Tom Creighton

What idiot called them liquid crystal displays instead of dewy decimals

This is exactly the principle that has fucked up everything from deli flyers to UX in billion-dollar products Once upon a time, even if you were doing something on your own, it took long enough to do that it made you think about what you were doing! You had time to think "hang on, this sucks."

“What both Cooper Black and blackletter have in common, though, is a high fidelity to their flat-nibbed-pen origins – a commonality that made merging the two seemingly antithetical forms more natural than it might at first seem.” www.arrowtype.com/articles/kyr...

“When the goal is feeling, novelty is the product. When the goal is doing, novelty is a tax.” www.jedbridges.com/notes/nothin...

Sample 0285 · locus 0x32F3 Auspices: all · 1ft · instant

Idea: “darker mode” where the app closes your eyes for you

ME, VISIBLY ANGUISHED AND FALLING APART: It is what it is :)

one does not simply reveal a password 👁️

magic actually was run as a loss leader and was made widely available to everyone in part due to a zero interest rate policy and lots of sovereign wealth funds, but then that bubble popped and now magic costs a lot more (also it turns out the magic was actually being offshored and done elsewhere, so

Sample 0252 · locus 0xB7DA Auspices: all · 100ft · instant

“I got that dog in me” – man involved in a teleportation accident

Actually the Burn, the devastating galaxy-wide incident that took down the United Federation of Planets when dilithium broke, was caused by an extended GitHub outage

before i became a parent i’d always roll my eyes at people who insisted that their kid was getting larger over time, but now i get it. my kid is almost two years old now and i would bet money that he’s bigger than he was when he was born

An experiment that never quite found its feet. Thanks to those who tried it (and paid for it!), you’re the best. ❤️

There's great benefit in being a first-mover and grow with things that have the potential to be wildly successful, one of which is helping shape it. You can be in the Substack heap, or you can help build the Atmosphere among probably one of the kindest builder communities you'll ever find.

#HamOnt: oh no we can't build 60 units of affordable housing on an underused parking lot and ensure 12 units will go to veterans and that they'll be accessible to people priced out of the housing market won't somebody think of the defenceless cars waaahhhhhhhhhh New York:

I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio

My old twitterbot, Blockcastles, is (finally) resurrected on Bsky.

REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Democrats want you to believe that sending FIVE MILLION DOLLARS of YOUR tax money to MEXICO to “manage” the “Dick Exploding Spider” population is “normal” SAME SENATOR SIX MONTHS LATER: (walking like a saddle-sore cowboy) This is the greatest public health crisis of our lives,

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

Everyone debating AI design tools meanwhile the actual design is happening on a walk to get a little treat

Just found out that Posthog’s internal query language is called HogQL and I don’t know what to do with this information

There’s not enough worldbuilding in software design.

Every app is so thirsty after you take a screenshot. “Trying to share this? 🤔 There’s an easier way! 😻 po.ob/1awuM” No I’m screenshotting the fact that your button label is truncated so it says “Usage Anal…” do you have a better way for me to dunk on that with friends

he also snuck a prompt injection in there that ensouls your chatbot if you ask it to give you a summary so watch out

Cinco de Mayo be with you

Since 1951: Canada's Oldest Weather Beacon

Everybody: May the fourth be with you Me, extremely pious: And also with you

If your Slack doesn’t have the cowboy-cool-cry-mild-panic emoji are you truly a startup

Me: need to get a password macOS: i got u

I bet this feels so good if you’re a repo

Startup swag has tragically ignored the commemorative plate

Every app’s release notes: Bug fixes and improvements Release notes before they stopped me from writing them: Y’all remember being a baby? Yeah me neither but I bet you five AMERICAN dollars that this release is like the gentle touch of a loving parent upon your newborn brow

Cracked pepper implies the existence of mid pepper

If you want to add some whimsy to your web projects I dropped two very small JS libraries for you: Hologram (scroll-driven color shifting) and Line Boil (hand-drawn-animation-style wigglies). github.com/tomcreighton... github.com/tomcreighton... Please enjoy!

BSOD

I found the room where they keep Vercel

A terrible accident – my body pinned by twisted metal, blood pooling beneath my cheek, the wind blowing shattered glass and the stink of spilled gasoline into my face. In the distance, I hear a cheerful voice calling “Just yelp for help” [Paw Patrol theme plays]