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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Just thought y'all should know that this morning I coughed with coffee in my mouth and spewed it all over my desk and monitors. Equally horrifying and hilarious.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

One of the best parts of being a consultant is seeing multiple companies' "Pets" channels in Slack/Teams/etc.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Just thought y'all needed to see Shadow sitting like a doofus.

A black and tan dog with cute little ears looking pleadingly at the camera while sitting on a maroon, diamond-patterned rug. His back legs are kicked out to his left side, looking a little silly.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New flag, who dis? (Sons of Liberty flag) Thanks @flagsforgood.com!

Side view of a Sons of Liberty flag hanging at an angle from the front of a home. The flag has nine red and white vertical stripes.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Every layoff announcement should be required to also list the CEO's salary and amount of taxes paid in the previous year.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The new Wood Brothers album is amazing. Even better than their previous album. The lyrics are so poignant and this track is absolute fire. The Trick is not to give a damn. I can get behind that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqCK...

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The Trick

YouTube video by The Wood Brothers - Topic

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Hocus Pocus by Focus - a 7-minute song fit into a 5-minute TV time slot without skippning a beat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyxS...

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Hocus Pocus - Focus | The Midnight Special

YouTube video by The Midnight Special

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

One comp exam down, three to go. Definitely one of the harder things I've ever done. Quite the weekend.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Careful out there today folks!

A temperature gun pointed at the pavement. It reads 148.5 degrees.

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Adam Rowan @shinjutnt.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I've come to the conclusion that Occam's Razor has become outdated in the modern age. I hereby propose to replace it with Occam's Spoon. The explanation that makes the least sense is probably true

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Wednesday's concert reminded me how much I love The Wheel. So beautiful and inspirational. Every time that wheel turn 'round, bound to cover just a little more ground. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZK8...

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Jerry Garcia - The Wheel (Studio Version)

YouTube video by LongStrangeTrip710

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

If this keeps up, we're gonna have a popcorn shortage pretty soon.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration with the Boston Pops was pretty darn amazing.

Boston's Symphony Hall lit up in purple. It's a far view to the stage from the second balcony. The Boston Pops are on stage with six other musicians.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Audience member plays Stu's guitar on Dragon and absolutely nails it. What other band would do this? Gizz is the best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkBA...

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Dragon Live In Lithuania '25 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

YouTube video by Bootleg Gila

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

New car mod. Beware, tailgaters.

A car console with various buttons (seat heater, defrost, etc.). One of which is now labeled with a turtle shell.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Another day, another attempt at turning off Copilot in mobile Outlook

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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 12/05/2025

Imagine telling someone from the 1970s that in the future the tech industry, corporate CEOs and world leaders had a choice between SQL and ELIZA as tools to help grow the economy and they chose ELIZA

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I'm a little obsessed with this diagram instructing users where to enter a URL.

A mockup of a web browser search engine. "Enter here" is shown in the browser address bar. "Do not put web address here" is shown in the search engine search box.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

If I had a dollar for every time I heard my content is good, but my visual design sucks, I'd be a rich man.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Anyone have a quick way to convert .VTT transcript files into a format that NVivo likes?

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Watermelon in Easter Hay is Zappa's finest guitar solo. Sublime and soulful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3cu...

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Frank Zappa - Watermelon In Easter Hay

YouTube video by Steven Spencer

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Patrick Neeman @usabilitycounts.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

UX Fortune Cookie: The best design process welcomes chaos at the start but demands order by the end. #ux #fortunecookie

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Zappa's What's New in Baltimore? goes through so many emotional phases and is such a great example of his unique guitar playing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhDd...

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What's New In Baltimore?

YouTube video by Frank Zappa - Topic

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I always get a little kick when I write "see you next Wednesday" in an email.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Usability/usefulness of Snell Charts: Opthalmologists really should mix up the letters in their Snell Charts for those of us who visit frequently enough to have the charts memorized. E V O T Z 2

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

"Errors live in a weird space between design and development, so they sometimes get lost in the mix." HubSpot interviewed me about the Usability Heuristic "Recognize, Diagnose, and Recover from Errors." Here's the full article that covers all 10 standard heuristics.

