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Tim Boucher
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Software engineer at Superhuman. French-American living in California. I eat squares of dark chocolate all day long. Current hobbies are learning Spanish on #Duolingo and doing some #embroidery in the evening.
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Home Depot caters to the DIYer who wants one sheet of HardieBacker for $13, and the professional who wants a truckload of the stuff for $15,420.
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Most things have gotten so cheap that fixing them doesn’t make economic sense. How much would you have to pay someone to do the same fix? Likely much more than the cost of a new fan.
Photo of the table fan with its cover removed, exposing its internals. On the left, you can see a black plastic rectangular component with a red and black wires coming out of it. That’s the old capacitor that I replaced.
October 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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One thing I really enjoy is fixing things, especially when the thing to fix and the fix itself are cheap.
I had this fan that was mostly working but sometimes struggled to get started. Turns out it’s a capacitor issue which can be replaced for $3 and 20 minutes.
Better than getting a whole new fan.
October 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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We’re back!
This is from a handful of sessions.
I don’t love making these types of sections because the colors are mixed and it’s hard to know where this is going. The flip side is that it’s nice when it’s starting to take shape!

#embroidery
Photo of the same mountain and trees embroidery kit the trees are still done in different greens. The two mountains are partially done. The new stuff is on the mountain on the right which has dark blue stitches and also some kind of burgundy mixed with the purple.
October 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Just saw this post yesterday.
“Colors and hues” belongs.
Screenshot of Facebook post by Merriam Webster about “legal doublets” like “cease and desist”, “breaking and entering”, which use French and English words because of the Normans.
September 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Finally framed and hung @tetrismegistus.bsky.social’s artwork, bought a few months ago.

I have another one that I’m looking forward to having framed. Much larger at 24x24. This one is 11x17.

#generativeArt
Photo of framed artwork hung on a wall. The artwork is abstract but has a red, blue and black shape that goes across the piece and looks like a river bed. The background is filled with scribbles made to look like real characters. On the left side it’s more individual characters that feel somewhat Japanese to me, on the right it’s nonsensical scribbles that look more like cursive. You can see me in the reflection and if you squint hard enough, can discern a bit of the house behind me.
September 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Done!
I’m repeating myself but doing a quick one like that is so fun. Less pressure to get it right, I can move on, I could even redo it if I weren’t happy.
But I’m pretty happy! Sure it’s not perfect but it doesn’t need to be.

#embroidery
Finished embroidery piece. Stylized Command and K keys in silver thread on dark blue fabric. In the bottom right there’s “t13r” as a signature. The stitches are back stitches except for the signature.
September 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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It’s so nice to do a piece that goes really fast. Sure it’s not perfect, and I still think the back stitches aren’t the ideal choice, but if I end up not happy with it, it’ll be only a few hours of work.

We’ll have to see how it looks once the paper is removed but I’m happy so far!

#embroidery
Picture of the same embroidery piece showing the two keyboard keys command and K. The K key is done and the command one just needs the word “command” to be embroidered. The stitches are back stitches everywhere.
September 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Instead of working on my existing #embroidery project, I decided to start a new one.
But it should be quick.
Command+K is the central keyboard shortcut in Superhuman. I created this design many years ago for shirts.

Pondering the back stitch but we’ll see how it ends up.

#craft
Photo of embroidery hoop with pattern stuck to it. The fabric is dark blue. The pattern is two stylized keys from a Mac keyboard: command and K. The command key has the clover-like symbol. A new silvery gray embroidery floss lays on top. Photo of the same piece but the key around the K key is fully stitched with a basic stitch.
September 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Just finished this… keychain?
Years ago, not long after I joined Superhuman, I came up with a pattern for the logo, and decided to do it again. My threads were too short for a whole bracelet so I stopped there.
My technique is a bit better but still imperfect.

#FiberArts #FriendshipBracelet #crafts
Photo of the knotted piece on a dark blue piece of fabric. The piece is made of white and black floss. It starts with a white teardrop-shaped loop, then it’s knotted like a friendship bracelet. First only black, then the Superhuman logo is done with white, then back to black. After a few rows, the ends are braided and tied off.
August 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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I’ve made a tie dye shirt with Superhuman’s (my employer) logo. Kind of, at least. It turned out quite complex because the logo is not symmetrical and most similar patterns rely on symmetry. But I’ve found a (time-consuming) way. It’s not bad for a first try!

