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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 24/10/2025

my #chatmail #deltachat app now does something notable that the official app doesn't: unified inbox (all your chats from all your profiles, in one list) two big things though: I have to merge the device/saved chats across accounts, and I also have to reorder the list in the app

Five conversations in a list: Hailey (2 minutes ago), Saved messages (10/14), Device messages (10/10), Saved messages (0 min ago), and Device messages (10 min ago).

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 17/10/2025

MS Office's new app icons are. Well, they would look good, apart from the fact they completely miss the point of what they're supposed to symbolize. OneDrive should be puffy rather than flowy; it's a cloud. OneNote shouldn't chop the bottom of the first page; it's supposed to be a tabbed notebook. 🧵

An arrangement of Microsoft 365 apps; most of them have a new, glossier, rounder design with more gradients incorporated. They are also extremely abstract.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 14/10/2025

(turned off the timestamp display for now) This is really shaping up!

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 13/10/2025

What do we think about this? In particular, the timestamp text. (I might nudge it up a pixel or two.) (also yes I just noticed the timestamps are in reverse order, these are demo timestamps created off of the message IDs, where the "you joined" is 1, oops, so don't mind that)

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 11/10/2025

Working on yet another chat app, this one's a chatmail (#deltachat) app. It is connected with a real chatmail account although I haven't set up contact-adding (securejoin?) stuff yet so it's not quite usable right now. But it's getting there, and it already looks quite nice.

An Android chat app with a series of text message bubbles and a chat box. This is in the "Saved messages" chat.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 07/10/2025

need some help from #DeltaChat #Android devs here: what the hell is going on

if (accounts.all.size == 0) scope.launch {
if (hasTriedRegistering.value) return@launch
isLoading.value = true
hasTriedRegistering.value = true
// Create a new account
val naid = accounts.addAccount()
Log.d("BackgroundAccountCreator", "New account id: $naid")
//assert(naid == 0) { "expected new account id to be 0 (was $naid)" }
if (accounts.all.size == 0) {
Log.wtf("BackgroundAccountCreator", "No accounts after adding new account")
isLoading.value = false
return@launch
}
accounts.selectAccount(naid)

The Log.wtf line has a passed breakpoint, and the accounts.selectAccount line has an unpassed breakpoint.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 01/10/2025

I spent the whole evening getting this to work. It's not perfect, but it's... It's something, alright

A screenshot of VSCodium, which is related to VS Code, with the Frosted Glass, Fluent UI Continued, and Custom CSS and JS Loader extensions enabled. Notably different from vanilla VS Code (or VS Codium): each panel now floats, is translucent, and is rounded; a background image is vaguely visible behind the entire editor; panel titles are bigger; the Activity Bar that's usually down the left side is now a tab-bar on top of the sidebar; and the status bar is now part of the editor. The Extensions page is shown on the right side to demonstrate that panel. The Terminal view has a static background because the XTerm canvas (the actual terminal) has one anyway, so I set the background of the entire panel to match.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 19/09/2025

microsoft tryna tempt me with an academic integrity violation

A search bar in the online version of Word, captioned "Ask Copilot anything"

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 19/09/2025

I got into Google Play, which is the only other interesting thing on here because the menubar splits off from the rest of the window. No, YouTube doesn't show 360 videos, it's just the regular phone version.

A screenshot of the Google Play Store window, on the page for YouTube. It appears to be in a tablet layout. The Home and Search tabs are on a floating dock to the left of the main window.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 19/09/2025

I got curious so I loaded up Android XR in an emulator and took some screenshots. The emulator version is barebones with ancient apps, and I bet the launcher/system UI is gonna look way different for each vendor, as per the norm. Slightly more is in alt text.

The keyboard, which is literally Gboard but with rasterized glassy buttons.

