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Charlsy Yang

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designer of some sort · charlsyang.com

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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 22/03/2026
woah so cool congrats! enjoyed the poetic photo walk
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 24/01/2026
same! some examples i’ve found: - stream.thesephist.com - muan.co/notes - wesleyac.thoughts.page - bulletin.sherif.io
stream.thesephist.com
the stream
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 08/01/2026
yeah i changed to another image and it worked! maybe its just that particular image
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 08/01/2026
somehow hit a weird bug where the image was initially 3.5M but i still kept getting the same error after downsizing it to 800k (
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 08/01/2026
love it!! reminds me of @jedmund.com’s maitsu.co
maitsu.co
Maitsu — Make something new every week
Maitsu is a new type of journal that helps you pursue new hobbies and side projects with your friends. Coming soon.
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 24/12/2025
thank you for reading and commenting!! i am glad(sorry?) that it resonates. yeah optimizations are sometimes so small that it doesn’t feel design is needed :/ would love to hear if you have more ideas on how to reframe agency!
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 15/12/2025
just remember that this butterfly app exists. i wrote up some ~feelings~ on designing something i abhor (you probably do too): charlsyang.com/blog/ads-hat...
charlsyang.com
Ads Hater, Ads Worker
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 22/07/2025
protect good ignorance
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 24/06/2025
ahhhhh if i could destroy the world i would
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 24/06/2025
sometimes i just need emotional support not words that make sense
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 18/06/2025
id rather drink a machine made coffee than a sloppily made coffee
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 14/06/2025
yess and wifi ofc 🌚
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 14/06/2025
i’ve come to realize that for me living within the walking distance of a coffee shop with good coffee and seating is way more important than a grocery
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 12/06/2025
omg dia solved this
screenshot of the chat sidebar in the Dia browser where i asked “write in normal sentence case for email” and the answer returned an email with the correct apostrophe
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 11/06/2025
wait he took liquid glass links off
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 09/06/2025
repair your apps with digital apple care. now available with $9.99 per app
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 09/06/2025
now be careful if you drop your phone your apps will be shattered
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 07/06/2025
i’d rather be in the trenches twiddling bits
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 06/06/2025
found this reddit talking about the icon i designed hehe funny www.reddit.com/r/Windows_Re...
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What do you think of the new Microsoft Surface icon? Is it good or ugly?
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Ánh @anh.ng · 04/06/2025
a little 2025 update on my personal website. learned a lot (from fanatically duckduckgo-ing and youtube-ing and claude-ing and and and…). i might redesign every year just for the fun of it 🪑💬
anh.ng
Ánh
Graphic and web designer based in Vietnam, interested in creative tools, human vulnerability, consciousness, and internet satire.
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 05/06/2025
love the details!
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 26/05/2025
thanks 🥺
An excerpt of a response from Gemini: 

“In essence: It's about the rigidity and scope of your negative view. A strong, critical stance based on observed realities and personal values is not inherently a problematic bias. It can be a sign of a strong moral compass.

An "unreasonably tilted" opinion or a harmful bias tends to be: 

• Closed-minded: Unwilling to consider alternative perspectives or nuances.
• Overly simplistic: Reducing a complex issue to black and white.
• Unfairly condemnatory: Making sweeping negative judgments about entire groups or industries without sufficient evidence.

