Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Also have you thought about partnering with Elicit? That would be cool 010
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 21/12/2025The one about how placebos work even if you know they are a placebo 110
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 21/12/2025I keep on thinking about starting a D&D campaign, and then I think about scheduling and I preemptively give up lol 020
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 24/11/2025I'd love to see the not-good-enough version too lol godspeed 010
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 22/11/2025you just need to be famous enough that DJT invites you to the white office like Mamdani XD 000
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 22/11/2025can i see the demo 👀 holding a high bar for pmf is wise 100
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Congrats @cazwis.bsky.social ! APWOT is such an inspiration to me (and many others, I'm sure) 130
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 25/10/2025I think it’s kind of the tiktokification of everything - preference for algorithms by tech companies that let anyone go viral. So having followers means less over there? 010
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025ikr?! the bad news is that the world keeps changing but the good news is that the world keeps changing 010
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025#10 - Plastics warp, accept it and design accordingly! Most of the time, you can fix this by making sure the plastic parts are fully "captured" (surrounded) by another part, so together they form a dimensionally stable unit. I wasted time fighting this instead of accepting it. 000
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025#9 - When debugging issues with a customer, assume that they are right about the problem, but wrong about why it's happening. One time, we spent hours debugging a strange connectivity issue that turned out to be... a typo in the user's wi-fi network 🤦 110
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025#8 - When you receive a sample from a supplier, try your best to let go of the hope that it's good, and switch into QA engineer mode. Put it through its paces. You'll feel incentivized to speed through and approve but it won't take long for that you bite you. 110
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025#7 - The hardest mechanical issues I've had to debug have always been solved by simplifying the problem - making a jig or a model that isolates the issue. Sometimes the process of making the tools itself reveals the solution. 120
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025#6 - For a connected product, different problems can be solved at different layers - plastics, boards, firmware, cloud. Plastics can be simple but slow, firmware can be effective but complicated to roll out. Carefully choose the right hammer. 110
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025#5 - I always thought that ID drawings had to be really beautiful, but I've been surprised how effective lo-fi, high-speed doodles and cardboard prototypes have been. The point is to unblock a decision, after all. 130
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025#4 - I was surprised how much of PCB schematic design is reading the datasheets and trying to follow the reference implementations closely. If you have been avoiding learning how to read a datasheet... let that end today! 110
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025#3 - Some components need to be babied - like a Raspberry pi, we had multiple brownouts and flakey boards with early prototypes. Our ESP-32 boards on the other hand are total workhorses. This was counterintuitive to me because I thought RPi was supposed to be beginner friendly. 120
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025#2 - 3D printing has quietly gotten way better over the last 10 years! Many people do not realize when a poetry camera prototype is 3D printed. Some, when learning it is, think it's better quality than generic Amazon plastic stuff, which makes sense. The tolerances are better. 120
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025100 things I've learned about hardware by building poetry camera #1 - Hardware has gotten faster! Rapid aluminum tooling can take ~1 week and create thousands of units, if you're willing to sink in ~10-50k 2132
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Met with our supplier for poetry camera! Three cheers for practical applications of mandarin! 020
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 21/08/2025watched the new kirby game direct and my inner child is so happy 000
Reposted by Ryan Matherkelin @kelin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025wip — poetry.camera special drop for config see you in sf next week :) ~ pics: ig @/brendanhall w/ @flomerboy.bsky.social @eka.hn 0222
Reposted by Ryan MatherEvan Kahn @eka.hn · 21/03/202510 minutes in KiCad (for @poetry.camera) song is Sunny's Time by Caribou 0173
Reposted by Ryan Matherkelin @kelin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025if you're in the DC area & want to play with @poetry.camera we're partnering with the Smithsonian American Art Museum & Monument Lab on a series of workshops related to their new Shape of Power exhibit first workshop on thurs march 6. @flomerboy.bsky.social and i will be there! 4194
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025maybe text blast should look less like a primary CTA? I read it as meaning something like "invite people" 110
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I can type now but now I'm not sure what goes in there. phone numbers? separated by commas? Oh I guess I also don't know whether I should click the going etc buttons as the doc creator 110
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025yeah I think I like it being pretty flexible... like a lot of events are kind of fluid, like maybe you don't know what time and picking a time feels wrong 010
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025this input is slightly bugged for me... can't really type (in arc) 110
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025oooo genuinely excited about that... I always felt like partiful was a kind of meh canvas 110
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025open.spotify.com/episode/1EMX... I highly recommend this podcast by a psychologist. He is very clear and measured. I have learned a lot from itopen.spotify.comAbusive Relationships #1Psychology In Seattle Podcast · Episode 000
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I am so sorry this happened. I hope this comic is a good outlet for you and I am sure it will help a lot of people to see this kind of thing expressed in this medium ❤️🩹 010
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025what does it feel like when you think about doing "design or tech=related" stuff? 000
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Years later, she confessed she already knew who I was. She had come across my resume online, and copied my resume design for a graphic design class. Just goes to show you should always try your best, you never know who’s watching 😂 020
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 31/12/2024My wife liked a tweet of mine about Sufjan Stevens. I looked up her profile and saw she was also tweeting about him, so I DMed her and asked her to go for a walk in Washington square park and listen to Sufjan together. I arrived with a chocolate babka. 120
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Perhaps the best part of working on poetry camera is that it’s got me writing poetry again 140
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Nothing has ever made me feel quite as old as the nutter butter tiktok page 010
Ryan Mather @flomerboy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024My wife is a design manager and says the same thing all the time. 010
