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Gina Trapani

@ginatrapani.org
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internet person 👋 🏳️‍🌈 she/her currently writing notetoself.studio 📓 @notetoself.studio

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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 15/09/2026
Making something new chrisandgina.co
chrisandgina.co
Chris & Gina — Coming Soon
We're making something new. Find out when it's ready.
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 12/09/2026
I’m not thinking about that chocolate cake.
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 07/09/2026
Definitely remember posting about this on Lifehacker
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 03/09/2026
This week’s reminder about the power of subtraction - whether you’re editing an essay or a video - to make something just okay better, cut the worst 40% of it
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 19/08/2026
Current status
Kris Williams (Hannah Einbinder) and Billy Presley (Gillian Anderson) are engrossed watching a movie with the projector beaming light behind them, in a scene from the film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 23/02/2026
How is shoveling snow not an Apple Fitness workout? Designed in California indeed
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 09/02/2026
Just cracked my morning plate of whistles, thanks @seanhollister.bsky.social
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/02/2026
Hey want to help the whistle goblins I print with make more whistles? There are approximately eleventy-billion wishlists here with filament begging to be bought and turned into whistles to deploy to across the country. Buy some filament and help the cause: linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...
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WhistleWishLists | Linktree
We're the Whistle Avengers. We turn each spool of filament into 400-700 whistles which we send out into the world. Sponsor whistles in your favorite colors!
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 19/01/2026
I have a 3D printer now because truly making things is the only salve
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 24/12/2025
The update we all needed on a story which was stuck in my head all year
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 02/12/2025
built my first NAS this weekend and oh I missed the feeling of snapping RAM into place
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 25/11/2025
Definitely Microsoft Teams
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 23/11/2025
Same, going to as many of these as possible
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 11/11/2025
Joyce Carol Oates owning Elon is the only thing I’m sad about missing
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 06/11/2025
Both the Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline websites have a "Quick exit" feature for when parent or boss walks in: press Esc to switch to weather.com or Google
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 06/11/2025
All hail Brenda www.tiktok.com/@belligerent...
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#ai#excel#accounting#artificialintelligence#brenda
TikTok video by Ada James
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 04/11/2025
this new Lily Allen album 🔥🔥🔥
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 30/10/2025
season 3 and still enjoying watching Keri Russell walk with extreme purpose down important hallways in disheveled suits
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 22/10/2025
speaking of building apps with AI, Quests is VERY good quests.dev
quests.dev
Quests · The open-source app builder
Quests builds and runs apps on your computer using any LLM
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 22/10/2025
notes on gen AI being remarkable and so very bad at the same time
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Measured AI | Note to Self
The extreme hype surrounding generative AI and technologies like LLMs has been exhausting over the last few years. Coupled with fear-based marketing...
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/10/2025
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
anildash.com
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 17/10/2025
today I wrote code that runs every day to log my current level of email inbox chaos to a spreadsheet with a list of the senders I've ignored the most, there's even a line chart in there because some days a tiny illusion of control is comforting
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 10/10/2025
Writing vulnerable things so terrifying / connecting something for someone so gratifying
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 08/10/2025
Already shelled pistachios - the ultimate luxury
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 12/09/2025
a phone home screen is a window into the soul
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 11/09/2025
boy everything feeling extra heavy today in other news, an AI photo editor gave me 3 hands how’s your day going
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 09/09/2025
Live-editing a website in Obsidian is a true joy, this is my setup with Hugo bsky.app/profile/step...
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 09/09/2025
Hi friends. Blogging is fun, so I started again. I hope you’ll take a look and follow along at @notetoself.studio notetoself.studio
notetoself.studio
Note to Self by Gina Trapani
A blog & newsletter about creativity over productivity, by Gina Trapani.
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 02/09/2025
It’s weird to live with a giant who used to fit on my forearm
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 31/08/2025
Had to look up the sex emoji to make sure I wasn’t accidentally texting something untoward
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 30/08/2025
FOR THE FANS! before every snack and meal, one of my favorite K-pop Demon Hunters takeaways
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a group of cartoon girls are standing next to each other with their arms in the air .
Alt: A group of women standing next to each other with their arms in the air
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 20/08/2025
Boonswoggle (v) a portmanteau of boondoggle and hornswoggle ie, We’re running late because our preteen boonswoggled me into stopping at Claire’s and buying her face glitter
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 08/08/2025
I tend to discount AI chatbots as a fawning junior intern trying desperately to impress me but Harsh Claude and I might be able to get somewhere - wonderful piece
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 30/07/2025
These egg tealight candles by @jennschiffer.com brought me the highest ratio of delight per dollar of any purchase I've made this year 🍳🕯️ bonus: explaining to my kid that no the candles do not smell like eggs and yes the store is called bugs rock and why bugsrock.online
Two egg-shaped tea light candles on a red plate with a fork next to them.
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 10/07/2025
look for the helpers johayartist.com
johayartist.com
PERSISTERS JO HAY
Persisters is an ongoing series of large-scale portrait paintings depicting trailblazing women in their pursuit of justice at this current time in history.
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 04/07/2025
“July 4th was a bold, dangerous, defiant moral action by a people who were so heartbroken and enraged by abuses of power that they became ungovernable."
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 02/07/2025
YOU try explaining to a 12yo how a disposable film camera works when camp doesn't allow devices
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 02/07/2025
Refusing to gawk is a form of resistance
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 26/06/2025
Just nearly grabbed a middle-schooler to pull him away from the edge of the platform to say didn’t your parents teach you anything about subway safety
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 01/06/2025
I can watch Jesse Armstrong absolutely skewer the ultra-rich any day, no matter how much it makes my skin crawl I'd give anything to be a fly on the wall at a broligarch Mountainhead watch party
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 05/05/2025
What are people using for non-obnoxious, easy-to-use website analytics these days? Been trying out Plausible, Tinylytics next. What else should I look at?
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 29/04/2025
Setting up Feedly, missing Bloglines
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 28/04/2025
You know those 4-box quadrant models consultants overcharge for? Fell down a hole this weekend and made a little app to collect them. Which good ones have I missed? foursight.ginatrapani.org
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Foursight - Frame your thinking
Make and browse 4-box quadrant models like the Eisenhower matrix and SWOT analysis.
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 24/04/2025
Recipe for an afternoon nap: - soft blanket, good pillow - white noise - blackout curtains or shades - DND or take off watch/leave phone in other room - soft pants - closed door Lay down, close eyes, and let yourself drift off into the ultimate luxury while the world spins on 🥱😴💤
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 24/04/2025
not sure what I want more: this sandwich or to be able to write like the magical @hels.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
newyorker.com
Bradley Cooper Makes an Awfully Good Cheesesteak
At Danny & Coop’s, the actor and director partners with a Philadelphia restaurateur to bring that city’s beloved sandwich to New Yorkers.
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 22/04/2025
just me, or is this linear gradient involving some shade of lavender just everywhere right now
Text colored with a linear gradient from lavender to blue that says "Collaborate faster"
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 22/04/2025
Do it for the plot
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 09/04/2025
I know there are a ton of long thinkpieces, but: Is there a brief one-pager for sharing with writers considering Substack that explains why they should RUN the other way??
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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 09/04/2025
fascinating how several product people I'm close to are "addicted to vibe coding" (exact phrase) but senior engs I've chatted with are much cooler and inexperienced with it
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