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[@usgraphics](/creator/twitter/usgraphics)
"Close up the labeling is wrong it should say "Kimdura PolyPro". It's just a standard "Chemical Resistant" polypropelene substate expensive and not as durable as PVF/PVC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1979360338320724233) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-18T01:34Z 44.2K followers, 3243 engagements


"Silicon Graphics name resides at the apex all by itself. Nothing above it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1978528354073502033) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-15T18:28Z 44.2K followers, 9957 engagements


"There is a secret cabal operating to upend the centuries long rule of rectangularity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1978563643789967524) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-15T20:48Z 44.2K followers, 29K engagements


"Please stop copying Apple. Announcement:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1958216125734703407) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-08-20T17:14Z 44.1K followers, 3238 engagements


"Brockway Mountain Universal Production Music Acoustic Guitar Vol. X Please enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1973917114458415589) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-03T01:04Z 44.1K followers, 9383 engagements


"@aarondfrancis Fascinating read nothing is easy to scale and it makes me appreciate anything that's made in high volume. Hersheys chocolate Rolex watches rubbermaid trashcans to Intel semiconductors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1975677343977922665) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-07T21:39Z 44.1K followers, XXX engagements


"@__hand_banana That is cursed. I think Fanuc robots have some bs like that with their software"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1978664627505414172) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-16T03:29Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements


"Composition is a highly abstract thingno bluebook exists and it is incredible that intellect shines through such a fuzzy activity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1978858157741842905) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-16T16:18Z 44.1K followers, 38.4K engagements


"@bencun93 The point I am making is a few layers detached from the details of the technology :). What needs to be fixed is good understanding of human psyche and what makes us tick designing things to resonate with it. Lot of the UX/UI tenets are filmsy and made up:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1979587666963476773) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-18T16:37Z 44.1K followers, XXX engagements


"To answer your question directly: I am unsure if pixel density is the only problem but the layout expectations for "responsive UI" is problematic along with a lot of stuff. Too much to unpack and it is really overwhelming to write anything right now about this because anything I write will be considered as an answer which is like X% of what I wanted to write. I've written at least like XXX posts about it so hard to condense it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1979591309116727370) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-18T16:52Z 44.1K followers, XX engagements


"Chinese company names go hard. It's usually family name or place followed by specialty and company designation. Meanwhile suburban America is busy naming its hot sauce company: "Total Global Solutions LLC". It wasn't always like this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1976538285641261080) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-10T06:40Z 44.2K followers, 8782 engagements


"I literally opened a random page of 1935 SF directory and took this screenshot of Spring Manufacturers (yes there were spring makers on XXX Golden Gate Ave in 1935). Open any directory and you'll see similar names and how many components were made here:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1976539236531917231) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-10T06:44Z 44.2K followers, 4786 engagements


"There is a wide range of design goals from sistine chapel avionics UI to useless Dasai mochi on the dashboard. The tasteless thing to do is to see something obviously decorative and demand it to be functional"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1977177288967111145) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-12T00:59Z 44.2K followers, 13.4K engagements


"This tagline is so powerful. They ended it when Steve was still the CEO of Apple in 2002. I hope it wasn't some legal bs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1977806546542420024) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-13T18:40Z 44.2K followers, 36.8K engagements


"Is that Eurostile Extended Bold We're so fricking back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1977856072728637644) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-13T21:56Z 44.2K followers, 25.6K engagements


"Microsoft go back to New Zelek you absolute cowards. Only acceptable counter to Elon's shenanighans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1977858763945341094) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-13T22:07Z 44.2K followers, 3534 engagements


"Interesting to do the same exercise today. What are the things that we're doing that seemingly look like a great idea but in 2040 we will realize it was a terrible mistake Fighting hordes and hordes of normie opinions is hard but righteous and necessary. Often it is the stuff that has little or no criticism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1979962049037045827) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-19T17:25Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements


