Hello, I'm Nick, I am a freelancer. This is my new portfolio: narrowdesign.com please tell your friends
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Making stories out of design, code, and words. Websites and bringing beloved books to life on the web
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Recently learned what Jeff Buckley was looking so longingly at on the cover of Grace and thought you should know too.
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Today is my last day as Brand Design Director at Noom. A good day to share the launch of the Brand Hub we made in collaboration with . Check it out. brand.noom.com
It has been a massive team effort overhauling this brand, I look forward to the next one.
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hope I never have to scale a company but if I do this will be the book I read first
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Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building by @chughesjohnson is a practical guide to building a company’s operating systems and scaling the most important resource a company has: its people.
Available for preorder now: press.stripe.com/scaling-people 
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Looking for *great* technical writers for a couple of freelance projects — who should I chat to?
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I just want to know what Hofstadter thinks. Can somebody who knows him please ask? Asking ChatGPT to explain something I do not know, in terms I do (make analogies) is my favorite way to learn now.
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I am like a child asking “why” over and over and my robot nanny never tires of giving me more detailed answers.
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At a dinner with top designers. Not a single one thinks Auto Layout is the future — and almost all the designers remove Auto Layout from components 4-5x a week twitter.com/zck/status/159
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Programming is chaotic magic. There are no rules. You ask a game dev “Can the player summon a giant demon that bursts from the ground in an explosion of lava?” and they’ll say “sure, that’s easy” and then you’ll ask “can the player wear a scarf?” and they’ll go “oof”
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Hi all, I am looking for a backend developer to work on a few projects in the European time zone, any recommendation? RT much appreciated, thank you 🙏
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Btw, in case it wasn’t obvious, the easter egg is not only scrolling—it also mirrors resizing and text selection. 😏
twitter.com/destroytoday/s
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Announcing SHADER PROTOTYPING, a live 2 hour zoom class on setting up a shader workflow so you can jump into creation & keep up momentum
TUESDAY OCTOBER 25
8am - 10am PST | 11am-1pm EST | 5pm - 7pm CET
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I’m announcing a SHADER PROTOTYPING class today, sign up for @thebookofshaders newsletter if you want to be the first know! We’ll cover my workflow: everything I wish I’d known when I started writing shaders 12 years ago.
Newsletter signup @ bottom: thebookofshaders.com
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You do not really understand the user (me) unless you allow a couple seconds for "remember me" to be clicked **after** the login button.
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I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m starting a company.
I’m building something for teams that have found themselves hankering for more of that “we’re all in this together feeling” lately.
Full scoop on what I’m dreaming up:
constellate.team
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5 year update: Expected to be bored by now but still like it.
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Joined @stripe (remote from NC) in September. Making it Twitter official because I like it.
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what would you use to recreate the bella zhabotinsky reaction with code?
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Access to all information is to knowledge as access to all food is to health
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Are we still doing things that don’t scale or are we post things that don’t scale? I know we are post move fast and break things but also feels like we might be post-post that.
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Radial menu thesaurus
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imagining what a color picker for words could look like
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If you can find a copy for under $16k, get it!
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Replying to @narrowd
This tweet prompted me to get a copy (I liked Pattern Language) and at a mere 1/600 of market value. Sadly, the best parts are un-underlined.
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Reminder: the BK library is still doing this! If you're in a state or town where queer & BIPOC books are getting censored by bigots, you can get them here, even if you're not a New Yorker! twitter.com/AP/status/1546
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Selling my well-loved copy of *The Timeless Way of Building*. $16,000. Easily worth 3x that. The best parts are conveniently underlined, circled, or have a star next to them.
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We're looking for some WebGL devs to help us build awesome campaigns and worlds. Please DM me or email jobs@activetheory.net
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Launching a New Project today ✨
A simple and elegant notebook to write words and discover their meanings.
I wrote about why I built it and how. Go check it out :)
→ wordnote.app/blog/why-i-bui
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More than half of all book sales now happen online. Bookshop.org is helping independent bookshops take part in this new internet economy:
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When I ran into hard technical problems on the gradient wave and globe on stripe.com, Patricio is the expert I turned to for help.
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Some Personal News: I have (unprecedented!) open availability beginning in Oct/Nov. I'm interested in AR / VR / ML, virtual production, geospatial data, and other possibilities I haven't imagined, FT or contract. DMs are open! RTs appreciated!
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Excited to get this short film I produced out in the world. Directed by my longtime collaborator Emile Bokaer, this story shows what high agency individuals can build, even with limited resources. Thanks to for his early help on this. twitter.com/WorksInProgMag
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🌻NEW WORK🪲
Branding & Site Design for an online archive of flora & fauna from around the world. Over the past few months I’ve been working closely with collaborator and friend on an update to digitization.wiki and today v1.0 is live.
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Today we're spotlighting some badasses in software engineering!!👩💻👩💻
And if you are looking to get started in Software Engineering, you should follow these amazing women 😍😍
Tag a friend who should see this and don't forget to follow us✨✨
#thestackjournal #womenintech
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Are you a graphic designer or artist who wants to expand their toolset with code? Would you like to use computation and algorithms to create stunning visuals and bring your designs to life?
We would love you to join team!
variable.io/jobs/
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Ursula M. Franklin's The Real World of Technology lectures, listen: cbc.ca/radio/ideas/th or read: bookshop.org/books?keywords
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I remember how it felt when Pokémon go came out. I rushed to show my kids and wife. for a few days we thought apps like that would proliferate. novelty faded fast. similar with midjourney. so cool for a couple days. became like cruise ship food. 24hr free desert w/o satisfaction.
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New @stripe webpage just dropped!
A collab with @Kim_____B, @micaelaballew, @LinsdorB, @PaigePaquette, @CeciStalls et al.
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Today is my first day as a design engineer 🎉.
I'll be working with the amazing people building Stripe's web presence. I've always been a big fan of Stripe's marketing websites and I'm pumped to be part of the team.
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