Two decades ago I had a better Mac desktop experience than I have today. I only had a single low res (by todays standards) screen, yet I felt like Hugh Jackman in Swordfish - deftly navigating more than nine displays without thinking, muscle and spatial memory working seamlessly together. TLDR; I built an app to…
I tried Claude Design yesterday and I have a theory for how this whole thing shakes out.
AI agents produce slop when not restricted. Here are 10 things to watch out for
Posts on software engineering – engineering culture, system legibility, and performance.
A technique for accurate text and numbers in AI-generated images: generate the layout deterministically, then ask the image model to paint on top.
I used to see that retro multi-stroke text effect quite often and tried to replicate it using the CSS text-stroke property, but the results never quite matched. Because text-stroke accepts a single value, stacking elements was the only workaround I could think of, though it didn't seem to work.
How I turned a single long desk into a digital side for work and an analog side for reading, writing, and building LEGO with the kids.
A dynamic ASCII art cloud generator that creates cloud patterns in real-time
One of nature's beautiful patterns captured in dancing lights
I have a thing for lamps. Especially designer lamps from the past. I occasionally share them on X and Instagram, and people always ask me about the brands and models. I love lamps so much that I designed one myself. So I decided to give a tour of the lamps
The best part of digital video disc isn't the video.
Sometimes the law is not the law
An attempt to detect AI design patterns in Show HN pages
iPads should be radically touch only, and MacBooks should be keyboard-first
This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team.
An updated list of design thinking books and papers to understand the principles underpinning the design thinking process and its practice.
In this article, I try to understand why coding agents can be infuriating to use. I think the problem is their conversational UX: they behave enough like helpful colleagues to trigger our social instincts, but they don't learn, adapt, or take responsibility the way people do, which makes their repeated mistakes feel…
I’m building In the Long Run where runners do virtual runs on famous routes around the world. The app tallies up your Strava mileage and plots your total distance as progress against country- or continent-spanning routes. The intention is to provide long-term inspiration and motivation; life is a marathon, not a…
A blog about software craft and quality
The mythical, it's text, so it's accessible There is a persistent misconception among sighted developers: if an application runs in a te...
An enticing social media preview summary.
Once upon a time, a frontend ticket landed on my queue which was not properly mine, but the only other Arabic reader on the team was on leave. It went roughly as follows; a block of mixed-content Arabic prose on the …
Compromise is neither good nor bad, it’s something we do every day. It’s decision making. Prioritizing. It’s finding the right balance between two competing ...
TL;DR I use an Excalidraw, wrap the elements of interest with a frame, name it with export_ prefix, my forked excalidraw extension automatically generates SVGs for light and dark mode.
If vibecoding is what people say it is, the world should be drowning in vibecoded artifacts right now. Two years of access. Millions of people with the tools. The barrier supposedly fell, right? RIGHT? So where is everything?
A brilliant project cleverly sabotages everyday objects to reveal how much we take for granted about them — and about the design process.
2024 Nano Texture Macbook Pro on the left; 2021 Glossy Macbook Pro on the right TLDR: the Nano Texture performs wonderfully anywhere where light used to be a factor and used to force me to shade my screen or avoid the place entirely. I’m less concerned with where I sit indoors. Coffee shops / offices with skylights or…
Understanding Threshold Map in Ordered Dithering.
Ryanair are Europe’s most profitable airline and they are masters of this noble form.
