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- Krassy4
Signs your getting old?
tinnitus
- I grew mine in my 20shardhat
- same. alcohol makes it worse.dasohr
- ++maquito
- man 10 yrs already :( it goes away sometimes for a while and then it comes back. very annoying.renderedred
- pollen allergy makes it worsejagara
- maquito4
Signs your getting old?
Otitis
- ********7
Signs your getting old?
Designers who are pushin’ 50, or over 50....
A questine for you: In all those years, all those projects, those briefs...did you ever make it pop
- Hundreds of times. Next question?OBBTKN
- Never. But made the logo bigger a few times...grafician
- I make it pop in the bathroomcannonball1978
- I think I made it plop once, but it could have been a plop.de4k
- In my eagerness to say 'plop' I fucked the joke. Signs you're getting old.de4k
- Best I could do was make it clap.BonSeff
- Personally can’t recall it ever popping********
- Me neither, however my psychic abilities are now fully formed and can access the ‘wow’ factor instantly.Morning_star
- Just once, I want to send a video back with popping balloon sfx all over it. You mean like this, twat?MrT
- I managed to ‘jazz it up’ once.mort_
- cruddlebub3
Video Games...
7 years ago this was announced.... Still in "production" apparently
Still love a bit of lorn too.
- Totally forgot about thisduckseason
- yeah i love these kind of neo pixel games. looking forward to this one.NBQ00
- monospaced1
religion
The Pope is now on a ventilator after being hospitalized for over a week with bronchitis, an infection and now respiratory complications.
- thoughts and prayers!YakuZoku
- he seemed like a nice/good one though, hope he pulls throughYakuZoku
- Not many ~90 year olds pull through after a week in the hospital for a double lung infection and then needing a ventilator.monospaced
- it's hammer timeGnash
- the big man can't wait to welcome him into his kingdom https://udayton.edu/…_niko
- Thoughts & Whocares********
- Pope on a ventilator is a good name for a bandrzu-rzu
- Ventilated Poperzu-rzu
- I don’t know the man personally. He a good guy? Hope he gets well. Has a good’s man face.maquito
- Bill Cosby has a good man's face too :)rzu-rzu
- microkorg7
blog
Got told my position is being made redundant earlier this week.
How's the job market looking out there?
Last 5 years as UX Team lead in Ad Tech.
Previously ~20 years Web/Digital/Brand at CD/SD levels.- From what I hear not good at our age.
Let us now if someting works out for you.
Godspeed!palimpsest - It’s rough out there. Been at it hard for a few weeks now and I can say it’s not like it used to be. So much more competition.monospaced
- And salaries are back down to where they were a decade ago.monospaced
- best of luck man!renderedred
- Yeah good luck and try to forget your age, just dive in.mort_
- your work history sounds almost identical to mine. I'm in the same position too ;)
applying to stuff over LinkedIn etc etc hasn't worked very well lol...exador1 - I've managed to score a position with a big Utility company in my area...a buddy of mine was brought on board as a PM for a ton of their IT/web projects, andexador1
- i asked him if he needed a designer...turns out he actually did lol...
so... my advice for you is to work your network as hard as possible..exador1 - someone, somewhere has a gig or a role for you...but you gotta ask...
the whole applying thing with your resume shit ...ugh...did that for a few monthsexador1 - got hardly any results from it... just endlessly reworking my resume thinking it's somehow my fault it's not getting traction...exador1
- Will be trying to work any networks. Already dived into linkedin to see whats going. Will be revising my CV and updating my folio over the next week. FUN!microkorg
- I’m transitioning from applying to jobs to almost pure networking and creative experimenting now. Fucking rough.monospaced
- The market is savage everywhere. North America. UK. Mainland Europe. Headhunter I'm connected recently told me so many senior people are looking for new jobs,Continuity
- ... some of them for 1.5 years or more. Hunker down, folks, it's going to be rough.Continuity
- design skills are not valued outside of studios. i've been out of studio work for 10 years now and haven't uttered 'UX', 'Digital' even though that's what i do.kingsteven
- i do my job + (as far as the people i work with are concerned) i do some magic which makes it look nice and work well...kingsteven
- people will value what you can do, and all your skills are transferrable but downplay specific design skills/ industry roles and demonstratekingsteven
- At our age, the advantage you have is knowing people (hopefully). Network, ask around, don’t forget to help others whenever you can********
- @microkorg - What changed leading to your redundency? IE. is it customers switched to a different ad-tech, or is it a broader change like chat replacing searchmonNom
- Its a merger where products/departments overlapped. Been payoffs across lots of different departments - product, finance, marketing, devs.microkorg
- From what I hear not good at our age.
- Gnash6
- I have seen this and it is wonderful.Morning_star
- Looking forward to it :)Gnash
- Yeah Looks great_niko
- robotinc5
blog
I feel you microkorg, my whole team was laid off two weeks ago. Fun times.
