kelin
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to all the people who call my pursuit of independent projects "brave," you too could do this with an avoidant attachment style so extreme that you never want to commit to anyone or anything at all
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im making an AI photo remixing game
coding is so fun when chatgpt can help lol. this took 2 days with gpt-4
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@juliareinstein
it used to be even more unhinged
gutted to discover that
@Icelandair
has watered down their chaotic copywriting on the in-flight baguette sandwich. cowards
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my jaw dropped when i learned they developed their own graphics engine to render the ui on the OP-1
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gutted to discover that
@Icelandair
has watered down their chaotic copywriting on the in-flight baguette sandwich. cowards
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give product designers the permission to be good at visuals and brand! give brand designers the permission to think about product strategy and functionality! can't we learn from each other instead of just snark? can't we just support and encourage ppl to grow however they want?
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nice component you got there... would be a shame if someone... detached it
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friend: hey wanna catch up
me, lonelier than i've ever been in my life: no ❤️
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poetry camera is now portable!
@Flomerboy
and i have been demoing and playtesting — let us know if you want to try
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performative shitposting is OUT
random earnest tweets with no coherent content strategy is IN
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basically,
finally learned how to ask for help instead of trying to do everything on my own...... big unlock
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*looking at my computer science diploma* hmm maybe i should learn how to code
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used to want to create the next apple or instagram but now i just want to create the next wikipedia or craigslist lol
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making a lil pomodoro timer that turns into a chatroom in the 5-minute breaks
still in progress but check it out at
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psst
trash baby is now on the app store
im making an AI photo remixing game
coding is so fun when chatgpt can help lol. this took 2 days with gpt-4
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poetry camera v0.3 by
@Flomerboy
+ yours truly:
🔋 fully battery-powered + portable
⚙️ switch btwn "camera modes" with a knob — auto, portrait, landscape mode, etc.
✍️ better poems via new AI models: BLIP-2 for image recognition and gpt-3.5-turbo for poem writing
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cute aliexpress glassware thread
realized a lot of cute stuff on etsy is just dropshipped anyway...
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coming in under the wire with my 2020 reflection...
i haven't talked a lot about it on here, but i was designing election stuff. here's what i did, and how it changed me.
(was rushed so there's probably layout bugs and typos, pls lmk!)
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therapist told me it’s an honor to watch me grow so quickly
i’ve won therapy, pack it up folks it’s time to go home
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thought the problem was twitter so i quit twitter but then i realized the problem was me !
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cant believe i used to be such a little dickhead about pixel perfection i honestly could not care less now lol
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some personal news
today was my last day at twitter
i love this platform and will always root for it
you can find me on main at
@carolynz
🫡💜
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the year is 2023. every workplace collaboration tool has a voice chat layer. i'm listening to figma, slack, and 10 google docs at the same time. i am one with the superorganism of the corporation
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we didn't slip on the roadmap, we just ended the quarter on a cliffhanger. come back next season to find out what happens when we ship
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teaching again in the fall :~)
recent reflections on how i'd want to teach product design in 2024
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imagine how fun twitter would be if the site was shutting down tomorrow
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finally realizing that moderna literally put mRNA in the name lol
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pov: ur a hedge fund analyst putting together a deck roasting olive garden for not salting the pasta water
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making a CV as a designer:
- 0.5 hours writing content
- 3 hours typesetting content in a way that won't embarrass me
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recent reflections on how i'd want to teach product design in 2024
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portfolio site where the cursor is a match and clicking any project just burns it to ashes
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dropped a quick website refresh for
@Flomerboy
and i have been busy! the project is growing up — time to make that visible
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should be sleeping but anyway here's some free silly ideas
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finally learned how to ask for help instead of trying to do everything on my own...... big unlock
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i wish the digital product design industry weren't so ahistoric either. design occupies the space between tech and culture; the current state of interface design is just a small snapshot of a wide and ever-changing world
(digital) product design one of the most inward looking parts of the design industry it’s nuts. many won’t even bother look at other sectors of graphic design let alone games
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i want a romcom where a wirecutter reviewer from the big city, having spent their entire life looking for the best of mundane items and being endlessly unsatisfied with their dates, finds love in a middle of nowhere small town and learns to stop judging and embrace imperfection
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thank you
@FictiveCameron
for encouraging us to share poetry camera at kinference today
i made a custom v0.3.1 build featuring the checkered nametag string 🏁
(
@flomerboy
couldn’t make it irl but was there in spirit)
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first night of setting boundaries with work and closing the computer after 6:30pm
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work in progress: a social network with only different versions of yourself
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ok so this blew up
tysm to everyone who reached out to express their excitement and support
logging off for a couple days to get work done
you can reach me at mother
@trash
.baby lol
more soon
im making an AI photo remixing game
coding is so fun when chatgpt can help lol. this took 2 days with gpt-4
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yessssss she’s here she’s cute she’s thriving
(i had gotten the wrong color at first, this is the real one i’ll be using)
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tried to buy a domain name but it was already taken
debated getting a domain name broker
only to realize
i already own the domain. i bought it a year ago
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celebrating 1 year of independent practice 🥰
my best is yet to come
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the hardest things about being indie (an ongoing list)
1. not being legible to other people while you figure things out
ppl project their own values and assumptions onto me when im exploring and taking risks. im planting seeds but people just see bare soil
@kelin_online
i feel like this is the hardest hoop to get over when you go "indie" or independent.
