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Posts community icon project

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Food Log
- Breakfast: Frozen "Just Egg" omelette on toast with cheese and ketchup, pumpkin spice Swiss Miss with milk and espresso. Approximately 500cal, 60g carbs, 25g protein, 20g fat
- Lunch: Cheeseburger with potato wedges. Approximately 800cal, 70g carbs, 40g protein, 35g fat
- Dinner: No dinner was consumed.
- Snacks: A tiny granola bar with nuts, dark chocolate, and cherries in it, and a mango pineapple boba. Approximately 400cal, 50g carbs, 10g protein, 15g fat
- \==1700/2200 cal== , 180/224g carbs, 75/168g protein, 70/75g fat
- The day's meals were generally balanced but lacked sufficient protein and dinner was missed, which could lead to late-night snacking or overeating the next day.

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bryant.land

Make productivity your superpower. Get through your work faster and save hours each week.

Intelligent email built for speed - Tatem

Former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is leaving after a ‘deliberative review process’ by the company’s board.

Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI — The Verge

https://apple.news/AMvJXMwvWTKC5OfwsIdIf7w

- For breakfast I had: one cappuccino and two packets of Kodiak Protein-Packed Blueberries and Cream Instant Oatmeal. (450 cal, 67g carbs, 24g protein, 9g fat)
- For lunch I had: a chicken Caesar salad with bacon and Parmesan cheese, and a small single portion of Santa Fe-style salad which included Romaine and iceberg lettuce, chicken, roasted corn, cheese, tortilla chips, and salsa ranch dressing. (730 cal, 50g carbs, 40g protein, 25g fat)
- For dinner I had: a small portion of Chicken Tikka Masala, served with a side of Basmati rice and peas. (750 cal, 60g carbs, 40g protein, 20g fat)
- For snacks I had: a fun-sized kit-kit bar, a protein shake made with two scoops of pea protein, one whole apple, and three-fourths of a cup of Greek yogurt with extra protein. (450 cal, 35g carbs, 37g protein, 14g fat)

- carbs: 212g / 245g
- protein: 101g / 184g
- fat: 48g / 82g
- 2380cal / 2448cal

Was There An Earthquake?

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/879e54a4779742a095f82fb7dcf82763

An email that reads:

Hi Taurean quick question,

I don’t see your formal education on your resume..
The hiring Director is looking for BSCS 
He would like to know if you have a BSCS?
if so, I will forward you the details..

Thank you for the feedback

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Widget for Apple TV, digital clock widget, calendar next up widget, safari, YNAB, Artifact, Posts? 1Password, Explore, Work, Journal, Things, Reflect, and iMessages

I’ve recently overhauled my approach to keeping my life organized, including: notes, tasks, email, calendar, focus modes, and more. I don’t write much but I’m wondering how interested people would be to read about where I landed and how I got there.

What are your go-to interview questions when hiring designers and/or engineers?

I didn’t have any public work of my development experience so I’m just wrapping up a weather app built in react, check it out:https://weather.taurean.work

made a last-call submission for the Posts community icon project: for both digital and material creators here in our community 🤝🏻

Another week, another daily stand up over in the Design Crit discord. Come tell us what you’ve been up to! - https://discord.gg/FgmYSUMn

Hey all, this week @betraydan shared an amazing remix he made of our new app icon for Posts, and it started the conversation about doing an open call for alt app icons.

TLDR: We're doing it! and the submission deadline is October 20th, 2023. Details can be found on this page:

Finally put the Voyager website back up 😅 🚀 — voyager.studio

Last nasa update for a bit. Yesterday I got to experience a launch in person and was closer than the media! It was amazing!

downside of not being employed, can’t burn money on getting the AI Pin to mess with it. I don’t know anyone getting it either 😩

Damn, Tim gave us a spooky “Good Evening” instead. Sick.

I’m honestly surprised we didn’t see a new AirPods Max. I can’t remember the last product that was well received at launch and then immediately been run into the ground. It hasn’t received the same level of software support and it’s still only available with lightning.

Someone make a playlist of the music CD key crackers would play when you were cracking photoshop in 2009

Would you pay for a series of iOS shortcuts that let you log what you eat throughout the day just via voice memos and then summarized it afterwards with rough calorie/macro estimates and a review/summary at the end? If so, what would that be worth to you? For example:

happy friday everyone! friendly reminder that it's the last day to vote for your favorite community icons ✨

We will be announcing the results next week — have a great weekend!

https://posts.cv/icons

I know this sounds rely pedantic but I wish people would learn what what cyberpunk means. It doesn’t just mean futuristic.

