Jon Tan

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Designer. Daft optimist. Hello! 👋🏼
This is me:http://jontangerine.com
Co-working:https://mildbun.ch
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@patrick_h_lauke Hah! This is great : )
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@sean @pluralistic To make it even worse, sometimes one can’t even download the local favourite chat app because your App Store isn’t local, like Viber in the Philippines. I call it being daft in depth.
Jon Tan2d ago
What is the antonym of a “multidisciplinary” designer? I’m curious because all of the designers I admire seem multidisciplinary to me. Has the qualifier become necessary?
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@armstrong @shiflett Software automagically hugging them with thin spaces would be my ideal so I use spaces in the vain hope one day it happens. : )
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@beep It is. The glaring inequality is harsh but I’m trying to do a little to help that. I hope you’re thriving. The queue of project suitors should be forming as we speak. : )
Jon Tan3d ago
The conundrum Z describes is real, and I feel it, but I emphatically refuse — I love my em-dashes. Always have. Always will. : ) https://front-end.social/@zeldman/116283865397734303
zeldman (@[email protected])

Abandon the em-dash in your human writing? The irony—and it’s a big irony—is that real writers use em-dash frequently, and for reasons. As a written signifier of verbal speech pauses, it means something different than what commas and semicolons mean. It connects while separating. That’s why so many writers use em-dash when it is the best mark for the job. And chatbots use it because they were schooled on millions of writers. 1/3

Front-End Social
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@beep Thank you, friend : )
Jon Tan3d ago
A video of juxtaposed views of Metro Manila just after sunset. First voiceover ever too.
Jon TanApr 29, 2025
Ethan MarcotteApr 29, 2025

okay, yes, this entire approach to “ai” in the workforce is yet another instance of a tech CEO beclowning himself

at the same time: when a leader says human workers are a source of “bottlenecks”, and that automation is the source of “solutions”, pay very, very, very close attention

(and if you haven’t already, start getting organized with your coworkers)

https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI

Duolingo cofounder and CEO Luis von Ahn says that the company will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that Al can handle” as part of an all-hands email announcing that the company will be “AI-first.”

The Verge
Jon TanApr 29, 2025
Loving the hand drawn and lettered marching banners in this article on trade union symbolism: https://artuk.org/discover/stories/trade-union-banners-kaleidoscopic-symbolism-and-strength-in-unity
Trade union banners: kaleidoscopic symbolism and strength in unity | Art UK

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