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How Nielsen’s Usability Heuristics Apply to Websites, According to UX Pros

Learn how to apply the 10 usability heuristics to your website and create user-centered interfaces.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Just discovered that Ian Anderson played with PFM in 2010. Amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIXZ...

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PFM & Ian Anderson La Carrozza di Hans Live Prog Exhibition 2010

YouTube video by RemyTena2

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Shout out to the @bentleyu.bsky.social men's hockey team for winning the Atlantic Hockey championship! They're playing in the NCAA tourney for their first time against BC - 2pm on Friday at SNHU Arena in Manchester. I'll be there! Go Falcons!

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I sat outside and read today for the first time this year. It was lovely.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A new Dominican restaurant opened in Waltham. Never thought I'd be able to get pernil delivered, but here we are. It was amazing.

A open styrofoam container with food in it. Sitting on a bed of yellow rice is a mound of shredded, delicious pork, and three fried plantains.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Monday morning hype song: Hell's Bells by Bill Bruford www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcZ6...

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Bill Bruford - Hell's Bells

YouTube video by Roberto Massafra

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Jam bands need to start covering Paul Pena's Venusian Lady youtu.be/36Lil88kJM0?...

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Paul Pena~ Venutian Lady

YouTube video by thewheel73

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Two movie foods live rent free in my brain and come to mind quite easily: the cheeseburger from The Menu and the omelette from Defending Your Life. Want that omelette so bad.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Turing Award winners speak out about the dangers of AI, testing with the public, and companies putting profit over safety. Amen.

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Latest Turing Award winners again warn of AI dangers

A pattern is emerging here.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Wednesday morning hype song: Raw Feel by KGLW Because experience is different for everyone One thing for me might be three for some And you can never know this, but you think you do The same shit for me ain't the same shit for you

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Raw Feel

YouTube video by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Topic

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Next Thu and Fri, I'll be teaching the Usability Research class in the @bentleyu.bsky.social #UX Certificate program. It's a fun two days of geeking out about research. Come join the fun either in person or online!

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UX Certificate Program Courses

A full list of Bentley UX Certificate Program course names, descriptions, and outcomes. Each course will contribute one or more pieces to a student's portfolio.

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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Here’s a cybertruck getting booed at Orpheus to brighten your Lundi Gras:

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

So, umm, when will <gestures wildly> all this come to a stop? I'm tired.

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Dan Klyn @danklyn.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This by @ethanmarcotte.com is exceedingly well said: “the billionaire's so-called ‘efficiency’ ‘department’ is best understood as a sprawling form of procurement capture”

But what's happening right now is not about
"government efficiency," nor is it about "cost-cutting." I would gently urge you to look at the net worth of the people who are telling you otherwise. After all, there is no financial analysis; no review of possible downsides, no weighing of potential negative impacts. There is no discussion of what could happen if our math is wrong? Or even more importantly, no consideration of who might be harmed?
Instead, as Anil Dash predicted, the billionaire's so-called "efficiency"
"department" is best understood as a sprawling form of procurement capture, in which a group of impossibly rich individuals are trampling over the regulations - and the federal workers - that stand between them and a deep, deep revenue stream: your tax dollars. And as they do, they're making an explicitly fascist move to roll back rights for every marginalized community in the country
— for anyone who doesn't look like them, or who stands in their way.

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Now playing: toe. the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety Dark horse desert island disc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tf5...

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toe the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety full album

YouTube video by haysooz

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Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Top notch beef at Nick's Place in Burlington. The bun really tied the beef together.

A North Shore four-way sandwich on a plate. It's a roast beef sandwich dripping with BBQ sauce and mayo, with cheese on the bottom, onion rings all over it, and a grilled bun.

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