChris & Gina — Coming SoonWe're making something new. Find out when it's ready.

15 Sept

Making something new chrisandgina.co

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youtube.comSolve Real Customer Problems › Make Great Software with Chris & GinaYouTube video by Chris & Gina

Episode 2 is about the most important thing when you're building software for a significant user base: it must solve real customer problems. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaue...

youtu.beBuild One Inch at a Time › Make Great Software with Chris & GinaYouTube video by Chris & Gina

Episode 3 is about sweating the details that matter youtu.be/SKckBCDVMY0?...

23 Feb

How is shoveling snow not an Apple Fitness workout? Designed in California indeed

Today my iPhone suggested I try out Driving Focus on the subway

chrisandgina.coChris & Gina — Coming SoonWe're making something new. Find out when it's ready.

every Muse story is like: "I'm deeply uncomfortable sharing all my personal information with Meta but here are all the ways I did anyway so that a bot could read my email for me and submit a DoorDash order"

work theater

Making something new chrisandgina.co

chrisandgina.coMake Great Software with Chris & GinaA show about making great software, with Chris & Gina. Watch, listen, and subscribe.

🚀 🎙️ It's launch day! Introducing our new podcast: Make Great Software with Chris & Gina. It's about the thing I still love the most: bringing ideas to life with code & computers. If hanging with a couple of friends talking about software is your thing, subscribe anywhere you get your podcasts.

youtube.comLet's Get to Work › Make Great Software with Chris & GinaYouTube video by Chris & Gina

Episode 1 of Make Great Software is out now! Here it is on YouTube but you can get it wherever you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WgW...

12 Sept

I’m not thinking about that chocolate cake.

19 Jan

I have a 3D printer now because truly making things is the only salve

19 Jan

I've made many useful things! several of which are related to the printer itself which I wouldn't need without it but still

notetoself.studioThe joy of making stuff with a 3D printer | Note to SelfI’ve always been curious about 3D printers, so last fall when there was a Black Friday deal on a great model, I picked one up. I wondered if it would be...

7 Sept

finally wrote about this notetoself.studio/post/the-joy...

7 Sept

Definitely remember posting about this on Lifehacker

WebDesignMuseum@webdesignmuseum.org

iGoogle in 2007 iGoogle was a customizable Google homepage (launched in 2005 and discontinued in 2013) that let users personalize their start page with widgets, news feeds, weather, email previews, and other web content.

buff.lyThis whistle fights fascistsI print whistles now. You can too.

3 Sept

This week’s reminder about the power of subtraction - whether you’re editing an essay or a video - to make something just okay better, cut the worst 40% of it

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How is shoveling snow not an Apple Fitness workout? Designed in California indeed

“Snow sports” hmmm

Just cracked my morning plate of whistles, thanks @seanhollister.bsky.social

The Verge@theverge.com

This whistle fights fascists

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dan sinker

@dansinker.com

3 Feb

Hey want to help the whistle goblins I print with make more whistles? There are approximately eleventy-billion wishlists here with filament begging to be bought and turned into whistles to deploy to across the country. Buy some filament and help the cause: linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...

linktr.eeWhistleWishLists | LinktreeWe're the Whistle Avengers. We turn each spool of filament into 400-700 whistles which we send out into the world. Sponsor whistles in your favorite colors!

nytimes.comShe Fell in Love With ChatGPT. Then She Ghosted It.

24 Dec 2025

The update we all needed on a story which was stuck in my head all year

Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social

My last story of the year: an update on the woman who fell in love with ChatGPT. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/t...

2 Dec 2025

built my first NAS this weekend and oh I missed the feeling of snapping RAM into place

buff.lyBusy SimulatorPretend you're busy by playing a bunch of app notification sounds. Made by Brian Moore.

25 Nov 2025

Definitely Microsoft Teams

Note to Self@notetoself.studio

Brian Moore's Busy Simulator makes repeating app sounds that make you seem incredibly busy. Which of these sounds make you cringe the hardest?

23 Nov 2025

Same, going to as many of these as possible

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4 Nov 2025

this new Lily Allen album 🔥🔥🔥

22 Nov 2025

chaser: the new Olivia Dean album ❤️💜💙

11 Nov 2025

Joyce Carol Oates owning Elon is the only thing I’m sad about missing

6 Nov 2025

Both the Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline websites have a "Quick exit" feature for when parent or boss walks in: press Esc to switch to weather.com or Google

thetrevorproject.orgSupport HomepageThe Trevor Project is a non-profit suicide prevention organization that provides 24/7 crisis support services, research, and advocacy for LGBTQ+ young people.

