Ste Grainer

@stegrainer
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I make things with pixels, code, and words • He/him • Mostly at stegrainer.com
Personal Sitehttps://stegrainer.com
UXcellencehttps://uxcellence.com
- What if they forced themselves to compete in areas where they hold a near-monopoly in the same way they compete in areas like Apple TV+ (where they are putting out amazing content on the regular)?
- What if they treated third-party developers like another tier of highly respected set of users, and built the tools, platforms, and documentation to support them?
- What if they cared more about the experience than the quarterly results?

Imagine if Apple decided to fully embrace its "Think Different" campaign from the late 90s again today. How could they think different as a giant, successful corporation?

- What if instead of rushing to tout the next iteration of mediocre AI, they proudly touted “Our software doesn't use AI and doesn't give your data to feed other AI.”
- What if instead of pushing for annual rushed releases of hardware and software, they focused on making valuable things and released them when ready?

The Who Cares Era, by @dansinker, resonated deeply with me:

https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/

So much of modern society and modern technology feels like it's built on a foundation of “meh, good enough”. It is disheartening, but:

"In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.”

The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com

I prefer to call them by their given proper name “Chicken Filipe America”.

🔗 Clippy — A handy tool for generating CSS clip-paths for simple common or custom shapes

https://bennettfeely.com/clippy/

Clippy — CSS clip-path maker

🔗 Fold ’N Fly — A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions

https://www.foldnfly.com/

Fold 'N Fly » Paper Airplane Folding Instructions

A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions, video tutorials and printable folding plans. Find the best paper airplanes!

I’ve been thinking about playing around with more old school web fun on my site for a while so when I saw @ariel was creating a design systems webring, I couldn’t resist.
https://front-end.social/@ariel/114382902524918126
Ariel Salminen (@ariel@front-end.social)

Attached: 1 image Just did some fixes to the server side logic that handles the next/previous redirects and it should be all working again. Also, we have 7 members now. 🥳 https://design-system.club

Front-End Social
Franklin by Tim Van Patten: ★★★☆☆ — Good, but Franklin as a title implies a broad spectrum of his life. This felt more like a late chapter in a book.

🖋️ New post: A Bite of the Big Apple

https://stegrainer.com/journal/2025/a-bite-of-the-big-apple

A Bite of the Big Apple » Journal » SteGrainer.com

We took a very quick trip to a very big city.

Fallout by Geneva Robertson-Dworet & Graham Wagner: ★★★★☆ — I've been curious about the games but never played them. Loved this enough that I might give them a go.