Tom Creighton

@tom

🇨🇦 Software designer. He/him. #hamont

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Ist das dein Profil?Übernimm es — dann gehört dir tom.dirty.social.Profil übernehmen

Tom Creighton@tom· May 26

If I won the lottery I wouldn’t tell anyone, but there would be signs

Tom Creighton@tom· Apr 24

Me: need to get a password macOS: i got u

A screenshot of macOS helpfully telling me some conversions for 1 Pascal as opposed to, say, launching 1password.

Tom Creighton@tom· Apr 8

I bet this feels so good if you’re a repo

A Github commit with 3,280 files changed; 5,400 lines added; and a staggering 181,736 lines removed.

Tom Creighton@tom· Mar 6

BSOD

Tom Creighton@tom· Feb 24

I found the room where they keep Vercel

A door with a large black triangle on it

Tom Creighton@tom· Jan 22

Email subject lines with threatening auras

An email subject that says “Discover new projects waiting for you in Jira!”

Tom Creighton@tom· Jan 21

A screen the looks very much like a touchscreen with a larger banner across the top reading “NOT A TOUCHSCREEN”

Tom Creighton@tom· Dec 31

That time that Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani were being pursued by a memory-altering tiger, and their plans to kill it before year-end

A conversation between Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani, as so:
Elizabeth: This year is our year
Elizabeth: We can never forget this tiger
Sunny: I know. I am focused on it.
Sunny: We will execute this year
Elizabeth: I know. I’m focused on it too.

Tom Creighton@tom· Dec 18

This is the coolest a cellphone has ever looked, change my mind

An image of an Ericsson Hotline, consisting of a very 1980s handset attached by a coiled wire to a bulky base with attached antenna. The whole unit has a carrying handle.

Tom Creighton@tom· Dec 1

Happy Cyber Monday

Johnny Mnemonic about to wipe out someone’s entire server

Tom Creighton@tom· Nov 25

I have fond memories of eating the inexplicably-named Watergate Salad (aka ‘green stuff’) at my grandparents’ house as a child. As an adult, I’m excited to perpetrate this food crime on my own family.

A photo of ‘watergate salad’: a bowl of mint-green slop garnished with whipped cream, walnut pieces(?) and maraschino cherries.

Tom Creighton@tom· Nov 11

File under ‘you can just do things’: a tiny menubar app that checks my local commuter rail station for the next departure time.

A screenshot showing some Mac OS menubar apps, including one that shows the next train departure time.

Tom Creighton@tom· Nov 7

The most fun part of building my own theming system is deciding I want themes to support two fonts and then just doing it 👉 @peep.pub

The config.json for a Peep theme, specifically calling out the “supportSecondaryFont” attribute.

Tom Creighton@tom· Nov 2

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

Some really fantastic fruit crate graphics on a take-a-penny tray

Tom Creighton@tom· Oct 29

If I won the lottery I wouldn’t tell anyone, but there would be signs

A Japanese minitruck with tank treads for some reason

Tom Creighton@tom· Oct 17

Oh yeah no for sure

An email subject line from Atlassian reading “These new Jira features are a must-try"

Tom Creighton@tom· Sep 24

UX design

An elevatir control panel with a large sign reading “PUSH HERE”

Tom Creighton@tom· Sep 20

I beg to differ

Linkedin headline reading ‘Ads are coming to your fridge’

Tom Creighton@tom· Sep 8

Doctor: Well, your googly levels are a bit low – I’ll write you a prescription

Tom Creighton@tom· Aug 13

Everyone at the coffee shop groaning in disbelief as I unfold two additional monitors from my obnoxious monitor tower

A portable(?) accessory for laptops that unfolds to reveal three 16” monitors

Tom Creighton@tom· Jun 26

A cool(?) part of living in a slightly scuzzy post-industrial city is that there’s cool little typographical nuggets preserved everywhere

A hand-lettered sign that says “Baltic Bread Bakery” and then underneath, ‘Crusty Rolls’ • Donuts

Tom Creighton@tom· Jun 16

A modification of the “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision” image, which instead reads “A computer can never have taste, therefore a computer must never make a creative decision”

Tom Creighton@tom· Jun 12

Missed my calling (graphic designer circa 1969); all of these are using my typeface Nougat which is free at joyride.studio

The cover art for “The Johnny Paloma Christmas Album”

The album art for Johnny Paloma’s third, less-well-received album, Farm Noises

Tom Creighton@tom· Jun 12

Absolutely ripping through this, one of those books that feels like a fairy tale and a travelogue and a secret third thing all at once (also has a ‘Famous Swords’ appendix, which is Extremely My Shit™)