bradbice.com

Twenty-six days, 115 commits, and 70 closed issues later, this site is faster, more accessible, and depends on almost nothing.

“in more concrete terms, consumers dislike ‘AI’ when it shows up in products, and it makes them actively mistrust the brands that employ it” Great piece (as usual) by Ethan Marcotte: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/against-stocking-frames/

Well shoot, I have a new astrological sign: Pisces.

A hard rebuke against Trump’s attempt to create a national design studio, and their inaccessible and inconsiderate initial offering: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/

Using AI to “vibe code” some improvements to this place after a good number of years of neglect.

Ok, so I recently have used a combination of GitHub Copilot and Anthropic Claude to take on some longstanding items on my website todo lists.

My blog posts are now all intermingling, and will all be displayed in one column now.

I’ve collected concert and tour posters from all of the concerts I’ve ever attended - a remarkably pitiful list!

I added an archive of all of my Twitter posts from 2012-2022 at https://www.bradbice.com/library/twitter/.

Wow, definitely never moving to Florida.

Twitter has ended API access for all 3rd-party apps that exceed 100k users.

Testing cross posting from my blog to other services

Moving to change from Swarm to Day One for all location check-ins.

A question I get often, and often struggle with answering, is: “So what do you do for work?”

I’m happy to announce I have started as Principal Product Designer, Design System at Pluralsight!

Time for some more groups of ratings, folks!

Newly added ratings in TV and Movies for June 2022 As always, all ratings are in the Library.

Newly added ratings for TV and Movies As always, all ratings are in the Library.

It was time for some cleanup around these parts, so here’s a list of what was fixed.

Rating groups of movies, just for fun.

On your birthday, a goodbye letter that’s a year overdue.

I was fairly behind Bernie going into last night, but Elizabeth Warren may have swayed me.

This Presidential impeachment ultimately signifies the complete failure of our system of checks and balances, on both sides of the aisle: partisan impeachment, partisan acquittal.

Switching back to duckduckgo.com for search.

Here are my favorite holiday movies, and how I’ve rated them.

I’ve added a dark mode to bradbice.com, as well as some quick and simple ratings comparisons.

Duke is definitely the most boring G.I.

My take on this year’s “iPhone event”, Apple’s yearly event to showcase their new hardware.

Apple event hot take: The always on Apple Watch looks great.

It’s been 6 years since Apple’s “flattening” of the UI with iOS 7.

The Apple earnings news is hopefully good news for consumers: they’ll fix what needs fixing now and stop pushing the envelope.

Hello from the iOS Shortcuts app!

Today’s Apple Event is dubbed “an ‘S’ year”, so the big reveals weren’t groundbreaking, but there’s some real substance there.

A lot can happen when you’re sick and the wife and child are away.

After thinking it over for the past few weeks, I’ve finally pulled the plug and deactivated my Facebook account.

Windows XP as art Windows XP as art The local Walgreens uses the default Windows XP wallpaper as art pieces near their pharmacy areas.

Okay campers, rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties ‘cause it’s cooooold out there today!

I’m seeing what seems to be an exponential increase in people watching TV shows/Movies/YouTube videos while riding the train or bus lately.

I’m a daily user of Twitter, but it has some problems.

I’ve redesigned and re-launched my website multiple times.

Today was one of the most highly anticipated of the now legendary (and infamous, in some circles) Apple Events in recent years.

At first I went in and changed the setting for the iPhone 7 home button to unlock my phone by testing my finger on the Touch ID sensor.

After eight months of contracting/freelancing, I have accepted a position with Cars.com as a Visual Designer.

After a great year working with Medtelligent and Panopta, I’ve moved away to begin working on projects on my own.

I was a huge fan of the Chicago Divvy Bike system (http://www.divvybikes.com) when it was introduced last summer.

I use Twitter every single day of my life, and have my live stream of tweets open on either my computer when working or at home, or on my phone when I’m commuting or waiting in line somewhere.

From July 2008 until July 2011 I lived alone, in 2 cities and 2 separate single-bedroom apartments.

Having recently gotten married, I’ve gone through a few months of hectic planning and the attempt to organize tasks, assignments (from the wife-to-be) and various to-dos that come along with joining in holy matrimony.

I’ve done a few job interviews over the summer as I’ve transitioned between roles.

I make it no secret that I hate the Miami Heat.