Jamie Thingelstad

Writer of The Weekly Thing. Explorer of tech, the open web, AI, and a good escape room. Minneapolis is home.

POAP 7453396 for SPS Women in Tech Q3 2025 Lunch & Learn.

The image for this POAP was created via GPT-5 with the prompt:

I would like you to generate an image for a circular POAP badge with a vibrant teal-to-orange gradient background. At the center is the Women in Tech (WiT) logo — a clean, minimal flat-style laptop with coffee and charts inside, outlined in white. Radiating outward are subtle glowing neural network dots and arcs, minimal and elegant, giving an AI-inspired futuristic vibe. At the bottom-right inside the circle is a small playful line-art outline portrait of Jamie Thingelstad, wearing a hat with a bird perched on it, drawn in the same minimal outlined style as the WiT logo. Inside the circle edges, curved text: on top “WiT Q3 Lunch & Learn”, on bottom “How AI is Transforming Product Creation”. A small ribbon banner under the logo reads “Jamie Thingelstad · Sept 18, 2025”. Fun, playful, but clean and polished, with all elements fully contained within the circle for cropping.

Circular POAP badge with teal-to-orange gradient, WiT logo over a laptop and charts, line-art portrait of a hatted figure with a bird, dated Sept 18 2025

I don’t run the public betas for Apple OS releases — and days like today are the fun when I get to jump into the new release. Updated macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and lastly visionOS to 26! Having fun and it is cool to see all the apps updating with Liquid Glass. 🤩

macOS System Settings showing Software Update panel downloading macOS Tahoe 26 with current version Sequoia 15.6.1 installed.

I’m slowly starting to adopt the new Planned Date in OmniFocus 4.7. At a minimum it will reduce the use of a “Today” tag. I already use Due Dates sparingly but can now use them even less. The combination of Planned and Defer Dates are good enough for most things.