Maggie Appleton

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Product design at ought.org
Makes visual essays about UX, programming, and anthropology.

Adores digital gardening 🌱, end-user development, and embodied cognition

Websitehttps://maggieappleton.com
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Show threadMaggie AppletonFeb 2, 2023
@spiralganglion It was great! Built most of my first websites in it
Maggie AppletonFeb 2, 2023
@tantramar You're welcome 😅 Web time passes faster than earth time
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@rianvdm Thanks! So glad you liked this one. The topic has clearly hit a nerve with lots of people
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@quiquaequod @ezralevin too dark and sad 🙈
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@spacebuffer In a previous life I worked as an illustrator - spent the first ~4 years of my career developing my drawing skills by doing it every day

I have a couple articles on various parts of my illustration process: https://maggieappleton.com/topics/how-to-illustrate

Hope something in there is helpful!

Folk Interfaces

People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems

Maggie Appleton
Show threadMaggie AppletonFeb 2, 2023
@ctietze Thanks 😄 The fun bit of writing is just playing with silly CSS tricks and layout. Content is meh.
Maggie AppletonFeb 2, 2023
@rogersegu @Downes I think watermarking could help a bit (maybe more in an education context), but I'm expecting the line between human/LLM will blur a lot. We'll co-create with them, so it'll be hard to tell what's 90% LLM / 10% human, or vice versa. Watermarking would help filter out content made via large-scale automation, and incentivise people to still write some/all of the content.
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@dynom What are carbon units in this context? I only know them as a numerical value of how much carbon is used for a specific process. Something else here?
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@richjensen It's a crap shoot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sometimes we get lucky
Maggie AppletonFeb 2, 2023
@christian_zerfass I tried and failed to make it through Infinite Jest a few times, so I'll take your word for it on this one :) His invented worlds are all quite dire...