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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 09/09/2026

This is a great example of a thoughtful notification.

Alarm volume low notification from android: Your 6:00 AM alarm went off but the alarm volume was below 30% and may be too low. Increase the volume so you don't miss an alarm.

Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 24/08/2026

Who's thinking about PKM nowadays? I was a very heavy Roam Research user for a long time, and later shifted to LogSeq, and then Obsidian... But I never stopped taking networked notes. This is what keeps me organized, and means I don't worry about forgetting things.

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 12/08/2026

I really love my Pixel 10 Pro, and usually I'd be very excited about a Pixel 11, but... Everything has gotten too damn expensive to keep replacing this thing each year without a great reason. $499 _after_ giving back my current phone is a whole lotta skrilla.

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 28/07/2026

What's the difference between a UI icon and a UX icon?

Noun Project email header, titled "UI & UX Icons"

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 22/07/2026

I think the _un-edited_ world cup finals photo is the most interesting one. People aren't talking about this.

definitely a normal world cup photo and not one with Mitch McConnell edited into it

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 08/07/2026

For me it was repository/publish access - updating bsky profile / status / blocks / follows all feels like a bit much to chat on a livestream. Maybe AT newsneess, or just a UX thing. I wonder if there's a way to progressively ask for these permissions as users access features.

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 08/07/2026

Looks like fun - I'd log in to say hi, but @stream.place has some pretty broad auth settings 😬

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 26/06/2026

My son's name is also SIGABRT

BORT licence plate photoshopped to SIGABRT

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 20/06/2026

Oooh this is fun Matt! Good share.

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 20/06/2026

Everyone should have a tiny label printer.

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 29/05/2026

Hey, neat! I love this idea. I added support for these lexicons to my personal site: pub-search.waow.tech?q=mikebifulc...

https://pub-search.waow.tech/?q=mikebifulco.com

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 26/05/2026

Can't believe they let this guy design a real ferrari

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 25/05/2026

I wonder how many people find "8 new emoji" compelling enough to download a 6GB OS Update.

MacOS Tahoe 26.5 Update - 6.18gb and the top feature is "8 new emoji"

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 04/05/2026

Passion noted, person-who-is-consuming-free-information

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 29/04/2026

Devs: Tell me about fun you've had building with Twilio. I'll go first... We recently set up Branded Calling, to make our company name and logo show up when we call customers. Did all the necessary paperwork and steps on the twilio dash, waited "up to one week", and got this feedback:

Branded calling Approved! But, Not enabled. Why? No way to tell.

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 20/04/2026

"Here's some money. Go see a Star War."

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 21/03/2026

Doing some spring cleaning. This feels so much longer ago than it actually was...

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 20/03/2026

LinkedIn is the dead internet. I hate this.

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 28/02/2026

Your least educated neighbors and relatives voted for this

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 12/02/2026

Go ahead, open it up and try to figure out how to narrow down logs to your favorite app.

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 11/02/2026

Landing in your inbox in about an hour - a rumination on fixing stability problems, and the maintenance part of the product lifecycle.

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 19/01/2026

Screentime... but less toxic?

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 13/01/2026

Our team at Craftwork recently opened expanded to Raleigh, and I’ve been enjoying learning how the city’s neighborhoods tell very different stories. Today I want to talk about Historic Oakwood.

street view of a victorian home in oakwood

street view of a second empire home in oakwood

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 11/01/2026

I'm out here vibe coding in a different stratosphere

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 07/01/2026

So Craftwork just expanded to Raleigh - and I'm having a great time learning about the neighborhoods and history that shape the city. One of those is Mordecai.

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 19/12/2025

Golden hour with the two wild beasts living in my home 📸 x100vi

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 15/12/2025

Everyone has impostor syndrome, pt. 3107828: I was tagged in a post on LinkedIn as part of the "Stripe Mafia" (lol) -- because of Craftwork's fundraise from last year. I do not feel like I belong on this list, for sure. As a bonus - this has made my inbox on LinkedIn even less useful...

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 26/08/2025

"Too many clicks" isn’t your problem. It's a signal that your design isn't getting the job done. Clarity, confidence, and cognitive load are the real culprits.

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 05/08/2025

My first product launch failed - and it would have been _so easy_ to avoid. In the end, smpl was acquired, but it could have had a dramatically different trajectory. Headed to 💌 Tiny Improvements readers' inboxes later this morning 👇

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 18/07/2025

1800 days ago was August 12, 2020. So many lifetimes ago.

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 10/07/2025

Something about detailed, compute-based stats analysis of baseball really makes me sad about the way people watch sports

Tweet showing a video of an MLB replay with the caption "Baseball savant has the estimated success rate at 0% of this ball that PCA caught"

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 05/07/2025

American EVs are so disappointing. Rather than quick, efficient, and nimble, we're selling gargantuan hulking nightmares.

Post from r/electricvehicles showing an Escalade IQL spanning (horizontally) more than two full parking spaces

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 24/06/2025

💌 What everyone gets wrong about vibe coding: Vibe coding tools will happily try something five different ways, and persevere energetically in times when even the most seasoned engineers might decide to move on to something else. However: don't mistake their speed and relentlessness for expertise.

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 24/06/2025

It finally happened: Figma doesn't want me to scroll any further right on the page where I make cover images for Tiny Improvements. Row 2, here we come 😂

Figma capping out at 130000 pixels in width

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 24/06/2025

I cannot wait to try this. I'm curious about usage costs with expo - would a workflow run like this consume build credit on expo's paid plans?

expo.dev smoke test from the article linked above, showing that build android and build IOS were not triggered

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 24/06/2025

Oh god, what's he on about this time

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 17/06/2025

Sometimes the loudest thing is the silence of people who should know better. Especially if speaking up might cost them something. This week’s Tiny Improvements is about the cost of conformity, and my thoughts on how/when to speak up - on your team, for your product, and for the community.

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 14/06/2025

Charlotte showing up this morning

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 13/06/2025

Use git on MacOS long enough, and you will have to do this. The ol' 2-step case-sensitive rename.

Screenshot of a github commit log, containing 2 commits from mbifulco:

case sensitive rn: step 1
case sensitive rn: step 2

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 22/05/2025

I just became a @kcrw.com member with a paid subscription. It's not much, but I try to pay for media that I believe in, and KCRW has some journalists doing incredible work. @brihreed.bsky.social's show Question Everything has quickly become one of my favorite podcasts - I can't recommend it enough!

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 22/05/2025

I can't believe how quickly Jony Ive got to work on ChatGPT

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Mike Bifulco @mikebifulco.com · 17/05/2025

A totally fine and normal housing market

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