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B. Prendergast

@renderg.host

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👋 Uses design to ease startup growing pains 🌿 Believes capitalism serves the people, not vice versa 🐳 Specialises in design strategy, practice & systems 💖 Writes about people, product, science, tech & the messy in-betweens --- https://links.renderg.host

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 25d

Folks were so busy buying up sassy #MundusSineCaesaribus merch to stick it to Musk and Zuck—still billionaires btw—without considering the real question: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?

Who Watches the Watchmen?

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 1h

The worst designer I ever worked with was also the most productive. He flooded the backlog so completely that no one could think straight. This is what happens when work cultures mistake volume for value, and incentivise outputs over outcomes

The Worst Designer I Ever Worked With Was Also the Most Productive

How outputs can destroy outcomes.

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 4h

Leaflet is a good little place and you’re building something Hygge. Hope you can take some joy from that in these sadder moments. ✌️

B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 4h

I certainly feel a certain malaise at times when I get over exposed to the whole world up close all the time. It’s what I hate about X and Meta and LinkedIn, but quite enjoy about Bsky. Small can be cosy and close. Filters reinforce and protect values. Content turns back into conversation.

B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 4h

Also maybe we’re just not meant to exist in huge groups. Dunbar’s number (although the science is shaky) reminds me that small groups with meaningful relationships are far more valuable than vast collections of tenuous connections. A lot of harm can come from and occur in anonymous crowds.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 5h

After the president blocked me on Twitter and I sued him in federal court and won I got to talk to press on the courthouse steps thanks to @knightcolumbia.org

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 12h

A prime number of Laureates and Field Medal winners ✌️

IOP Publishing @ioppublishing.bsky.social · 18h

Congratulations to 2025 #NobelPrize Chemistry winners Susumu Kitagawa, Omar M. Yaghi and Richard Robson for their developments on metal-organic frameworks!🎉

We have proudly published the work of Kitagawa and Yaghi. Now 137 Nobel Laureates and Fields Medal winners have published their work with us!

B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 21h

I wrote a post about one of my favourite activities to start a workshop the right way: Squiggle Birds

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 22h

I kick off every workshop with Squiggle Birds — a 10-minute burst of laughter, chaos and creativity. Everyone draws a random squiggle, flips it until they see a bird, and brings it to life. It’s ridiculous, fast, and brilliant — nothing gets people thinking creatively quicker.

Bring Squiggle Birds to your Workshops

An simple silly and powerful drawing exercise that unlocks creative thinking instantly in workshops about complex things

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 23h

One thing I *really* miss in my downtime is running workshops with customers. Meeting people where they’re at, forging lasting connections, describing pains, revealing hidden connections, working towards solutions, mapping reality, and creating reassurances. Want to get back to it soon.

A photo of a collection of creative drawings made by participants in a service mapping workshop I facilitated a couple of years ago.

B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 1d

I’m just still on the banging riffs tbh, but I’ll hang out here for a while and delve deeper into still

B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 1d

When this album came out, I heard "On a rope" too many times and wrote this band off. Last week I heard "Born in '69", which blew me away, dived in to their back catalogue, and I am fucking kicking myself for sleeping on such an amazing band for so many years.

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 1d

UX’s rebrand to “Product Design” promised influence but delivered subordination. Design traded strategy for execution, discovery for validation. The next evolution isn’t reclaiming power — it’s rebuilding true partnership between Product and Design, where measurable meets meaningful.

The Product Designer's Paradox

How UX design’s quest for more influence led to its quiet subordination

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 1d

@descilabs.bsky.social is taking such an interesting approach to publishing and this post about their #Decentralized approach is really worth a read.

DeSci Labs @descilabs.bsky.social · 3d

Publishing is evolving.

Preprints. Open Access. AI.

More speed, more access, more collaboration.

The future is here 👉

DeSci - Blog | Preprints, Open Access, and AI for Scientists

Discover how preprints, open access, and AI tools are transforming scientific publishing. Learn how to share your research paper faster, reach a global audience, and use AI for research effectively.

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 1d

I’m sorry that we only met now 🤷‍♂️

B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 1d

This does nothing against Apples “locked gates as product” philosophy of course, but maybe it saves headaches and hours in future for you or someone else reading this.

B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 1d

I know this isn’t helpful now, but export isn’t necessary unless you’re also processing files too.

1) quit #ApplePhotos
2) find and open the Photo Library file in finder (right click -> “show package contents”)
3) Move images to your desired destination.

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 1d

When I became a manager, I expected hiring more great designers would free me to focus a bit less on the product and more on the team. Instead, I had far less time for both.

Design QA, team growth, and team alignment costs all rose with each new face 📈.

Was never so unproductive.

tante @tante.cc · 2d

I read a lot about people getting 10x more productive through AI assistants (for Code and other work products). And I wonder how that works given that you need to doublecheck every generated line, phrase or paragraph for correctness.

Like _how_ inefficient and unproductive were these people before?

B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 1d

Thanks, I think 😋. It really is a fantastic and unique film, but one really does need to be in top form and to take a deep breath beforehand, in order to get through it intact.

B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 1d

Ah, small update: not using 'entire network' from **last 7 days** is creating the issue for my feed. 2 days, etc works perfectly.

B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 1d

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There *may* be something wrong with the feeds. What I see in SkyFeed and what I see on BlueSky are very different. I tried to put all the details here (inc the feed JSON and screenshots) but if you can help, I can answer questions here too. Thanks!

gist.github.com/renderghost/...

latestFeeds.json

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 1d

I migrated my `Latest News 🇪🇺` bsky.app/profile/did:... and `Trending News 🇪🇺` bsky.app/profile/did:... feeds to @skyfeed.app for easier management.

👉 The previous URLS are no longer in use. Please use the new URLs provided above instead. Sorry for the disruption.

B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 10d

Made my first #feed (using @graze.social) which aggregates posts from 1️⃣ official verified accounts (where possible) of 2️⃣ EU-based news media outlets, that 3️⃣ publish news in English 4️⃣ sorted by latest first.

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 2d

A strong candidate for most disturbing film is Klimov’s “Come and See” (1985).

Relentlessly deliberate in never allowing you to turn away from the horror and inhumanity of war. Raw and transparent, without any sensationalism.

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COME AND SEE Trailer

YouTube video by Film Forum

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 2d

The only good thing to come from ‘A Serbian Film’ is the absolutely banging theme tune: Pazi Sta Radis by Sky Wikluh. One of those tracks I wish I had written.

Skip the film entirely.

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 2d

Hello fellow connoisseur 🐇

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’ Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, has spoken out against AI-generated content featuring her father. “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” Zelda wrote in an Instagram story on Monday. “Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on. But please, if you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. Continue reading...

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