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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 44m

music nerds of the internet help trying to identify mystery track from yoga teacher's modern folk playlist - start of chorus notes similar to "I've been afraid of changin" part of landslide - sustained female vocals with layered bell-like harmonies - lazy melancholy lyrics rhyme with say, way ??

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 4h

+1 this is Good. As the person who usually "owns" messaging, the work is always better when design gets more involved Start content-first, align on strategy, CTAs, hierarchy, but copy should adapt and play off of art, layout and interactions That's what makes it sing!

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 29/09/2026

I don't want an AI tamagotchi for the same reasons I never bought an Alexa 1) I want personal data and work data separated. The AI agent I use to book dinner reservations shouldn't be always on listening or watching keystrokes on my work machine 2) Reading, typing, tapping > listening & yapping

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 29/09/2026

Got a suspicious login attempt on the other microbloggin' app Logged in to reset my password "Something went wrong, please try again!" Trying again renders blank modal 😑 WE USED TO HAVE NICE THINGS 😤

X says Choose a new password but Something went wrong, please try again!

Attempt to try again renders completely blank screen

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 27/09/2026

Kitschy app updates: * Add household members to your account profile * Add multiple meal plan cards and indicate whether a meal is for multiple household members or just one * Improved UI for table actions with options to update more fields on inventory items (location, purchase date, tags, etc.)

Kitschy meal planning calendar shows dot system on each meal plan card

Inventory table with multiple items selected and field to change location

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 24/09/2026

"you need to read this important article because journalism" but the article is on substack

Gavin the meme kid has the most concerned eye-watering fake smile and is also staring off into the distance like he's seen a disaster that's about to happen

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 23/09/2026

This past weekend we ran a hackathon at Atlanta Tech Village! Here's how it went: www.melaniecrissey.com/blog/we-ran-...

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We ran a hackathon

The backstory and the retro

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 22/09/2026

Once again I'm asking the universe to wire me one million dollars so I can save a historic home in my neighborhood Flipping through these photos, I want to reach through the screen and rip out the carpet in every room! www.harrynorman.com/realestate/d...

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201 Whitlock Avenue SW, Marietta, GA 30064 | 7838281 | Harry Norman REALTORS

For Sale: 5 beds, 3 baths, 4482 SqFt, 201 Whitlock Avenue SW, Marietta, GA 30064 is a Single Family Residence home listed at $1,100,000, MLS #7838281

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 22/09/2026

Genius or big mistake throwing balsamic-roasted figs on top of the mushroom risotto…? 🍽️

White bowl filled with risotto and mushrooms and figs and thyme

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 21/09/2026

Businesses in Atlanta do their seasonal marketing like “Happy Fall! Cooler temps are on the way!” when it’s 84 degrees outside instead of in the 90s

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 18/09/2026

Today is one of those days where I'm SO grateful to have a home away from home at Atlanta Tech Village We're having a new roof put on our house, removing 15+ year old shingles that were stapled ON TOP of the original cedar ones Cherishing the warm silence of a felt-covered phone booth

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 18/09/2026

Pasta puttanesca 🍽️ Not traditional to include the handful of parmesan… but I’m not a purist about the cheese | anchovies partition

Bowl of pasta puttanesca with a heaping pile of parmesan and parsley

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 17/09/2026

Just hit send on an email to over 100 people who signed up for this little hackathon we're hosting in Atlanta this weekend Getting pretty dang hyped to see what everybody decides to build at Hack ITP!

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 17/09/2026

One of my marketing messaging pet peeves is the term "pixel-perfect" Marketing copywriters love to write headlines like "for developers who obsess over every pixel" Unless you are literally creating pixel art, I hope you're obsessing over something more important

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 16/09/2026

Being a "writing is thinking" person means sometimes you spend the afternoon working on 1400 words you have nowhere to publish Not a total loss if it leaves your mind a bit clearer Maybe one day when I have a little less to lose I'll pick that piece back up and let it loose

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 16/09/2026

Google Calendar should be smart enough to alert on a saved meeting where you forget to add the participant, esp. if there are clearly two human names like Mel <> Friend in the event title I need the “you said attachment but didn’t attach anything” feature for events

