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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 · 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...

bbc.co.uk

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

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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 13/12/2024

That's a very good point. I think this technology is better used for other purposes than mimicking end users. It might be powerful in systems research and economics, but when it comes to user research the applications are more limited

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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 12/12/2024

I'll be doing a second part on this soon laying out some ways in which I think agents can be incorporated into research processes

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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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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 · 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 · 30/11/2024

But other languages don't have such established patterns and they usually either translate from English or come up with creative and sometimes odd solutions. Not really related to your point but I think it's a super interesting phenomenon

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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 30/11/2024

I completely agree. It's not necessary to reinvent the wheel, and the example of "forgotten" clearly feels off. I feel like English is somewhat less flexible in a way, considering that it's the language of the Internet, so patterns are already clearly established.

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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 29/11/2024

I wonder if this applies across all languages ? there are languages like French which are relatively more formal in written form. Or even languages with different and stricter degrees of formality, what do they use on their UIs?

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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 28/11/2024

Can't wait for dark mode in Docs and Sheets for desktop

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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 · 19/11/2024

On Tuesday but managed to finish a piece of writing that was taking me ages

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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 19/11/2024

Yes, the algo is just random sometimes. I'm trying to find interesting UX and tech stuff but instead it just shows me a slide deck about why there should be a men's day and I'm like... why is this on my feed

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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 19/11/2024

Every common action is nested inside never ending submenus and I always have to look it up online

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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 · 06/11/2024

I attended today and really enjoyed your talk. Thank you!

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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · 05/11/2024

How do you make the animation showing the layers?

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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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