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Tom Creighton

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

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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 26/05/2026
If I won the lottery I wouldn’t tell anyone, but there would be signs
The Nissan COM COMInterior of the Nissan COM COM
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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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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 · 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 · 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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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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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 01/12/2025
Happy Cyber Monday
Johnny Mnemonic about to wipe out someone’s entire server
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 25/11/2025
I have fond memories of eating the inexplicably-named Watergate Salad (aka ‘green stuff’) at my grandparents’ house as a child. As an adult, I’m excited to perpetrate this food crime on my own family.
A photo of ‘watergate salad’: a bowl of mint-green slop garnished with whipped cream, walnut pieces(?) and maraschino cherries.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 11/11/2025
File under ‘you can just do things’: a tiny menubar app that checks my local commuter rail station for the next departure time.
A screenshot showing some Mac OS menubar apps, including one that shows the next train departure time.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 07/11/2025
The most fun part of building my own theming system is deciding I want themes to support two fonts and then just doing it 👉 @peep.pub
The config.json for a Peep theme, specifically calling out the “supportSecondaryFont” attribute.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 02/11/2025
There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
Some really fantastic fruit crate graphics on a take-a-penny tray
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 29/10/2025
If I won the lottery I wouldn’t tell anyone, but there would be signs
A Japanese minitruck with tank treads for some reason
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 17/10/2025
Oh yeah no for sure
An email subject line from Atlassian reading “These new Jira features are a must-try"
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 24/09/2025
UX design
An elevatir control panel with a large sign reading “PUSH HERE”
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 20/09/2025
I beg to differ
Linkedin headline reading ‘Ads are coming to your fridge’
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 08/09/2025
Doctor: Well, your googly levels are a bit low – I’ll write you a prescription
Two googly eyes in a pill bottle.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 13/08/2025
Everyone at the coffee shop groaning in disbelief as I unfold two additional monitors from my obnoxious monitor tower
A portable(?) accessory for laptops that unfolds to reveal three 16” monitors
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 26/06/2025
A cool(?) part of living in a slightly scuzzy post-industrial city is that there’s cool little typographical nuggets preserved everywhere
A hand-lettered sign that says “Baltic Bread Bakery” and then underneath, ‘Crusty Rolls’ • DonutsA hand-painted sign, clearly painted on top of a previous sign, on the left it says “FILM PROCESSING” atop the old Kodak logo, then on the right, in script lettering ‘Lottery Tickets’ with a smaller ‘sold here’ underneath.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 16/06/2025
A modification of the “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision” image, which instead reads “A computer can never have taste, therefore a computer must never make a creative decision”
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 12/06/2025
Missed my calling (graphic designer circa 1969); all of these are using my typeface Nougat which is free at joyride.studio
Johnny Paloma’s debut LP, “Surf’s Up”The cover art for “The Johnny Paloma Christmas Album”The album art for Johnny Paloma’s third, less-well-received album, Farm Noises
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 12/06/2025
Absolutely ripping through this, one of those books that feels like a fairy tale and a travelogue and a secret third thing all at once (also has a ‘Famous Swords’ appendix, which is Extremely My Shit™)
The (trade paperback) cover of Moonbound by Robin Sloan
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 10/05/2025
An article headline reading “Elizabeth Holmes’ partner has a new startup. It’s a blood-testing company.”HE CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 28/04/2025
Elections Canada wayfinding always on point
A very graphic round yellow sign with ‘Vote’ six times around the rim, and an arrow.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 05/04/2025
MTL
A cool vaguely brutalist building at dusk
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 31/03/2025
Terminal app but the icon responds to window state
The OSX terminal icon with some cute faces
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 27/03/2025
Usernames are now less fun
A git commit that says “Added a huge amount of swearwords"
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 21/03/2025
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.
(Some of) the cast of Farscape.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 07/03/2025
G
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 06/03/2025
[huge bong rip]
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 05/03/2025
The Sphinx is terribly mysterious
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 28/02/2025
Peep! (just trying something)
Peep! A hologram sticker, perhaps.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 25/02/2025
[My eyes pop out cartoon wolf style]
A photograph of the interior of the MCC Smart Eco-Speedster (1993); it is glorious
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 24/02/2025
🆕🔠 New! A funky many-influences Futura-Display-ish hand-painted-vibes typeface – Nougat! joyride.studio/nougat/
A Nougat type sampleA magazine layout using Nougat (and pretty yummy looking pizza, IMO)An LP cover for the album “Smoke Rings and Daydreams”, by Solomon Finch (using the typeface Nougat, also this is entirely made up)
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 14/02/2025
From me to you ♥️
A beautiful image showing the most romantic of animals, the possum, with text reading “Let’s eat trash and get hit by a car”
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 13/02/2025
Thank you Linkedin, this is exactly what I want to do
Text from a Linkedin email saying “Tom, ask Arianna Huffington your career questions”, a thing I would actively seek to avoid
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 12/02/2025
Thank you Notion
An email from Notion that reads, in part, “You’ve been invited by Tom Creighton to Tom Creighton”
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 09/02/2025
Raising a seed round for my new startup, “Pizza Drone Net Launcher”, our business model is that we send you a pizza drone net launcher
A screencap of a tweet showing pizza being delivered by a drone
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 01/02/2025
The chain of reasoning for this was a masterwork
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 01/02/2025
Some real big brain thinking from o3-mini
A riff on the classic “I can’t operate on this boy – he’s my son!” riddle, where instead of a boy, it’s a dogo3-mini really pulling out all the stops to establish that the surgeon is, indeed, the dog’s mother, which is both very funny and extremely stupid
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 27/01/2025
Me, living in a Minority Report future and accidentally invoking Print instead of Zoom again: DANG IT
Many chorded hand gestures for various computer manipulations. Print and Zoom differ only by one finger, which (imo) is not optimal.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 27/01/2025
Jazzing up the home office
Big salami rug
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 23/01/2025
They finally added the most-requested moderation option
A Bluesky moderation option labelled “This guy sucks”, with subhead “Just an absolute softbrain dipshit”
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 22/01/2025
Hey Siri, how much pasta per person
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 20/01/2025
If I won the lottery I wouldn’t tell anyone, but there would be signs
A lifted Pontiac Trans Sport. hell yeah.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 13/01/2025
What are you insinuating, Notion Team
The subject line of an email from Notion that says “Work smarter this year”, I just got roasted
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 07/01/2025
Serviced by Gubagoo
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 29/12/2024
Pundits: Canada’s tech sector continues to experience a precipitous slide Meanwhile:
Two bullet points listing USD and CAD salaries. The USD salary’s low end is $78,000 CAD higher than the CAD salary’s high end
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