"@Smeldorr And you have no idea where it is in the folder hierarchy lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1980033063901081903) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-19T22:07Z 44.2K followers, XX engagements


"@ryolu_ Based almost all counter arguments are of typical garden variety which you have to constantly fend off: - Not for all users - Parking meters shouldn't require X hour learning curve - It depends toaster should be easy to use That's obviously not the scope of your post"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1980083599841063355) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-20T01:28Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements


"@elithrar @mxschumacher woah thanks Matt. Cloudflare is awesome and kind of indispensible:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1980310594810155084) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-20T16:30Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements


"This is the new Range Rover logo after XX years apparently. I am going to vomit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1946238955562946643) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-07-18T16:01Z 44.2K followers, 42.6K engagements


"Zero phone wait time customer service list: McMasterCarr ULINE Lista (newly added) We mean not even a "Thank you for calling company" intro. It means within X seconds of you dialing the # someone picks up call with "How can I help you". We need to grow this list"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1964728453128999010) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-09-07T16:32Z 44.2K followers, 19.9K engagements


"It is XXX% decoration but so was Bang & Olufsen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1977080216402178154) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-11T18:33Z 44.2K followers, 11.5K engagements


"I think if we try to RETVRN to Art Deco it's gonna be shitty ABS-recycled-plastic version of it. Angles won't be correct layouts inauthentic forms mangled with rounded corners it will be a cheap knock-off version of it. Furniture will have vaneer over mdf and polyurethane finish. Mfs will shove gradients in there and a splash of purple RGB backlight to make it glow at night. It will have no discipline to speak of. No sculptural prowess. You can't keep glueing termite infested house together. You gotta eliminate the termites. Current attitude of people culture psyche and the zeitgeist will"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1977442496277020867) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-12T18:33Z 44.2K followers, 14.5K engagements


"@luciascarlet @FamilyTaes iPhone Pro feels better than iPhone Air IMO. Larger edge surface area less pressure for a given holding force. I tried both back to back and Air was considerably more uncomfortable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1979037691678241152) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-17T04:12Z 44.2K followers, XX engagements


"I have a pretty low tolerance for such things in design. Even if it has a slight questionable benefit breaking the conceptual model having to worry about when it will break building flimsy foundations where rules of the UI change constantly all of this adds stress and ambiguity that's never worth the small first order benefit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1980035296050958450) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-19T22:16Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements


"I heard Zed is good but isn't it for collaboration and you have to be part of their ecosystem with login/credentials Not opposed to that but it is a different thing in type not degree than Sublime Text. I'd rather use what I have used for 10+ years knowing it will be the same for another 10+ years. In fact I feel so strongly about it I am happy to promote proprietary software that's amazing and I have receipts to back that up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1980046038510760113) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-19T22:58Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements


"@ryolu_ This is actually the reason for UI sludge we have today: Not understanding the difference between ATM kiosk interface and a code editor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1980084473728503874) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-20T01:31Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements


"@mxschumacher Yea I should and then I am totally off of AWS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1980305107901469091) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-20T16:08Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements


"Style of the year. Keyence GC-1000 Series Safety Controller"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1950608368777015619) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-07-30T17:24Z 44.2K followers, 114.7K engagements


"AUTOSHAPE and FORM MASTER from Cincinnati Milling Machine Company Anon upgrade your iMake EcoPro Plus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1960470208579354922) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-08-26T22:31Z 44.2K followers, 9098 engagements


"The telephone icon isn't outdated it is the opposite. It's ingrained in culture now just like the floppy disk icon to save a file. Icons can have semantic meaning like the biohazard sign even though it doesn't resemble anything "real""  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1976716595117629494) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-10T18:28Z 44.2K followers, 960.1K engagements


"Nothing Phone (3) looks cool af"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1977066387622576242) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-11T17:38Z 44.2K followers, 554.8K engagements


"Apparently this was released a few months ago. Just catching up to the noise on YT jeez. even MKBHD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1977066764946272328) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-11T17:40Z 44.2K followers, 9759 engagements


