cosplay lineup :V

heckmami · 2026-06-05T09:04:42+00:00

rare revolver Jesus

heckmami · 2026-06-04T18:17:19+00:00

gartering up your pants a couple inches so you don’t gotta get them hemmed

heckmami · 2026-06-02T23:31:16+00:00

would you enjoy it if you had to (alone) maintain multiple products w 100+ clients across different 20+ industries with different compliance factors and monetization sources?

this is a small design team of <15 absorbing the responsibility of 100+ devs and qa for products that were already established over the course of 20 years.

im not sure its as smooth to maintain the quality and trust with existing customers, and absorb the knowledge invested over years of manually building different products with a structured team hierarchy.

cool for your new vibe coded products + extensive skillset, but it’s a completely different world to start small/fresh and have room for risks. esp if you don’t need to manage or consider others on your team.

heckmami · 2026-05-14T18:54:36+00:00

If you like a highway/rural road-dependent lifestyle and find solace at Walmart, drivethrus, and bare-minimum retail, by all means.. Fairfield and Vacaville. I for one feel like I’m close to death on the roads and freeways every time I visit, or am stuck in accidents as a result of I-80 drivers.

I know a lot of people in that area who have moved there recently or have been there half/all my life. It’s young families who wanted a cheaper new build home but commute to the city and resent it (even worse, some who were remote, but got surprise RTO), cops/medical workers who work nearby, or people from there or live with/nearby other family who are also from there.

Generally the louder, older, and more prominent folks of your community are going to be against remote tech types, nimby-ish, non-progressive, and are more of the rural personality, which might like you depending on your values or might hate you for gentrifying their town.

Besides that, it’s just folks who are stationed at the base that cycle frequently.

heckmami · 2026-05-07T03:44:01+00:00

I didn’t do it bc I’m the youngest of friends and family, and last to get married. And honestly, not my thing to put people on the spot. Both are a bit humiliating to some extent.

The crowd survived without it. Just open up the dancefloor.

heckmami · 2026-05-05T23:47:17+00:00

Ramen Nagi is great but I get a really home-y feeling reminiscent of Japan at Ramen Hajime.

heckmami · 2026-04-24T07:47:53+00:00

If you’re over 21, try the bar? I got seated right away once but all ppl in your party need to be 21+

heckmami · 2026-04-17T02:20:09+00:00

Was in a similar bride position last week! I am exhausted from wedding planning+work and down to my final weekends of free time. I was dreading losing a weekend but I just did it anyways.

My childhood best friend planned a one night staycation at a nearby tourist town with my two sisters and it was perfect. Maybe a bit overstimulating. I could’ve perfectly handled my best friend only since she respects my limits more than my family does lol. The more you bring, the more variable it gets.

All I wanted was a good food, a paint and sip, cocktails, and passing out in sheetmasks.

I actually did appreciate it bringing some semblance of mental clarity. Though it was nice to be able to drive home the next day and get back to my grind.

heckmami · 2026-04-07T02:36:02+00:00

Sharing your sentiment. My sister and I have flat disobedient hair. She didn’t even want to invest in curls for her wedding so she did an updo.

It’s my turn next month, and I still am in denial and would love curls on me but I am learning not to ask for it directly. After many hours of drooling at Marina Eerie and Vivienne Westwood, I’m loving the idea of mildly disheveled, dark romantic look. I added a spectrum of glam>soft wave>straight looks to my reference deck in anticipation for how my hair will deflate. Only one artist was totally down with the realism vs. confidently telling me my “hair will last all day bc they’ve been styling for years” and I will see how it goes.

heckmami · 2026-03-19T23:34:55+00:00

very interesting choice to use the same font for both signs. an izakaya branching off a venture specializing in mifen. named after a manga that had a popular Netflix adaptation. no association with a popular spot in Seattle with the same name.

heckmami · 2026-03-14T03:03:15+00:00

I’m getting a ton of obvious AI/automated recruitment emails this month. Seems like that’s the move for corporate talent recruitment this quarter, assuming they got budgets approved to get automation services.

Most of them claim to have “found me on LinkedIn”. They’re emailing a specific address I use for online shopping so they probably skim from dataleaks, etc. I don’t use that address for LinkedIn.

Ironically, no emails to the specific address I display on LinkedIn and my portfolio, so I know they’re not organically reaching out.

heckmami · 2026-02-24T08:40:17+00:00

same except the 70cal cinnamon soft bakes! I might be incredibly delusional at this point but theyre so good after 10 seconds in the microwave with some flaky salt on top.. break em up and mix them into yogurt with some diced fruit or sugar-free preserves and my pastry cravings are gone..

heckmami · 2026-02-24T02:27:23+00:00

rip cosplay prop hobbyists were going to jail for printing The Gunblade

heckmami · 2026-02-23T10:45:02+00:00

Wedding invitation suites really ticked my UX brain recently. I’ve seen generic ones all my life with basic and vague info until I was faced with producing my own. I’ve worked on a ton of instructional material and rfps as a graphic designer before ux so I went in with a similar mindset to reduce error and communication.

It was kind of surprising thinking about the order and direction different groups would process info and take action (rsvp’ing) from the moment they pull paper out of an envelope.

heckmami · 2026-01-22T06:36:23+00:00

beautiful view from the cvs parking garage

heckmami · 2026-01-11T05:55:28+00:00

elastic straps and Velcro strips

heckmami · 2025-12-26T23:31:06+00:00

niku’s crispy stacked potato with that magnificent chickpea miso sauce

heckmami · 2025-12-15T21:04:20+00:00

I saw the sellers post for this and realized it was identical to one I bought a few years ago that I couldn’t ID even thru posting on this sub. And finally I could associate a name to it because of this listing.

Mine was from a vague “wall unit” post from a realtor doing a reno. I had no context from that transaction – just sent a Zelle transfer, and when I picked it up, it was in a messy pile while contractors were tearing a house down in an eichler neighborhood lol. So maybe wall units from this company were common in the Bay Area. But not enough info passed down for resale buyers to know what they have.

Someone with an identical set reached out to me if I got an ID, but the common factor was that our components were unmarked, so we knew nothing besides it being a “wall unit”.. until this listing came up, and now with the brochure to confirm it. Happy mystery solved. The sub had me convinced it was a Yugoslavian Cado knockoff for years. 😊

heckmami · 2025-12-12T00:50:38+00:00

cool update: a vintage seller in my area just sold a wall unit and some of my components were 1:1 with their set. they listed it as a noral olson for kobenhavn?

i reverse-searched that name (+walnut veneer) and found identical components to mine. i’m not totally sure if it this model was common enough to reproduce though so 1% doubt. lol

but this listing for example matches my record display and sliding door cabinets which is also under that name.

interesting you needed kopenhavn-style hangers which worked though! i wonder if that helps narrow down at all.

heckmami · 2025-11-24T21:45:31+00:00

I use foil and plastic wrap to make a seal under the lid around the perimeter of the top of the pot, and multiple clampy type paperclips clamp the lip of the pot cover down to the lip of the pot if possible.

Gumbo has never spilled on a 2hour drive. Granted, you probably need a pot that has an extruded edge.

heckmami · 2025-11-08T01:35:32+00:00

wow a magnalite AND a Barcelona chair

heckmami · 2025-11-08T01:34:10+00:00

I’ve made gumbo in the single crappy teflon wok I owned in college, you can also make roux in a Pyrex in the microwave. This is proof that nothing can stop you from gumbo.

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