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Jason Velazquez
What's up, weirdos. I'm Jason. Welcome to my digital garden. I'm happy you're here. Please make yourself comfortable. By day, I'm a digital freelancer, copywriter, uncle, and cheese danish sommelier. By night, I drink the blood of my enemies in an old Mountain Dew bottle I found in a Buc-ee's bathroom. Kidding. I'm just a guy who likes to blog about technology, design, the web, and anything I'm hyper fixated on at the time.
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Interesting finds: Design articles I still think about This post is officially my first on my newly designed custom blog (if you don't count the colophon). I figured I should share a few articles that have impacted my approach to design. As I write this, I realize the three articles below are a decade or more old....
This event was shot on iPhone and edited on Mac Just finished watching Apple's Scary Fast Event[^1]. Cook & Co. announced a new MacBook Pro, updated iMac, and the M3 chip family (M3, Pro, Ultra). Pretty standard stuff, if not a little light on substance. I'm not complaining. They can't all have "one more thing"...
Design & art There's a fundamental misunderstanding of what design sets to accomplish. Scrolling design-focused forums, you get the sense that design and art are viewed as interchangeable ideologies. We've somehow formed the belief that design, like art, can exist for its own sake without any consideration for...
Meta doesn't hate news, just anything that moves us off the app Meta's vision for social media is a billion lobotomized users engaging with The Hamburglar's new value meal. To realize that vision, the conglomerate is downgrading "news" on its platforms. Link to post here. Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri has taken a...
Interesting finds, October 10, 2023 A few things I stumbled upon last week. No theme. Just some cool stuff. Every Noise Ever wonder what genre an artist belongs to? In an effort to categorize music and personalize playlists, Spotify "invented" a bunch of sub genres. Every Noise lets you enter an artist name and...
Patreon's new logo design is good actually From my post in r/logodesign Patreon is the latest brand to get dragged by the internet for its new logo design. At the risk of catching a few strays, I'm here to defend it, just a bit, especially in the context of this sub. Is the logo marking basically just a blob? Yes....
I guess I'll just pay til I die? Why I'm switching from Ulysses to iA Writer I'm switching to iA Writer from Ulysses as my primary writing tool. The process has left me with some big feelings about Software as a Service (SaaS), particularly with writing apps. Admittedly, I'm a bit of a fanatic with writing apps. I...
Love, Loss, and Raspberry Scones Dearest Juanita, I am currently floating through the tireless void of space. How are you? Please don't worry for me, Juanita. The stars will surely guide me home. It's just, old men with estranged hearts and muttered minds tend to grow bitter and world-weary (and melodramatic). And I...
Apple is killing the cloud as we know it Hello. A technology novice may know that iCloud syncs their documents across all their devices— iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Someone a little more tech-savvy may understand that the cloud, as a general concept, is also used to offload computing burdens like speech-to-text and...
Interesting finds, Oct 2, 2023 Things I stumbled upon on the internet last week. I've been into guides and manifestos lately, so here's a few I loved. A credible threat to (and from) commercial social network silos/1 Case against Facebook joining the Fediverse (ActivityPub). I like this essay because it touches on...
Elon received playbook to kill Twitter From Ben Collins for NBC: Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the 3,000-word anonymous article said, would amount to a “declaration of war against the Globalist American Empire.” The sender of the texts was offering Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, a playbook for the takeover and...
Some thoughts on naming your business A common theme I've noticed when freelancers name their business is the name is too long--way, way, way too long. People want a name that describes what business they're in. I get it. I make websites and logos. My business's name is Pixel Riot. People also want an available...
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