"I get that the Phone (3) is priced at flagship prices but doesn't offer the latest processor or whatever camera specs. This is entirely missing the point of Nothing as a company. Stupid reviews. The same people will buy $8000 Louis Vuitton bags"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1977069287471992851) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-11T17:50Z 44.2K followers, 9633 engagements


"Dieter Rams going off on these chairs is amusing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1977094613321269684) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-11T19:31Z 44.2K followers, 97.4K engagements


"Acceptable formats: Made in U.S.A. Made in Connecticut U.S.A. Manufactured in Detroit MI U.S.A. Made in Pensacola FL. United States. Mental disorders: Made in Colorado Texas Made Designed in California Made in Seattle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1978128621962186930) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-14T15:59Z 44.2K followers, 25.7K engagements


"Slop. I hope this never catches on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1978280207610945544) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-15T02:02Z 44.2K followers, 397.9K engagements


"Hewlett-Packard looks cluttered I would describe it as sophisticated and well-mannered and it runs so deep that it was reflected in every aspect of their business from the car parking signage to the annual report cover art and from the grammatical style of their user manuals to the specific type of material texture they used on the LCD bezels. The whole company exuded high class before they renamed it to HP. Their Corvallis campus was unparalleled in intellectual output"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1978508046113636390) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-15T17:07Z 44.2K followers, 12.5K engagements


"Im unsure if I agree or disagree. My theory is that these things are overdetermined (sorry lmao). Hard to tell. Bang & Olufsen and Mercedes-Benz can perhaps be considered consumer tech brands Leuchtturm1917 is a wild attempt at branding. Not a tech brand but definitely a consumer brand. I love seeing exceptions like this and maybe its more complicated than the modus operandi of typical brand experts and branding firms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1978515327836422458) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-15T17:36Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements


"@vanlancker Yeah. You also have to consider the reverse: if Hewlett-Packard made amazing products/services instead of slop would Hewlett-Packard be successful I am tempted to say yes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1978518902997971134) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-15T17:50Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements


"Ascii emojis were cool. Not sure about emojis in emails and email subject lines (eBay wtf) terminal apps any long form article user interfaces etc. only place they're tolerable is may be tweets/chat or extremely casual contexts. Visual pollution fight me πŸ˜ƒπŸ₯·πŸ€œπŸ«ΈπŸ¦ΏπŸ’’🏳"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1979264896417304578) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-17T19:14Z 44.2K followers, 9369 engagements


"Something tells me we would never come up with this UI today. Just totally black pilled"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1979272312676585941) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-17T19:44Z 44.2K followers, 35.8K engagements


"Pocari Sweat's manufacturer Otsuka Pharmaceuticals has an outstanding logo holyshit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1979339906582483230) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-18T00:13Z 44.2K followers, 27.8K engagements


"The PVF TT label has survived (red & yellow) but the Kimdura PolyPro with resin ink (bottom left in white) is starting to wear out. Non-objective XX day test on my personal laptop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1979359709632295002) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-18T01:31Z 44.2K followers, 7639 engagements


"Watching 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Apollo XX (1969/2019) back-to-back completely leaves you speechless. It one-shots you with this juxtaposed imagery on the back of your eyelids of the figment of man's imagination and of the materiality of man's ambition; distilled as visual ectasy that's not possible to describe. Words fail me. Do watch it in 4K"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1979457639991120018) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-18T08:00Z 44.2K followers, 12.2K engagements


"Canon Ink labels are cool and distinctly not western. Of course condensed typeface probably something boring from Morisawa catalog. Perfect amount of corner radius"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1979572435520557386) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-18T15:37Z 44.2K followers, 5961 engagements