6 Nov 2025

They also both have big functional DONATE buttons ready for you to press www.thetrevorproject.org

translifeline.orgHome - Trans LifelineRadicalcommunity care Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one. We’re run by and for

tiktok.com#ai#excel#accounting#artificialintelligence#brendaTikTok video by Ada James

6 Nov 2025

All hail Brenda www.tiktok.com/@belligerent...

30 Oct 2025

season 3 and still enjoying watching Keri Russell walk with extreme purpose down important hallways in disheveled suits

quests.devQuests · The open-source app builderQuests builds and runs apps on your computer using any LLM

22 Oct 2025

speaking of building apps with AI, Quests is VERY good quests.dev

notetoself.studioMeasured AI | Note to SelfThe extreme hype surrounding generative AI and technologies like LLMs has been exhausting over the last few years. Coupled with fear-based marketing...

22 Oct 2025

notes on gen AI being remarkable and so very bad at the same time

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Anil Dash

@anildash.com

17 Oct 2025

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

anildash.comThe Majority AI View - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999.

17 Oct 2025

today I wrote code that runs every day to log my current level of email inbox chaos to a spreadsheet with a list of the senders I've ignored the most, there's even a line chart in there because some days a tiny illusion of control is comforting

10 Oct 2025

Writing vulnerable things so terrifying / connecting something for someone so gratifying

Tim Weston@timweston.com

Really great blog post by @ginatrapani.org at @notetoself.studio

10 Oct 2025

Saw a t-shirt that said WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR YOU ONLY GET ONE LIFE GO FOR IT and damn that hit

8 Oct 2025

Already shelled pistachios - the ultimate luxury

12 Sept 2025

a phone home screen is a window into the soul

theverge.comThe iPhone to get this yearIn this week’s Installer: iPhones, Spotify, and Jeopardy.

16 Sept 2025

here’s mine in @theverge.com’s Installer newsletter this week under Screen Share (look Ma!) www.theverge.com/installer-ne...

11 Sept 2025

boy everything feeling extra heavy today in other news, an AI photo editor gave me 3 hands how’s your day going

Live-editing a website in Obsidian is a true joy, this is my setup with Hugo bsky.app/profile/step...

kepano@stephango.com

a quick demo of how I edit my website with Obsidian 1.8 write in @obsidian.md → auto-build jekyll → preview local site in web viewer tab → push to github → auto-deploy to live site I've been making websites for twenty five years, and this is by far the nicest it's ever been pt 1/2

notetoself.studioNote to Self by Gina TrapaniA blog & newsletter about creativity over productivity, by Gina Trapani.

Hi friends. Blogging is fun, so I started again. I hope you’ll take a look and follow along at @notetoself.studio notetoself.studio

I also was lucky enough to have lots of encouragement and feedback from a few pals who know a thing or two about blogging including @anildash.com and @capndesign.com and @berkun.bsky.social 💜 (and several others who are not on Bluesky) THANK YOUUUU

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thank you @craigmod.com for Hugo fast search, it's so great gist.github.com/cmod/5410eae...

notetoself.studioNote to Self by Gina TrapaniA blog & newsletter about creativity over productivity, by Gina Trapani.

Hi friends. Blogging is fun, so I started again. I hope you’ll take a look and follow along at @notetoself.studio notetoself.studio

I post lots of links & attributions, I use my own amateur photos over AI-generated or stock, and I try my best to express simple ideas in as few words as possible. Not everything is an essay

I admire the way @kottke.org styles links and how @simonwillison.net does quotes, so I took similar approaches–thanks to both of them for the inspiration

notetoself.studioNote to Self by Gina TrapaniA blog & newsletter about creativity over productivity, by Gina Trapani.

Hi friends. Blogging is fun, so I started again. I hope you’ll take a look and follow along at @notetoself.studio notetoself.studio

This blog is an ongoing note to myself about joy over productivity. My new life hack! Been writing it for awhile, on the front page now you'll find - how a productivity mindset kills creativity - my 10 days of silence - KPop Demon Hunters And my favorite nonprofits doing good. So it’s a variety