Goran Markovic

Goran Markovic

@ofc.studio

Designer • A11y consultant • Snowboarder Musings in English and Bosnian. Building a design studio. ofc.studio

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With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.

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one time I caught myself about to blag* an answer to a team about iirc a thorny database migration and so instead I said "you know what, I don't know. **Let's find out**." nobody died * like, try to think it through and answer their question because I thought they wanted an answer

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"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich." Read more: buff.ly/Yu2AUFy

I watched The Fellowship of the Ring a few dozen times at least, but still loved seeing it on a big screen tonight, like it was the first time.

Transferring a bunch of Figma projects to a new workspace must be equal to pushing a new app version on Friday. What a concept!

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The year is 2026. The entire economy is scams. But some scammers are scamming for justice.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

Microslop is a gift that keeps on giving.

The Empty Mary Gillis@marygillis.bsky.social

The party line has gone from "women have to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or genAI will be left behind."

Why are all these AI-powered, weapon manufacturing, and military-connected companies using LotR terminology for their names? Palantir, Anduril...

I am working on an app, and one module shows the list of employees, so I decided to use Figma's built-in image generator to generate their profile images/avatars. "Young Slavic man" is a blocked input for some reason. Wow.

And I get annoyed with my 5x cheaper Renault Captur going wild ocassionally and giving me notifications in Croatian Latin and Serbian Cyrillic, whole it’s set on US English. This made me laugh.

David Allsopp@doublehelix.bsky.social

'Sometimes Bug Severity Isn't the Most Important Thing' E.g. tarnishing the brand: 'Lamborghini sells a quarter-million dollar SUV with numerous software defects, including spelling the company name as "Lanborghini"' (from 2019) betterembsw.blogspot.com/2019/01/some...

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'im gonna spend billions on the next big thing', says guy who was wrong about last four big things

Aftermath@aftermath.site

Mark Zuckerberg is never right: aftermath.site/mark-zuckerber...

There's a small tourist agency in my hometown, for which I built the web with a dev friend, like 6 years ago. We charged them for coffee only because we wanted to help them. They're very nice ladies, in their 50s, not very tech-savvy. We're still getting the calls to fix the stuff they break. 🤭

We do that maintenance free of charge, of course. They are always so thankful and cute. "What have we done this time?" - Oh, you deleted the category in WordPress and replaced it with a new one, so it messed up your offers. "Ahh, and how did we do that?" - No idea. 🤣

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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

We are way beyond the point at which everyone should have abandoned Meta's products, but here we are. Literally every day, another ew (yes, ew, not new) fact comes to light.

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com

Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex. “You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended" time.com/7336204/meta...

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We are told: the product now has Gemini. We added Rufus. You can talk to Bixby. We've integrated Alice. Chat with Poob. Log on to Poob right now. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you. ⸻ We are never told "so what." Even the teams working on these products don't know anymore.

productpicnic.beehiiv.comWhen teams don't understand their own productA usable product starts with the conceptual model, but designers have "optimized" that work out of the profession. It's time to bring it back.