Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 15/09/2026Making something new chrisandgina.cochrisandgina.coChris & Gina — Coming SoonWe're making something new. Find out when it's ready. 3151
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 03/09/2026This 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 1140
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 23/02/2026How is shoveling snow not an Apple Fitness workout? Designed in California indeed 2380
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 09/02/2026Just cracked my morning plate of whistles, thanks @seanhollister.bsky.social 1385
Reposted by Gina Trapanidan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/02/2026Hey 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...linktr.eeWhistleWishLists | LinktreeWe'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! 7196130
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 19/01/2026I have a 3D printer now because truly making things is the only salve 2220
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 24/12/2025The update we all needed on a story which was stuck in my head all year 1142
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 02/12/2025built my first NAS this weekend and oh I missed the feeling of snapping RAM into place 3230
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 11/11/2025Joyce Carol Oates owning Elon is the only thing I’m sad about missing 2180
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 06/11/2025Both 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 1112
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 06/11/2025All hail Brenda www.tiktok.com/@belligerent...tiktok.com#ai#excel#accounting#artificialintelligence#brendaTikTok video by Ada James 062
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 30/10/2025season 3 and still enjoying watching Keri Russell walk with extreme purpose down important hallways in disheveled suits 390
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 22/10/2025speaking of building apps with AI, Quests is VERY good quests.devquests.devQuests · The open-source app builderQuests builds and runs apps on your computer using any LLM 130
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 22/10/2025notes on gen AI being remarkable and so very bad at the same timenotetoself.studioMeasured AI | Note to SelfThe extreme hype surrounding generative AI and technologies like LLMs has been exhausting over the last few years. Coupled with fear-based marketing... 071
Reposted by Gina TrapaniAnil Dash @anildash.com · 17/10/2025Okay, 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.comThe Majority AI View - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999. 381119486
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 17/10/2025today 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 2260
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 10/10/2025Writing vulnerable things so terrifying / connecting something for someone so gratifying 190
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 11/09/2025boy everything feeling extra heavy today in other news, an AI photo editor gave me 3 hands how’s your day going 4160
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 09/09/2025Live-editing a website in Obsidian is a true joy, this is my setup with Hugo bsky.app/profile/step... 3221
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 09/09/2025Hi friends. Blogging is fun, so I started again. I hope you’ll take a look and follow along at @notetoself.studio notetoself.studionotetoself.studioNote to Self by Gina TrapaniA blog & newsletter about creativity over productivity, by Gina Trapani. 1513421
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 02/09/2025It’s weird to live with a giant who used to fit on my forearm 2210
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 31/08/2025Had to look up the sex emoji to make sure I wasn’t accidentally texting something untoward 270
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 30/08/2025FOR THE FANS! before every snack and meal, one of my favorite K-pop Demon Hunters takeawaysmedia.tenor.coma 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 1110
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 20/08/2025Boonswoggle (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 070
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 08/08/2025I 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 091
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 30/07/2025These 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 0353
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 10/07/2025look for the helpers johayartist.comjohayartist.comPERSISTERS JO HAYPersisters is an ongoing series of large-scale portrait paintings depicting trailblazing women in their pursuit of justice at this current time in history. 031
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." 1225
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 02/07/2025YOU try explaining to a 12yo how a disposable film camera works when camp doesn't allow devices 190
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 26/06/2025Just 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 130
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 01/06/2025I 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 160
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 05/05/2025What 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? 330
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 28/04/2025You 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.orgfoursight.ginatrapani.orgFoursight - Frame your thinkingMake and browse 4-box quadrant models like the Eisenhower matrix and SWOT analysis. 3212
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 24/04/2025Recipe 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 🥱😴💤 190
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 24/04/2025not 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.comBradley Cooper Makes an Awfully Good CheesesteakAt Danny & Coop’s, the actor and director partners with a Philadelphia restaurateur to bring that city’s beloved sandwich to New Yorkers. 210
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 22/04/2025just me, or is this linear gradient involving some shade of lavender just everywhere right now 171
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 09/04/2025I 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?? 580
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · 09/04/2025fascinating 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 250