old (44) grumpy person in ui-dev-world (aka design-engineering).

Joined August 2024
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Book of Shapes is my latest side-project. A daily generative pattern gallery. Simple, bold and eh ... configurable. Tweak it, download it, paste it straight into Figma. 40 patterns live, a new one every day. CU ❤️
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I’m a collector at heart. Last year, after being frustrated with any app I tried for managing my design inspiration I did the only thing that made sense in 2025 – building my own, just for myself. Native, cross-platform, file system based.
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I've just spoken at @webexpo in Prague - this me making my slides for my talk...
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I think you're going to see it's all going to converge back to screens and data and panels and buttons. People don't want to ask the same question over and over. They'll ask something, it'll be set up to show something, and that thing will be saved as something they can always look at. Stable pre-defined glances, not blank slates each time. Common questions will become buttons and panels again. Most people ask the same kinds of questions about what they work on most of the time. Having to start from scratch with the questions every time seems like a step backwards. Another way to put this: Questions are wonderful for a deeper dive, but not a daily drive. Not sure you're suggesting questions always, but the comparison screenshots looked that way.
Software will move beyond UI to a "just say what you want" experience where agents work the rest out It's objectively better, easier, faster. All products will converge on this as always. It'll change what what defines a product & PM. This is what we've built with Operator
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1042 Mono Type drawing the M N. The pen tool is your friend that AI can never teach you as a discipline. Practice daily.
1042 Mono Grid
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In God we trust. In Love we fuck.
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„This never was a real job“ is not only true for some kind of „coders“ jobs. AI will overtake these - not all - but _these_ are many.
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Today it is PageIndex, yesterday Karpathy´s Knowledge-Base ... they all "killed RAG". Truth is for most data-sets: Hybrid (Vector BM25) Reranker ( 1-2 corpus-specific extras e.g. entity extraction or context-retrival ) is and will stay the baseline (for now at least).
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i've been working on llm memory systems for 3 years and dumped everything i know into this. learn about the 9 axes of memory systems, the 10 most common failure modes, why memory eval is an intractable problem, and more. everyone building with llms should read this.
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It is what it is - to get almost free kind of human level intelligence is empowering, worrying, addictive - that it is.
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Have I gone too far? Wanted some colors for my otherwise pretty minimal personal website. I added this node-garden-inspired (probably not that noticeable here) thing that wraps dynamically around the content of the page.
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remaking a grid pattern I saw from Mario De Meyer
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Claude gets a free Code-Review by 1000s of Devs currently. Smart move.
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My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
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The Figma MCPs shows that it will take some time until LLM will be able to use arbitrary system correctly. Yes, they can call the tools, but the LLM have no sense of what they are doing there, what they need to check or verify or what to take care of.
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New Casual Archivist about legal charts that look like blades of grass—from Cerîde-i Adliyye, a Ministry of Justice publication printed in Turkey in the mid-1920s. Check your inbox! 📊
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Enjoying art irl. HFK-days in Bremen (School of the art)
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Book of Shapes is my latest side-project. A daily generative pattern gallery. Simple, bold and eh ... configurable. Tweak it, download it, paste it straight into Figma. 40 patterns live, a new one every day. CU ❤️
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A new thing to play with. In fact it is just another deformable ring-grid. Here with an option to fill some cells based on noise. Inspired by this image I found in the wide of the internet. Claude says the orginal image has something to do with Iannis Xenakis' "Formalized Music". Need to investigate here further. Enjoy.
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