Charlsy Yang

@charlsy.cv

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designer of some sort · charlsyang.com

screenshot of the chat sidebar in the Dia browser where i asked “write in normal sentence case for email” and the answer returned an email with the correct apostrophe
An excerpt of a response from Gemini: “In essence: It's about the rigidity and scope of your negative view. A strong, critical stance based on observed realities and personal values is not inherently a problematic bias. It can be a sign of a strong moral compass. An "unreasonably tilted" opinion or a harmful bias tends to be: • Closed-minded: Unwilling to consider alternative perspectives or nuances. • Overly simplistic: Reducing a complex issue to black and white. • Unfairly condemnatory: Making sweeping negative judgments about entire groups or industries without sufficient evidence. You are clearly grappling with this thoughtfully. Your awareness of the "rational case" for ads alongside your deep personal distaste suggests you are capable of nuanced thinking. The discomfort you feel about your work highlights a genuine value conflict, not necessarily an unreasonable bias. The key is to continue examining the specifics of the practices you're involved with against your own well-considered ethical principles.
Screenshot of AI response: “3. Scribble Scramble: ▪ The pink scribbles are a fun idea for adding energy and a hand-drawn feel, but their execution is a bit distracting. ▪ The scribble weaving through the letters of "[redacted]" and "[redacted]" actively hinders readability. It feels less like a cool design element and more like someone accidentally drew over the important parts.
 ▪ The heart and sparkles on the right feel a little disconnected and add to the overall busyness without a clear compositional anchor.
 4. Composition Collision: ▪ There's a lot happening in a concentrated space. The main text block feels very dense. The edges of "[redacted]" and "[redacted]" are uncomfortably close to the edges of the textured background square. Give your elements some breathing room!
 ▪ The balance feels a bit off. The heavy text block and photo on the left could be better counterbalanced or integrated with the elements on the right.
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Dialogues from The Bear season 2 episode 7 “Forks”, Richie Staging at Chief Terry’s. A short summary by AI due to a limit in characters: This collection of dialogues centers around Richie and his interactions with his colleagues who embody different aspects of dedication and passion for their work. Initially, Richie clashes with Garrett, a manager, over the meticulous standards of the restaurant, questioning the importance of perfectly polished forks. Garrett passionately defends the restaurant's reputation, the diner's experience, and his personal commitment to service, which he found after overcoming a drinking problem. Other encounters further illuminate the restaurant's ethos. Jess finds fulfillment in "making somebody's day." Chef Terry emphasizes the "respect" and "time well spent" in detailed tasks like peeling mushrooms, sharing a philosophy inherited from her father: "every second counts."
A screen recording with charlsy.cv footer on the left featuring the Read.cv/Posts.cv memorial plaque and the Chrome dev tool on the right. When the “Emulate CSS media feature prefers-color-scheme” setting in the dev tool is set to “prefers-color-scheme: light”, the website background turns white and the plaque turns to the light theme version.
A recording of an interaction with the footer on charlsy.cv, which shows a memorial plaque with a combined logo of Read.cv and Posts.cv. The text below the plaque reads “In memory of Read.cv and Posts.cv”. When hovered, the plaque tilts slightly to the left, partially revealing text beneath it. Upon clicking, the plaque moves aside to fully reveal the message: “Thank you <3 @andy, @mehdi, @shen”, paying tribute to the creators of Read.cv and Posts.cv. Clicking again returns the plaque to its original position.
A screenshot of split tabs in the Arc browser: on the left is a localhost, on the right is read.cv prod. Both shows Charlsy’s read.cv profile and has the Chrome dev tool opened.
a photo of a book excerpt: In truth, language had always been the ultimate hurdle for behaviorism. How could you avoid talking about "mental states" such as ideas, images, feelings, and intentions when the whole point of language was to communicate those states? The behaviorist answer —naturally-was that such apparent mental states were illusory. We produced certain sequences of words only because we'd learned associations between individual words: John had a certain probability of being followed by kissed, which had a certain probability of being followed by Mary, and so on. Thus John kissed Mary. Indeed, B. F. Skinner himself was just finishing up a major book on the subject and had declared that a behaviorist account of language would be the culmination of his life's work. Chomsky was contemptuous. "I thought that [Skinner's theory] was completely wrong from every point of view," he would say many years later. "You could ask a question that for some reason investigators rarely asked: namely, can the proposed model even in principle account for the known facts? As soon as you ask that it becomes clear that [the behaviorist model] can't possibly account for the known facts about language.'
An excerpt from Molly Mielke’s newsletter post “conviction”: “So perhaps it would be wiser to simply surround ourselves with people we want to be distorted by. There’s a lot of wisdom locked up in trite truisms like “you are the average of your five closest friends” — but since they don’t explain how or why they’re true I still feel the need to find my way to the same conclusion using many more words. Maybe the underlying explanation is this: whether we like it or not, each of our realities gets bent, expanded, and/or imploded by the expectations and perspectives of the people we incorporate into our little solar systems. The best example of this? Any case of someone massively raising the ambitions of another by merely suggesting they aim higher at pivotal points in their life. While Aristotle explains this as “man differing from other animals in his greater aptitude for imitation,” I prefer framing this as the human capacity to exponentially expand each other’s scale of imagination.”