"Imagine creating a UI so mesmerizing that mfs want to just sit there and watch for therapy. We are naturally inquisitive species just in the exact manner as a cat staring at a bug for solid X minutes. The modern UI/UX "wisdom" have convinced you to not show complexity of the machine the inner workings and the mechanisms of the devices we use but the truth is that humans love this stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1979577670129332414) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-18T15:57Z 44.2K followers, 29K engagements


"This is the kind of implicit tchotchke in modern design that ticks me off. Just because there is only one child folder doesn't mean you break the conceptual model of the entire tree. "Yeah but.": NO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1980025725131587939) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-19T21:38Z 44.2K followers, 23.8K engagements


"wtf is this I was trying out VSCode. Navigating the explicit tree of folders is fundamental and non-negotiable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1980026780691169300) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-19T21:42Z 44.2K followers, 4434 engagements


"With all these outages it feels good to self-host our own servers. usgraphics .com runs on this. 1U Dell R360 X Core E-2488 128GB RAM 4U DIY XX Core EPYC 9554 192GB RAM Colo cost: $88/month /30 IP XX Gbps 32TB bw/m. Datacenter is DigitalRealty PHX10 top tier with ridiculous security. Tbh we're still heavily dependent on Cloudflare and AWS S3 (us-west-1). Would be cool to go full indie with no external dependencies except power DNS and ISP. But Cloudflare is so nice. AWS S3 obviously is GOAT but I think I can figure out how to self-host S3-compatible object storage. These servers have a ton of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1980187084016255346) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-20T08:19Z 44.2K followers, 48.2K engagements


"@____dzc____ I have a great deal 5U 2A 10Gpbs I know the guys pretty well now and they've given me full access to the servers with a proper badge. And it is local here about XX mins drive from my house. Datacenter is amazing:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1980188229640024494) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-20T08:23Z 44.2K followers, 1892 engagements


"This is an increasingly rare genre of ads that I have a soft spot for. Just wonderful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1980500131696058700) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-21T05:03Z 44.2K followers, 37.6K engagements


"Another on that's burned into the memory is Sony Bravia ad featuring a wonderful composition by Jose Gonzales. This is good stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1980503736935149578) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-21T05:17Z 44.2K followers, 5331 engagements


"Orlando Airport is absolutely top. Walking through it felt like its the 80s and everything is frozen in place. Colors abound The art deco train stop to the signage still from XX years ago. Baggage claim straight outta 1986. Fearing the next modern renovation 😞"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1980733905973203088) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-21T20:32Z 44.2K followers, 7737 engagements


"@somewheresy Im not sure which terminal I landed Ill take a better look on my departure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/usgraphics/status/1980739322690089070) [@usgraphics](/creator/x/usgraphics) 2025-10-21T20:53Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements

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@usgraphics "Close up the labeling is wrong it should say "Kimdura PolyPro". It's just a standard "Chemical Resistant" polypropelene substate expensive and not as durable as PVF/PVC"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-18T01:34Z 44.2K followers, 3243 engagements

"Silicon Graphics name resides at the apex all by itself. Nothing above it"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-15T18:28Z 44.2K followers, 9957 engagements

"There is a secret cabal operating to upend the centuries long rule of rectangularity"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-15T20:48Z 44.2K followers, 29K engagements

"Please stop copying Apple. Announcement:"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-08-20T17:14Z 44.1K followers, 3238 engagements

"Brockway Mountain Universal Production Music Acoustic Guitar Vol. X Please enjoy"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-03T01:04Z 44.1K followers, 9383 engagements

"@aarondfrancis Fascinating read nothing is easy to scale and it makes me appreciate anything that's made in high volume. Hersheys chocolate Rolex watches rubbermaid trashcans to Intel semiconductors"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-07T21:39Z 44.1K followers, XXX engagements

"@__hand_banana That is cursed. I think Fanuc robots have some bs like that with their software"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-16T03:29Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Composition is a highly abstract thingno bluebook exists and it is incredible that intellect shines through such a fuzzy activity"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-16T16:18Z 44.1K followers, 38.4K engagements

