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- monospaced1
religion
The Pope is now on a ventilator after being hospitalized for over a week with bronchitis, an infection and now respiratory complications.
- thoughts and prayers!YakuZoku
- he seemed like a nice/good one though, hope he pulls throughYakuZoku
- Not many ~90 year olds pull through after a week in the hospital for a double lung infection and then needing a ventilator.monospaced
- it's hammer timeGnash
- the big man can't wait to welcome him into his kingdom https://udayton.edu/…_niko
- Thoughts & Whocaresnb
- Pope on a ventilator is a good name for a bandrzu-rzu
- Ventilated Poperzu-rzu
- I don’t know the man personally. He a good guy? Hope he gets well. Has a good’s man face.maquito
- Bill Cosby has a good man's face too :)rzu-rzu
- microkorg7
blog
Got told my position is being made redundant earlier this week.
How's the job market looking out there?
Last 5 years as UX Team lead in Ad Tech.
Previously ~20 years Web/Digital/Brand at CD/SD levels.- From what I hear not good at our age.
Let us now if someting works out for you.
Godspeed!palimpsest - It’s rough out there. Been at it hard for a few weeks now and I can say it’s not like it used to be. So much more competition.monospaced
- And salaries are back down to where they were a decade ago.monospaced
- best of luck man!renderedred
- Yeah good luck and try to forget your age, just dive in.mort_
- your work history sounds almost identical to mine. I'm in the same position too ;)
applying to stuff over LinkedIn etc etc hasn't worked very well lol...exador1 - I've managed to score a position with a big Utility company in my area...a buddy of mine was brought on board as a PM for a ton of their IT/web projects, andexador1
- i asked him if he needed a designer...turns out he actually did lol...
so... my advice for you is to work your network as hard as possible..exador1 - someone, somewhere has a gig or a role for you...but you gotta ask...
the whole applying thing with your resume shit ...ugh...did that for a few monthsexador1 - got hardly any results from it... just endlessly reworking my resume thinking it's somehow my fault it's not getting traction...exador1
- Will be trying to work any networks. Already dived into linkedin to see whats going. Will be revising my CV and updating my folio over the next week. FUN!microkorg
- I’m transitioning from applying to jobs to almost pure networking and creative experimenting now. Fucking rough.monospaced
- The market is savage everywhere. North America. UK. Mainland Europe. Headhunter I'm connected recently told me so many senior people are looking for new jobs,Continuity
- ... some of them for 1.5 years or more. Hunker down, folks, it's going to be rough.Continuity
- design skills are not valued outside of studios. i've been out of studio work for 10 years now and haven't uttered 'UX', 'Digital' even though that's what i do.kingsteven
- i do my job + (as far as the people i work with are concerned) i do some magic which makes it look nice and work well...kingsteven
- people will value what you can do, and all your skills are transferrable but downplay specific design skills/ industry roles and demonstratekingsteven
- At our age, the advantage you have is knowing people (hopefully). Network, ask around, don’t forget to help others whenever you cannb
- @microkorg - What changed leading to your redundency? IE. is it customers switched to a different ad-tech, or is it a broader change like chat replacing searchmonNom
- Its a merger where products/departments overlapped. Been payoffs across lots of different departments - product, finance, marketing, devs.microkorg
- From what I hear not good at our age.
- Gnash6
- I have seen this and it is wonderful.Morning_star
- Looking forward to it :)Gnash
- Yeah Looks great_niko
- robotinc5
blog
I feel you microkorg, my whole team was laid off two weeks ago. Fun times.
- I feel for you. What kind of work was your team doing, and how's the company going to do that work going forward? (if at all.)monNom
- So sorry man. It’s sick seeing the market suddenly flooded with talentmonospaced
- you too? man. sorry.renderedred
- Yeah, months now. I took a break for the holidays, and to get a computer and work on a portfolio. It’s been a process. Fuck.monospaced
- Now I realize you were responding to robot, not me. Good luck let me know how I can help.monospaced
- Going to be fun clobbing together a folio!
Not liking look of some comments saying a year plus looking and lots of seniors looking for work. eek!microkorg
- ideaist2
- Reminds me a bit of his modern classic "PIG"; I'm here for any off Cage film.ideaist
- Yup Nic Cage in another Nic Cage film, love it._niko
- is this an actual thing though? local surfers losing their shit over their territory like in Point break or is this a Hollywood thing?_niko
- It's real in California, especially Santa CruzYakuZoku
- Snippet about the beach I grew up on...
The Silver Strand Locals (SSL) have protected their mile of high-quality beachbreaks at Oxnard for three decronburgundy - decades via talented surfing, outright hostility and physical abuse.ronburgundy
- The intimidation can start even before you hit the water, with slashed tires.ronburgundy
- mort_3
Site of the day
Interesting idea to link playlists to the tracks on the artists Bandcamp pages to encourage purchases. Not sure how new it is.
- They don't take a cut.
https://www.buymusic…mort_ - interestingGardener
- On it!
https://www.buymusic…Gardener - Nice. I must do this for my mixes. Or find some AI that can.mort_
- So cool!
https://www.buymusic…Gabriel
- They don't take a cut.
- mg333
Artificial Intelligence
Claude is destroying ChatGPT for me in terms of coding. I started building generative art tools last year and hit limits with GPT in terms of accuracy, quality, and ability to follow instructions.
