Ted Boyer
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Ted Boyer
@tedb.bsky.social
· Nov 15
👋 Hi, I’m Ted, designer & front-end dev w/ 6+ yrs of experience. I’ve worked in advertising, higher ed, & software.
💚 I believe design is a joyful pursuit—quality craft and creative collaboration motivate me daily.
🏡 I live in greater Seattle with my husband & our two cats
🎵 Into music, nature, 🍨
💚 I believe design is a joyful pursuit—quality craft and creative collaboration motivate me daily.
🏡 I live in greater Seattle with my husband & our two cats
🎵 Into music, nature, 🍨
Honey is an underrated ice cream topping 🍯
October 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Honey is an underrated ice cream topping 🍯
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Really enjoyed this piece by @jjlee.bsky.social on the @kickstarterunited.org strike: what the union is fighting for, and why it matters to all of us. medium.com/labor-new-yo...
Kickstarter Employees Launch Strike Over Four-Day Workweek, Pay Floor
The union wants the company to pay an $85,000 minimum salary to its workers.
medium.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Really enjoyed this piece by @jjlee.bsky.social on the @kickstarterunited.org strike: what the union is fighting for, and why it matters to all of us. medium.com/labor-new-yo...
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The sunlight of your life has just found you. What a joy to live your way into the warmth of your next decade.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The sunlight of your life has just found you. What a joy to live your way into the warmth of your next decade.
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What 15 years of design debt looks like
September 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
What 15 years of design debt looks like
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August 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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For the past 15 years, Meredith Li-Vollmer has helped bring King County health messages to life, as comic books.
A comic-book approach to public health. King County's winning formula
For the past 15 years, Meredith Li-Vollmer has helped bring King County health messages to life, as comic books.
www.kuow.org
July 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
For the past 15 years, Meredith Li-Vollmer has helped bring King County health messages to life, as comic books.
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‘Vibe coding’ as a phrase is embarrassing to me. In an industry where the bar was already very low, it suggests we can care even less. It’s another step towards enshittification.
The only way to make great software is to truly reason about the code and systems. There are no shortcuts.
The only way to make great software is to truly reason about the code and systems. There are no shortcuts.
July 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
‘Vibe coding’ as a phrase is embarrassing to me. In an industry where the bar was already very low, it suggests we can care even less. It’s another step towards enshittification.
The only way to make great software is to truly reason about the code and systems. There are no shortcuts.
The only way to make great software is to truly reason about the code and systems. There are no shortcuts.
On island time with my folks this weekend!
June 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
On island time with my folks this weekend!
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Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.
As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver
Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.
fortune.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.
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The main use case for AI is doing something poorly, very quickly.
Once you realize this, it becomes clear the majority of AI's biggest proponents are people:
a) who don't know what a good job looks like;
b) who don't care; and/or
c) who have themselves only ever been doing a bad job all along.
Once you realize this, it becomes clear the majority of AI's biggest proponents are people:
a) who don't know what a good job looks like;
b) who don't care; and/or
c) who have themselves only ever been doing a bad job all along.
April 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The main use case for AI is doing something poorly, very quickly.
Once you realize this, it becomes clear the majority of AI's biggest proponents are people:
a) who don't know what a good job looks like;
b) who don't care; and/or
c) who have themselves only ever been doing a bad job all along.
Once you realize this, it becomes clear the majority of AI's biggest proponents are people:
a) who don't know what a good job looks like;
b) who don't care; and/or
c) who have themselves only ever been doing a bad job all along.
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Woke up thinking about Zelensky being asked, “Why don’t you wear a suit?” and how America is obsessed with making sure you are polite even if you’re dying.
And when you grovel for a dollar for food or protection from war — it’s how you ask or what you are wearing that determines if you get it.
And when you grovel for a dollar for food or protection from war — it’s how you ask or what you are wearing that determines if you get it.
March 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Woke up thinking about Zelensky being asked, “Why don’t you wear a suit?” and how America is obsessed with making sure you are polite even if you’re dying.
And when you grovel for a dollar for food or protection from war — it’s how you ask or what you are wearing that determines if you get it.
And when you grovel for a dollar for food or protection from war — it’s how you ask or what you are wearing that determines if you get it.
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This is awesome. The perfect example of doing what you can and not staying silent when you have the power of your voice, by whatever platform is available to you, in whichever circles you operate.