#TieDye #FiberArts
Photo of a tie dyed shirt. In the middle you can discern the Superhuman logo, which is a stylized S in an isometric 3D-ish fashion, in pink, purple and blue. Around that, there’s a multicolor swirl. The logo is missing some dye on the left side. There’s a lot of white but that’s a style in itself. The colors are pretty dull, likely because I used old, cheap dye from a kit and didn’t have soda ash so I used baking soda, which AI said should work. Anyway, it looks decent but faded. Superhuman logo with the name under it. The logo is the app’s logo with the outline in a white-pink-purple-blue gradient from left to right.
July 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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I just received this really cute and high quality embroidery kit as a work anniversary gift from work.
I’m very impressed by the quality of the kit!
It seems to exceed my current skill level but there’s only one way to increase one’s skills!

www.etsy.com/listing/1868...

#embroidery #FiberArts
Picture of embroidery kit. The kit is finished but displayed with the content of the kit: threads, instructions, etc. The design is of a mouse with a tiny shovel digging up carrots. The design is very detailed and looks like an illustration from a kid book. In particular the two carrots have really vibrant leaves.
July 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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#Duolingo may not tell you when it switched to AI-generated lessons but there will be hints… 🤦🏻‍♂️
Screenshot of Duolingo. It reads “elige la opción que significa ‘así’” With a sentence you pick words from: “¿Galletas? Así que… ¿todo esto es por las galletas?” The words to pick from are: así, que, por, las.
July 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Very proud of this bracelet I just finished for my wife!
I love the colors. I came up with the pattern and it turned out perfectly symmetrical. First time I make an adjustable knot (which I didn’t invent but took some research) which seems to work well.
#FiberArts #FriendshipBracelet
Photo of a friendship bracelet on a couch armrest. The bracelet is made of embroidery floss in gold and three different blue. The lightest one is about turquoise and the darkest one is a dark blue with a very light tint of green? Dark teal might cover it. The pattern is classic chevrons for the blue colors with the gold on the outside of the bracelet. At some point the gold threads criss-cross towards the inside and back outside to form a diamond shape filled with the dark teal on the outside. On the other side of that diamond, it’s once again chevrons but in the other direction. And luckily enough, the color of the chevrons exactly mirror the other side of the diamond. Happy accident. In the back, you see the slip knot that allows taking the bracelet off and on. The threads have been lightly braided. The very end looks like a small tassel. Straight on view of the same bracelet where you see that diamond and pattern better. You can also see that the execution of the bracelet is not perfect but what do you expect? I’m not a professional! Of course it’s the couch that is in perfect focus, not the bracelet… I suppose that gives it a sense of mystery? 👀
June 30, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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I’m quite impressed how Google Translate parsed out the hashtag and translated it such that each word is capitalized.
Screenshot of Google translate from Spanish to English. The post in Spanish has a hashtag: #Unacitaparacadadia and it’s translated into #AdateForEveryDay. The rest of the text is: “I have no desire to play in a world where everyone cheats. François Mauriac Good morning, coffee, and let’s get to it. 😘 😘 😘 “
June 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Came across the iA Presenter website and thought for a moment it was free and maybe open source because the top menu almost reads “how to support” instead of “how to” and “support”.