The system Quick Settings, which resembles Android's but probably prettier. WiFi and Bluetooth are independent tiles at the top, and a battery indicator sits above them. There's a panel below these which looks like it might support multiple pages, which has 8 labeled icon buttons, some toggled on, some toggled off, and one disabled split into 2 rows. Among these are some XR-specific entries: Move boundary, which shows a person standing in a possibly-floating giant hula-hoop, Environment, which shows a unique curved mountain and sun icon, Passthrough Window, which is represented by a computer window symbol with an eye inside, and Recenter, which shows a map pin inside four rounded corners. Below this panel is the brightness slider, and below that there are three buttons: power (which opens the power menu), settings (which opens settings), and the curvy mountain and sun symbol again for environment (which at present does nothing).

The first page of the home menu. It shows the date and time, and WiFi and battery status icons. Below these is a row of four buttons: home (which hides all apps, I assume, but otherwise just closes this page and goes back to the environment), Recent Apps (which works just as it does on regular Android), Notifications, and Quick Settings. Three apps are pinned by default: Chrome, Google Play, and Settings. The next page isn't shown but it isn't interesting, it shows ancient AOSP apps in a simple grid, and one OpenXR sample app which just includes an RGB cube in a black void.

The notifications screen. Seems built to be used with gaze controls, since the X button for a notification appears when hovering over it (controllers can swipe, but it's less comfortable to swipe away with your eyes). The Clear all button is at the top, above the Silent header. Other than that, it's roughly identical to the Android notifications screen, including collapsing notifications.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 12/09/2025

Oh my God it's literally the 500KG stratagem from Helldivers, and "Italian brainrot." He was just chronically online

A screenshot of AP News, showing the phrases engraved on the bullets.

Bullet casings discovered by investigators had several inscriptions engraved on them, Cox said. The casing that had been fired read: “notices bulges OWO what’s this?”

Cox said there were three unfired casings:

One read, “hey fascist! catch!” with an up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols.

Another one read: “oh bella ciao bella ciao bella ciao ciao ciao,” Cox said.

The third fired casing read: “if you read this you are gay lmao.”

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 16/08/2025

Fuck Newsom *and* Buttigieg. I feel genuinely betrayed by Buttigieg because he's one of us (gay) and he very willingly threw us under the bus. Reminds me of this classic:

A comic strip. The first panel shows two men shaking hands. One man in a red cap with big sunglasses on it, wearing a white polo and an American flag belt buckle says, “We did it! We finally outlawed all the trans people and drag queens! Thanks for your help!” The other, holding a rainbow-colored sign that says “Gays Against Drag Queens” and wearing a shirt labeled “LGB without the T,” replies, “Happy to be of service!” In the background, a few feminine people are shown handcuffed, heads down, marching out of frame.

The man with the sign asks, “So, who are we going after next?” The first man just stares at him silently with a fixed smile. He repeats, “I said who’s next?” Red cap man keeps smiling. He says nervously, “Who…” and the red cap man looks at him all the same.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 08/08/2025

Horizon Worlds (Meta's platform) didn't have legs on people's avatars for the longest time. Something every other metaverse/VR social platform had done for far longer.

A rendering of three avatars. A white woman in a blue shirt and a gray skirt, a Brown woman with glasses and lipstick in a black and gold shirt with a pearl necklace, and a Black man who looks like he's hiding a ball under his green plaid long-sleeve shirt. All of these people are floating bodies with nothing below the waist.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 28/07/2025

Strictly defining Ecosystem Roles and, for an application, its Application Roles (such as feeds, and Tangled Knots) should also help in API documentation, to show i.e. in badge form which role an endpoint is related to. (Ideally the blue badge would link to the section/page about it.)

A screenshot of a Bluesky API documentation page, showing the description for com.atproto.repo.getRecord. It uses HTTP GET, shows a PDS badge and a Public badge, and then has a description: This endpoint is part of the atproto PDS repository management APIs. Requests usually require authentication (unlike the com.atproto.sync.* endpoints), and are made directly to the user's own PDS instance.

