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Phendan @phen.dev · 10/09/2026

I was gonna let it rest, but it's just so weird to me that the CTO of this place seemingly spends all his time waxing lyrical about how awesome AI is and how not using it is delusional, and meanwhile this has been happening for I think over a week now?

A screenshot of a bluesky feed with an error message that reads "There was an issue fetching posts. Tap here to try again."

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Phendan @phen.dev · 24/07/2026

There's a competition going on to decide the new € bank note designs and some of them are really striking (you can vote for your favorites here if you like!) #designsky

The front of one of the proposed 5€ notes, featuring an artistic drawing of Maria Callas.

The back of one of the proposed 20€ notes, featuring a drawing of a lecture being held in an amphitheater.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 02/07/2026

Seems to be working for the border but not the text as yet in Safari. Still, really neat that this is becoming possible!

A screenshot of the gradient demo where the border is using the gradient but the text is invisible.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 23/05/2026

Whatever patchwork fix for this they rolled out doesn't deal with variations, apparently. I don't even wanna know the depths of spaghetti code they're using to clumsily pretend this is working

The results page for "disregard define". The AI overview reads "Acknowledged. I have remove the definition. How can I help you?"

The results page for "disregard definition". The AI overview reads "Understood. The dictionary definition has been set aside."

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Phendan @phen.dev · 07/04/2026

I also enjoy the classics

A store front that either reads "We're not happy 'til you're not happy" or alternatively "We're you're not 'til not happy"

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Phendan @phen.dev · 01/01/2026

Spotting Irving's outie at Zohran's inauguration was the cherry on top. Heck of a way to ring in the New Year!

A picture of John Turturro standing in the crowd at Zohran Mamdani's inaugural speech.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 12/12/2025

I hear they're letting people gamble on their debt now. Things are going great.

A picture of a statue of a bull on stilts. The caption reads "the steaks have been raised"

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Phendan @phen.dev · 03/11/2025

Give me Konsistenz, I said give me Konsistenz

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Phendan @phen.dev · 20/08/2025

Come to think of it

A screenshot from the recent Kirby direct of Masahiro Sakurai saying "Why is making games so hard" but "games" has been replaced with "things".

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Phendan @phen.dev · 20/08/2025

A few that always make me laugh

A picture of a church sign that says "JESUS, 6:00, PARKING LOT". The caption reads: "I don't want to alarm anyone, but I think this church just challenged Jesus to a fight."

A tumblr thread, with a picture of a bird at the top. The branches look like giant spindly legs

A reddit post titled "What should you absolutely not do at a wedding?". The highlighted response reads: "When they are exchanging the rings, don't stand up, dressed as Sauron and say, "But they were, all of them, deceived, for another ring was made." whilst putting on a ring too"

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Phendan @phen.dev · 20/08/2025

When Duolingo went all-in on AI, I switched to Renshuu for my sporadic Japanese learning, and for the most part it's been great. Some of the community-supplied mnemonics, on the other hand...

A picture of the hiragana character わ (wa)

A mnemonic from someone in the community that reads: "Wario's bit fat dumpy". It has over 4000 likes.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 09/07/2025

It's lovely! This is my only handmade one so far, picked up as a souvenir in Japan in 2023

A handmade mug featuring a triangular pattern of white and gray zig-zags

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Phendan @phen.dev · 09/07/2025

Updating my personal site and it’s starting to come together, so I thought I’d share a little preview of the landing page for #PortfolioDay Made in @figma.com #UI #designsky #BuildInPublic

The landing page of the portfolio. The central text reads "Hi! I'm Philip, a creative developer based in Germany - I tailor elegant designs and write sound code for websites that have a voice." The word "creative" is stylized with a squiggly underline, and "developer" is written as though it were an HTML tag. Underneath there is a link reading "Continue to Portfolio" that also doubles as a progress bar, as the above will be animated. On the edges of the page are a hamburger menu, an English-German language switcher, a music widget, and a social nav.

