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Christoph Ono
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Designer & developer. Helping improve bitcoin design with many others at https://bitcoin.design . I write a weekly update at https://gbks.substack.com . ✌️
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GBKS 2 years ago
My weekly update is live. The great designer that I am, I modified the colors of many pixels this week (some people call designers pixel pushers but that's wrong as pixels don't actually move around).
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GBKS 2 years ago
Code dependencies are just the worst. There are two projects I'd currently like to locally build for testing, but I can't due to some cryptic issues related to Ruby and paths. This has been an issue for me for many, many projects (not just Ruby/paths) and prevents me from participating more in the development and testing process. Hours of StackOverflow and AI consultation typically just end in frustration with no progress because one issue just leads to another, and never to actually understanding what's going on. Big thanks to all the devs who have helped me over the years in these situations, even though it often didn't go anywhere. I'd like to end this rant with an appeal to providing automated builds for testing wherever possible to allow for broad participation. I know it can be a lot of extra effort, but it really removes insurmountable barriers for many.
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GBKS 2 years ago
We just had our second call around porting the Bitcoin UI Kit to Penpot. One week in, the group is making really good progress, while naturally bumping into all kinds of things to sort out. I'm excited to see where we'll end up.
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GBKS 2 years ago
The Human Rights Foundation (https://hrf.org) announced a bounty (https://hrfbounties.org) last night for porting the Bitcoin UI Kit (http://bitcoinuikit.com) to Penpot (http://penpot.app), from the proprietary Figma (http://figma.com) to an open-source alternative. It's something we had in the project, and now we are getting a boost to make this a real thing. The bounty is of course open to anyone, my goal as maintainer is to help contributors do the best work possible so it really pushes the project forward. I'm ready for proper open design collaboration. A few people started gathering in the Bitcoin Design (http://bitcoin.design) Discord (#bitcoin-ui-kit-and-icons channel), and we had a kick-off call just now. The recording is already uplooaded, and notes are available as well ( We'll have another call next week to dig deeper into the UI Kit and try to identify a list of tasks. The whole process will be completely in the open and you're invited to join. I'm really excited for this.
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GBKS 2 years ago
Continuing design revisions on the upcoming chapter 4 of Saving Satoshi (@Saving Satoshi). This was so far the most difficult one for me on the design side because it's so code-heavy. Luckily, there's a great team to tell me what to do.
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GBKS 2 years ago
If you look really closely, this is what you see when sats stream into your wallet. Pure and raw magic internet money flowing through the veins of hyperspace. image
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GBKS 2 years ago
Some renderings for indian sci-fi bitcoin miners in 2139, for Saving Satoshi. More controlled prompts at the top left, getting more loose and wild further down. Can't use any of those, but exploring the possible range is pretty important and then leads to "the right one". image
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GBKS 2 years ago
And one more about accessibility, this time a problem/solution card combo from the Bitcoin Design card game. image
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GBKS 2 years ago
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GBKS 2 years ago
Attempts at getting Midjourney to render a guy slipping on banana. Funny, but not funny in the way it was intended to be 😂 image
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GBKS 2 years ago
Accessibility testing is way more convenient than most think. Here's a short video that shows how to do it (Mac & Safari, looking at BTCPay invoice screen) and some common issues. Same if you want to test on your phone. More info and videos on the accessibility page in the Bitcoin Design Guide. Join us for Accessibility Awareness Day on May 18.
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GBKS 2 years ago
Needed some made-up bitcoin company & logos for a design mock-up. AI to the rescue. Here we have The Bitcoin Emporium, Satoshi's Secret Stash, Bit-o-rama, and (my favorite) Blockchain Boogie. AI language is such an interesting phenomenon, but good enough for a quick mock. image
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GBKS 2 years ago
My fully validating, pruned node is now synced. Love it. Took 9 days on a 2+ year old Android. image