JD Vance is skiing at a Vermont resort this weekend. The resort’s snow reporter took the opportunity to make some good trouble, sending out a message of resistance against an administration “threatening our democracy, our livelihoods, our land”. [kottke.org]
Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter
JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend and will be skiing at Sugarbush Resort in Warren, VT
kottke.org
March 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is awesome. The perfect example of doing what you can and not staying silent when you have the power of your voice, by whatever platform is available to you, in whichever circles you operate.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates in Seattle about the Democratic Party in this moment:
“If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?”
“If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?”
February 19, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Ta-Nehisi Coates in Seattle about the Democratic Party in this moment:
“If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?”
“If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?”
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Wrote something for @objectivejournos.bsky.social today: objectivejournalism.org/2025/01/lega...
Legacy media helped create this anti-trans moment
Mainstream newsrooms like the New York Times downplay Trump's latest attack on trans rights after years of helping lay the groundwork for it.
objectivejournalism.org
January 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Wrote something for @objectivejournos.bsky.social today: objectivejournalism.org/2025/01/lega...
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Anytime I am helping someone with CSS and they seem to have the wrong mindset in how they approach writing it, I tell them to watch this video by @miriam.codes
As far as I'm concerned it should be required viewing for anyone who is learning CSS.
youtu.be/aHUtMbJw8iA?...
As far as I'm concerned it should be required viewing for anyone who is learning CSS.
youtu.be/aHUtMbJw8iA?...
Why Is CSS So Weird?
YouTube video by Mozilla Developer
youtu.be
January 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Anytime I am helping someone with CSS and they seem to have the wrong mindset in how they approach writing it, I tell them to watch this video by @miriam.codes
As far as I'm concerned it should be required viewing for anyone who is learning CSS.
youtu.be/aHUtMbJw8iA?...
As far as I'm concerned it should be required viewing for anyone who is learning CSS.
youtu.be/aHUtMbJw8iA?...
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Remember to keep your eyes on the prize: the future world you want to build
Don’t drown thinking only of the things you are against
Remember to dream of and work to create what you’re for
Don’t drown thinking only of the things you are against
Remember to dream of and work to create what you’re for
January 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Remember to keep your eyes on the prize: the future world you want to build
Don’t drown thinking only of the things you are against
Remember to dream of and work to create what you’re for
Don’t drown thinking only of the things you are against
Remember to dream of and work to create what you’re for
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It’s so funny, there’s a long social media tradition going back 25 years of making a big deal about how you were going to quit, and then only being gone for like half a day.
January 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It’s so funny, there’s a long social media tradition going back 25 years of making a big deal about how you were going to quit, and then only being gone for like half a day.
“This is the power of a good mix, and music in general: you can create the world you want to inhabit.” — @austinkleon.bsky.social 👏
January 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“This is the power of a good mix, and music in general: you can create the world you want to inhabit.” — @austinkleon.bsky.social 👏
Wait this headline is me 😳
I Hope I’m Reincarnated As the Moss on Alan Cumming’s Jacket
Stolen headbands, dark-academia ensembles, and, of course, more Thom Browne in ‘The Traitors’ episode four.
www.thecut.com
January 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Wait this headline is me 😳
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You do not have to consume every single tiny piece of bad news in order to be a good person. It’s ok to miss things. Traumatizing yourself isn’t the same as activism. Bearing witness to the point that you’re paralyzed with fear and horror and fury isn’t going to help us get through this.
Remember their goal is to terrorize us. And social media is a fantastic way to spread terror. We don’t have to help them.
Based on the vibes of my timeline today I’m feeling like the next two weeks are probably gonna be a really good time to reduce social media use as much as possible. Because YIKES.
January 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
You do not have to consume every single tiny piece of bad news in order to be a good person. It’s ok to miss things. Traumatizing yourself isn’t the same as activism. Bearing witness to the point that you’re paralyzed with fear and horror and fury isn’t going to help us get through this.
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Watching TV with my husband, one cat on my lap, the other on his feet.
This is the gay agenda.
This is the gay agenda.
January 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Watching TV with my husband, one cat on my lap, the other on his feet.
This is the gay agenda.
This is the gay agenda.
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Now is a very good time to be good to each other. In part because you never know what anyone is going through, but also because you know that all of us have already been through so much.
January 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Now is a very good time to be good to each other. In part because you never know what anyone is going through, but also because you know that all of us have already been through so much.
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If AI generated content is not worth a human writing, is it worth a human reading?
January 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
If AI generated content is not worth a human writing, is it worth a human reading?
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oh shit new logo just dropped
January 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
oh shit new logo just dropped