Koos 🆗 @koos@octodon.social
I like making things. I live in Berlin. I work as a designer. I'm married. We have a little son and a little daughter.
✏️🖌🖍🚴🇪🇺🇳🇱🇩🇪🇮🇳🇺🇸🇿🇦 🎧📷🌊🏊🥁🛠👨💻
Just before 2017 ended, I wrote about my biggest mistakes in side projects. I hope it will help you succeed in whatever great thing you want to do in 2018!
Why Side Projects Fail - https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/why-side-projects-fail/
“Three long-term birth cohort studies in the U.S. suggest that pesticides are harming children’s brains. In these studies, researchers found that women’s exposure to pesticides during pregnancy, measured through urine samples, was associated with negative impacts on their children’s IQ and neurobehavioral development, as well as with ADHD…” https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/health-benefits-organic-food-farming-report/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hu-twitter-general
If you are a designer, want to live in Munich and are looking for a job: this is one of the awesomest vacant positions I know:
https://jobs.lever.co/matmatch/88ca649e-da8d-4604-bfb6-1a7eb3af9570
I can get you in touch with the right people.
This website is the best: http://mdmetric.com/
You can change the obnoxious yellow background with the buttons at the bottom.
And then the center column stays obnoxiously yellow. But the margins change!
@skquinn and hentai has pixelated genitals!
There must be a word for this phenomenon.
@skquinn maybe the same reason teens self censor and write f*ck and s**t.
@raucao to be honest, after months of being here, I have found very few people that post interesting design stuff. That's what I was on Twitter for and this is not going to replace that any time soon it seems.
I should livetoot me reading this comic, it's the best.
https://octodon.social/media/PgOZijTTWyFVzRfhY-w
I almost forgot how brilliant Clowes' David Boring is.
https://octodon.social/media/U8JUKF5zGVd1mNj-bnQ
@gargron a couple of months ago they did audio ads, but now that you mention it: haven't heard any in the last month or so.
@gargron what I'm saying is they have a way to monetize what they're good at: streaming free, less well known music. They were too busy promoting the go subscription. But maybe a few bucks a month per user still wouldn't cover their costs.
@gargron I think SoundCloud had an attractive no-ads-free-content-only subscription. They made it too expensive though : 5 bucks/month. And failed to promote it: I found out about it in an article about them letting go their staff, while using SoundCloud several times a week.
Interesting episode of the High Resolution podcast, if you are interested in the head of Pinterest's view on design:
High Resolution: #22: Pinterest Head of Design, August De Los Reyes, on ending disability through better design
https://overcast.fm/+InpS4AkVY
"Years ago there was this almost unreal expectation of a person who is [...] the head of design is at the same time someone who is a strong creative visionary who is also an excellent people manager who is also good at operations"
"Design is answering questions through actions rather than through words"
-August de los Reyes, head of Design & Research at Pinterest
@Doppio I guess Amazon is fine with you going on a bizarre adventure
Which is your favorite of the songs you discovered this year?
Mine maybe this one by Brother Ali: https://soundcloud.com/rhymesayers/brother-ali-own-light
@Siphonay ever since I traded in the desktop for the laptop, I had no expectations of running 3D games on high res anymore. It turned out it wasn't all that bad.
@Siphonay
-I don't even have time for that shit