The mobile version of the landing page. The elements that were previously on the design have been consolidated into a menu bar at the bottom of the page.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 05/07/2025

Chuckling that I just wrote this without thinking. tfw you’re up late coding and your bison gets kidnapped

A code snippet of a function called "handleAvatarState"

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Phendan @phen.dev · 14/06/2025

Anti-fascist typography = best typography From the #NoKings protest in Ocean Beach, San Francisco

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Phendan @phen.dev · 10/06/2025

This one's easier to tell apart, but they both remind me just a bit of the Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower in Tokyo

The Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower in Tokyo, Japan. A tall, free-standing and almost pill-shaped building coming to a point towards the top. The pattern of criss-crossing white beams visible from the outside looks like webbing.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 01/06/2025

You might even say

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Phendan @phen.dev · 22/05/2025

Some pretty post-storm clouds this evening. Looked almost painted

Some light gray clouds in front of a pinkish sky

Small dark gray clouds in front of a cloud glowing from the setting sun, with a bit of sky poking out in the top right

A smaller bright cloud emerging behind a bigger, darker one

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Phendan @phen.dev · 21/05/2025

I think they draw straws for the adjectives

A sarcastic fringehead at the California ScienCenter. Picture shows a peculiar looking fish with big eyes and a giant maw.

Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) in Madagascar. Picture shows a gecko hunched on a branch with striking red eyes.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 18/05/2025

Yeah I can live with this

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Phendan @phen.dev · 02/05/2025

Germany nein! Shtop zis!

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Phendan @phen.dev · 26/04/2025

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

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Phendan @phen.dev · 17/04/2025

Feel reminded of this

Aliens: Greetings
Me: Oh Hey
Aliens: Are you not shocked?
Me: Man I got a lot going on

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Phendan @phen.dev · 08/04/2025

lol, for context and posterity, the deleted post was this

👋 Hey, we're Adobe!

We're here to connect with the artists, designers, and storytellers who bring ideas to life.

What's fueling your creativity right now? 🎨 Drop a reply, tag a creator,
or share your latest work—we'd love to see what inspires you!

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Phendan @phen.dev · 27/03/2025

That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about

The Spectacular Spider-Man Animated Series

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Phendan @phen.dev · 15/03/2025

So far, still sticking with good old VS Code

A screenshot of the VS Code text editor showing a React project using Tailwind CSS and a dark blue theme.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 14/03/2025

Neat little UI design trick I picked up from the Apple Developer docs: When you have a non-rounded element in a rounded container, getting the spacing between them right can be finicky. Blurring it gives you an idea of the visual weight and simplifies natural-looking alignment 👌 #UI #designsky

A screenshot from the Apple Developer Documentation. The text reads "To help place nonrounded content correctly, you can blur elements and aim to make the border of the resulting rounded, blurrred shapes as concentric as possible with even margins to make them fit best with the outer perimeter." Underneath there are two visual examples, one where some text is sitting to close to the edge of a pill-shaped container, and another where the same text has been made to look rounder by blurring and then nudged away from the edge to give it more even spacing all the way around.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 26/02/2025

Not sure what this bird's on

A close-up of one of the birds from the genmoji ad campaign, shades pushed far enough down its beak to reveal a rather disturbed-looking expression with tiny pupils

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Phendan @phen.dev · 28/01/2025

Some designs for a game review platform I was prototyping at one point. Still thinking about turning this into a real thing 🤔 Made in @figma.com #UI #WebDesign #designsky

Desktop and mobile view of the details page of the site, with the reviews panel and comment section visible. The reviews can be filtered for auditory, visual, motor, cognitive, and content accessibility and each game can be ranked in one of these categories as exceptional, great, decent, flawed, or avoid.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 27/01/2025

I've been using Ghostty for a few months and been quite happy with it. I know it's just a box to type in and it's not rational in the least to get excited over.. but look how shiny!