Curious if Posts/read.cv would ever consider adding ActivityPub? Can deffo see a future where Posts becomes the design community of the fediverse

Progress on a new thing I’ve been toying with:

Recently, I switched to using taurean@bryant.land as my  email and helped my family set up similar addresses. We were unsure how to utilize bryant.land effectively but my mom suggested dedicating the site to my late grandfather. https://bryant.land

After using passage for sign-in as both a user and developer, I now hate everyone else’s sign-in flow. I especially hate sign-in with google and “magic links” when they’re the only options available.

Hi all, today we're excited to share the submissions of the community icon project! As promised you can use this page to vote on your top 4 icons to be included in the Posts iOS app. Voting will be open until Friday, November 3rd, at 5pm PST.

https://posts.cv/icons

If a bunch of our interview steps aren’t useful why not at least make them fun? I think my next whiteboard exercise should be done in an abandoned parking lot or at a park bench facing away from each other.

I stumbled on my old Haiku notes (app.haikunotes.com) designs in Figma, where I had a color system syncing with the time of day + blue light filtering and high contrast modes for each theme. Now mulling over bringing this idea to bloop.news...

people who've been laid off: do you mention that to new interviewers? If you've been laid off for a while, how do you explain your gap?

Getting a canned rejection email after being in the late stages of interviewing, especially with a smaller company, feels unnecessarily cruel. Hell, having a pre-written thing from a real person would still be better than a `no-reply@lever` message.

As someone who hasn’t worked with figma files on a large team I might be talking out of turn, but I don’t think figma is at a place where it’s even worth making 1:1 maintained instances of the same component. Design artifacts are too upstream to be maintained at that fidelity

Hiring a front end or full stack software engineer at Tatem! If you know a design-oriented engineer (or graduating CS student), let them know!

tatem.com

check out all the vases i've been making instead of working
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1. Is anyone here on Bluesky?
2. Does anyone have a nice alt. Icon for Bluesky on iOS?

Are there any good tools for collectively contributing to a photo album? Like if you go on a trip with a few people, how do you collect everyones' photos to one place?

Who’s on cosmos? Who should I be following?

Shocking news of the day  https://apple.news/AMvJXMwvWTKC5OfwsIdIf7w

LinkedIn in an employee's market: Daydreaming. Part 1
"Why is this job on-site only?"

The food logging tool I'm working on is definitely coming along…

If you live in SF/Bay Area and you want to ask Siri if there was an earthquake, here you go: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/879e54a4779742a095f82fb7dcf82763

Getting a canned rejection or no-reply early in an interview flow is fine but that rejection message when you’re in a late/final stage *sucks*.

@Andy Have y'all considered allowing users to login via a different method? Passkey support would be amazing but as it stands, there's no way to login in places where clicking the email magic link doesn't open. (eg. adding Posts to your dock via Safari in macOS Sonoma)

not being able to use the new variables feature in Figma to set font-sizes seems like such an extreme oversight. It feels like design software is always extremely lacking, bloated, or both (most common). Such a bummer.

lol I have 12 years of experience, if your recruiters are asking this question you should fire them. It tells me they don’t know how to vet candidates outside of checking off a list they don’t understand themselves.

I’ve been giving some thought around interview exercises. The way they’re implemented often feels like such a waste of time. I wonder if it’d make sense to instead do pair designing/developing. Use a list of example tasks and then collaborate on one together.

I’m tired of this damn cat hiding and making us think she ran away

Arc + Phillips Hue Sync are a match made in heaven

Figma this, webflow that. What do yall know about kid pix deluxe

hot take: Figma should auto-generate file thumbnails to show useful info and state, with an option for custom covers instead. Hovering over the card should preview its contents like YT hover shows video frames.

Excited to announce the results of our icon project today! We tallied the votes selected the 12 most upvoted icons to be included (soon) in Posts for iOS.

Congrats to @5ouma @anainsomnia @betraydan @charlsy @grinkevych @hannahlee @joer @milanaruzic @pw @stevencrosby @tq @vark !