To learn more about calling atproto API endpoints like this one, see the API Hosts and Auth guide.

Get a single record from a repository. Does not require auth.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 23/07/2025

notice how this isn't a reply at all? not even to something related? that's why they keep getting banned as spam because they're spamming

A deer.social notification from Baby Miela family, explicitly mentioning me.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 22/07/2025

I love my little affirmations but damn do I not feel them today

A home screen widget with a quote by Me saying, You are your own kind of woman, Hailey. Let it free you.

The title of a pinned note in a notes app: You ARE a girl, Hailey. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not even yourself darling ✨

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 17/07/2025

wanna know something I just noticed about Discord? if someone has no recorded activities, on their profile where it lists them, it has a goofy little quip... that prompts you to ask them about it

[redacted] doesn't have any activity to share here.
They believe less is more... way less in this case 😅
ask them how they do it

[redacted] doesn't have any activity to share here
Their gaming console isn't linked 🎯 ask them what their gaming setup looks like

[redacted] doesn't have any activity to share here
Guess they're cosplaying as a ghost 👻 leave some cookies to lure them out

[redacted] doesn't have any activity to share here
So mysterious! ask them to tell you a secret

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 27/06/2025

this is a real merge message (not mine ofc)

I'm vibe merging this, on the basis that I have another vibe update running to get the latest version of the spec supported!

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 20/06/2025

Reposted with alt text.

A Google search for "all you can eat buffet near me". The AI Overview says:

To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 03/04/2025

Too good for the blind to miss.

Donald Trump, JD Vance, and a penguin in white chairs in the White House. Both Trump and Vance appear to be attempting to dismiss the penguin's concerns. The penguin, of course, is not having it, continuing to stare down the President of the United States.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 30/03/2025

Made the mistake of expanding a "spam" label. Used it as an opportunity to vent some anger.

A post from a spam bot:
Disagree on Politics? Offend Someone? A violent mob can block a street with your kids in the car, terrorizing them Doxxing you SWATTING you Firebombing a car lot Rioting/Looting/burn down your store That's CANCEL Culture. That's fascism. That's what Nazi's do. The Blue-Haired MOB's do all of This.

A reply from me: My existence and my friends existences are not politics. You threaten them or me and I threaten you. Got it?

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 28/03/2025

I (a Pixel 6 user) installed Dynamic Spot earlier and, it's quite good for what I want it for (easy access to my playing music, any active timers, and any active call). It would be nice if I could tell it, I just don't want its notification/message features...

A screenshot of my phone, on the Bluesky post composition screen. Notably, there is a black pill near the center top of the screen (where the camera hole is) showing album art and the icon for a music player app.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 25/03/2025

Finally sketched it out. The mixed use block might deserve to be bigger I'm not sure, this isn't to scale...

The top illustration is a land-use plan. The top of this plan shows an area for a playground or park. To its left and down the whole left side is a "Parking Deck (Residential)". At its bottom end, to its right, is a "Mixed-Use Block" with the same width as the playground or park area. The space between is "Green Space", marked to have "forest & meadow sections", an encircling path, and "walking paths thru?". Below both the mixed-use block and parking deck is "2 rows retail/office parking." Off to its left is a marking for "maybe ramp straight to top for RVs/etc?", and at the parking area's bottom are markings indicating entrances to the parking lot.

The bottom illustration, which points to the mixed-use block in the top one, depicts the building in 3D. The first floor has "outdoor access only" retail space at the short ends and a "Hallway to 1st fl. Residential, elevator/stairs access". There is a note suggesting "few family-sized units". The second floor has office space directly above the retail space, annotated with "separate hallway". The middle area is annotated "maybe studios?". The next floors are all residential space. The roof has a green area on it labeled Courtyard. The illustration is annotated "ideally 5 stories" (the illustration shows 4).

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 15/03/2025

No cheating, what's the last image you captured of your pet?