A screenshot of the Ghostty terminal on macOS using a Starship prompt and the Tokyo Night theme

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Phendan @phen.dev · 27/01/2025

I use the second especially pretty often. Pictogram makes replacing icons quite simple but it doesn't work with everything. Speaking of, had some fun making my own Spotify replacement recently

A screenshot of the macOS dock showing three apps: Discord, Spotify, and Outlook.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 26/01/2025

Been having a good time using the new - and very pretty - @yaak.app API Client by @schier.co. Since I work with Laravel a lot, I wrote a quick plugin to make authentication via Sanctum easier (iykyk). Link to the Github repo below if you need it github.com/phendan/yaak...

A screenshot of the Yaak client UI. Shows a POST request to an API endpoint with headers and JSON response data. Notably, the headers section includes an X-XSRF-TOKEN header, the value of which is a custom laravel_csrf_cookie template function.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 25/01/2025

About once a year, I rewatch this excellent video essay about Spirited Away and its ruminations on liminality and identity. Happened to see it before it was taken down on YouTube, and now it lives over here: plainflavoredenglish.com/2020/02/18/u... Highly recommend it!

A movie poster for the western release of Spirited Away. It reads "Walt Disney Studios Presents a Studio Ghibli Film - Miyazaki's Spirited Away". The poster shows Chihiro in center frame looking slightly off to the left, with a lantern-lit town visible in the background, populated by several shadowy spirits including No-Face.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 23/01/2025

Similar energy to this

A meme in four panels.
First panel: The Doctor from Star Trek Voyager holding a hypospray. "Computer! Seal the Sickbay doors!"
Second panel: Now hiding next to the door. "That should buy me at least 25 minutes, long enough for security to get here."
Third panel: muffled, through door, "This is the LockPickingLawyer and what I have for you today is a Starfleet issue model 9 cabin door taht's found primarily on the new Intrepid class ships"
Third panel: The doctor, quietly: "oh fuck me"

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Phendan @phen.dev · 13/01/2025

lol yup, same here. Then I saw the lists this guy in turn is on and surprise, surprise..

Screenshot of a moderation list titled: "people who block people thinking they are furries"

Two moderation list titles: "trans haters" and "racistes i altres istes"

Two moderation lists titled: "Bots, Scammers, Perverts & annoying people" and "TERFS, Gender Crits, transphobes, enbyphobes, and others"

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Phendan @phen.dev · 14/12/2024

Them: "So what are you gonna do at that party?" Me, an introvert: "idk probably

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Phendan @phen.dev · 28/11/2024

Found some more nature-focused ones, but I'll stop here for today

Taken near Mount Fuji. A field of tall, green grass with a path made of wood planks leading through it, past a tree on the left side and a house on the right.

The view of a valley near Mount Fuji as seen from a decent elevation. Fog covers smaller hills in the distance.

The Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima Island at high tide, with only the very top of the tilts on which it rests visible above the waterline.

A small courtyard garden viewed from the inside of a cozy tearoom. The garden features several trees and other greenery with a path of natural rocks leading through it. In front of the sliding glass doors to the garden and off to the right is a chair with some colorful pieces of quilted fabric. Taken on Miyajima Island.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 27/11/2024

I swear I can explain this one

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Phendan @phen.dev · 27/11/2024

I found these in my camera roll and felt like sharing. Took them on a trip to Japan last year and I think they turned out pretty well!

The top of the Tokyo Tower emerging behind a shrine in the foreground.

A view of the Tokyo Skyline with a road criss-crossing in the foreground.

A small brook running through the middle of Tokyo

A view of the Sumida river from the top of the Tokyo Skytree with fog layered overtop of the cityscape in the background.

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Phendan @phen.dev · 26/11/2024

I've been using Eagle for a few months, and given the volume of sites I look at for inspiration, it's the simplest way I've found to aggregate them. Can recommend!

A screenshot of the Eagle app on macos for collecting images

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Phendan @phen.dev · 25/11/2024

I've really liked getting familiar with Motion Canvas. Been a joy to work with for coding up simple visualizations like this, and it's making me wanna dive into animation a lot more!

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