Maggie Appleton

@Mappletons

Staff Research Engineer at @GitHubNext. But actually a designer. Writes about design, dev, & anthropology. Also on Bluesky 🦋 @maggieappleton.com

London, England

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Maggie Appleton
@Mappletons
Sep 20
Can we agree to call Jev a "Decision Model"? I feel like they buried this in the explainations and docs. Language models output language. Decision models output decisions.
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Maggie Appleton
@Mappletons
Sep 18
Remember that brief period of history when we had to pay for Photoshop? The bit in-between everyone having a bootlegged version, but before coding agents enabled someone was able to recreate all the important parts of Photoshop in an open source product? What a dark time.
Robbie Tilton
@robbietilton
Sep 18
I built a Photoshop-like image editor. It’s called Compositor. robbietilton.com/compositor I originally built it for myself to get off my Adobe subscription, but decided to release it for free and make it open source. It has all the essential tools I need for compositing, with none
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Maggie Appleton
@Mappletons
Sep 15
I’m finally doing Design Engineering night at Granola. Come hang out! I love this meetup. Always high quality talks by people with wild ideas
Tikhon Belousko
@_tikhon
Sep 15
Design Engineering Night #10 is happening on 15 October at Granola HQ. Speakers (absolute legends): • @Mappletons, Design Engineer, @GitHubNext • @vladmoroz, Product Designer, @paper • @alex_barashkov, CEO, PixelPoint Come join us. It’s gonna be fun. RSVP in the reply 👇
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Maggie Appleton
@Mappletons
Sep 11
ChatGPT Image 2.5 has unlocked my dormant illustrator/art director energy. All the illustrations I've ever wanted, now within reach, (almost) exactly as I want them, in my style. I am going ham making illustrations for every slide in this talk. It's visual thinker Christmas.
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Maggie Appleton
@Mappletons
Sep 10
ChatGPT casually watching and transcribing my conference talk practice run, identifying when I'm doing meta-commentary in the middle like "cut this slide" "update my script here", time stamping and matching it to my speaker notes, making edits in Keynote with computer use. Mad.
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