A young white cat sitting by a window, looking at you

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 09/03/2025

Reposted with alt text

Captions: No one will fail / if we stick together!

Between the captions, there are three frames of three people holding a log or something, and each of them hang precariously over a hole, but thanks to support from the others not falling into it, in different frames. The three people represent Canada, the EU, and Ukraine.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 04/02/2025

Got a box to sell a thing. It made it home in one piece.

An electric bicycle with a flat cardboard box attached to the back with a bungee cord. It's on top of a pannier pack, hiding the battery.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 26/01/2025

I was thinking, damn there are all these awesome clothing items I'd love to wear but they don't go together. Like cowboy hats and a cape/cloak... And then I realized, I know exactly what look I can do with those.

An artist's (Christopher Schwartz?) rendition of the Gunslinger Roland Deschain from Stephen King's The Dark Tower.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 24/01/2025

Here are some ideas. The lighthouse is on the right now because that's where it is geographically. The star is moved up, as if it's above the mountains. This is also not the final/official version of the lighthouse image. It'll be far more simplistic.

A flag design with two halves: the left side is a red field with a single white eight-point star. The right side is a blue field, with the Cape Hatteras lighthouse on top of a gold-yellow diamond shape, reminiscent of that on the Cape Lookout lighthouse.

A very similar flag. It is now a primarily blue flag; it has a red stripe on the side, with a white eight-point star, and a golden-yellow diamond charged on the right with the Cape Hatteras lighthouse superimposed. Different now is there is a gap in the middle, and both of the graphical elements (the star, and the diamond containing the lighthouse) are smaller. The diamond is also slightly further from the edges.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 24/01/2025

Looks like GT's is getting a rebrand. At least they kept the label design exactly the same, so you can still recognize it even if you do pause a moment to figure out what's different.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 21/01/2025

Fox Noise: "Musk '''appears''' to give Nazi salute at inauguration" The salute he gave:

Elon Musk doing the so-called Roman Salute, famously used by Nazi Germany, to an ecstatic, smiling crowd.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 20/01/2025

Here's the magic line to trigger a video feed, in the feed definition record

contentMode: app.bsky.feed.defs#contentModeVideo

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 19/01/2025

This is a "discussion" in Blackboard, not an assignment. Everyone else's answers are shown too (well, there's only one other answer). This is in Intro to Mechatronics. Why am I expected to understand the ins and outs of jumpstarting a car? (Do not answer this for me btw)

This assignment is due 07:30am Tuesday
Proper Car Jump Start

This is based on "class discussion item 2.1".

Draw an equivalent circuit and list the sequence of steps to connect jumper cables properly between two car batteries when trying to jump-start a car with a run-down battery. Be sure to label both the positive and negative terminals on each battery and the red and black cables of the jumper.

It is recommended that the last connection you make should be between the black jumper cable and the run-down car; and instead of connecting it to the negative terminal of the battery, you should connect it to the frame of the car at a point away from the battery. What is the rationale for this advice? Does it matter in what order the connections are removed after you have started the car?

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 15/01/2025

From the Wikipedia page "Electrostatics." Amazing picture. 10/10. No notes. #cats

A cat demonstrating electrostatic cling by being covered in styrofoam packing peanuts.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 14/01/2025

God this district is so obviously gerrymandered

The district for Republican representative Brad Knott for North Carolina. It includes a pretty significant area that specifically excludes Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Morrisville, and I think Cary.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 11/01/2025

What's weirdest about the stacking is that the first time one of these menus shows, it's correct:

The tabs from the replied post, but not stacked. The Version tab is selected this time, and the icon -- a copper bulb block -- appears discolored. There is a container around the label.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 11/01/2025

So this is what I've been working on all day. It's going quite well with every other part of it. This part I'm struggling with. I'm quite limited, only able to change the Qt CSS. I can't quite figure out why that cut is there or how to remove the selected item styles or fix the stacking.

