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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 15/10/2025

At Kinference, truth bombs being dropped.

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 29/09/2025

Kicking things off at #MicroConf Europe: Istanbul. 👏

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 04/06/2025

Planning an event for @tinyseed.com founders/community and I'm glad that, because it's not a public event, I can use ridiculous illustrations like this to make people laugh. Enjoy the beach in your suits, folks!

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 04/03/2025

*slowly collapses into a pile of dust and bones*

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 06/02/2025

@tylertringas.com Hey, FYI for your email form on the www.bkup.nyc website. :) Looking forward to this, I'm often in Brooklyn and love to rock climb (well, not well, but with much enthusiasm!) 🧗‍♀️

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 22/01/2025

Feeling like Google is judging my reading comprehension

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 16/01/2025

Does anyone else have a "junk drawer" folder on their computer desktop to hold files that you know you only need once? Makes it so much easier to find recent files and also to keep things neat by wiping it out every now and then.

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 14/01/2025

First thing I do when @robwalling.com has Einar (both founders of @tinyseed.com) on the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast is search the transcript to see if they talk about me. Never fails. 😆

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 07/01/2025

Treating myself to the “good stuff” in celebration of some good news. 🎊

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 20/12/2024

My spice drawer is no longer a dusty mess with thousands of half opened spice bags Unreasonably pleased with myself

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 17/12/2024

AND THEN I LOOK AT TWITTER Alright 🦋🦋🦋 friends, you gotta help me win this bet

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 17/12/2024

Oh no, I can't back out now, my bet got immortalized in the SFTROU newsletter 😆

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 14/12/2024

…it’s actually true, this is my third now 😆

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 07/12/2024

UX bug report - I was searching for "ACH" in the search box here and thought it was broken (because nothing happened, enter to submit didn't work) until I realized that it just didn't have any results. Might want something to pop up for queries that don't have results. :)

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 30/11/2024

I made the rolls in Toronto and flew them to California. 😆 Best hits of the meal includes the classic cranberry sauce in a can; cranberry sour cream jello (delicious); sausage stuffing; amazing turkey made by my cousin. 🎉

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 29/11/2024

That overly full feeling has been achieved. (+ @shazow.net )

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 24/11/2024

I thought to myself, oh, maybe I’ll pay for the local news of an area I’m interested in. The sign up / credit card experience is SO BAD. I almost want to email the newspaper to complain, so they understand how much money they’re probably leaving on the table with terrible UX and buggy forms.

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 23/11/2024

In local Toronto news, our dickwad of a premier decided to pander to suburbanites by ramming through a bill to remove the three major bike lanes from the city. Among other terrible things in the same bill (banning lawsuits!) I joined the protest ride today. ✊ toronto.citynews.ca/2024/11/21/n...

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 23/11/2024

An exciting Saturday morning: Using power tools to clean my shower curtain liner so I don’t have to buy more plastic.

Table with power tool brush and a shower curtain liner

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 22/11/2024

Remember when I released a zine to teach git skills? That was pretty cool. hellowebbooks.com/learn-git/ (cover illustration by @shazow.net)

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 15/11/2024

Writing my first book and self publishing my first book:

Printed manuscript of the Hello Web App book

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 15/11/2024

Wonderful memories of the ol' Brooklyn Beta conference.

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 15/11/2024

Collab-ing with @shazow.net, I'm still proud of this UI I designed:

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 15/11/2024

That time when my SEO work really paid off. This one page drove like 1/3 of the total traffic to WeddingLovely. 🙈

Traffic graph for a top wedding website builders blog post

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 15/11/2024

Back when I designed and letterpressed holiday cards and sent them to every one of my customers for WeddingLovely.

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 15/11/2024

Woah, downloaded my Twitter archive for @tracymakes and the images are wild to review years later. Remember this UI?

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 15/11/2024

Lemon curd pavlova is the _best_. Literally made it in sheet pan form for my birthday! (Photo looks like it's from a potato since it's a screenshot of a video on Insta.)

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 14/11/2024

Cooking projects keep me sane at the end of the work day.

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 14/11/2024

Or really, truly escape computer screens by going on long-distance backpacking. Here's last August on the High Sierra Trail.

Tracy Osborn at Guitar Lake near Mt. Whitney in California.

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 14/11/2024

When I'm not staring at a screen, I rock climb poorly but with much enthusiasm:

Tracy Osborn rock climbing at Rattlesnake Point in Ontario.

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 14/11/2024

Step 3: Unfollow everyone on Twitter. This was strangely cathartic.

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 13/11/2024

Step 1 in finally disconnecting myself from the Twitter hellscape

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 01/05/2023

Recently visited Colorado (for the first time!) and inadvertently wore all pink. I swear this was unintentional.

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 29/04/2023

Awhile ago, I self-published Hello Web Design, a book to teach non-designers ⚡️just enough⚡️ about visual and UX design. A few years ago, I transferred it to a publisher — a major achievement for a self-publisher! You can find it here: nostarch.com/hello-web-design

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 29/04/2023

Been off of social media for so long that I don’t know what to say. Anyways, here’s my pup.

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