ia.net/presenter
Screenshot of the iA Presenter website. At the top it reads: iA / Presenter Then on the right of that there’s “How To”, “Support” and finally a “Get” button. “How To” and “Support” are close together with no visual separation which make it easy to read it as “how to support”. Below is the beginning of the marketing page with a photo of, I believe, Dieter Rams and a header that says “good design is innovative”
June 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Speaking of… what the hell is this?!
A BluRay player that does not play discs, in “great condition”, but also “salvage”, and yet still $50.
Screenshot of a Craigslist post for a Sony Blu Ray player. “Sold as is $50” The text reads: “Does not play discs. Sold as is. Includes the unit, remote, and box. Great condition. $50” Lower: “condition: salvage” There is a picture of the player with the remote on top.
May 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Did some visible mending on my hoodie that was chewed up by our foster dog.
Not too bad. The cuff looked better in my head 😄 If I had to redo it, I’d try some kind of weaving maybe.
One problem I have is I feel the knots on the inside. I don’t know how I’m supposed to do that better.
#VisibleMending
Photo of the cuff of a hoodie. The hoodie is light beige with a black hem at the cuff. The mending consists of a little blob of yellow surrounded by darker yellow over a stain, a light green X over a tiny hole, some dark blue soft shape by the cuff and light blue and bright green stitched over the black cuff.
May 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Finished the second pink shade (actually finished all the floss, which was surprising since I had a lot of green left), and about halfway done with the third shade.
The first two stitches of the darker shade worried me a bit because they don’t look at all like the picture but it’s fine.
#embroidery
Progress pic of the same kit. The foreground mountain’s lit side is almost fully done in three shades of pink. The other mountain is about two thirds done with only two shades of pink. The darker shade hasn’t been started there. The stitches are kind of long and short but a bit messy, but on-purpose messy. The just asks for six strands so it looks a bit broad, in a good way.
May 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Progress on the mountains.
Two shades of pink so far. It’s interesting because it feels like the stitches should follow a bit of a flow field, so as I go I’m trying to sense where that should be. It’s not simple.

#embroidery #wip
Progress pic of the same embroidery kit. There is a tree line already done in three tones of green. There are two mountains next to each other. The lit sides will be done in shades of pink, while the shaded sides will be in purple and dark blue. Currently only the lit sides has been started with two shades of pink. It’s some variant of long and short stitch with intentional messiness to it. It’s not neat and tidy but that’s the point.
May 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I finally redid the back of this embroidery piece I made last year.
Previously I had the basic tying of the extra fabric with thread.
Recently, I came across this technique of simply doubling the back with another piece of fabric and hot-glueing on the inside.
I like it.

#embroidery #craft
Back of an embroidery hoop. The middle shows a fabric with wavy lines of different colors: blue, dark blue, brown, light green. Overall earth tones, kind of like map colors too. Around it you see black fabric folded over. The black fabric has been cut with scissors that make these rounded borders. Front of the embroidery piece. It’s three hanging pots with various types of succulents, on black fabric
May 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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I found the conversation.
five fire emoji kind of in a pentagram shape but with no lines between them 8 fire emoji in a diamond shape 6 fire emoji with ASCII characters forming a simple house shape with a roof 7 fire emoji in a star shape with one fire in the middle. The star branches are connected with lines of ASCII characters.
May 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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The trees are done!
I went rogue and added a third green tone (from leftovers) to fill in between trees. The template lines didn’t quite match the suggested result so I had some gaps… 🤷🏻‍♂️
I hope it adds some debt to it.
#embroidery #wip
Same embroidery kit with the tress filled in over the mountains.
May 3, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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First checkpoint: some trees.
I like starting with the easy parts to get a sense of progress. 😄
#embroidery #wip
Picture of the same kit. Half of the trees are embroidered with some light green thread in simple straight stitch. Half of the remaining trees are stitched with dark green thread. One tree is halfway done. There are about 2.5 trees left to be done.
April 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Here we go again, #embroidery!

First kit I use with so many colors!
This may take a while because it’s so many stitches and it covers the whole frame. On the flip side, one saving grace is that they all use six strands…
It’s going to be interesting.

Btw, do you split the floss when it’s 6 strands?
Photo of the kit laid out on a coffee table. On the left there’s the instructions for the kit. In the middle, the cardboard holding the embroidery floss. On the right the printed design in the hoop. The design is two mountains in purple and pink colors, with a series of green pine trees on the left side. On the foreground on the right there’s some kind of field with orange wildflowers. It looks like a night sky with a bit of the moon on the top right and stars in the sky. The cardboard holds 24 different colors with different shades of blues, purples, greens.
April 26, 2025 at 2:23 AM