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John Kreitlow

@john.kreitlow.rocks

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Señor UX Engineer at Microsoft, building web components and design systems. Game collector, vinyl collector, and hobbyist. Also a gay. All opinions (especially the bad ones) are my own.

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John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · Jan 28

Here's my mandate

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John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 10h

Combobox is a bad pattern

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John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 1d

m'distro

John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 1d

AI search results sometimes feel like replacing the index of a book with an extremely enthusiastic nerd who wants to help but ultimately gets in the way

John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 1d

You're absolutely right!

John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 2d

1. Mrs. Krabbapel's class looks at Bart. Milhouse says, "Say the line, Claude!"
2. Bart looks down in disappointment and says, "You're absolutely right."
3. The class cheers

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John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 5d

I'm great at pitching ideas, but I have no follow through.

John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 5d

css.properties, among other things. What's currently there definitely doesn't match what I have in progress, but it's been hard to find the motivation to flesh it out. I've owned the domain for years.

css.properties

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John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 5d

Maybe I set my own bar too high? Maybe it's a fear of infrastructure creep?

The rationale I've always told myself is my career scratches that itch pretty damn well. Since I already spend a majority of my working life in front of a screen, more programming is the last thing I want to do.

And yet...

John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 5d

Some quick questions for folks who maintain blogs, side projects, host podcasts, influence thots, speak at conferences, etc.:

1. How?
2. Why not me do cool code stuff?

I make tons of insanely cool shit at work but when it comes to starting and managing my own ideas I get stuck.

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John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 6d

Technically that's a different setup but they're two sides of the same coin

A digital audio mixer, a microphone, and a pair of studio monitor headphones.

John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 6d

I might be approaching overkill territory here...

#audiophile #hifi

A multi-tier media equipment rack with a record player, stereo amplifier, digital audio player, headphone amplifier, turntable preamplifier, digital to analog converter, Blu-ray player, CD changer, power conditioner, and cassette player.

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John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 6d

You're absolutely right!

John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 7d

There are so many variables to consider when it comes to getting actual value out of lossless and high-resolution audio: the device, OS, the software, the signal path, the headphones or speakers, how you're positioned relative to the output, room layout, your age... And that's not even the beginning

John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 9d

We have to use the same sort of workaround and it's super heavy for most use cases (where the form submitter doesn't matter) and half broken for the rest (where the submitter does matter)

John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 9d

A shadowed button can't be the submitter of a form

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AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 10d

If there is a rock and roll heaven, the angels are weeping tears of joy over Geese.

Or something to that effect...

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John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 10d

New Dry Cleaning song

Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day

YouTube video by Dry Cleaning

youtu.be

John Kreitlow @john.kreitlow.rocks · 12d

Snazzy Labs did a video detailing the inner turmoil between teams working on AI, and why Siri is so bad. It doesn't really answer your question but it might provide insight into how things like this can happen at massive tech companies who have more employees than the populations of some countries