Activity for waltercoots.bsky.social

Any guesses as how to pronounce any of this?

7 years later and this ad is still so great

How often do you wipe your devices and start from a clean slate? I’ve been through so many changes over the past 4 years, it feels like maybe it’s time.

Rumor has it, the move is to tailor your portfolio to the jobs you’re applying for.

One time I asked a coworker how it was going and he said he was “just trying to push the square wheeled bus”. I think about that pretty frequently

I'm doing patient intake forms for a healthcare provider, and I'm not joking - they made me sign up for two separate patient portals, only for the portals to link me over to Docusign.

It's backwards to me that common design systems' numerical coloring is typically such that lower numbers are light, and higher numbers are dark. Because my background is in using design software, and typically higher values mean lighter colors. I dug into how this happened... 🧵(1/6)

Pretty awesome idea

Christian Alder@hejchristian.com

A quick demo of what some guestbook/postcard entries might look like (Hopefully they're not all in Latin for the real thing!) Now with country-specific post marks, date, and a possible shoe print from when it got dropped on the floor. #CSS

Going through and clearing out passwords to defunct websites and apps. Some real blasts from the past. Version Tracker. Zap2It. Traffic.com. Del.icio.us. Path. Boxee.

I wish Slack had a cooldown feature to restrict people from posting like four messages in a row to a thread I've been @'d in.

Had a dream last night that two days were added to the week for a fixed period of time in order to accommodate a holy holiday for a religion that was in the minority. My dream mind was trying to imagine how that would shake out for the observers. So now that I'm awake, I'm figuring it out. [⅓]

I want a job at Valve so I can fix the IA, UX, and UI in the Steam mobile app. Who in 2026 has a menu called “Menu”, the button of which doesn’t even have an active state? All I want is to enter a key to get a game!

Pretty certain retirement communities for Gen X and Millennials will have computer labs and LAN parties.

Cheesecake Factory and Spaghetti Warehouse go together like Tahitian Treat and Turkish Delight

Do non-native English speakers know what cankles are?

We really inhabit a weird reality. I got on here to vent about the grief that’s part of being a parent, only to be distracted by cannibal jellyfish and a job opening at a parody media empire that I thought my wife might be interested in.

Successfully resurrected a dead PS5 controller and I feel like a necromancer

I saw someone trying to argue that calling something a design necessitates that it be done for a client, and any creative work that isn’t made for a client is art so now I’m in the hospital from my eyes rolling too hard

I need to learn to set up local image and video generation models just so I can permanently make stuff that looks like this

Envious of all these people who are in eras of their lives where they can spend mental and emotional energy on sports matches and new movies. Someday I’ll be there again