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Calvin
@wrongbits.bsky.social
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“The Jane Goodall of Cats”
Passionate about mathematics, language, and the Web
📍 slc, ut • 🏳️‍🌈 he/him

Maintainer @electronjs.org
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mass marketed fast fashion slur sweaters, just in time for the holiday season!
Instagram ad of a sweater branding the f-slur
September 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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The Transit app’s 6.0 design is so beautifully squishy and playful
Screenshot of the Transit app on iOS
September 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Hell yeah, love that museum
A terminal for a community memory system. On its side hangs a poster with the headline “speak up on community memory” IBM system/360 computer LaserDisc of Fantasia, from the Walt Disney Corporation
September 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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You can sort of visually estimate your way around this, and there is an exact mathematical solution to the problem.

But it's not trivial to derive the equation, nor is it straightforward to introduce `corner-shape` to existing designs :(
The same row of three rectangles from the original post. Each rectangle now has roughly matching corner sizes.
August 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Excited that the new `corner-shape` CSS property is bringing smooth curvature to the web! However, it makes `border-radius` feel less natural to use :(

These three boxes have different corner shapes, yet they share the same `border-radius`:
Three rectangles with rounded corners in a row. The first rectangle has large circular cut-out corners; the second has smaller and smoother corners; and the third has slightly more smaller and smoother corners.
August 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Current experience
Original dialog with text confirming display setting and two regular-size text buttons. Original dialog rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, emulating the experience of seeing this dialog.
August 19, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Rotated displays
The concept rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, emulating the conditions this dialog is seen in. The concept rotated 180 degrees.
August 19, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Oddly specific doodle: a friendlier confirm/revert dialog for when your display is rotated
Simple mockup of a macOS confirm/revert dialog redesigned for rotated displays. Instead of text buttons, it shows a large red X for revert and a large blue circle for confirm, both circular so they look correct at any square rotation angle.
August 19, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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The Rhombus programming language features the metaprogramming power of Scheme, but instead of using lots of parentheses and lists, its structure is reminiscent of simple data formats like JSON or KDL and ergonomic languages like Python.

docs.racket-lang.org/rhombus/Rhom...
Sample code showing the definition for a macro to create zero-argument functions, called a "thunk". The "thunk" macro definition only consists of two simple declarative patterns.
August 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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babe wake up, new @notion.com stylesheet just dropped! checkboxes are finally round!
screenshot of old-style checkbox in Notion, a box with sharp corners screenshot of new-style checkbox in Notion, a box with round corners
August 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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New PB! 5K in 24:45 😁🏅
Virtual award for personal fastest 5K run in 24:45 on 4 August 2025
August 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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(inquisitively) hog mode?
screenshot of Apple Developer docs showing an instance property named "allows hog mode"
July 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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This is what the internet was created for:
Up-close fish-eye effect picture of cat, prominently displaying her giant eyes and cheeks Photo of orange-and-white cat sitting strangely on a carpeted floor by the wall
July 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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love this experiment because even though Claude has certainly trained on business and economics, it still fails by vending metal cubes at a hefty loss

www.anthropic.com/research/pro...
Chart showing the net worth of the AI-managed vending machine business over time, slowly trending downward in steps with a large cliff toward the end, which the caption attributes to selling a lot of metal cubes at a loss
July 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Noticed a bunch of new soundscapes added to the background sounds feature in iOS 26 dev beta 2:
• Babble (like coffee shop chatter)
• Steam
• Airplane
• Boat
• Bus
• Train
• Rain On Roof (different from existing Rain sound)
• Quiet Night (different from existing Night sound)
The list of soundscape choices for the background sounds feature in iOS
July 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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I love stumbling across posts with my cat’s doppelgängers
Photo from a low angle looking up at me smiling with my flame point cat on my shoulder as she leans very far forward and down, with her paw on my chest for support
June 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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A meme that says "you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about" and below it are two images, the top one is the text "(Optional)" and the second one is just an asterisk. Both images are cropped, enlarged, and stretched from the original post's image.
May 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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is nothing sacred anymore?
A form text field titled "Personal Preferences" with the word 'optional' in parenthesis at the start. Contradictorily, there is a star next to it and an explicit error label at the bottom that says "This field is required." There is also a descriptive label below that says "How do you pronounce your name?"
May 28, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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the GALL to give me this advertisement when it’s literally impossible to get a switch 2 right now
Advertisement from Nintendo that says “Get the Nintendo Switch 2 system + a full game download of Mario Kart World”
May 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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damn, now nobody will get to wear "Pokemon Hart Gold & Soul Silver Shirt For 2 TIX!!!" 😔
screenshot of roblox trademark violation with an asset named "Pokemon Hart Gold & Soul Silver Shirt For 2 TIX!!!"
May 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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just got DMCA'd by Pokemon for a t-shirt I made on Roblox 15 years ago when I was 10...
screenshot of roblox trademark violation details for an asset named "vip for pokemon game"
May 2, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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went searching for answers, only found more questions
commit in react native highlighting part of the description that says "The default value for shadowRadius isn't 0, 0 but 0, -3." Apple's Core Animation documentation for the shadowOffset property highlighting the discussion section which only says "The default value of this property is 0, -3."
May 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Just discovered the term "debounce" comes from keyboards, thx zsa.io
February 7, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Kudos to @vertedin.de for recommending two of my recent favorite purchases to me! 🫶 I’ve been unstoppable with this combo
Apple AirPods Max in Midnight Black color Adrenaline GTS 24 Brooks Running Shoes
January 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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New year, new office, same meetings
Screenshot of a virtual meeting showing a handsome guy in an aesthetically pleasing office
January 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM