Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 11hHere at Slack, we want you to be able to work how *you* work best! That's why there are 6 different ways to view conversation threads, 5 of which are indistinguishable from practical jokes. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Finally working on getting off Adobe shit for design work. Started playing around with Affinity tonight and my first impression is very positive! A bit early to call it, but feels like it might actually be a strict upgrade for my use cases. 071
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Saw a trailer for this game and thought it looked cool but didn’t wishlist. Now purchasing immediately. In 2026, being proudly human-made earns an automatic 3/10 extra points in my book. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yeah the "this is another Snow Leopard" stuff is as far as I can tell total fabrication. Or rather, it *might* be true that 27 is a big improvement over 26 (I took one look at 26 and skipped it entirely) but it's still a complete UX disaster. 100
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I've been seeing more posts of the type this one is referencing and it makes me feel crazy (which I think is kinda the point, so good job I guess). Completely bonkers to claim that nostalgia for adolescence is the only possible reason you might love media more than a couple years old. Fuck off! 031
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The 3rd-party iOS apps I use used to do a great job of maintaining look & feel on older OS versions, but this has totally broken down with 26 and 27 while I'm still back on 18. Everything looks like a weird hybrid now. Apple must have made pre-Liquid Glass backwards compat extremely painful. 000
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I have returned! Sadly I must report that I *did* think about computers while on vacation, but I did not Post about them, and that's at least something. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Vacation time! Not gonna think about computers for a week :D 040
Reposted by Casey BrantCopper Hamster @copperhamster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My friend got a picture of them all together. 77125195108
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If you're banging out a post with the thesis "AI-generated posters don't have to look like shit" you might wanna run a draft past somebody with eyes before hitting publish just to make sure your counterexamples do what you think they're doing. 050
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It is *bananas* how shitty everything feels now. Constant UI stuttering. Actions like window dragging/resizing that used to be snappy are now laggy. Apparently activating Mission Control and dragging a window from one virtual desktop to another is one of the hardest things you can do on a computer. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Gotta hand it to the macOS team, they convinced me that my M1 Macbook—which I previously considered probably powerful enough to be the last computer I'd need for the next multiple decades—is actually an underpowered piece of trash. 030
Reposted by Casey BrantRadiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Job listings are like: [A/I job] [A/I job] [Gambling App job] [A/I job] [Listing seems normal but company is A/I or Cr/ypto] [Gambling App job] [Actual Creative Job but it’s 2 jobs in a trench coat for half the pay] [Unpaid Internship] [A/I job] [Great job but must live in Lubbock Texas] 19682230
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...mcsweeneys.netWe Must Create the Shit Machine“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could A... 020
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/20...penny-arcade.comArtificial Intelligence, Quote Unquote - Penny ArcadeVideogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary. 000
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 15/09/2026😭 IT is forcing my work computer to install a version of macOS with Liquid Glass 😭 110
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I hope Apple releases non-joke versions of their operating systems soon. 030
Reposted by Casey BrantTof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"AI may make your job easier, but that effort has just been shifted onto your users. They are noticing it and they hate it." I've said this before: if you bracket self-delusion, generative "AI" doesn't save labour, it displaces it onto the people who have to deal with the slop. 15316
Reposted by Casey Brant💖gail 💖 🔜 Metaphor Chicago 🔜 GATEway @notgodzilla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026can we PLEASE bring back the word "poser" and stop using "larp" or "cosplay" - being a "poser" or "faking" being into something is lazy and disingenuous whereas cosplayers and actual larpers are passionate about their hobbies and out a lot of time and effort into them 531121483
Reposted by Casey Branttante @tante.cc · 14/09/2026Omarchy is part of new fascism. But it's also a good case study about how little political resilience is built into FLOSS: The libertarian roots have not only made the whole movement ready for the taking by corporations but also by fascists. 110124
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I love food youtube videos with titles like "This Immigrant-Owned <regional American cuisine> Shop Sells Out Every Day!" and the interview with the chef is always like "yeah we took <regional American cuisine> and tried adding any spices, people went wild for it". 020
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Very discouraging to see what's happening in Bevy (and Rust more generally) right when I finally decided to prioritize seriously learning them after years of casual observation. blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-...blog.fallible.netIt Breaks a Village: Bevy's 6th BirthdayThis post, like all my posts, was written by me. It came out of a lot of conversation and reflection with many people. It is long. I promise you there's valu... 030