"@bencun93 The point I am making is a few layers detached from the details of the technology :). What needs to be fixed is good understanding of human psyche and what makes us tick designing things to resonate with it. Lot of the UX/UI tenets are filmsy and made up:"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-18T16:37Z 44.1K followers, XXX engagements

"To answer your question directly: I am unsure if pixel density is the only problem but the layout expectations for "responsive UI" is problematic along with a lot of stuff. Too much to unpack and it is really overwhelming to write anything right now about this because anything I write will be considered as an answer which is like X% of what I wanted to write. I've written at least like XXX posts about it so hard to condense it"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-18T16:52Z 44.1K followers, XX engagements

"Chinese company names go hard. It's usually family name or place followed by specialty and company designation. Meanwhile suburban America is busy naming its hot sauce company: "Total Global Solutions LLC". It wasn't always like this"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-10T06:40Z 44.2K followers, 8782 engagements

"I literally opened a random page of 1935 SF directory and took this screenshot of Spring Manufacturers (yes there were spring makers on XXX Golden Gate Ave in 1935). Open any directory and you'll see similar names and how many components were made here:"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-10T06:44Z 44.2K followers, 4786 engagements

"There is a wide range of design goals from sistine chapel avionics UI to useless Dasai mochi on the dashboard. The tasteless thing to do is to see something obviously decorative and demand it to be functional"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-12T00:59Z 44.2K followers, 13.4K engagements

"This tagline is so powerful. They ended it when Steve was still the CEO of Apple in 2002. I hope it wasn't some legal bs"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-13T18:40Z 44.2K followers, 36.8K engagements

"Is that Eurostile Extended Bold We're so fricking back"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-13T21:56Z 44.2K followers, 25.6K engagements

"Microsoft go back to New Zelek you absolute cowards. Only acceptable counter to Elon's shenanighans"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-13T22:07Z 44.2K followers, 3534 engagements

"Interesting to do the same exercise today. What are the things that we're doing that seemingly look like a great idea but in 2040 we will realize it was a terrible mistake Fighting hordes and hordes of normie opinions is hard but righteous and necessary. Often it is the stuff that has little or no criticism"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-19T17:25Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements

"@Smeldorr And you have no idea where it is in the folder hierarchy lol"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-19T22:07Z 44.2K followers, XX engagements

"@ryolu_ Based almost all counter arguments are of typical garden variety which you have to constantly fend off: - Not for all users - Parking meters shouldn't require X hour learning curve - It depends toaster should be easy to use That's obviously not the scope of your post"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-20T01:28Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements

"@elithrar @mxschumacher woah thanks Matt. Cloudflare is awesome and kind of indispensible:"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-20T16:30Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements

"This is the new Range Rover logo after XX years apparently. I am going to vomit"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-07-18T16:01Z 44.2K followers, 42.6K engagements

"Zero phone wait time customer service list: McMasterCarr ULINE Lista (newly added) We mean not even a "Thank you for calling company" intro. It means within X seconds of you dialing the # someone picks up call with "How can I help you". We need to grow this list"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-09-07T16:32Z 44.2K followers, 19.9K engagements

"It is XXX% decoration but so was Bang & Olufsen"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-11T18:33Z 44.2K followers, 11.5K engagements

"I think if we try to RETVRN to Art Deco it's gonna be shitty ABS-recycled-plastic version of it. Angles won't be correct layouts inauthentic forms mangled with rounded corners it will be a cheap knock-off version of it. Furniture will have vaneer over mdf and polyurethane finish. Mfs will shove gradients in there and a splash of purple RGB backlight to make it glow at night. It will have no discipline to speak of. No sculptural prowess. You can't keep glueing termite infested house together. You gotta eliminate the termites. Current attitude of people culture psyche and the zeitgeist will"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-12T18:33Z 44.2K followers, 14.5K engagements