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 16/09/2026

Confession: I let ChatGPT plan this weeknight meal 🍽️ Well, sort of. I fed chat a list of my kitchen inventory and it suggested black beans and quinoa Human creativity realized I had ingredients for chipotle crema But AI reminded me I had a cup of pseudocereal available in the back of the cupboard

Bowl of black beans, quinoa, cilantro, sweet potatoes with cotija and chipotle crema

Screenshot of Kitschy planner with dinner recipe for Tuesday today

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 15/09/2026

YNAB opened a shop and all the products are so cute! I'd buy something but I'm afraid the checkout flow is going to reach out of my laptop to slap my hands, like "Are you sure? Have you looked at your Income vs. Expense report for this month?" shop.ynab.com/collections/...

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Classic Collection | YNAB Shop

Shop the Classic Collection Collection on the YNAB Shop.

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 14/09/2026

Dog brings in stick, tears it to mulch on sofa cushion Puppy door closed Dog barks at human until puppy door is opened Dog brings in acorns, leaves bits on the sofa cushion Puppy door closed Dog barks at human until puppy door is opened 🔁

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 12/09/2026

Friday night in the burbs Mom summons entire family to Mexican restaurant last minute, insists we dine at 5 PM, refuses to acknowledge anybody’s working hours Margs, queso, friendly shouting Nieces eat tortilla chips, leave with Teddy Grahams and balloons Everyone home, showered, in bed before 8

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 10/09/2026

Not sure why we’re worried about hypothetical superintelligence that will kill us all when we’ve already got a handful of rich and powerful bozos actively extinguishing swaths of the population Root problem remains: we can’t convince certain people to care about the innate value of other people

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 09/09/2026

REALLY excited about the new speakers and sponsors that have showed up for our hackathon in Atlanta next week Clock is ticking and there's still a lot to pull together but this is going to be FUN hackitp.com

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Hack ITP: An Atlanta Hackathon | Sept 19-20, 2026

A weekend hackathon for builders, designers, and creatives. September 19-20, 2026 at Atlanta Tech Village, Buckhead.

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 09/09/2026

Hosting a hackathon, apparently

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 09/09/2026

Girls rewatch pilot why are Marnie’s eyes so dilated

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 08/09/2026

Neighborhood Facebook group posts are like: Where can I get good biscuits? Like my grandmother made 49 comments later we still don't know if the OP meant angel biscuits, cathead biscuits, cracker biscuits, beaten biscuits, flaky biscuits, butter, crisco, yeasted, or White Lily flour

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 08/09/2026

Three tomatoes painted at home after the neighborhood cookout 🍻

Crude watercolor of three better boy tomatoes in various stages of ripeness from green to red

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 05/09/2026

Small improvements to Kitschy app this morning: * Meal plan types now include events * Meal plan cards are color coded based on type * Drag and drop a meal plan card to a different day, time * New "homegrown" value for inventory items 🍅

Screenshot of Kitschy meal planner with color coded meal plan cards

New homegrown option for inventory items

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 05/09/2026

If I get a flu shot and a covid shot together at 10:30 am How likely is it that I'll be able to make it through my hot yoga class at 1:00 PM before the chills and aches take me offline

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 04/09/2026

Sarah Jean’s does not skimp on the scoops

Inside of an ice cream shop with a train mural and a model train on a track suspended from ceiling

Absolutely enormous scoop of Black Cherry ice cream on a waffle cone

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 04/09/2026

Yesterday I spent 5 hours at the software factory I'm bought into the vision. This is how we'll all make software in the future. But my first experience was more like "I Love Lucy" eating chocolates off the conveyor belt than anything else Full write-up: www.melaniecrissey.com/blog/5-hours...

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5 hours at the software factory

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Mark Yeager 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @myeager42.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I can’t remember for sure which Bluesky denizen originally posted this, but it’s my favorite meme on the “butthole logo” topic—maybe that’s because we have 4 cats who readily show us this end of themselves.

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 03/09/2026

When I was at Warp, I was nervous the terminal would always lose out to the one built into the IDE Now AI-pilled teams are telling me they haven't used an IDE in months

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 03/09/2026

Have we pinpointed the turning point in time when all service workers started saying “I gotcha” ??