You are clearly grappling with this thoughtfully. Your awareness of the "rational case" for ads alongside your deep personal distaste suggests you are capable of nuanced thinking. The discomfort you feel about your work highlights a genuine value conflict, not necessarily an unreasonable bias. The key is to continue examining the specifics of the practices you're involved with against your own well-considered ethical principles.
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 24/05/2025
i was using gemini 2.5pro in raycast
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 24/05/2025
asked ai to roast my design and it’s...pretty good, echos what i have in mind and more
Screenshot of AI response: “3. Scribble Scramble: ▪ The pink scribbles are a fun idea for adding energy and a hand-drawn feel, but their execution is a bit distracting. ▪ The scribble weaving through the letters of "[redacted]" and "[redacted]" actively hinders readability. It feels less like a cool design element and more like someone accidentally drew over the important parts.
	▪	The heart and sparkles on the right feel a little disconnected and add to the overall busyness without a clear compositional anchor.
 4. Composition Collision: ▪ There's a lot happening in a concentrated space. The main text block feels very dense. The edges of "[redacted]" and "[redacted]" are uncomfortably close to the edges of the textured background square. Give your elements some breathing room!
 ▪	The balance feels a bit off. The heavy text block and photo on the left could be better counterbalanced or integrated with the elements on the right.
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 23/05/2025
Dialogues from The Bear season 2 episode 7 “Forks”, Richie Staging at Chief Terry’s. A short summary by AI due to a limit in characters: This collection of dialogues centers around Richie and his interactions with his colleagues who embody different aspects of dedication and passion for their work. Initially, Richie clashes with Garrett, a manager, over the meticulous standards of the restaurant, questioning the importance of perfectly polished forks. Garrett passionately defends the restaurant's reputation, the diner's experience, and his personal commitment to service, which he found after overcoming a drinking problem.
Other encounters further illuminate the restaurant's ethos. Jess finds fulfillment in "making somebody's day." Chef Terry emphasizes the "respect" and "time well spent" in detailed tasks like peeling mushrooms, sharing a philosophy inherited from her father: "every second counts."
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 23/05/2025
added a light mode version
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 23/05/2025
every time i hate my job i watch richie polishing forks. i need to respect myself more
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 23/05/2025
everyone on the team: congrats on launching ads in AIM/AIO! me (innie): congrats me (outie): fk me
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 23/05/2025
🥲
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 23/05/2025
still got goosebumps rewatching the bear s2e7
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 23/05/2025
this is beautiful chef
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 21/05/2025
wait i didn’t know dieter bohn is at google
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 18/05/2025
thanks it’s all @andy.posts.cv! realized i should have also drawn a light mode version of the memorial plaque lol yesss never too late to be part of the cv club
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 17/05/2025
thanks! yes I am using Arc!
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 17/05/2025
hmm i am having some trouble with the domain, meanwhile: cv.charlsyang.com
cv.charlsyang.com
Charlsy Yang
Software Designer
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 17/05/2025
orginal post bsky.app/profile/char...
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 17/05/2025
okay i implemented the footer
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 17/05/2025
-> charlsy.cv
charlsy.cv
Charlsy Yang
Software Designer
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 17/05/2025
on the very last night i finally exported my read.cv data and gave it a home :```)
A screenshot of split tabs in the Arc browser: on the left is a localhost, on the right is read.cv prod. Both shows Charlsy’s read.cv profile and has the Chrome dev tool opened.a screenshot of a Github commit with the title “bug fix & close the polish gap with read.cv prod” and the description “rip read.cv & posts.cv”
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Bret Victor @worrydream.com · 15/05/2025
Computational Public Space. A talk about a values-driven approach to integrating computation into cities. (40 min) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PixP...
youtube.com
Computational Public Space
YouTube video by Dynamicland
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 06/05/2025
i didn’t know how much of my agency was afforded by public transit. it’s kinda like Kohut’s concept of self-object, something that scaffolds my sense of self and wellbeing
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 05/05/2025
sometimes i got pissed off by its apparent innocence and sheer confidence in not following instructions 😅
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 05/05/2025
omg love this, i am going to start sending it to everyone LOL. i used to have these notes i took from a book by Akira Kobayashi i shared with ppl but it’s in Chinese charlsy.notion.site/ed3097791bb4...
charlsy.notion.site
西文排版基础规范 | Notion
本文中提到的输入方式均仅适用于 Mac 中文键盘。
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 04/05/2025
when can ai learn to use smart quotes and curly apostrophe
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 03/05/2025
lol so behaviorism thought humans are LLM
a photo of a book excerpt: In truth, language had always been the ultimate hurdle for behaviorism. How could you avoid talking about "mental states" such as ideas, images, feelings, and intentions when the whole point of language was to communicate those states? The behaviorist answer —naturally-was that such apparent mental states were illusory. We produced certain sequences of words only because we'd learned associations between individual words: John had a certain probability of being followed by kissed, which had a certain probability of being followed by Mary, and so on. Thus John kissed Mary. Indeed, B. F.
Skinner himself was just finishing up a major book on the subject and had declared that a behaviorist account of language would be the culmination of his life's work.
Chomsky was contemptuous. "I thought that [Skinner's theory] was completely wrong from every point of view," he would say many years later. "You could ask a question that for some reason investigators rarely asked: namely, can the proposed model even in principle account for the known facts? As soon as you ask that it becomes clear that [the behaviorist model] can't possibly account for the known facts about language.'
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Janelle Amores 𖥔 @janelleamores.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Hi all — I’m putting on a Read.cv + Posts meetup during ConFig! Just a really chill, laid-back meet with Posts people. Feel free to share to the community and register below. Excited to see some of y’all next week! ♥️ lu.ma/h8v38q2k
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 25/04/2025
a lack of motion makes a prototype feel fake, an excess of motion also makes a prototype feel fake, hmm
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 25/04/2025
i’ve learned that not caring is almost as costly as care being wasted
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 25/04/2025
An excerpt from Molly Mielke’s newsletter post “conviction”: “So perhaps it would be wiser to simply surround ourselves with people we want to be distorted by. There’s a lot of wisdom locked up in trite truisms like “you are the average of your five closest friends” — but since they don’t explain how or why they’re true I still feel the need to find my way to the same conclusion using many more words. Maybe the underlying explanation is this: whether we like it or not, each of our realities gets bent, expanded, and/or imploded by the expectations and perspectives of the people we incorporate into our little solar systems. The best example of this? Any case of someone massively raising the ambitions of another by merely suggesting they aim higher at pivotal points in their life. While Aristotle explains this as “man differing from other animals in his greater aptitude for imitation,” I prefer framing this as the human capacity to exponentially expand each other’s scale of imagination.”A frame from the TV show The Newsroom season 2 episode 6 where Will McAvoy is saying: ”Why didn’t you just say I shouldn’t worry about the number?”
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Charlsy Yang @charlsy.cv · 25/04/2025
i thought you were trying to do better than google 😅 have we run out of business model
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