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Mixtape, July 2026
Wishy – All The Rage
Y’all, this next Wishy album is gonna whip. What a fun video, too.
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Roxo Delivery Bot Touchscreen App
DEKA is a research and development company that has been working with FedEx to create Roxo, an autonomous delivery robot. Build atop DEKA’s iBot wheelchair base, Roxo will be able to easily navigate urban terrain like sidewalks, curbs, and even stairs.
Roxo has a 6-inch touchscreen for use by both employees who will prepare Roxo to make a delivery and ordinary folks who will be receiving deliveries. Users will either type a PIN code or scan a QR code to securely open Roxo’s doors. DEKA’s strength lies in its talented hardware development teams, so in order to produce a user-friendly proof of concept touchscreen application for FedEx to use in its initial delivery tests, they reached out to my employer.
Over the course of 3 months, I worked with DEKA’s Roxo team to produce an optimal user experience for both user types. This project was really fun and presented challenges that I hadn’t come across before. For example, Roxo will be used in a variety of lighting environments, from dim, indoor fluorescent lights to full-on sunshine, necessitating some branching of the FedEx design system to increase the size and contrast of text and buttons.
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Eye, Hand, AI: a letter to my daughter
Julie Zhuo: “I’m a big believer that our souls need proof of work to sing. There are, in my experience, no shortcuts to excellence. One must love the hard work’s journey, not merely its fruits. So L, one question I keep thinking about is: what happens to the girl who never sews the crooked seam, because AI gives her a finished outfit immediately? What happens if she never learns to overcome the struggle? I fear that girl may never quite grow her Eye. When given two AI-created outfits, one singular, and one quite mediocre, I fear she won’t be able to tell which is which. That is the danger these tools pose, my love. Not that the machine is a bad Hand, but that in being so polished it decreases our capacity to obsess over the details, and in doing so to learn and grow.”
Your brain is an asshole.
Greg Storey: “Make like no one cares because you don't care what they think anymore. Do this enough and confidence shows up. So do the opportunities. More importantly, you'll be making instead of secretly worrying.”
The Courage to Stop
Jeffrey Zeldman: “The web taught us to fill space. AI finished the job. Content covers every surface now, every silence anxious to be noise. Learn to be quiet on purpose.”
A website to destroy all websites.
A fantastic essay by Henry Desroches that deserves a complete reading, but that culminates as so: “Illich’s thesis is that technology and its derived tools should serve people in a way that enhances their freedom, creativity, independence, and will. The distillation of those principles on the web through manual code, hand-built social networks, and blogs, points luminously to one answer to the question of how the Internet can best serve humans: it’s personal websites.” (Also, massive appreesh for the home page banner: “Trans women are women. Trans rights are human rights. Fix your heart or die.” Forever and ever, amen.)
The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer
Joan Westenberg: “We have ‘growth hackers’ but no ‘stability hackers.’ We have ‘disruptors’ but no ‘preservers.’ The entire vocabulary of modern business is oriented toward the new, the unprecedented, the revolutionary. What we lack is language for the equally difficult work of keeping existing things from falling apart.”
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