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Tom Creighton

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🇨🇦 Software designer. He/him. tom.party #hamont

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 23/09/2026
ME, VISIBLY ANGUISHED AND FALLING APART: It is what it is :)
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Jhey ʕ·ᴥ· ʔ @jhey.dev · 17/09/2026
one does not simply reveal a password 👁️
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 11/09/2026
magic actually was run as a loss leader and was made widely available to everyone in part due to a zero interest rate policy and lots of sovereign wealth funds, but then that bubble popped and now magic costs a lot more (also it turns out the magic was actually being offshored and done elsewhere, so
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Ætheric Survey Station @aethericsurvey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sample 0252 · locus 0xB7DA Auspices: all · 100ft · instant
A hexagonal sigil, point upward, drawn in copper-brown ink on pale parchment. Fifty-four short ticks cross the six edges like stitching, in four different lengths; 11 of them are at full length, and the longest ticks carry a small crossbar. Each corner is bitten by a narrow notch, and just outside it sits a rivet: 4 of the six corners are filled dots and 2 are open rings. A short bar below the top corner marks which way is up. Inside, eight curved lines are woven between eighteen points around a circle, running from a small ringed dot at the top to a heavy dot at the lower left. A burst of 5 short rays sits in the clearest space inside. The ink pools darkest where the curves begin and thins across the rest of the mark. The ground carries small specks and the strokes small gaps, as though the plate were imperfectly printed.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 02/09/2026
“I got that dog in me” – man involved in a teleportation accident
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 17/08/2026
Actually the Burn, the devastating galaxy-wide incident that took down the United Federation of Planets when dilithium broke, was caused by an extended GitHub outage
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
before i became a parent i’d always roll my eyes at people who insisted that their kid was getting larger over time, but now i get it. my kid is almost two years old now and i would bet money that he’s bigger than he was when he was born
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 11/08/2026
why say "the pace of technological change is accelerating" when you could say that the years start coming and they don't stop coming
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 31/07/2026
An experiment that never quite found its feet. Thanks to those who tried it (and paid for it!), you’re the best. ❤️
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 29/07/2026
There's great benefit in being a first-mover and grow with things that have the potential to be wildly successful, one of which is helping shape it. You can be in the Substack heap, or you can help build the Atmosphere among probably one of the kindest builder communities you'll ever find.
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Chris Erl @chriserl.ca · 27/07/2026
#HamOnt: oh no we can't build 60 units of affordable housing on an underused parking lot and ensure 12 units will go to veterans and that they'll be accessible to people priced out of the housing market won't somebody think of the defenceless cars waaahhhhhhhhhh New York:
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 22/07/2026
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Liunus and Charlie Brown walking through the pouring rain
Charlie Brown: the rain falls on the just and the unjust
linus: that's a good system!
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sami 🔵 @hellosami.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 12/07/2026
My old twitterbot, Blockcastles, is (finally) resurrected on Bsky.
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ceej @ceej.online · 16/06/2026
REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Democrats want you to believe that sending FIVE MILLION DOLLARS of YOUR tax money to MEXICO to “manage” the “Dick Exploding Spider” population is “normal” SAME SENATOR SIX MONTHS LATER: (walking like a saddle-sore cowboy) This is the greatest public health crisis of our lives,
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 07/06/2026
Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 05/06/2026
Everyone debating AI design tools meanwhile the actual design is happening on a walk to get a little treat
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 29/05/2026
Just found out that Posthog’s internal query language is called HogQL and I don’t know what to do with this information
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 27/05/2026
There’s not enough worldbuilding in software design.
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Neven Mrgan @mrgan.com · 26/05/2026
Every app is so thirsty after you take a screenshot. “Trying to share this? 🤔 There’s an easier way! 😻 po.ob/1awuM” No I’m screenshotting the fact that your button label is truncated so it says “Usage Anal…” do you have a better way for me to dunk on that with friends
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/05/2026
he also snuck a prompt injection in there that ensouls your chatbot if you ask it to give you a summary so watch out
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 05/05/2025
Cinco de Mayo be with you
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kotsy @itsonlykotsy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Since 1951: Canada's Oldest Weather Beacon
Close up arial shot of the Canada Life weather beacon in Toronto during a colourful sunset
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 04/05/2025
Everybody: May the fourth be with you Me, extremely pious: And also with you
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 29/04/2026
If your Slack doesn’t have the cowboy-cool-cry-mild-panic emoji are you truly a startup
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 24/04/2026
Me: need to get a password macOS: i got u
A screenshot of macOS helpfully telling me some conversions for 1 Pascal as opposed to, say, launching 1password.
