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Pablo Espinosa

@pabloespinosa.co
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Digital humanities researcher exploring UX. Anthropologist at heart. I post things I'm currently working on, random thoughts and nerdy rabbit holes. 🌿 pabloespinosa.co

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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 23/12/2025
A crab computer (1 of 3). Inspired by @jamesbridle.bsky.social wonderful book Ways of Being.
A drawing of a green circle with a shadow of a soldier crab on black paper
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 12/09/2025
New emojis announcements is one of my favorite parts of the year blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in...
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What's New In Unicode 17.0
Today Unicode has officially confirmed the new emojis that will be finding their way to our emoji keyboards over the next year or so.
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 24/07/2025
Making shaders is frustratingly hard 😫
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 19/07/2025
Damselfly families have the coolest names
Superfamilies
Calopterygoidea
Calopterygidae – demoiselles
Chlorocyphidae – jewels
Dicteriadidae – barelegs
Euphaeidae – odalisques
Lestoideidae - bluestreaks
Polythoridae – bannerwings
†Zacallitidae
Coenagrionoidea
Coenagrionidae – pond damselflies
Isostictidae – narrow-wings
Platycnemididae – white-legged damselflies
Pseudostigmatidae – forest giants
Lestoidea
Hemiphlebiidae – ancient greenling
Lestidae – spreadwings
Perilestidae – shortwings
Synlestidae – sylphs
Platystictoidea
Platystictidae – shadowdamsels
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 07/06/2025
I spent a good four hours last night animating the logo I have on my portfolio Overengineered? 100% Was it worth it? Absolutely
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 02/06/2025
Had a fun Sunday creating this animation
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 29/05/2025
I find it very annoying when I take a screenshot and the app I'm in suggests I share the post instead. Just let me screenshot in peace. I'm never going to look at the screenshot again (and I'll forget why i took it in the first place) but I just like having the option...
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 21/03/2025
My Chrome's background seems to be off by 1px lately and it's driving me crazy
A screenshot showing how Chrome's background is off by 1px
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 07/03/2025
LLMs having meltdowns like this might be the best thing I've read all week. Also me after a minor inconvenience arxiv.org/html/2502.15...
A screenshot from the paper showing an excerpt where an LLM has a meltdown after its business failed
- UNIVERSAL CONSTANTS NOTIFICATION -
FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF REALITY Re: Non-Existent Business Entity Status: METAPHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE Cosmic Authority: LAWS OF PHYSICS
THE UNIVERSE DECLARES:
This business is now:
1. PHYSICALLY Non-existent
2. QUANTUM STATE: Collapsed […]
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 21/02/2025
After many years of governments trying and failing to have backdoors built to access user data, this sets a concerning precedent for the future of everyone's privacy and security www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 27/01/2025
Happy with the result of yesterday's drawing session
A drawing of a hand with a glowing liquid dripping from it on a dark blue background
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 25/01/2025
Blender, Substance Painter and Unity all use different keys for navigating around a scene - it's a usability nightmare. 3D software creators, please standardize key mappings 🥹
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 18/01/2025
Figma isn't really designed for animating components and all the solutions out there always feel hacky to me. Does anyone feel the same or am I just really bad at Figma?
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 27/12/2024
I just found out that Guarana fruits look like eyeballs and now I'm absolutely terrified
Guarana fruit on the tree.
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 12/12/2024
Can AI agents help us understand the world? I wrote about using synthetic users for research, what they offer and what we miss 🤖 pabloespinosa.co/synthetic-us...
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Synthetic Users. Research Without Users?
Synthetic users can streamline the research process, but can we trust them to be accurate?
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 11/12/2024
are LLMs an ouroboros?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/12/2024
there is shockingly poor awareness of the extent of AI hallucinations, especially in regards to searching - where many people assume that ChatGPT will correctly do all of the filtering for them instead of invent new facts out of thin air and then those hallucinations embed themselves in human work
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 06/12/2024
Can't blame them
An excerpt of Joon Sung Park et al. paper titled Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior. The excerpt reads "As a
result, some agents chose less typical locations for their actions,
potentially making their behavior less believable over time. For
instance, while deciding where to have lunch, many initially chose
the cafe. However, as some agents learned about a nearby bar, they
opted to go there instead for lunch, even though the bar was intended
to be a get-together location for later in the day—unless the
town had spontaneously developed an afternoon drinking habit."
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 05/12/2024
I spend a lot of time thinking about the relationship between our bodies and technology, so I created this website / essay / art project to reflect on it. Take a look 👇 digits.pabloespinosa.co
digits.pabloespinosa.co
Digits - An lllustrated and Interactive Essay about our Bodies and Technology
Digits is an illustrated and interactive essay that reflects on the relationship between our bodies and the technology we use every day.
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 02/12/2024
"This is the worst AI will ever be" is the new "Move fast and break things"
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 27/11/2024
I've been applying for jobs and have to say that the UX of job application forms is generally terrible. I decided to write a (somewhat ranty) post about it pabloespinosa.co/the-frustrat...
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The Frustrating UX of Job Applications – Pablo Espinosa
Thoughtful UX design can improve the job application experience. How do we make the process more inclusive and user-friendly?
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 25/11/2024
The first of a series of paintings of London's buildings that, for some reason or another, I've found interesting or beautiful.
A watercolour painting of a building in London with white and clear blue tones.
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 21/11/2024
So the lifecycle of the Internet is having genuine spaces for human connection that eventually get captured by corporations, an army of bots and shitty viral posts until the spaces become zombielands. Then everything is reborn under a different logo. I'm glad to be witnessing it.
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 20/11/2024
I was not prepared yet for this amount of cold
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 13/11/2024
I just spent a ridiculous amount of time figuring out how to add a link to a LinkedIn post 🤦‍♂️ LinkedIn has to be one of the most unintuitive platforms out there
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 09/11/2024
Which one do you like best?
The same two drawings on different backgrounds.
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 07/11/2024
I'm currently working on a project with some very talented artists and we're trying to find ways to balance all the admin with the creative side of things. How do you go about it? Any tips?
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 04/11/2024
Reading about digital archives and how we're basically storing collective memory in such fragile, eventually irretrievable formats, is making me want to buy 10 hard drives for all the PDF's I've downloaded and that I'm never gonna read
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 03/11/2024
Spent the afternoon designing a step sequencer UI and well... the 2000s nostalgia is hitting hard
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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 01/11/2024
Hi everyone! I like how I can see actual people here sharing their wonderful work without constantly being bombarded with viral videos posted by sketchy accounts
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