Bryan Rieger

@jabberworks I grew up in Canada in the 70s, but was raised by my Scottish grandparents, from whom I also picked up my Scots. Despite living in the UK for many years, I’m very self-conscious speaking it today as I’ve been told I sound like somebody’s wee Scottish grandmother.

It’s not even modern American, my vocabulary’s stuck way back in the ’90s. When I go back to Seattle, people have to explain their strange new modern speech to me.

I’ve lived in Britain since the last millennium and I *still* catch myself using my odd foreign phrases. Yesterday it was ‘car pool’, asking an elderly Scottish lady if she wanted ‘to car pool’ with me. (On seeing her utter confusion, an English person rushed in to translate.)

Hot Take: Working with various Agent configuration instructions is worse than working with AppleScript™. Also, using AI to perform simple, repetitive tasks where a shell script would have sufficed is completely insane. It's like buying a private jet to drop off your laundry.

@rhipratchett Badenoch reading Pratchett is a bit like Alex DeLarge reading the Bible and finding solace in all of the horrible bits.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

@iwsayers Those days are great, especially when they're more common than not.

Massive day ahead and I’m buzzing for it. It’s one of those “this is why I love what I do” kind of days. And before anyone asks… no, it’s not my birthday (yet). 🎉

@Ian_Barnard That would be Polymath by @OHnoTypeCo ohnotype.co/fonts/polymath

Looking for sans-serif font recommendations with cool alternative characters. 👀 Hit me with your faves!

@Ian_Barnard Yup. Designer still may be missing a few things, and it's UX could use some love, but I keep coming back to it because it's such a joy to use for vector drawing. Opene Illustrator today (to use AstuteGraphics tools) and it jsut feels like a chore compared to Designer.

Slowly mastering Affinity Designer and it's transforming my workflow, especially for detailed shapes & vector lettering. Trying to get that Procreate organic feel with vector power. Has anyone else started to use the Affinity products as their main design tools?

@linziehunter Make a wish, blow out the candles, done! Faffing around with silly knife protocols involving the current ratio of cake cut, to cake uncut is all too much, when all you really want is a pony and a big slice of cake. At least that's the way my Scottish nan would see it. ;)

I've always made a wish before blowing out the candles. We're all in London, but I'm Scottish. Have I been doing wrong all these years? IS this the reason my dreams haven't come true? 😮😮😮 🎂🎂🎂 (2/2)

I'm starting to doubt everything I've ever known. I had some early birthday cake with two friends yesterday. Both friends insisted that the correct protocol is to blow out the candles, start to cut the cake and make a wish before the knife hits the bottom plate?? But... (1/2)

@the_kochalka E.T on the 2600… wow, I remember being so confused and frustrated with that game as a kid.

My lists of every book and comic I read in 2024, and every video game I played in 2024. (Actually there's probably a bunch of games I didn't list because maybe I only played them a few minutes each, like old arcade games for instance.)

@kaleidoscopeapp If GST is calculated on the next step, why even both estimate it in this one? While your payment provider might be trying to be helpful, they actually make it more confusing.

@bryanrieger The screenshot shows the yearly plan at $96 before sales taxes ($8/month before sales taxes) without discount applied. I assume our payment provider added tax estimate based on IP address ("GST - Calculated at next step"). Can you clarify what you believe is suspect?

@mindnode I honestly can't understand the difference between classic and next other than one works on a niche device that I have absolutely no interest in, and has collaboration features I'll likely never use. Might be time for me to look for other options.

@jamiesmart I think Shudder has it as I just watched it a couple of months back. shudder.com/movies/watch/g…

It may seem like a small gesture, but we need to start somewhere. Every voice matters.

I was listening to a podcast today about the health and societal impacts of ultra-processed food, and how it's barely considered food at all. Somehow my mind made a leap from that to Generative AI, and what is essentially ultra-processed, low-value content.🤔

@emmaclarkeillu1 Always being misunderstood and horribly stereotyped?

Why do monsters get mad?

@affinitybyserif Wow, I can't believe it's been 10 years already. Congratulations, and here's to many, many more!

Happy birthday to us! #AffinityDesigner, the first in our trio of creative apps, was released 2nd October 2014, making #Affinity 10 years old today! 🥳 Thank you to everyone who has supported us over the last 10 years. There’s so much more to come!

Rarely have I seen AI described so succinctly.

I'm reading the very funny (and charming) "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by @patrick_ness. Every time I run across dialogue for the characteristically SHOUTY hawk Miel (“IT MEANS HONEY.”) I can't help but read it as though Matt Berry (@porksmith) was performing it.

”A Brief Study of Birds with Anxiety“… recently I've begun dusting off a picture book manuscript about an adopted penguin and his anxiety about attending 'Flight School'. Not sure if this is the direction I'll go with some of the characters, but you gotta start somewhere.

“Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase.” I wonder if those customers who don’t want any of those AI features feel they are worth a 300 percent price increase? theverge.com/2024/9/3/24234…