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Matthew Mahan
@matth3w.bsky.social
Product designer
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September 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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literal dril
August 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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The pinnacle of culture is a podcast interviewing the hosts of another podcast about other podcasts they like.
theonion.com/report-250-m...
Report: 250 Million Americans Still Need Guests On Their Podcasts This Week
WASHINGTON—According to a report out today, 250 million Americans are still scrambling to find someone to appear on their podcasts this week, as the guests they would normally book either just appeare...
theonion.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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August 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Why do some have a shit time with LLMs for programming while others love it?

To succeed, the latter group tacitly creates tons of scaffolding and gain weird new skills. While it works, this posts explains how doing all that is an incidental consequence of bad interaction design in coding AI agents.
The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine
My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that i...
ferd.ca
June 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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15 Tips for Better Signup / Login UX: "this is a checklist of some of the most important UX tips for creating usable signup and login forms. It’s based on my experience looking at hundreds of beginning designer login flows." www.learnui.design/blog/tips-si...
15 Tips for Better Signup / Login UX
Mobile patterns · Form field validation · Autofocus · Microcopy · Error messages · Error prevention
www.learnui.design
June 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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New from @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social:

When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.
The Price of Remission
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
www.propublica.org
May 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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It's a brutal time for young men. April — 1805. Napoleon is master of Europe. Only the British fleet stands before him. Oceans are now battlefields.
May 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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urbanist sitting backwards on chair: you kids all know the story of Easter, but let me tell you about another "JC" that "has risen",
Homestead Pl, Jersey City. 2018 vs 2025

The American people can still build, if we let them.
April 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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i often see things that make me say "this is the most Boston thing I have ever seen in my life" but i think this one might have swept them all
April 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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I love this fucking website so much
April 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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This article deserves to be published outside of Medium.

uxdesign.cc/figmas-not-a...
Figma’s not a design tool — it’s a Rube Goldberg machine for avoiding code
The absurdity of spending countless hours crafting interactive designs for a medium no one will ever use.
uxdesign.cc
March 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Design Space: An imagined area holding all possible versions of a design, showing how each version is related and how specified features of the design can change.

Dive into why understanding design space is crucial to the future of our practice.

interfacecafe.com/what-is-desi...

#designsky
Design Space
Get in the rocket—it’s shaped like a pencil.
interfacecafe.com
March 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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When I’m fully disassociated and I put on my active listening face
March 13, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Working on #dataViz? This page got you covered with 160+ different data visualisations:
buff.ly/2R38QeW

A great resource with descriptions, use cases and real examples for every type of visualisation.
Data Viz Project
Collection of data visualizations to get inspired and find the right type
buff.ly
March 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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man, a house I liked on Redfin that I could not afford and had no intention of buying just sold, what a bummer
February 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I use this account, I just don’t post a lot
July 26, 2023 at 11:35 PM
Drew some rectangles today
May 12, 2023 at 12:10 AM