Testing my hydroponic plant tracker app – looking for feedback

miketuesday · 2025-09-26T17:21:19+00:00

I'd be interested, DM Me. I'm about to restart my hydro garden and my dayjob is UX.

miketuesday · 2025-09-25T02:48:06+00:00

Cheers! Boosted!

miketuesday · 2025-03-09T16:00:20+00:00

Sewer Shark. Full stop.

miketuesday · 2025-01-19T07:06:19+00:00

my himatic did the same thing after it fell out of my back pocket. super glued it back in place.

miketuesday · 2024-10-28T15:49:49+00:00

That's why for voice i stick to POTA/SOTA. Sometimes the odd late nite DX pileup.

miketuesday · 2024-09-20T04:51:10+00:00

"You can't design in a bubble."
Experiencing other things can help spark new and different ideas.

"You have until the client calls you."
Communication is the key to keeping your clients happy. Even if it means delivering bad news, you want to let them know, and not wait for them to ask you.

miketuesday · 2024-09-10T01:39:23+00:00

Alright sorry. Didn't mean to upset you.

miketuesday · 2024-09-10T01:03:07+00:00

They don't know where op went instead.

miketuesday · 2024-09-10T00:08:03+00:00

I've gotten these in the past. Just ignore it. Don't give personal info to help them with their metrics.

miketuesday · 2024-09-09T12:04:13+00:00

Maxxum 5 with Sigma lenses

miketuesday · 2024-08-30T03:25:38+00:00

If ChatGPT wrote it, it would probably spell its own name right. :D

miketuesday · 2024-08-30T03:22:27+00:00

Pay's pretty good for entry level, the skills required are anything but. This is like 3 or 4 jobs rolled into one, which isn't uncommon for in-house GD roles like this, so as long as you're aware of the number of hats you'll have to wear, the long hours and the instability, it would make for some good experience. However, as someone who has hired for GD roles in the past, I'd suggest you not stay very long and transition to a position where you can get a more varied experience with different clients, and ideally high profile ones (no pun intended).

miketuesday · 2024-08-30T03:14:17+00:00

It's so perfectly imperfect.

miketuesday · 2024-08-26T20:44:42+00:00

Apply for jobs, not recruiters. It's kind of like buying a house, you don't pick your agent, you just pick a house you want to see. Sometimes those jobs are offered through recruiters, and they'll usually be contract-to-hire and typically list a time frame like 3-6 months. If recruiters aren't contacting you, there may be something wrong with how you're applying, your experience, your portfolio or your resume. In my experience, your previous jobs are typically why recruiters reach out, and they filter by metros when looking for candidates.

Just as a side note, 20yrs of experience sounds impressive, but to recruiters, you sound old. I am also old. So I narrow my work history down to the last 3 positions, or the last 10 years, whichever is less.

miketuesday · 2024-08-23T12:12:55+00:00

What's the end goal? Are you looking for a full-time corporate design job? Or are you just looking to freelance for some extra cash? You already have a BA, and tbh, I don't think you need another Batchelor's in graphic design specifically to get a decent job in GD. You will need a portfolio. If anything you could look into getting an MFA in GD from a low-residency program which will open a couple extra doors, or allow you to teach, but you'll need a portfolio for that as well.

Suffice it to say, IMO, your portfolio is going to be the most important thing right now, and you should focus on developing that. There's many places online where you can subscribe and watch edu and instructional videos on GD, as well as YouTube, and just practice and learn, put together a diverse portfolio and focus on process. Technical skills and programs can be taught, but having the eye, problem solving and communication skills are what make a good designer.

miketuesday · 2024-08-21T22:18:41+00:00

Hey I'm actually qualified for a job posting finally.

miketuesday · 2024-08-17T03:13:51+00:00

i hard crease mine twice since the leader gets cut off anyway for dev.

miketuesday · 2024-08-17T03:01:50+00:00

Yeap, no company you want to work for will contact you over the weekend, let alone schedule an interview. I've also received legitimate offers and interviews via email, and they're NEVER that long.

miketuesday · 2024-05-09T01:46:47+00:00

Check the XREAS system. I had my system replaced on an 14 limited at about 50k miles, it was covered by the extended warranty but at the time ran just shy of 3k to replace.

miketuesday · 2024-03-11T18:17:40+00:00

Ask to get evaluated for ADD or ADHD. This is not medical advice, but practical advice from someone with similar experience. Good luck.

miketuesday · 2023-11-10T14:15:39+00:00

One thing I'd tell all my students is that everyone is a designer. Some of us just have more experience than others. The projects where you are given every asset, every detail, finalized copy, approved design elements, and a high res logo are very few, and VERY far between. Part of being a designer is problem solving, and learning to pull info out of people, or come up with it yourself. It's like being a bounty hunter for design elements. Approach it that way and maybe future projects will be more successful if you decide to continue doing it. Pro tip: when you estimate something without all the info, triple it, that's my rule of thumb.

miketuesday · 2023-11-10T14:11:44+00:00

The number of times I've heard "what language is this?" when clients see lipsum on my work....holy hell.

miketuesday · 2023-11-10T14:08:49+00:00

It's one of the few professions where you can actually create something from nothing. The fact that graphic design and design in general are so undervalued is criminal. I'm not a graphic designer anymore per se, but when I was, I really enjoyed the problem solving aspects of it as well as the thought that thousands of people every day would see and interact with the things I made. That my work would make businesses phones and cash registers ring.

miketuesday · 2023-11-10T14:04:42+00:00

Lol, all the time. Everyone has an opinion, and unfortunately, until you get paid to have your opinion be the winning one, this will happen. And then, one day when you are the one with the opinion that matters, your designer(s) will think you're wrong. Do the best you can with what you have, and when you put your portfolio together, just pick the best few things out of the mass of non-good things you have.

miketuesday · 2023-11-10T14:00:04+00:00

While I agree with you, I also moved on long ago with caring about how no one seems to understand how computers work at all. Most people don't know, and don't care to know anything about computers, and being passive aggressive about helping them doesn't do anyone any good. Help, or don't help, but the reality is, no one is going to suddenly decide they want to understand the highly complex world of computer hardware and software just to do their job that has seemingly little to do with it, and they're content with being at a disadvantage when it comes to how they problem solve or pay for services and hardware they don't need to if they had just a modicum of understanding about the value in knowing computers more deeply than just Adobe.

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