"@luciascarlet @FamilyTaes iPhone Pro feels better than iPhone Air IMO. Larger edge surface area less pressure for a given holding force. I tried both back to back and Air was considerably more uncomfortable"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-17T04:12Z 44.2K followers, XX engagements

"I have a pretty low tolerance for such things in design. Even if it has a slight questionable benefit breaking the conceptual model having to worry about when it will break building flimsy foundations where rules of the UI change constantly all of this adds stress and ambiguity that's never worth the small first order benefit"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-19T22:16Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements

"I heard Zed is good but isn't it for collaboration and you have to be part of their ecosystem with login/credentials Not opposed to that but it is a different thing in type not degree than Sublime Text. I'd rather use what I have used for 10+ years knowing it will be the same for another 10+ years. In fact I feel so strongly about it I am happy to promote proprietary software that's amazing and I have receipts to back that up"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-19T22:58Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements

"@ryolu_ This is actually the reason for UI sludge we have today: Not understanding the difference between ATM kiosk interface and a code editor"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-20T01:31Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements

"@mxschumacher Yea I should and then I am totally off of AWS"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-20T16:08Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Style of the year. Keyence GC-1000 Series Safety Controller"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-07-30T17:24Z 44.2K followers, 114.7K engagements

"AUTOSHAPE and FORM MASTER from Cincinnati Milling Machine Company Anon upgrade your iMake EcoPro Plus"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-08-26T22:31Z 44.2K followers, 9098 engagements

"The telephone icon isn't outdated it is the opposite. It's ingrained in culture now just like the floppy disk icon to save a file. Icons can have semantic meaning like the biohazard sign even though it doesn't resemble anything "real""
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-10T18:28Z 44.2K followers, 960.1K engagements

"Nothing Phone (3) looks cool af"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-11T17:38Z 44.2K followers, 554.8K engagements

"Apparently this was released a few months ago. Just catching up to the noise on YT jeez. even MKBHD"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-11T17:40Z 44.2K followers, 9759 engagements

"I get that the Phone (3) is priced at flagship prices but doesn't offer the latest processor or whatever camera specs. This is entirely missing the point of Nothing as a company. Stupid reviews. The same people will buy $8000 Louis Vuitton bags"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-11T17:50Z 44.2K followers, 9633 engagements

"Dieter Rams going off on these chairs is amusing"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-11T19:31Z 44.2K followers, 97.4K engagements

"Acceptable formats: Made in U.S.A. Made in Connecticut U.S.A. Manufactured in Detroit MI U.S.A. Made in Pensacola FL. United States. Mental disorders: Made in Colorado Texas Made Designed in California Made in Seattle"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-14T15:59Z 44.2K followers, 25.7K engagements

"Slop. I hope this never catches on"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-15T02:02Z 44.2K followers, 397.9K engagements

"Hewlett-Packard looks cluttered I would describe it as sophisticated and well-mannered and it runs so deep that it was reflected in every aspect of their business from the car parking signage to the annual report cover art and from the grammatical style of their user manuals to the specific type of material texture they used on the LCD bezels. The whole company exuded high class before they renamed it to HP. Their Corvallis campus was unparalleled in intellectual output"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-15T17:07Z 44.2K followers, 12.5K engagements

"Im unsure if I agree or disagree. My theory is that these things are overdetermined (sorry lmao). Hard to tell. Bang & Olufsen and Mercedes-Benz can perhaps be considered consumer tech brands Leuchtturm1917 is a wild attempt at branding. Not a tech brand but definitely a consumer brand. I love seeing exceptions like this and maybe its more complicated than the modus operandi of typical brand experts and branding firms"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-15T17:36Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements

"@vanlancker Yeah. You also have to consider the reverse: if Hewlett-Packard made amazing products/services instead of slop would Hewlett-Packard be successful I am tempted to say yes"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-15T17:50Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Ascii emojis were cool. Not sure about emojis in emails and email subject lines (eBay wtf) terminal apps any long form article user interfaces etc. only place they're tolerable is may be tweets/chat or extremely casual contexts. Visual pollution fight me πŸ˜ƒπŸ₯·πŸ€œπŸ«ΈπŸ¦ΏπŸ’’🏳"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-17T19:14Z 44.2K followers, 9369 engagements

