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Calum

@scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy

Scottish immigrant in #meath #ireland, bringing #UX goodness to unsuspecting enterprises since the 1990s. Erstwhile #gnome, #sunmicrosystems, #ptc […] [bridged from mastodon.ie/@scottishwildcat on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

A fun new #UX dark pattern from an #NFL mailing list that I don't recall seeing before. Do you have to toggle the switch to the “on” position before you click “Update Preferences” to unsubscribe from all marketing emails? Or is it already in the correct “off" […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A toggle switch in the “off” position, labelled “Unsubscribe all - unsubscribe from all marketing emails”.

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

Attempted to fix the dodgy screen connector that has plagued my @playdate since I got it, still not quite right though 😕

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

Got excited there until I realised that was the start time. #sixnations #scotland #wales

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025

Christmas #Parkrun on the beach... #Laytown #Meath #Ireland

Centre of shot, a runner on the beach silhouetted by the sunrise. A pair of dogwalkers and a group of three runners preparing for the race are on either side of the shot.

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025

I ended up starting on the 8th, which was… 25 years ago today. #sunmicrosystems

Job offer letter from Sun Microsystems Ireland, signed by me, with intended start date of August 1st, 2000.

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2024

Quite the dark pattern from Microsoft here. Making the X button to close their data-grab request look like one of the stars in the illustration is :chefkiss:

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2024

My favourite sign of the weekend.

A white sign on a wall, comprising some text inside a green oval. The larger text says “Cheese”. Below it in smaller text is the instruction, “Please consume cheese in this area”.

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2024

Thought I was destined never to see the #aurora this year, but it finally turned up on my doorstep. #meath #ireland

Green streaks of aurora with red tinges, visible above a brick wall.

Green streaks of aurora with red tinges, visible above a black railing fence with a sapling tree in the foreground.

Green curtain of aurora in the night sky, with silhouetted trees on the horizon and my car parked in the foreground.

Vivid red/orange slash of aurora filling most of the top half of the frame, with trees and a telegraph wire silhouetted in the foreground.

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