Fran
@iamfran.bsky.social
Head of UX Design @ Greenflux, Amsterdam.
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Working with AI https://iamfran.com/notes/2026-01-15-1154/
Working with AI | Fran's Realm
A GitHub repository
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January 15, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Working with AI https://iamfran.com/notes/2026-01-15-1154/
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Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.
January 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.
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This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.
Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
Bose speakers un-bricked
buff.ly
January 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.
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You can do this. You can do SOMETHING.
Look up X on the App Store, scroll down to Report a Problem and fill out the form with this information.
January 8, 2026 at 3:04 AM
You can do this. You can do SOMETHING.
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"It's not necessarily the app that's making the images... it's people using the app that's making the images. Making images of that sort is reprehensible..."
No, people are asking the app to make the images.
IT'S A FEATURE. Not a bug.
No, people are asking the app to make the images.
IT'S A FEATURE. Not a bug.
January 8, 2026 at 11:54 AM
"It's not necessarily the app that's making the images... it's people using the app that's making the images. Making images of that sort is reprehensible..."
No, people are asking the app to make the images.
IT'S A FEATURE. Not a bug.
No, people are asking the app to make the images.
IT'S A FEATURE. Not a bug.
✍️ Shortcuts: Saving markdown files
Apple Shortcut is extremely powerful and flexible. At the same time, it can be extremely stupid.
For some reason there’s no easy way to save some text with a format that is not .txt.
But I write everything in markdown...
iamfran.com/notes/shortc...
Apple Shortcut is extremely powerful and flexible. At the same time, it can be extremely stupid.
For some reason there’s no easy way to save some text with a format that is not .txt.
But I write everything in markdown...
iamfran.com/notes/shortc...
Shortcuts: Saving markdown files | Fran's Realm
Finally a solution for this
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January 7, 2026 at 5:12 PM
✍️ Shortcuts: Saving markdown files
Apple Shortcut is extremely powerful and flexible. At the same time, it can be extremely stupid.
For some reason there’s no easy way to save some text with a format that is not .txt.
But I write everything in markdown...
iamfran.com/notes/shortc...
Apple Shortcut is extremely powerful and flexible. At the same time, it can be extremely stupid.
For some reason there’s no easy way to save some text with a format that is not .txt.
But I write everything in markdown...
iamfran.com/notes/shortc...
Amsterdam under the snow 💙
January 7, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Amsterdam under the snow 💙
Apps defaults (2025) | Fran's Realm
A list of apps I use every day
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January 6, 2026 at 2:28 PM
January 6, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Just finished the first season of Pluribus and I can’t take this shit anymore.
What happened to the gift of synthesis?
More and more often, I find myself halfway through a TV series thinking: “This should’ve been a film.”
iamfran.com/notes/synthe...
What happened to the gift of synthesis?
More and more often, I find myself halfway through a TV series thinking: “This should’ve been a film.”
iamfran.com/notes/synthe...
What happened to the gift of synthesis? | Fran's Realm
It should've been a movie...
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January 5, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Just finished the first season of Pluribus and I can’t take this shit anymore.
What happened to the gift of synthesis?
More and more often, I find myself halfway through a TV series thinking: “This should’ve been a film.”
iamfran.com/notes/synthe...
What happened to the gift of synthesis?
More and more often, I find myself halfway through a TV series thinking: “This should’ve been a film.”
iamfran.com/notes/synthe...
Spent some time reviewing my highest scored movies from the last 25 years and came up with some sort of top 25.
Extremely personal, definitely flawed, but a nice exercise.
iamfran.com/notes/top-25...
Extremely personal, definitely flawed, but a nice exercise.
iamfran.com/notes/top-25...
Top 25 movies (2000–2025) | Fran's Realm
Extremely personal, definitely flawed
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January 5, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Spent some time reviewing my highest scored movies from the last 25 years and came up with some sort of top 25.
Extremely personal, definitely flawed, but a nice exercise.
iamfran.com/notes/top-25...
Extremely personal, definitely flawed, but a nice exercise.
iamfran.com/notes/top-25...
Turin, Galleria Subalpina
Every time I come back here I wonder if I should move back…
Every time I come back here I wonder if I should move back…
December 31, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Turin, Galleria Subalpina
Every time I come back here I wonder if I should move back…
Every time I come back here I wonder if I should move back…
I've redesigned my website and removed all the old posts. I might bring some back later, but honestly I got bored writing about "small things". I wanted the site to reflect how I actually work and think, not just be a collection of one-off articles that don't connect to anything.
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Fran's space on the web. A Product and UX Design manager writing about stuff.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I've redesigned my website and removed all the old posts. I might bring some back later, but honestly I got bored writing about "small things". I wanted the site to reflect how I actually work and think, not just be a collection of one-off articles that don't connect to anything.
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August 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Ironic: as LLMs make writing much easier, I am finding not more, but less interesting and novel things to read online.
And so I keep paying more attention to the fewer people who still write their original thoughts (without LLMs - you can tell how repetitive it gets with them)
And so I keep paying more attention to the fewer people who still write their original thoughts (without LLMs - you can tell how repetitive it gets with them)
August 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Ironic: as LLMs make writing much easier, I am finding not more, but less interesting and novel things to read online.
And so I keep paying more attention to the fewer people who still write their original thoughts (without LLMs - you can tell how repetitive it gets with them)
And so I keep paying more attention to the fewer people who still write their original thoughts (without LLMs - you can tell how repetitive it gets with them)
August 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Spent a beautiful week hiking and bouldering in the Alps. This is what life should be…
July 23, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Spent a beautiful week hiking and bouldering in the Alps. This is what life should be…
Always fun to use Spectre by @halideapp.bsky.social. Can’t suggest it enough, especially when visiting touristy places.
June 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Always fun to use Spectre by @halideapp.bsky.social. Can’t suggest it enough, especially when visiting touristy places.
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Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw
i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.
It’s a real mindfuck when most ppl wanna post about their latest failures/successes, or weird shit they saw in the wild or cool stuff they made…but the country is a cesspool so cool/weird shit seems trite.
June 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw
Something feels wrong...
June 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Something feels wrong...