Melanie Crissey

New sparkle butthole icon popped up on our CarPlay today Hitting OK with the same energy like when you text back “ok” to somebody after they poured their heart out to you in a very long text message but you want them to know you don’t care about whatever they said

*grabs headphones, hits play on season 1 of glee in honor of cursed reboot *sees playlist is 100 songs and 5 hours long welp there goes my friday

Are marketers really out here doing fake reply emails in 2026 the year of our lord?? Don't put RE: in the subject line of a marketing email unless you want me to feel disgust and betrayal as I open it

This morning I gave a talk on "Shipping a Go-to-market Operating System" at the All Day AI event hosted by some friends at Anaconda / Kilo Yes, I stopped in the middle of my 25 minute presentation to sing the jingle from the Mr. Bucket commercial

It's not as simple as "host more dinner parties" www.melaniecrissey.com/blog/hospita...

When you’re out of practice the only way back is to start practicing again

This plus bald eagles and Pinky Ring pizza and the annual rewatch of Cabin in the Woods

Stopped for quick lunch at Coolidge Park in Chattanooga Picked up a chicken shawarma from Keystone takeout only The saj wrap is a marvel Outrageously good

Oooh boy. Got a wee bit heavy handed with the chilli powder in my spiced yogurt this morning 🍽️

Turns out it was Olivia Rodrigo! And the background vocals are credited to a dude named Dan. open.spotify.com/track/3BnMfP...

This wedding has a DJ plus a saxophone and that’s a genius combo

Pit stop at Satterfield’s BBQ in Macon This place is a trip! I don’t know how they get that banana pudding so fluffy. It’s gravity-defying.

"AI traffic is up 7,851% year-over-year" Yea, that's me hitting all of your websites to get your logo SVGs and convert them into transparent PNGs for the sales deck 💁‍♀️

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This morning I was trying to download and enable Screenflow on a new Mac for first time ScreenflowHelper wasn't showing up in System Settings to flip on mic/cam access Googling for help sent me to spam fake docs Opened Warp, gave it full disk access, debugged and fixed in 5 minutes

Forget "gyms for brains" Embrace "the garden of your mind" www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzX...

Stunners

Small UX improvements to Kitschy app: * Swipe to quickly mark item discarded or exhausted on mobile inventory table * Simplified meal card UI when you’re not actively editing, removed meal type icons for cleaner table

The unsettling feeling of finding two identical bench scrapers in the cabinet, knowing for certain one is not yours, not knowing the circumstances by which it came to be in your house

Messaging for America.gov Product Hunt listing is a little clunky Tagline is missing a specifier "plain language" instead of "natural language" smells like they wrote "plain English" first and then remembered the app also works in French, Spanish "AI" here and "SI" on the live site

oof. gut punch! But this blog post is worth a read and a think

Happy new quarter everybody www.melaniecrissey.com/blog/q3-2026/

+1 this is Good. As the person who usually "owns" messaging, the work is always better when design gets more involved Start content-first, align on strategy, CTAs, hierarchy, but copy should adapt and play off of art, layout and interactions That's what makes it sing!

I don't want an AI tamagotchi for the same reasons I never bought an Alexa 1) I want personal data and work data separated. The AI agent I use to book dinner reservations shouldn't be always on listening or watching keystrokes on my work machine 2) Reading, typing, tapping > listening & yapping

Kitschy app updates: * Add household members to your account profile * Add multiple meal plan cards and indicate whether a meal is for multiple household members or just one * Improved UI for table actions with options to update more fields on inventory items (location, purchase date, tags, etc.)

"you need to read this important article because journalism" but the article is on substack

This past weekend we ran a hackathon at Atlanta Tech Village! Here's how it went: www.melaniecrissey.com/blog/we-ran-...

Once again I'm asking the universe to wire me one million dollars so I can save a historic home in my neighborhood Flipping through these photos, I want to reach through the screen and rip out the carpet in every room! www.harrynorman.com/realestate/d...

Genius or big mistake throwing balsamic-roasted figs on top of the mushroom risotto…? 🍽️

Businesses in Atlanta do their seasonal marketing like “Happy Fall! Cooler temps are on the way!” when it’s 84 degrees outside instead of in the 90s

Today is one of those days where I'm SO grateful to have a home away from home at Atlanta Tech Village We're having a new roof put on our house, removing 15+ year old shingles that were stapled ON TOP of the original cedar ones Cherishing the warm silence of a felt-covered phone booth