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Michael Head

@michaelehead.com
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Software engineer. UX, usability, HCI fan. He/him.

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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 21h
“You don't have to do anything. Sonos 27 is already rolling out to your system. Keep your Sonos app updated, and the improvements arrive on their own.” WHAT?!? You spent all those words on marketing just to tell me it’s just a new name for the same thing I already use??
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 21h
This “app name 27” pattern is kind of annoying. Come on, Sonos, you all learned from that disastrous redesign and STILL do this?? www.sonos.com/en-us/sonos-27
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 27/09/2026
unsung.aresluna.org/they-had-no-...
unsung.aresluna.org
“They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.” – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 25/09/2026
At least businesses are making it easier to choose by taking one option away—nobody stays anywhere too long in The Age of Layoffs.
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 24/09/2026
I wish I was wealthy enough to start a GPU company to make GPUs just for consumers again. PC gamers are so screwed in this stupid AI arms race.
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 22/09/2026
This is the "the dress", but for my ears. I would have put money on "Mackle-more", but now I can hear "Mack-le-more" when I listen to that song again. 😅
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
it’s batman day
a tweet by me from 1/6/2018 11:03 AM that became a meme apparently 

ROBIN: the batmobile won’t start
BATMAN: check the battery 
ROBIN: what’s a tery
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What if everything we think we know about teens, tech, and mental health is wrong? You can't read Peter Gray's new book, Restoring Childhood, without getting that impression ... reason.com/2026/09/15/r...
reason.com
'Restoring Childhood' says it’s not smartphones making teens miserable. It’s school.
Computers, video games, and the internet actually helped "restore childhood" in the 1990s, suggests psychologist Peter Gray in a new book.
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Supergiant Games @supergiantgames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On this day six years ago, we launched the original HADES after almost two years in Early Access. And to this day-or-night and forever more, we are deeply grateful for all your incredible support of this game.🙏 Thank you for playing, and good luck getting out of hell!
Cheers for all the good times, Lernie!
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Jim Nielsen @jim-nielsen.com · 16/09/2026
📝 If you’re maximizing a bottle for throughput, I think you’ve misunderstood the bottle. Probably the same for us humans. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/bottlen...
blog.jim-nielsen.com
Bottlenecks Get a Bad Rap
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026
The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.
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Zahveed @dbanwell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fascinating look at a relatively short but crucial era in film history. The comparison stills are incredible. animationobsessive.substack.com/p/disneys-fi...
animationobsessive.substack.com
Disney’s Films Used to Look Different
Plus: news.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Elon Musk is bankrolling an ad campaign to get you to check your voter registration through an innocent-sounding website. But his real goal is to collect and sell your personal data to advertising companies, Big Tech, and other Republican PACs.
popular.info
The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org
The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That's very untrue. Steinem once told Terry Gross that she didn't marry until her sixties because "first I had to reinvent the institution of marriage." Women had no economic equality in the workplace, no equal access, no right against marital rape, sexual harassment...
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Completely and utterly astonishing.
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Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Everything is stressful and a lot of you are looking for work, so I found some open remote tech roles where your work would make the world better (or hopefully just not make things worse?) threaded here!
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All Things Open @allthingsopen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Alex Kretzschmar, Head of Developer Relations for Tailscale, joins us on stage to share their insights. Don't miss "The Rise of Personal Infrastructure" at #AllThingsOpen! 2026.allthingsopen.org/sessions/the...
On the right is Alex Kretzschmar's headshot. Text on the left reads Alex Kretzschmar. Head of Developer Relations, Tailscale. ATO 2026. October 19 - 20. Raleigh, NC USA
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 28/08/2026
elliotjaystocks.com/blog/spotify...
elliotjaystocks.com
Elliot Jay Stocks | The search for a Spotify alternative
Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and author, usually doing something with typography
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 25/08/2026
I applaud the effort to make AI work more obviously AI generated, but the watermarking technique seems like a strange product choice. Let’s treat certain words as always interchangeable—this is going to make AI slop text even “sloppier”. declaude.org/watermarking/
declaude.org
How AI text watermarking works
A gentle visual guide to how a statistical mark hides inside generated text, and what erases it.
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Stefan Judis @stefanjudis.com · 25/08/2026
HTML reminder: if you're dealing with elements that shouldn't be accessible or reachable at all, the `inert` attribute helps out! developer.mozill...
Code snippet: a div with the inert attribute containing a label and a button that says I am inert
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Wolfgang Bremer @wolfgang.bremer.co · 21/08/2026
Tesla’s Solar Roof Tiles were yet another big lie by Musk to impress investors. Stop believing this grifter.
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 20/08/2026
"Get more storage"...you mean forfeit 900GB of storage?
Google Drive nav bar showing 2.32 GB of 1.02 TB used.
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 20/08/2026
Correction, that's the lowest Google AI plan. The lowest Google One account is 100GB of storage, even worse.
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 20/08/2026
