A low-angle, upward-looking shot captures two industrial freight cars resting on a rusted steel railroad bridge. The composition is dominated by heavy metal textures and straight horizontal lines. In the lower-left foreground, a silver metal staircase with a mesh landing and handrails extends into the frame. Above this, the bridge’s main structural beam is visible, showing significant weathering with patches of orange rust and peeling white paint. A thin horizontal pipe runs along the side of the bridge.

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This is a test post from the publisher automation. #test #automation

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Odd that I never post about UX related things when that was the intent of getting onto social media. I’ve only ever posted photos and book reviews. I’m thinking about changing that up a bit because I have a lot to say about UX. #ux #design #ai

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I could have been outside in the park in the nice weather but I was compelled to try Gemma. No idea why other than attempting to save some money on AI subscriptions.

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I was really hoping there would be a small gnome in this home.

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This book made me jealous that Sy Montgomery has had the chance to meet and interact with Octopuses. I really want to go meet one and try to be friends with it, see if it’ll playfully splash me, or hold my hand. Guess I’m going to go see if there’s any aquariums that offer a meet and greet. Did I learn if the plural of octopus is octopuses or octopi? No, but Sy shares stories of several octopi she’s connected with over the years, some anthropomorphized, some made you think about what’s going on in tiny alien heads, and some where sentimental and heart-breaking.

I just finished reading The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousnessp by Sy Montgomery View The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousnessp on Open Library → ]]> https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260315/091617/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:16:17 -0400 https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260315/091617/ https://uxbrad.com/feed/jpg/large/muddy-chicken.jpg

Chickens are hard to photograph. They’re never paying attention to me and move way to fast…

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It must be exhausting to be a cow dog.

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I hope this is the last picture I take this year that includes snow.

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Visited my first sugar shack. It was warm but didn’t smell like sugar. However, the maple syrup was something else. I see pancakes in my future.

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It’s not exactly warm yet, just barely above freezing, and the mounds of snow are creating a lot of mud.

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The heater is struggling.

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This is just some popcorn hanging on the wall from like 3 years ago.

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It’s a good time to be alive basically. Every technology we have is making major strides forward. Everything from healthcare to energy is reaching unexpected advances. Superconvergence looks at how AI, genome editing and robotics aren’t just improving in a vaccuum on their own, but are helping to advance each other at a breakneck pace. The problem with this innovation is that our laws and ethics are running on old software by old people who don’t understand what’s happening.

I just finished reading Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World by Jamie Metzl View Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World on Open Library → ]]> https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260131/092823/ Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:28:23 -0400 https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260131/092823/ https://uxbrad.com/feed/jpg/large/call-before-you-dig.jpg

There’s a theme in all of these photos I’ve taken over the last couple weeks. Snow. There’s so much of it.

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For some reason I thought that if I just ignored the fact that my car is sitting under a 4 foot embankment of snow that it would just get warmer and work itself out, but it turns out that it hasn’t been above 15 degrees all week. Guess I’m just going to have to get out there and shovel the snow.

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Has inflation effected the price of gumballs in the last 25 years? I can’t tell because the ones in this machine look they’re from 25 years ago…

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Yeah, so the next few days are going to be a joy to get around.

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I just spent an hour moving snow from where it was to just a couple feet away and I am exhausted. I hope that was enough to get the cars out in the morning because I’m not going back out there. It’s time for soup.

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Walking outside late last night and the fog was ominous.

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I recently completed the DHS Section 508 Trusted Tester Certification. After years in the accessibility space, I can value how tactical this process is compared to the more interpretive nature of WCAG. It’s an approachable framework but I feel like it doesn’t do enough and sets a really low bar for accessibility. I do hope the government continues to scale and to improve it.

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This looks like it’s cold right? Because it is.

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Social media hasn’t just sped up the pace of linguistics shifts, but some of the language we’ve been adopting online has been out of a need to bypass automated moderation as tactical necessity. Not only does this book explore the etymology of terms we are hearing every day, but it reveals how we are appropriating terms from nice subcultures. If you’re a language nerd, check it out. For those that are still here and haven’t been unalived, it’s prolly a joy to read too tho.

I just finished reading Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language by Adam Aleksic View Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language on Open Library → ]]> https://uxbrad.com/activity/20251229/100001/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 10:00:01 -0400 https://uxbrad.com/activity/20251229/100001/ https://uxbrad.com/support/opengraph/uxbrad.png

Susannah Breslin was “Data Baby #6” and part of a thirty-year longitudinal study at UC Berkeley that tracked her life from nursery school to adulthood. Can you imagine what it’s like being watched by researchers who just might know more about your psychological makeup that you do? She shares stories of blocks, 2-way mirrors, puzzles, and “personality profiles” that reduced her childhood to a set of data points, all while opening up about writing about the porn industry, battling her cancer, the struggles with her parents, and getting out of a terrible marriage.

I just finished reading Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment by Susannah Breslin View Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment on Open Library → ]]> https://uxbrad.com/activity/20251210/101644/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:16:44 -0400 https://uxbrad.com/activity/20251210/101644/ https://uxbrad.com/feed/jpg/large/horse-21.jpg

There’s a horse in there.

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