no ingrained support network for ur work and always having to say you're "independent" i think also discourages you from doing so
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uh how do i improve my emotional intelligence? have you managed to do it?
i feel like a dork asking this question but i’ve been p socially stunted for much of my life. have made a lot of progress in last few yrs just by existing but curious abt what a concerted effort looks like
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thanks
@IDEOVC
for the grant and community to support our work on poetry camera 🙏
@Flomerboy
and i are in crunch mode preparing our first customer units… delivering these on monday:
Introducing our new creative residents this season:
@kelin_online
and
@flomerboy
are working on the next chapter of Poetry Camera—a camera that prints poems of what it sees, using multimodal generative AI models:
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a friend and i were stressed out about some mundane emails we had to send but didn't have emotional energy to write, so we wrote each others' first drafts and it made me feel so loved 🥰 highly recommend for anyone feeling overwhelmed today — writing for other people feels easier
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i've been ̶c̶o̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ asking chatgpt to code and just copy-pasting the answers
We're making steady progress on poetry camera - a camera that makes poems instead of pictures 🐸🪄
@carolynz
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forever oscillating btwn desperately seeking the approval of the design industry and being frustrated at the industry’s narrow-mindedness
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if you're in nyc — come play with poetry camera @ whitebox popup gallery
📍61 wyckoff ave, bushwick
🗓️ opening reception sunday 2/11, ft.
@Flomerboy
& me
📷 gallery open for the next 2 weekends, 2/17-18, 2/24-25
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this is the most deeply unsettling experience i’ve had on the internet in a while……….. im obsessed
, my game about eye contact, is online!
* you're matched with a stranger
* video is cropped to just your/their face (no video without a face)
* no audio, no text, just faces
* video is cut when one of you blinks.
here's me w/ a friend before launch:
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life’s too short to hate the body i’m in lol. any resources or tips on body positivity?
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took matters into my own hands
when ppl ask me what my favorite software is they expect me to say some trendy fancy niche app but no. google docs is like top 3 esp after their updates in recent years
the ONLY remaining thing i need is a left hand menu that lists all my recent docs, like apple notes
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i want a semi-dystopian romcom where ThE aLgOrItHm brings together two humans who wouldn't otherwise have been interested in each other but repeated exposure to each other's content makes them fall in love
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took a 2-month break from this site to realize the obvious: that i log on when i am sad or scared, to consume more information that makes me more sad and more scared
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tired of all these tiktok-style feed UIs. gimme a quest map or something
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with the ssn on the back 🥰
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~creator~ friends (artists, designers, writers, etc.) — any tips on what's made you more comfortable with sharing your work and thoughts publicly?
the more online i get, the less comfortable i am sharing... maybe i should just leave social media for a while
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give an engineer a pixel-perfect mock-up and they will build it 90% okay once
teach an engineer basic design principles and they will build it 99% okay all the time without needing a pixel-perfect mockup
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ongoing list of essays i want to write
- the hollowness of digital nostalgia
- generative AI as a new building material like plastic / learning from the history of synthetics
- reflecting on the tail end of my time at my last job
- reflecting on a year of independent work
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here's an ongoing list of some of my more complex ChatGPT prompts. i gravitate towards games & worldbuilding
includes my new favorite: MULTIVERSE MAPPER, a social network but only for different versions of yourself in alternate universes
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excited for a full august:
- wrapping up client work this week
- starting
@recursecenter
(12wks)
- starting
@dvsch
's algorithmic filmmaking class (6wks)
- starting the artist's way (12wks)
- joining writing club & computer club
- trip to iceland
-
@gradientretreat
in vancouver
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i know it’s such a cliche but damn, those tasks you dread are really no big deal once you’re on the other side
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remember when you were a kid and all adults looked the same age (Older Than Kids)
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i haven’t coded in ~8yrs. basically learning everything from scratch
this is ~Day 4 of code progress… core functionality is already working
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being terminally online
What’s something that comes to you naturally and has helped you in your career?
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