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Dylan
@kingofthevagabonds.bsky.social
UX/front end/Figma person.

Currently designing web apps for the education sector at Angel Solutions.

Based in the best North West, UK.

https://vaguebutexciting.com
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I'm making way for new designs and new products in my Etsy shop, so right now almost everything I have is on sale, between 10 and 60% off from stickers to prints, greetings cards to Christmas decorations, including these new vinyl stickers. #etsysale #stickers #smallbusiness
September 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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September 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Interesting take on the decline in the quality of thinking, in a post-covid, AI saturated world.

www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/f...
Foggy feeds: the decline in my feed reader subscriptions
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
www.baldurbjarnason.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Alright, we're actually doing this open working thing.

We're going to work on projects, for real clients who are set up to make people's lives tangibly better.

We can only do that if it works financially though because we've got mortgages etc.

Your support will make this happen.
We’re trying a rather radical new approach at Piccalilli by doing real world projects — for real clients — in the open. This gives us a context to provide genuine high quality, real world education for free at the point of entry.
We need your support to do free projects for good causes and publish free high quality education
We’re trying a rather radical new approach at Piccalilli by doing real world projects — for real clients — in the open. This gives us a context to provide genuine high quality, real world education...
piccalil.li
May 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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tech bro is short for technically broken
April 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I really liked the intro to this week's Dense Discovery newsletter, on the concept of a:

"...‘comfort class’ – a section of society who’ve never known what it means to experience genuine anxiety about money..."

and the disconnect between them and everybody else.
May 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Adobe CS6 came out in *2012*. That's impressive dedication to avoiding a Creative Cloud subscription.
April 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A House mix I did recently. Audio on Mixcloud, tracklisting on my website. Was quite pleased with how it came out.

www.mixcloud.com/hiccup/picke...

www.vaguebutexciting.com/music/picked...
Picked & Mixed House Mix
www.vaguebutexciting.com
March 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I love this. A tiktok-like interface for random Wikipedia articles:

wikitok.vercel.app

(Via @omglord.bsky.social's excellent newsletter:

omglord.substack.com)
WikiTok
wikitok.vercel.app
March 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Am so happy right now

🐷🏗️ I built a tower 🔺11.63m high!
Rating: 🐽🐽🐽➖➖
vole.wtf/styscraper/
Styscraper 🐷🏗️ porcine physics game
Build a tower of junk and rise high above the muck!
vole.wtf
March 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Well this is both maddening and addictive

🐷🏗️ I built a tower 🔺10.24m high!
Rating: 🐽🐽🐽➖➖
vole.wtf/styscraper/
Styscraper 🐷🏗️ porcine physics game
Build a tower of junk and rise high above the muck!
vole.wtf
February 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
These two posts seem very apposite
February 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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🌟 Front-End Developer and Design Systems Practitioner seeking remote work.

🎨 With 10 years of experience in Design Systems, I excel at the front of the front-end.

🤝 If you’re looking for a friendly collaborator to bring your vision to life, let’s connect!

🌐 www.alwaystwisted.com

🙏🖤
Always Twisted - Design Systems & Front-End Consultant
Hi, I’m Stu Robson, a Design Systems consultant and front-end developer helping teams create scalable, accessible systems that enhance collaboration.
www.alwaystwisted.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
If you do up the buttons on the duvet cover when you're washing it, all the other laundry won't end up inside it in a big soggy lump.
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
So much jungle-y goodness on this album. Top work from Tim Reaper.

open.spotify.com/album/5Mx1e7...
In Full Effect
Tim Reaper · Album · 2024 · 8 songs
open.spotify.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Giving this stuff a go.

It looks like Guinness...

*sips*

*thinks*

*sips again*

It tastes... kind of like Guinness. Maybe 80% like it? It's better than I expected tbh.
January 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and hangs out with a bunch of other ducks, and writes for a german newspaper saying vote for the alt-right duck party, and does a nazi salute like a duck... my dude, that's a duck and you should throw away your duckmobile.
January 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Added a list of my favourite design/UX email newsletters to my blog:

www.vaguebutexciting.com/posts/email-...
Some Good Newsletters
www.vaguebutexciting.com
January 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is cool. A search engine to find electronic music. Search for a track, then get a list of similar tracks, based on "tonal, rhythmic and structural affinities".

cosine.club
cosine.club | Music Similarity Search Engine
Find similar tracks and explore playlists with a machine learning powered music search engine.
cosine.club
January 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Won't Let Me Go - Tokyo Prose

open.spotify.com/track/4ksUPT...

Such vibes.

#thisismyjam
open.spotify.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I really love the idea of common slash pages on personal sites. I have a couple e.g.

vaguebutexciting.com/about
vaguebutexciting.com/music

But am now thinking about what else I could add...

(slashpages.net)
slash pages
A guide to common pages you can add to your website
slashpages.net
January 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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January 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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MACCLESFIELD MARKET CANCELLED TOMORROW AGAIN.

This has really hurt us.
November and December at Macclesfield are our most profitable markets of the year. We are down nearly £2k with these not happening.
SO.
We are going to open the unit on Monday and EVERYTHING IS £5
December 21, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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SIMPLY HAVING A
December 14, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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Perfect attendance awards are an important way to celebrate parents who send their sick kids to school 6-8 times a year
December 11, 2024 at 12:13 PM