Julian M
@julian.missig.org
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Julian M
@julian.missig.org
· Nov 18
“I’m a happy designer when…” is a series of reflections on my work. I’d like to share the small wins, good feelings, accidental victories, and micro accomplishments that epitomize my job at its best.
I met this lily bulb last week
January 2, 2026 at 5:57 AM
I met this lily bulb last week
amongst US cities, SF has a reputation for particularly poor/disinterested clothing fashion
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
amongst US cities, SF has a reputation for particularly poor/disinterested clothing fashion
yeah so I have one of these, one third gen, and… a dozen Nest Protects that I installed in 2016. Fire alarms are required to expire after 10 years and I failed to buy replacement Protects a few years ago when they stopped making them.
October 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM
yeah so I have one of these, one third gen, and… a dozen Nest Protects that I installed in 2016. Fire alarms are required to expire after 10 years and I failed to buy replacement Protects a few years ago when they stopped making them.
not just their safety — I buy the argument that they fear for their “legitimacy” in that they worry about issuing too many rulings the executive clearly ignores.
they’d rather be seen as in the bag for this particular executive than completely irrelevant, and see those as the only two options.
they’d rather be seen as in the bag for this particular executive than completely irrelevant, and see those as the only two options.
October 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
not just their safety — I buy the argument that they fear for their “legitimacy” in that they worry about issuing too many rulings the executive clearly ignores.
they’d rather be seen as in the bag for this particular executive than completely irrelevant, and see those as the only two options.
they’d rather be seen as in the bag for this particular executive than completely irrelevant, and see those as the only two options.
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Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered.
This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!
What more could you want?
#langsky 🀄️📚
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This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!
What more could you want?
#langsky 🀄️📚
1/
November 25, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered.
This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!
What more could you want?
#langsky 🀄️📚
1/
This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!
What more could you want?
#langsky 🀄️📚
1/
yeah they cling to this illusion of moderate voters who will change their minds if only they were coddled slightly more
July 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
yeah they cling to this illusion of moderate voters who will change their minds if only they were coddled slightly more
it’s so frustrating how few people in the democratic party are willing to stand up like this. it shouldn’t feel so rare that we have to rely on Newsom for this.
July 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
it’s so frustrating how few people in the democratic party are willing to stand up like this. it shouldn’t feel so rare that we have to rely on Newsom for this.
Pilot Light is one of my regular spots. Maybe see you there some day!
June 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Pilot Light is one of my regular spots. Maybe see you there some day!
anything in the conan o’brien universe of podcasts, including “where everybody knows your name”
May 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
anything in the conan o’brien universe of podcasts, including “where everybody knows your name”
was very hard for me not to read this as Marco Rubio’s
May 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
was very hard for me not to read this as Marco Rubio’s
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For promoting my apps, I try to use actual pictures of real devices, in the real-world, as much as possible.
3D renders are nice, but there's something nice about authentic shots - especially for camera apps! (featured here: 65x24.app)
The trickiest part is avoiding reflections 😅
3D renders are nice, but there's something nice about authentic shots - especially for camera apps! (featured here: 65x24.app)
The trickiest part is avoiding reflections 😅
April 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
For promoting my apps, I try to use actual pictures of real devices, in the real-world, as much as possible.
3D renders are nice, but there's something nice about authentic shots - especially for camera apps! (featured here: 65x24.app)
The trickiest part is avoiding reflections 😅
3D renders are nice, but there's something nice about authentic shots - especially for camera apps! (featured here: 65x24.app)
The trickiest part is avoiding reflections 😅
design in games journalism
March 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
design in games journalism
@kevinmullin.house.gov @padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov please consider. Much of this dismantling of the federal government has been illegal, and simply having judges say as much is not enough.
I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv
March 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
@kevinmullin.house.gov @padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov please consider. Much of this dismantling of the federal government has been illegal, and simply having judges say as much is not enough.
I’m a happy designer when we can turn a video game mechanic into an interactive user interface element — self-explanatory, communicative of system state, but also fun to fiddle with.
February 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I’m a happy designer when we can turn a video game mechanic into an interactive user interface element — self-explanatory, communicative of system state, but also fun to fiddle with.
it’s why I still use my Leica TL2. I enjoy the object so much, and the shots are beautiful when I get them.
glad this Sigma is also L-mount. But I think the smaller lenses with L-mount APS-C were fine, I don’t know that everything has to be full-frame. oh well
glad this Sigma is also L-mount. But I think the smaller lenses with L-mount APS-C were fine, I don’t know that everything has to be full-frame. oh well
February 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
it’s why I still use my Leica TL2. I enjoy the object so much, and the shots are beautiful when I get them.
glad this Sigma is also L-mount. But I think the smaller lenses with L-mount APS-C were fine, I don’t know that everything has to be full-frame. oh well
glad this Sigma is also L-mount. But I think the smaller lenses with L-mount APS-C were fine, I don’t know that everything has to be full-frame. oh well
alternate translation: I California Canada
February 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
alternate translation: I California Canada
I share mostly because a lot of folks are claiming no one knew until Twitter — but I think it’s more that no one wanted to know
February 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I share mostly because a lot of folks are claiming no one knew until Twitter — but I think it’s more that no one wanted to know
fwiw I remember finding it pretty gross at the time.
I heard rumblings about the kind of person he was in 2014/2015, but heard more direct accounts by 2016 that made me grossed out by him.
I heard rumblings about the kind of person he was in 2014/2015, but heard more direct accounts by 2016 that made me grossed out by him.
February 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
fwiw I remember finding it pretty gross at the time.
I heard rumblings about the kind of person he was in 2014/2015, but heard more direct accounts by 2016 that made me grossed out by him.
I heard rumblings about the kind of person he was in 2014/2015, but heard more direct accounts by 2016 that made me grossed out by him.
cognitive dissonance is very human. we’re also bad at all sorts of things in statistics and economics — there are fun studies where experts go entirely against the math when presented with politically or emotionally coded choices. some things just run counter to how our brains want them to work.
February 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
cognitive dissonance is very human. we’re also bad at all sorts of things in statistics and economics — there are fun studies where experts go entirely against the math when presented with politically or emotionally coded choices. some things just run counter to how our brains want them to work.