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わはは @mrbowers.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Wanna see the best "back to top" webpage functionality I've ever seen? Go here, scroll to bottom, click button. city-the-animation.com/bddvd/
city-the-animation.com
Blu-ray&DVD 第1巻 | 『CITY THE ANIMATION』公式サイト
『CITY THE ANIMATION』2025年7月6日よりABCテレビ、TOKYO MX、テレビ愛知、BS11にて放送開始!
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 08/04/2026
I bet this feels so good if you’re a repo
A Github commit with 3,280 files changed; 5,400 lines added; and a staggering 181,736 lines removed.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 05/04/2026
Startup swag has tragically ignored the commemorative plate
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 03/04/2026
Every app’s release notes: Bug fixes and improvements Release notes before they stopped me from writing them: Y’all remember being a baby? Yeah me neither but I bet you five AMERICAN dollars that this release is like the gentle touch of a loving parent upon your newborn brow
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 22/03/2026
Cracked pepper implies the existence of mid pepper
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 09/03/2026
If you want to add some whimsy to your web projects I dropped two very small JS libraries for you: Hologram (scroll-driven color shifting) and Line Boil (hand-drawn-animation-style wigglies). github.com/tomcreighton... github.com/tomcreighton... Please enjoy!
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 06/03/2026
BSOD
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 24/02/2026
I found the room where they keep Vercel
A door with a large black triangle on it
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 13/02/2026
A terrible accident – my body pinned by twisted metal, blood pooling beneath my cheek, the wind blowing shattered glass and the stink of spilled gasoline into my face. In the distance, I hear a cheerful voice calling “Just yelp for help” [Paw Patrol theme plays]
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 10/02/2026
"Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue" Four-factor authentication is now activated for your wedding
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 06/02/2026
It's Atmosyear not app...mos... hang on
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Atmospheric doesn’t have to be an app
You can just build features into the websites you've already got!
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 23/01/2026
2015: Should designers code 2025: Should developers code
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 23/01/2026
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 22/01/2026
Email subject lines with threatening auras
An email subject that says “Discover new projects waiting for you in Jira!”
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 21/01/2026
UX
A screen the looks very much like a touchscreen with a larger banner across the top reading “NOT A TOUCHSCREEN”
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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 14/01/2026
Here’s The Architect’s Newspaper with a withering review of Joe Gebbia’s “National Design Studio”, and what it really stands for: www.archpaper.com/2025/12/nati... As design critiques go, this is one of the best ones I’ve read in some time.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
"What is the ROI of UX?" is shaped like a question, but it is actually two hostile premises: 1) that UX is sufficiently marginal for its value to be openly questioned 2) that the asker has the authority to judge this question, and practitioners are merely consulted on it, as a matter of courtesy
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Mark Reel @markreel.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The first two hours this morning
A old advert that has the words What the heck is Electronic Mail? With a man looking very scared by a sparkling trail flying around his desk
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 05/01/2026
A fun thing about building software is taking UX patterns like this entirely for granted, then building your own version and immediately smashing headlong into an iceberg of hidden complexity
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Jesse Karmani @jesseplusplus.com · 02/01/2026
Unpopular opinion: you don't need more willpower. You need better designed apps. frequency.leaflet.pub/3mbezkaxwhk27
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Beyond the Digital Detox - frequency social
Why willpower can't beat manipulative design
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 04/12/2025
[New Blog Post] Why Sell Lifetime Plans, in a Default Subscription World? pketh.org/lifetime-pla...
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 31/12/2025
That time that Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani were being pursued by a memory-altering tiger, and their plans to kill it before year-end
A conversation between Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani, as so:
Elizabeth: This year is our year
Elizabeth: We can never forget this tiger
Sunny: I know. I am focused on it.
Sunny: We will execute this year
Elizabeth: I know. I’m focused on it too.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 18/12/2025
This is the coolest a cellphone has ever looked, change my mind
An image of an Ericsson Hotline, consisting of a very 1980s handset attached by a coiled wire to a bulky base with attached antenna. The whole unit has a carrying handle.
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