Andrew Conn

@andrewconn
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AI UX @ Salesforce. Former advisor to White House Presidential Innovation Fellows and Gates Foundation.

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.

This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/

The hardest working font in Manhattan

A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

@mwichary One of the best things I’ve read in a long time. Fantastic!

@trib Everyone: “Just fix autocorrect and Siri. They’re so frustrating.”

Apple: “Sorry best we can do is slopmojis.”

@tj There’s a Hackaday project that brings back that HDD sound. Would also be cool if this was just an app - if it was MacOS for example, you could prob access the haptics from the trackpad too. https://hackaday.com/2022/09/26/tiny-dongle-brings-the-hard-drives-song-back-to-updated-retrocomputers/
Tiny Dongle Brings The Hard Drive’s Song Back To Updated Retrocomputers

Back in the “beige box” days of computing, it was pretty easy to tell what your machine was doing just by listening to it, because the hard drive was constantly thrashing the heads back…

Hackaday
@fox Hetzner, maybe? They’re in Germany. https://www.hetzner.com/
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“Apple has lost its way”

Sit down, man.

@bgriffith What version of iOS is this?! 18.1?
@eldritch48 Top middle looks awesome. Maybe it could combine with bottom left somehow when its tasks requires.
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