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I think we can probably award the very first person to make a "my pronouns are <things that aren't pronouns>" joke in 2015 like a 7 out of 10. Nice one, very topical. A bit lazy execution-wise. Then every other person since then who made a "my pronouns are" joke loses Internet access for life. 030
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Ever since I was a little boy I dreamed of leveraging a strong Dollar to delegate administrative tasks to my virtual assistant in the Global South. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I think iPhone Duo looks like shit which given my track record with these things means it's a guaranteed all-time sales record breaker. 010
Reposted by Casey Brantbrian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026dear god.. a flavor scientist at the Cheetos factory has published a blog post saying no one is prepared for how "dangerously cheesy" they are 12136393
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A web app you use sprouts new banners announcing sweeping, utterly baffling new product direction, poorly communicated and seemingly only partially implemented. A couple days later you happen to look at that company's job listing page. You see this. Ah. The first thing makes sense now. 042
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Every design article roundup newsletter I subscribe to is just 8 variations on "what is the role of the UI designer in the Age Of AI" every issue and like I get it but also for the love of god show me some cool weird icons from 1991 or something, *please*. I'm desperate for *any* variety. 010
Reposted by Casey Brantphylan @phylan.website · 08/09/2026"my LLM is so powerful it's dangerous and risks breaking containment!" "ok let's destroy it" "oh, haha, no. no." "let's intensively regulate your company then" "oh, no. no. look can you just put it in the newspaper that it's powerful" 7838297
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 08/09/2026There have been approximately 1 gorillion web apps whose core interaction verb is "drag rectangular cards between columns" and as far as I can tell the only one that got even close to feeling good was Trello pre-acquisition. 120
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I guess I'm Poisoned By Nostalgia or whatever the fuck but I am friggin HYPED for tomorrow's Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The weirdly positioned little thread count badges are a good start but now they need to add a "like completion percent" badge so you don't accidentally only like some but not all posts in a thread. 030
Reposted by Casey BrantChuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026ENJOY YOUR LABOR DAY BUCKAROOS 132449719
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Man it’s wild that ambitious software projects are now possible, after not being possible from years 0 through 2025. 030
Reposted by Casey BrantNash @radiodeadair.com · 05/09/2026Modern executives do not want to be in whatever industry their company inhabits. Instead, they just want to run financial tricks and fuck around with the company's stock searching for infinite money glitches. The idea of focusing on a company's primary product is antiquated by today's standards. 13381101
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Been rewatching some old Rich Hickey talks recently and my god, it's so bracing to watch someone describe a process of thinking a lot and then writing a small amount of high-leverage code. 030
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 04/09/2026If you have a system that produces bad results, you can either fix/replace the system so that it produces good results OR you can chuck another half-baked workaround on to an ever-growing pile of hacks. It's very not fun being a fix-the-system kind of person in a stack-the-hacks kind of environment! 020
Reposted by Casey BrantThomas Fuchs @thomasfuchs.at · 04/09/2026Anyone have Dropbox replacement you really like? - I specifically don’t want to self-host - It needs to have seamless macOS integration - It needs to work for small teams - I need automated full backup to our Synology NAS Please only recommend anything you personally use and like. 9165
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Lord please save me from embarking on creating a Pinboard alternative. 120
Reposted by Casey BrantAmi - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 03/09/2026hello I am modern aaa game designer. the shareholders told me to make the game longer. I do not wish to make the game longer. they told me to make the game longer or I lose job. I make the player collect 6 potatoes for 5% damage resistance. The shareholders are happy. I've been laid off. 2776572592
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 02/09/2026You know, I used to be a skeptic, but with these latest models, AI has really accelerated* my software dev workflow! *shifted an enormous burden of invisible work onto the tiny population of colleagues who still give a shit about quality 080
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I refuse to put max width or any line spacing on my website’s body text so you have to trust my technical expertise. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Learning about microdramas and considering becoming a full on reactionary. 000
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“That ship has sailed“ is such a funny phrase to mean “this thing came to pass and it’s like that forever now.” Lotta things can happen to ships that sailed, including coming right back to where they started. 010
Casey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Oh hey, I've been dragging my feet on replacing 1Password and Dropbox, looks like I finally got the kick in the pants I needed to do it! omarchy.org/patrons/omarchy.orgOmacom FoundationThe foundation funding Omarchy. 270
Reposted by Casey Brantdrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 31/08/2026the constant small changes in user interfaces, like font changes, the spacing of elements, the slight shift of color palettes, etc. reinforces the fact that a platform allows you to use it, but is not for your benefit. cultivate rather than ignore this sentiment 113716