A screenshot of the Prism Launcher instance editor sidebar. It is showing Minecraft inventory style tabs on a dirt background, and the Mods tab is obviously selected. All the other tabs have an odd cut in them for some reason. The tabs are all stacked too close together.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 07/01/2025

this was hard to find. but for anyone else who wanted to see the packaging not blurry

An in-box product: Little Yikes My First Ankle Monitor. Make sure that little snot stays in its room! Prepare your mini me for its future house arrests. A Walmart exclusive, from Legboot. Tike Tracker Enabled: download companion app on the app store [or from Google Play]. Batteries not included. For ages 2 and up. See back panel for exclusive parole officer discount offer. WARNING: They will not stay. You must be firm. Try using a bike lock.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 06/01/2025

I think the Onion put it best: "America Defeats America: Democracy Triumphs over Long-Running Democratic Experiment"

The front page of The Onion from November 6, 2024. The feature headline is America Defeats America, with the subtitle Democracy Triumphs Over Long-Running Democratic Experiment. The feature photo is Donald Trump in front of American flags.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 03/01/2025

These are "real" posts. Look at my repo (this account) in something like pdsls.dev or ATProto Browser. Anyway, the date's being a bit weird, and I think it's lex-cli's fault for being overbearingly strict. But in any case, that's a "real" category, and those are actual public posts.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 02/01/2025

Anyway, the Porting has begun.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 30/12/2024

Here's the newest version (v18). The screenshot has minor element-inspecting (namely, the background and primary color). I realize I haven't really thought of how to handle likes/reactions yet. I also want to support polls in Northwood natively, but I don't know how I'll handle that either...

A screenshot of a website called Bulletin Board, with a wide banner over the top with a placeholder image. The menubar with the site name is in blue. This page shows a thread. This thread has: A post by Jane Green (@warrior.green) titled Community Clean-up Day. Posted on June 15, 2023, she says: Join us for our annual community clean-up event this Saturday! We'll be meeting at the Central Park entrance at 9 AM. Bring gloves and wear comfortable clothes. Refreshments will be provided. Let's work together to keep our community beautiful!
A post by John Doe (@johnd) on June 15, 2023 says, Great initiative! I'll be there with my family.
A post by Alice Smith (@alices) on June 16, 2023 says, Can we bring our own tools?
The last post is cropped, so the author information isn't visible. The post, on June 16, 2023, says, Any additional tools would be greatly appreciated.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 29/12/2024

ok so what I did was, I tried searching with a $ at the end, like how regex uses it to match the end of a string... and after a bit it broke with something like this

Sorry, something went wrong... :-(

Your request was terminated by the crt.sh database server after 0 seconds with the following messages:

FATAL: terminating connection due to conflict with recovery
DETAIL: User query might have needed to see row versions that must be removed.
CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function web_apis(text,text[],text[]) line 4644 at FOR over EXECUTE statement
FATAL: server conn crashed?
server closed the connection unexpectedly
This probably means the server terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.

Unfortunately, searches that would produce many results may never succeed. For other requests, please try again later.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 29/12/2024

I made these changes myself, and I think I actually like it better. The Categories header is gone, the categories are divided with a border, the section headers look like I imagined them (the small text and gray background), and the rounding now goes by section instead of by each category. 🧵

A screenshot of the same Bulletin Board site, with the described changes. The "Education" category is tinted.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 29/12/2024

Here's a newer version. The header bar now shrinks a bit and goes opaque when you scroll down. I had v0 fix the jank with it and I'm actually quite impressed. It got it wrong the first time and did a bunch of unrelated stuff instead, but on the second try it nailed it.

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Hailey 💜 @haileys.quest · 28/12/2024

Playing with Vercel's v0 to get some ideas for Northwood's design. This is something, I think? I'm not sure I like it. I don't know what I would change from here, though.

A screenshot of a "Bulletin Board" that has five categories, a big header, and a small gray sidebar.

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