"Something tells me we would never come up with this UI today. Just totally black pilled"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-17T19:44Z 44.2K followers, 35.8K engagements

"Pocari Sweat's manufacturer Otsuka Pharmaceuticals has an outstanding logo holyshit"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-18T00:13Z 44.2K followers, 27.8K engagements

"The PVF TT label has survived (red & yellow) but the Kimdura PolyPro with resin ink (bottom left in white) is starting to wear out. Non-objective XX day test on my personal laptop"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-18T01:31Z 44.2K followers, 7639 engagements

"Watching 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Apollo XX (1969/2019) back-to-back completely leaves you speechless. It one-shots you with this juxtaposed imagery on the back of your eyelids of the figment of man's imagination and of the materiality of man's ambition; distilled as visual ectasy that's not possible to describe. Words fail me. Do watch it in 4K"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-18T08:00Z 44.2K followers, 12.2K engagements

"Canon Ink labels are cool and distinctly not western. Of course condensed typeface probably something boring from Morisawa catalog. Perfect amount of corner radius"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-18T15:37Z 44.2K followers, 5961 engagements

"Imagine creating a UI so mesmerizing that mfs want to just sit there and watch for therapy. We are naturally inquisitive species just in the exact manner as a cat staring at a bug for solid X minutes. The modern UI/UX "wisdom" have convinced you to not show complexity of the machine the inner workings and the mechanisms of the devices we use but the truth is that humans love this stuff"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-18T15:57Z 44.2K followers, 29K engagements

"This is the kind of implicit tchotchke in modern design that ticks me off. Just because there is only one child folder doesn't mean you break the conceptual model of the entire tree. "Yeah but.": NO"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-19T21:38Z 44.2K followers, 23.8K engagements

"wtf is this I was trying out VSCode. Navigating the explicit tree of folders is fundamental and non-negotiable"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-19T21:42Z 44.2K followers, 4434 engagements

"With all these outages it feels good to self-host our own servers. usgraphics .com runs on this. 1U Dell R360 X Core E-2488 128GB RAM 4U DIY XX Core EPYC 9554 192GB RAM Colo cost: $88/month /30 IP XX Gbps 32TB bw/m. Datacenter is DigitalRealty PHX10 top tier with ridiculous security. Tbh we're still heavily dependent on Cloudflare and AWS S3 (us-west-1). Would be cool to go full indie with no external dependencies except power DNS and ISP. But Cloudflare is so nice. AWS S3 obviously is GOAT but I think I can figure out how to self-host S3-compatible object storage. These servers have a ton of"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-20T08:19Z 44.2K followers, 48.2K engagements

"@dzc I have a great deal 5U 2A 10Gpbs I know the guys pretty well now and they've given me full access to the servers with a proper badge. And it is local here about XX mins drive from my house. Datacenter is amazing:"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-20T08:23Z 44.2K followers, 1892 engagements

"This is an increasingly rare genre of ads that I have a soft spot for. Just wonderful"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-21T05:03Z 44.2K followers, 37.6K engagements

"Another on that's burned into the memory is Sony Bravia ad featuring a wonderful composition by Jose Gonzales. This is good stuff"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-21T05:17Z 44.2K followers, 5331 engagements

"Orlando Airport is absolutely top. Walking through it felt like its the 80s and everything is frozen in place. Colors abound The art deco train stop to the signage still from XX years ago. Baggage claim straight outta 1986. Fearing the next modern renovation 😞"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-21T20:32Z 44.2K followers, 7737 engagements

"@somewheresy Im not sure which terminal I landed Ill take a better look on my departure"
X Link @usgraphics 2025-10-21T20:53Z 44.2K followers, XXX engagements

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