- I feel for you. What kind of work was your team doing, and how's the company going to do that work going forward? (if at all.)monNom
- So sorry man. It’s sick seeing the market suddenly flooded with talentmonospaced
- you too? man. sorry.renderedred
- Yeah, months now. I took a break for the holidays, and to get a computer and work on a portfolio. It’s been a process. Fuck.monospaced
- Now I realize you were responding to robot, not me. Good luck let me know how I can help.monospaced
- Going to be fun clobbing together a folio!
Not liking look of some comments saying a year plus looking and lots of seniors looking for work. eek!microkorg
- ideaist2
- Reminds me a bit of his modern classic "PIG"; I'm here for any off Cage film.ideaist
- Yup Nic Cage in another Nic Cage film, love it._niko
- is this an actual thing though? local surfers losing their shit over their territory like in Point break or is this a Hollywood thing?_niko
- It's real in California, especially Santa CruzYakuZoku
- Snippet about the beach I grew up on...
The Silver Strand Locals (SSL) have protected their mile of high-quality beachbreaks at Oxnard for three decronburgundy - decades via talented surfing, outright hostility and physical abuse.ronburgundy
- The intimidation can start even before you hit the water, with slashed tires.ronburgundy
- mort_3
Site of the day
Interesting idea to link playlists to the tracks on the artists Bandcamp pages to encourage purchases. Not sure how new it is.
- They don't take a cut.
https://www.buymusic…mort_ - interestingGardener
- On it!
https://www.buymusic…Gardener - Nice. I must do this for my mixes. Or find some AI that can.mort_
- So cool!
https://www.buymusic…Gabriel
- They don't take a cut.
- mg333
Artificial Intelligence
Claude is destroying ChatGPT for me in terms of coding. I started building generative art tools last year and hit limits with GPT in terms of accuracy, quality, and ability to follow instructions.
I was amazed that I could take one of the tools I built that I'd maxed out in GPT (800 lines of JS), drop it into Claude, ask it to tell me what it thought the code did (100% accurate and insightful), and then immediately add new features flawlessly.
Since someone in a Slack group suggested Claude,I haven't been able to stop working on the things I'm building. I can code but not much JS and I'm just astounded at its ability to create code that does what I need it to. After I wrap up these projects I'm moving on to learning more X code to build an app I've had on my mind for a while. I was starting that in GPT but Claude is going to be so much better.
- Word is the old one 3.5 is still good, the new 3.7 it's "too much"grafician
- still not capable of building secure, reliable applications IMO. i still have to get my hands dirty.kingsteven
- I'm expecting that for sure, I just love what quick work it makes of things that would otherwise be an extensive tutorial, or random code snippets.mg33
- totally, as a coder sometimes it seems like i spend more time itemising development to frame it in a way the LLM can give reliable results than it would take tokingsteven
- do it myself, but it's usually worthwhile as i end up with a full featured app in a week rather than a working prototypekingsteven
- I've moved all my tools to my local server, but I'll have to share them at some point. It's basically things that you could do in PS or Illustrator, butmg33
- generatively and quickly. One is a generative collage tool with various parameters, randomized image assets from my assets folders, shapesmg33
- lines, layer effects, etc. The other is a grid based pattern tool with SVG shapes, and ability to adjust padding + and - for overlay effects with blend modes.mg33
- Both create art like this: https://www.instagra…mg33
- It's fun, because it's taking me back to the art I liked making in PS in the early 2000s, but generatively, and with code. It made being out of work last yearmg33
- tolerable because it kept my more engaged than even some work-based project work could.mg33
- sorry, but I can create all that art in any vector app even Figma in like 5 mins man
Whay do you need to code apps to output that?grafician - Instead I would code some apps and put them in the Appstore and get cash for the effort
"Vibe coding" is shitgrafician - Where can I go to learn********
- ask chatgpt :))grafician
- graf - The randomization of it is what's enjoyable. I could make that in Figla, Illustrator, or PS quickly too, but I enjoy building these things and it helpsmg33
- me generate a wide range of ideas quickly that I can then import SVGS from and further customize, incorporate images, etc.mg33
- Salarrue1
- Wok N" Wegsutopian
- Egon SpenglerYakuZoku
- Alfred Begins a prequel from Nolan's Batman trilogySalarrue
- Nerdy Arnoldgrafician
- Stephen Kingmonospaced
- Mr Math Olympia_niko
- Pumping Iron deficiency_niko
- https://static.wikia…futurefood
- What's he smuggling under that #13?Akagiyama
- Phil Wang's dadgarbage
- Luigi Mangionepseud
- OBBTKN13
- +Continuity
- ++renderedred
- +++YakuZoku
- ++++dbloc
- +++++_niko
- ++++++PhanLo
- +++++++utopian
- wake me up when change is effected as a result of Luigi murdering a figurehead who they replaced immediately?monospaced
- Is this real?********
- Are you all plussing Trump********
- I agree mono, I think we should kill the replacements tooYakuZoku
- Kill until they replace them with us. Wait no...Beeswax
- LolYakuZoku
- I'm totally serious. Separate what this represents, and he achieved nothing. It's infuriating, but there's also no real excuse for this type of murder.monospaced
- TIL when it comes to revolutions, mono can't be counted on to do his bit. 18th century French nobility would've just adored you.Continuity
