Melanie Crissey

@melaniecrissey.com

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Loves startups • Codes for fun • Watercolors every day • Big on remote-first work • Based out of Marietta, GA • Working on technicallymarket.ing • Writing at melaniecrissey.com/blog

Two bucks with big antlers in overgrown yard
Large menacing hawk on a tree branch
Photo of pen drawing with watercolor. It’s a robot with chicken legs and trade-specialized hands you can swap in
Pyramid of assorted Krispy Kreme donuts with sprinkle candles for a 16th birthday
Watercolor depicting two tomatoes on the vine with a sticker
Big vibrant rainbow across yellow grey clouds with houses and buildings
Friends and family watching fireworks from a parking lot
alles gute zum geburtstag amerika burned into Dazed and Confused baseball scene
Bright colored salad on a brown plate, sitting on a wooden table next to a dirty window
Two tiny Better Boy tomatoes on a flowering vine. They are smaller than gumballs
Artax drowning in swamp of sad
Watercolor depicting a round red onion with a yellow sticker
Watercolor depicting peanut m&ms in a square glass jar with a tin lid
Fun meme screenshot Google AI Overview can’t count letters in words, as suspected
Gardenias blooming on a scrubby bush
Screenshot of restaurant list view showing filtered dinner restaurants near RenderATL AmericasMart
Alan with Whistlepig in glasses
Morgan & Morgan billboard absurd old man with body that doesn’t match on a pool float
Melanie’s dad voted Most Loyal in high school
Screenshot of email from OpenTable says Our dining recs in Atlanta, Meet your new favorite restaurant, Red Lobster
Screenshot of Bluesky post UX annotated to show actionable affordance vs. dead click area
Pond surrounded by trees and orange storage unit doors
Food in a bowl plate as described
Magnolia opened on a tree with a yellow seed pod
Screenshot of two error messages in the Claude AI web app UI. "This isn't working right now. You can try again later" and "Service is temporarily unavailable. You can try again."
Amateur watercolor depicting a papery vidalia onion
Screenshot of Google Fit bar charts
A small pantry cupboard packed full of baking supplies, bags and canisters of dried spices and seasonings
Four scraggly and slightly yellowed Better Boy seedlings in a big orange pot with a green tomato tree
Screenshot of Melanie's writing style guide in GitHub
A net bag of Vidalia onions in an even larger net bag
Sidebar icons on new Warp app look like the brand logo, a generic chart, a circle with a dot inside and a hand-drawn chunky sliced animal with ears
Smashed cucumbers and tomatoes in a bowl
Google search results of white houses with black trim and black grid doors
Bags of spices like star anise, cloves and cinnamon on a table with an open cookbook.
Six leggy tomato seedlings in a black plastic carton on a plate
Screenshot of Melanie’s Google Doc for conquering the Big Sad which includes a list of “QUICK FIXES” Eat a pickle Light a candle Snuggle with a dog Make a cup of tea Vacuum up dust bunnies Say “thank you” to somebody Play a fun playlist Spend time in nature Get your hands in the dirt Visit a body of water Book something to look forward to in the future—a trip, a workshop, a concert...
Buttery yellow honeysuckle on a moss covered rock
Exposed fabric lining where shards of rubber have come loose on the back of a pair of brown hiking boots
Screenshot weather apps shows a Thunderstorm and more rain for the week ahead
Watercolor depicting flowers on their last legs in a small black bud vase
Screenshot of interaction with Claude: Accessible dark color for light background. Give me a hex color that's a darker version of this #ffe4d0 but accessible to read if on top of that as a background color. Claude replies: #7d3a1e — a deep burnt sienna/terracotta. It sits in the same warm peach family as #ffe4d0 and achieves a ~6.3:1 contrast ratio against it, which comfortably passes WCAG AA (requires 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large text).
A bounty of collards in the sink in three different containers
A small slice of homemade pie on a white plate with a heap of stiff whipped cream. The fork is covered in cream
Plate of meatloaf and mash with green beans and almonds on a simply styled table
A Gantt overview from Claude for two hours to cook a recipe of meatloaf, garlic sauce, truffled mashed potatoes and green beans almondine
Claude login reads "Verify your phone number" but there's an error "Unsupported phone line type."
Screenshot of email reads Introducing The May Issue from Chloe Malle, Vogue with a promo that reads "Get the May issue Guaranteed" and it's Meryl and Anna together
Two large bowls of bucatini with strands of green garlic and parsley
Blue sofa and coffee table with a lamp, books, candles and photos
Speckled ceramic bowl filled with milky white soup, sliced green grapes, snipped mint, sherry vinegar and floating droplets of golden olive oil.
Isabella in Wuthering Heights is wearing glasses and a large headband
Screenshot of my camera roll with stills from Wuthering Heights against what the scene reminded me of while I was watching
8 x 8 blue casserole dish on a table with deviled eggs and an Easter plate of ham, green beans and milk bread roll
Bowl plate of shrimp on sturdy grits with andouille sausage bits, parsley and Crystal hot sauce on the table.
A foamboard reads “I can’t believe we’re still doing this” in the window above a TV
A watercolor depicting a cut open avocado with the seed next to the subject
Jeans spread on a grassy hill
Large watercolor depicting life size spring onions with purple bulbs