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 01/09/2026

Added product price tracking to my Kitschy kitchen inventory app 🤑 These new analytics let you track price history for your favorite products and compare prices across stores and brands for similar items 🍌

Screenshot of Kitschy analytics with price tracking for a single product Kombucha

Screenshot of Kitschy analytics with tracking in aggregate for similar products across brands

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

RIP Wendell Berry

The Wish to Be Generous

Wendell Berry

All that I serve will die, all my delights, the flesh kindled from my flesh, garden and field, the silent lilies standing in the woods, the woods, the hill, the whole earth, all will burn in man's evil, or dwindle in its own age. Let the world bring on me the sleep of darkness without stars, so I may know my little light taken from me into the seed of the beginning and the end, so I may bow to mystery, and take my stand on the earth like a tree in a field, passing without haste or regret toward what will be, my life a patient willing descent into the grass.

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 31/08/2026

The most luxurious aspect of working from home might be the freedom to eat smelly sardine toast for lunch 🍽️ Better boy tomatoes plucked right off the vine! Oregano from the window box and polenta sourdough from Spring 🌸

Tomato and fish on bread basking in speckled sunlight

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 31/08/2026

When you're looking at a friend's LinkedIn profile picture and trying to figure out whether they had work done or if it's just a really terrible AI headshot and their vision has gone so bad they don't even realize they uploaded a photo that doesn't look like their face

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 30/08/2026

wtf kind of homeland security amber alert just hijacked my phone 🚨

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 30/08/2026

Lately I've been having problems with Sam Altman's ChatGPT where I enter a prompt and a bunch of files and hit "send" and nothing happens No feedback from the web app UI to indicate why the prompt failed to send Anybody else noticing this?

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 30/08/2026

Testing new Kitschy app features on the go tonight Import receipt from photo Scans and asks for review Adds your impulse buy peanut m&ms to the inventory

Photo of Kitschy app scanning a Walgreens receipt

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 29/08/2026

cw: suicide, mental health Nextdoor REALLY needs to improve their moderator tools for reporting posts containing suicidal ideation or threats of self-harm Docs say you can report a user but none of the canned options are adequate If neighbors post comments with resources, do you keep the post up?

Posting problematic content what type of content is your neighbor sharing? Personal fundraising, Spam, Personal attacks, shaming or harassment, Controversial issues or non-local politics, Illegal content or misinformation

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 29/08/2026

Developer marketing & dev advocate friends: does your co. have a bunch of printed stickers ready for conferences and events? 🙏 Please send a pack of 100 my way! I want to make sure Hack ITP (hackitp.com) has a packed sticker table for attendees. DM me for mailing address

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Hack ITP: An Atlanta Hackathon | Sept 19-20, 2026

A weekend hackathon for builders, designers, and creatives. September 19-20, 2026 at Atlanta Tech Village, Buckhead.

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 29/08/2026

“I’d start a company but I’m poor as f*ck” ok but srsly how come when founders start a company with $3M of somebody else’s money it’s called “a rocket ship” but when I try to do the same with scraps and a dream Experian sends me alerts “you’re gonna tank your FICO score”

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 28/08/2026

A few lunch break feature updates to the Kitschy app - New favorite restaurants list with dropdown on Planner - Jump to top, current week or focus Planner - Add new grocery store without leaving Add item form

Add new favorite restaurant on Kitschy Planner view

Jump to Week 1, Current Week or Focus on Planner calendar

Add new grocery store from Add item form

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 28/08/2026

Torn between Keeley Jones has the most inappropriate work outfits and I aspire to work anywhere people like Keeley feel free to wave their freak flags while also being CMO

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 27/08/2026

Seems like a huge oversight that you can't export anything from Claude Design out as a PNG What do you mean "pick an element"? Am I really about to connect a Canva integration so I can twist this HTML into a format I can upload as an Eventbrite banner?

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 26/08/2026

wake up, eat 30g of protein, drink 9 cups of water, walk 10k steps, hum to tone your vagus nerve, dinner before 7 PM, no screens, bed before 10 wake up, coffee, zoom, boil eggs, slack, emails, zoom, nap, zoom, errands, oreos, roast whole chicken, scroll, chicken needs more time, stay up and moan

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 26/08/2026

Reject AI slop flyers Embrace Sharpie art signage

Photo of hand-crafted signage Flu Vaccines Now Available scribbled on paper and stood up in plastic

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