I was amazed that I could take one of the tools I built that I'd maxed out in GPT (800 lines of JS), drop it into Claude, ask it to tell me what it thought the code did (100% accurate and insightful), and then immediately add new features flawlessly.
Since someone in a Slack group suggested Claude,I haven't been able to stop working on the things I'm building. I can code but not much JS and I'm just astounded at its ability to create code that does what I need it to. After I wrap up these projects I'm moving on to learning more X code to build an app I've had on my mind for a while. I was starting that in GPT but Claude is going to be so much better.
- Word is the old one 3.5 is still good, the new 3.7 it's "too much"grafician
- still not capable of building secure, reliable applications IMO. i still have to get my hands dirty.kingsteven
- I'm expecting that for sure, I just love what quick work it makes of things that would otherwise be an extensive tutorial, or random code snippets.mg33
- totally, as a coder sometimes it seems like i spend more time itemising development to frame it in a way the LLM can give reliable results than it would take tokingsteven
- do it myself, but it's usually worthwhile as i end up with a full featured app in a week rather than a working prototypekingsteven
- I've moved all my tools to my local server, but I'll have to share them at some point. It's basically things that you could do in PS or Illustrator, butmg33
- generatively and quickly. One is a generative collage tool with various parameters, randomized image assets from my assets folders, shapesmg33
- lines, layer effects, etc. The other is a grid based pattern tool with SVG shapes, and ability to adjust padding + and - for overlay effects with blend modes.mg33
- Both create art like this: https://www.instagra…mg33
- It's fun, because it's taking me back to the art I liked making in PS in the early 2000s, but generatively, and with code. It made being out of work last yearmg33
- tolerable because it kept my more engaged than even some work-based project work could.mg33
- sorry, but I can create all that art in any vector app even Figma in like 5 mins man
Whay do you need to code apps to output that?grafician - Instead I would code some apps and put them in the Appstore and get cash for the effort
"Vibe coding" is shitgrafician - Where can I go to learnnb
- ask chatgpt :))grafician
- graf - The randomization of it is what's enjoyable. I could make that in Figla, Illustrator, or PS quickly too, but I enjoy building these things and it helpsmg33
- me generate a wide range of ideas quickly that I can then import SVGS from and further customize, incorporate images, etc.mg33
- Salarrue1
- Wok N" Wegsutopian
- Egon SpenglerYakuZoku
- Alfred Begins a prequel from Nolan's Batman trilogySalarrue
- Nerdy Arnoldgrafician
- Stephen Kingmonospaced
- Mr Math Olympia_niko
- Pumping Iron deficiency_niko
- https://static.wikia…futurefood
- What's he smuggling under that #13?Akagiyama
- Phil Wang's dadgarbage
- Luigi Mangionepseud
- OBBTKN13
- +Continuity
- ++renderedred
- +++YakuZoku
- ++++dbloc
- +++++_niko
- ++++++PhanLo
- +++++++utopian
- wake me up when change is effected as a result of Luigi murdering a figurehead who they replaced immediately?monospaced
- Is this real?nb
- Are you all plussing Trumpnb
- I agree mono, I think we should kill the replacements tooYakuZoku
- Kill until they replace them with us. Wait no...Beeswax
- LolYakuZoku
- I'm totally serious. Separate what this represents, and he achieved nothing. It's infuriating, but there's also no real excuse for this type of murder.monospaced
- TIL when it comes to revolutions, mono can't be counted on to do his bit. 18th century French nobility would've just adored you.Continuity
- MrT4
- This and Music of My Mind!mort_
- Incredible albumcruddlebub
- Longcopylover13
RIP of the day
That's a big loss.
- What? "Legendary actor Gene Hackman, wife Betsy and dog found dead inside New Mexico home"OBBTKN
- His wife and dog also found dead.mort_
- Co2 ?tank02
- Yikes! :(Akagiyama
- Terrible. He was a quality actor for decades.CyBrainX
- This scene is a bit weird though right? FBI agent crushing a guys dick with his hand?nb
- Carbon Monoxide?dbloc
- Latest says no signs of CO, but there was an open pill bottle found by his wife's body, the front door was open, and her hands and feet had mumufied, so...elahon
- ...they had been dead for some time. My guess is she poisoned him, then herself. But he was found on the mudroom floor, and she was on the bathroom floor...elahon
- ...so that's odd.elahon
- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯elahon
- _niko4
The World is Fucked
Cousin marriage: What new evidence tells us about children's ill health.
duh. literally.
https://www.bbc.com/news/article…
- Not nice to make fun of khumran’s familyGnash
- depressingly the argument seems to be it can't be banned because incest is not as big a risk to a child's health and development as having children in your 30skingsteven
- Never did the king of england any harm... well.PhanLo
- inbreedingutopian
- IslamNBQ00
- NBQpango
- The statistics don't lie, so stop attacking me :)NBQ00
- thanks DEIneverscared
- Why you name yourself NBQ if you consider it an attack????pango
- nb7
- Elwin745
- Gene Hackman, in his final days. Did not reconize him at all...Elwin74
- A reminder that you are stronger and more powerful now than you’ll ever benb
- They're opening an investigation.. This is beginning to sound like one of his old movies.CyBrainX
- He looked pretty good for 95!instrmntl
- He looked more like Adrien Brody in these picsNBQ00
- I've never put my sunglasses on my hat like that. Won't they fall off?Krassy
