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B. Prendergast 👋

@renderg.host
🌀 Building ⧉ www.lanyards.app in the #ATmosphere 🌀 for #ATscience 🧪  
🌿 Designing simpler solutions for complex needs
👉 Writing about design, science, tech, and the messy in-betweens
💖 Making things, better 
🌶️ Neurodiverse rudeboi
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#ATproto 🪿
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Stop asking users what they want — and start watching what they do.

People's opinions about themselves and the things they use rarely match real behaviour.

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Dec 4, 2025

A beginner's workflow for Lexicons development in AT protocol web apps

An experimental approach to designing and implementing Lexicons with TypeScript + Next.js

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Nov 22, 2025

How can I fund Lanyards app?

I need and value informed input from folks who understand accessing public and community funding, and have been down this path before.

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Nov 16, 2025
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I just can't shake this feeling...

Why is all of this free? What's the plan here? Cui Bono?

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Nov 15, 2025
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Why I started building Lanyards

What is it? Why should researchers care about it?

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Nov 15, 2025
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I made 2 extensions for Semble: Add new Cards in Google Chrome, then recall them with Raycast

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Nov 12, 2025

Using your AT proto stuff in your other web stuff: A guide for ATstronauts who want to just do stuff...

It's easy peasy, don't be scared!

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Nov 9, 2025
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Open a "design café" — A low stakes way to build your team's feedback skills

Good feedback is the lifeblood of collaborative product development but most people in your organisation have never been taught how to give design feedback.

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Nov 4, 2025

Follow-up: Thank You to Dr William Perry and the FSBI

Making science on the web a little bit more-accessible.

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Nov 4, 2025

KGX3 can predict paradigm shifts long before the 'Impact Factor' and citations catch up.

A Day for Celebration at The Thomas Kuhn Foundation.

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Nov 3, 2025

Announcing "AT Scholarly Lexicons": A blueprint for decentralised scholarly communication using the AT Protocol

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Nov 2, 2025

AT Protocol is a game-changer for scholarly communication and academic publishing.

How to make research more open, continuous, and collaborative, while preserving ownership, credit, and integrity.

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Nov 2, 2025
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A call for collaborators to experiment with AT Protocol for open research.

Putting out a public call to explore how researchers can publish, share, and collaborate transparently while retaining ownership for their work.

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Nov 1, 2025

The biggest ROI from design systems comes from engineering efficiencies, not design consistencies.

Design systems will fail when we build them for designers.

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Oct 17, 2025

The point is to understand

Machines can’t make sense of the world for us.

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Oct 16, 2025

Fidelity scales inline with certainty

Fidelity in design isn’t about how finished something looks — it’s about knowing when something is ready to be finished.

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Oct 12, 2025

The AI recruitment ouroboros

AI has broken the simple act of getting a job.

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Oct 11, 2025

Feast on the Feed of Feeds 🍢

Yo DAWG I heard you like feeds about feeds

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Oct 10, 2025

How I make my feeds, easy peasy

The what, why and how of Bluesky feed goodness

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Oct 10, 2025

The worst designer I've ever worked with was also the most productive

When companies mistake volume for value, and incentivise outputs over outcomes.

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Oct 9, 2025
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