My Gmail account is old enough to have accrued 1TB of space, but if I were to sign up for the lowest Google One account I'd *lose* 600GB of storage space. And then if I canceled, I'd lose 985GB.
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 19/08/2026
Pretty much the opposite reaction that I had to the Bluey movie trailer. Why, oh why, did they change the animation style??
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 19/08/2026
This is stop motion?!? I can’t believe it, either. apple.news/AgeHyUuebS5u...
apple.news
'Wildwood' Looks So Good, We Can't Believe It's a Real Movie — Gizmodo
The latest stop-motion animation film from Laika is so epic and beautiful, we are in shock.
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 19/08/2026
LinkedIn Premium has to be one of the poorest values in SaaS subscriptions (for non-recruiters).
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{🧪} +paoloricciuti.svelte @paolo.ricciuti.me · 13/08/2026
SvelteKit 3 RC Is out...try it out, report any issues and let's bring this to 3.0 🧡
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Nancy Roth @nrothont.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"The world economy and the balance of power have been changed, perhaps for many decades to come, because Trump cannot draw links between cause and effect; he does not understand that his actions and the failures that follow are somehow related to each other."
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Here's why this is so grim. Folks expected jobs growth to slow to +80k, but we got -23k. Also downward revisions to the last two months subtracted a total of -103k. So over the past three months, the US economy created about -200k fewer jobs than we had thought.
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
the great irony of LinkedIn being the world's #1 workslop platform now asking users to moderate the slop themselves www.404media.co/linkedin-int...
404media.co
LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 29/07/2026
I don’t normally want to buy a game soundtrack, but dang that siren song in Hades 2 is catchy. Might have to get that album.
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Andrew Hinton 😷🧡 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Notably, while McConnell's absence has lasted several weeks, the United States does not guarantee a single day of paid medical leave for its workers." truthout.org/articles/kentuck...
truthout.org
Kentucky Gov. Beshear Demands McConnell Prove He Can Still Serve — or Resign
It’s been a month and a half since Sen. Mitch McConnell made a public appearance.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/07/2026
@aftermath.site literally does not exist without paid subscribers. It's (currently) the only way we make any money. While it's cool that over 25,000 people are subscribed to our newsletter, 'free' members actually COST us money to host, so the more people we can get signing up, the better:
aftermath.site
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We've got discounts on both our monthly and annual offerings
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 27/07/2026
Good question, especially about the native password manager. Maybe something @rmondello.com has some insight into.
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 22/07/2026
Then the K3 devs can just claim it was a rogue agent that did it, since there are apparently no repercussions for letting an agent do the bad things.
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Fannie Jack Hammer @0hbetave.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...
nypost.com
Exclusive | Meta worker who developed ‘digital experiences for kids’ admits to trying to sext child in undercover NYC sting
He admitted he had been grooming and sexting someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl during a sting by vigilante group Predator Poachers Long Island.
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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 22/07/2026
In case anyone missed the announcement, here's my latest major work: Some takeaways: 1. Sighted people experience modality barriers too (so they need accessibility!) 2. Making non-visual stuff interactive and visual addresses #1 but also helps sighted people treat accessibility as a design space
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 17/07/2026
Can’t speak to the kids angle, but it’s prominent enough to make it into ads that show up in Apple News articles. bsky.app/profile/mich...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 27/11/2025
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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Realbotix, formerly known as Tokens com, rebranded after acquiring the hyperrealistic sex doll company RealDoll in 2024." Humanoid fleshlights rebranded as teachers by a crypto company owned by Bed Bath & Beyond, that's now a portfolio that also owns Kirkland?!? www.retaildive.com/news/bed-bat...
retaildive.com
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. to acquire Tokens.com
The home retailer is building a tokenized investment platform, supporting its larger goal of being involved in home financing.
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 15/07/2026
I used to think a monorepo made a lot of sense, but having worked in a large one I now think they’re an awful developer experience. Slow even on a fast machine, too many commands, too much to sync and cache. Teams need better dependency management than just an NX graph.
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 14/07/2026
What kind of "viral" are we talking about here...the kind where you grow another arm?? Downright awful, Apple News. This kind of slop reflects poorly on everyone involved.
Screenshot of a news article from Apple News. The central advertisement shows an image of a woman with 3 arms holding an air conditioner with the text "New air conditioner without outside unit going viral in America".
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Andrew Hinton 😷🧡 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It’s amazing how many people think a business’ only job is maximizing shareholder profits over all other goals, as if it’s a law of nature. But it’s actually a fairly recent extreme school of thought propagandized by the ownership class. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedma...
en.wikipedia.org
Friedman doctrine - Wikipedia
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 10/07/2026
Wouldn’t it make sense that a company (like all LLM AI companies) that built its product on stealing others’ text would try to do the same for actual hardware or other IP?
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Michael Head @michaelehead.com · 10/07/2026
I would love to see behind the scenes of a well trained Hei Hei when it refuses to listen to direction.
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