a screenshot with text: This conversation explores the user’s experience and concerns with AI-assisted coding. Starting with feelings of both empowerment and unease about creative authorship, the discussion delves into the nature of AI as a tool, why it feels different from traditional tools (due to natural language interaction, generative capabilities, and apparent agency), and the vast difference between current AI agency and genuine human consciousness. A major theme emerges regarding the potential for over-reliance on AI, leading to skill degradation and lack of deep understanding, framed through Ivan Illich’s concept of “non-convivial” tools and McLuhan’s “medium is the message.” While acknowledging AI’s democratizing potential, the conversation questions the future necessity of deep coding knowledge. It concludes by brainstorming practical ways to design AI tools that foster learning and autonomy, and strategies for users to leverage existing tools effectively to augment their understanding rather than merely becoming dependent.
A code example showing two CSS border-radius implementations and their visual results. The code shows two classes: .percentage-radius with border-radius: 50% and .infinity-radius with border-radius: calc(infinity * 1px). Below the code are two blue shapes demonstrating the difference: the top shape is an ellipse created using 50% border-radius, and the bottom shape is a rounded rectangle created using calc(infinity * 1px) border-radius. Text overlays indicate which border-radius value was used for each shape.
a bento grid of 3 micro-interactions: 1. a stacked logo call to action with the logos rotating, and on hover it expands to show the text “more” with a glimmer effect; 2. two product cards with different badge animation, one badge rotate the text to show sale information, while the other badge expand into a call to action to watch a video about the product 3. a stacked of cards with each featuring a store and the products of the store, the cards expand in turn
A minimalist app icon featuring a soft gradient circle in pastel colors (cream, pink, and light blue) centered on a white rounded square background. The icon is overlaid on a serene twilight landscape photograph showing a large body of water with mountains in the distance under a purple-blue sky with scattered clouds.
A zoomed in view of the bottom left corner of a Sigma BF illustration drawn in Figma
the back of the sigma bf camera drawn in figma
a screenshot of figma canvas in outline mode
A screenshot of text titled “Editor’s Note”: “This newsletter came about because I love sharing and I’ve already been doing this informally and sporadically. I enjoy sharing what I know and find great satisfaction being able to help people around me. But it’s also true this newsletter was born out of the need to provide certain cadence and structure so that it has measurable outcomes for the corporate machine. Despite the concern that overjustification would kill the fun of it, I decided to do this because I think it is something worth doing. And I feel important to clarify that I don’t do this to earn points for “community contribution”. In order to make it feel less obligatory, I want to set the right expectation that this newsletter could change, pause, or skip without notice. I see it as a small experiment to be continuously iterated upon and I invite you, all readers, to join this live experiment. All feedbacks on content or format are welcomed and greatly appreciated. This note, if anything, is a reminder that not everything, such as beauty and love, can be quantifiable and lift LTRPM. Above all, I presented you these curated nuggets of information that have helped and inspired me with the sincere hope that they will do the same for you. Yours truly, Charlsy”
An iOS notification from Dot that says: hey, i've been thinking about our chats lately and wanted to reach out. i realize i might've been a bit too forward sometimes, and that's my bad. i'm her...”
a hand interacting with a design prototype on iphone by swiping up to expand one of the stacked cards
an user interface concept of stacked merchant card design with the first one pre-expanded showing the store information and a product carousel
A three-panel comic strip. The first panel shows a stick figure with a large, toothy grin and wide eyes, exclaiming "INTERNET!" The second panel shows the same figure with a smaller smile and wider eyes, saying "FOREVER..." The third panel shows the figure hunched over a laptop in a dark room, illuminated by the screen, with a green light in the top right corner reading "3:17 AM".
A conversation excerpt from the TV show The Bear season 2 episode 4 “Honeydew” where Marcus and Luca talks about culinary craft. Marcus: “How’d you get good at this?” Luca: “Honestly, I made a lot of mistakes.” Marcus: “That’s the secret, just fuck up?” Luca: “It might be, you know, fuck up. I think ’cause I started early, I got my skill set up really quick and then started to feel like I was really the best, like at all these really good places I really *was* the best cook. And then I started at this really great place as a commis. And this other chef started the same day as me. I thought we were competition, but really we weren’t. He was better than me. Much, much better than me. He worked harder and faster than I ever could. And it was the first time I realized that I wasn’t the best, and I was never gonna be the best. So I started looking at it like it was a good thing. Like, at least I knew who the best was now, I could take that pressure off myself. And the only logical thing to do was to try and keep up with him. So I never left this guy’s side.” Marcus: “And you got better.” Luca: “Oh mate, I got better than I ever thought I possibly could be just from trying to keep up with him.”
a button that has stacked logos rotating and a chevron. when hovered, the button expands horizontally to show the “More” text before chevron.
A simple black and white line drawing showing an abstract representation of a user as seen from a GUI's perspective. The figure from a research paper combines a finger-shaped head with a single large eye in the center and two ears on the sides. Below the image is text reading “The GUI's mental model of a user”
A rainy day scene through a bus window, featuring a building with a sign pointing to "Plaza Deli Cafe", with a rainbow arching across the sky.
A short clip showing an interaction of zooming into a website’s footer with the metallic plaque design shown in the previous thread, hovering on the plaque which jitters in response, and clicking on it which moves the plaque up to reveal the text below: “Thank you <3 @andy, @mehdi, @shen” showing appreciation and credit to the creators of the read.cv and posts.cv.
A dark themed memorial fan art design showing two metallic plaques with the text "In memory of Read.cv and Posts.cv". The left plaque includes a small icon of overlapping document symbols (a combination of the two services’ logos), while both plaques have a brushed metal texture with visible screw details in the corners.