Hugo Duprez

Press a button and your @figma layers are named. Now available 🎉 - It’s free, forever. - It’s open source, code available soon. Link on my bio. #ai #UIUXDesigners @FigmaPlugins @figmanewsletter @victormustar @julien_c

@GrilliotTodd Let’s goooo!

The last 24 hours have been an incredible rush. The GPUs are going brrrr On thursday i had 230 followers, my top performing post in the past month had about 6 likes. In about 24 hours, i got 400+ more followers, launched several api deals, and in one day got more new users than the entire week before that. This has been disorienting and overwhelming in the best way. I'm just so glad that nothing broke haha Thank you to all the accounts that reposted and gave me support! I love that I actually get to do this everyday. I'm so excited to be building pixel engine with you all!

@kitlangton @adamdotdev @opencode Smooth 👌

Playing around with some animations for @opencode desktop. Still much to improve.

@dan_note Great. I’m gonna try it

Figma shipped a silent patch specifically to kill figma-use — my open-source tool that did what they wouldn't: an MCP server that creates and modifies designs, JSX export, design linting. Then they scrambled to catch up with their own MCP server. So I spent the weekend recreating @Figma from scratch. OpenPencil: reads and writes .fig files, AI chat with full design tools, P2P collaboration with zero servers, ~7 MB app. No account, no subscription. Three days, one developer, MIT license. openpencil.dev

@stephenhaney @alanaagoyal Awesome ! I’m gonna try this!

Hello! Today we're releasing Paper Desktop Paper is now a canvas for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex. Any agent can read and write html to Paper. • push or pull from your codebase • pull real data from anywhere • less work, more design What will you ship? Sound on 🎶

@abstrakt314 @willeastcott @playcanvas @DanyBittel Great use-case indeed

Wikipedia is going to feel incomplete without interactive 3D scans. This honey bee is a Gaussian Splat running entirely in your browser - rendered with @playcanvas. Splat by @DanyBittel

@netcapgirl great piece

@rsms Even more: pick a product class with long-commoditized tech, AI won’t do anything about that, and you already know that the differentiator is not the code.

There used to be two playbooks for commercial software: a) be first to market b) make the best product Being first was rarely important, yet so many software companies operate this way. “We must ship by this time next month or we’ll lose.” A shallow way to build, in my opinion. Now with AI tools having gone from “lol nice JavaScript try again” in Jan 2025 to “damn, nice C program, take the wheel” in Jan 2026, there’s only one playbook that remains: make the best product. Now anyone can “compete” with you if being first is your differentiator. So don’t make a hundred products or a hundred features quickly just because you can. Instead leverage this “huge cheap skilled workforce” you now have to build something really good, even if it takes time. You can’t blame timelines for janky scrolling or broken text editing anymore. Build something that’s meaningfully different, something that you can be proud of a decade from now

@Steffest Wow cool, I’m gonna give it a try ! Awesome work

A new version of DPaint.js is out! Your free and funky web-based image editor. A cumulation of 2 years of bug fixes, optimizations and new features. Now on it's own proper domain: dpaint.app Full changelog: #history" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dpaint.app/docs/#history

@GrilliotTodd That's awesome!

I one shotted this guy using my new model I trained - Pixel-Engine-1.1 It's a first of it's kind pixel art animation model. Nano Banana can't get you motion this smooth. It just launched this last week in my app. You can try it yourself for free.

@signulll Yep. You only compete against your costs. Software is not dead, but those who usually capture the value are. Teams of two and solos will eat a good chunk of capital-intensive software businesses.

i’m absolutely loving the saas apocalypse discussions on the timeline right now. to me the whole saas apocalypse via vibe coding internally narrative is mostly a distraction & quite nonsensical. no company will want to manage payroll or bug tracking software. but the real potential threat to almost all saas is brutalized competition. i.e. ai doesn’t need to magically recreate salesforce. it just needs to make it trivial for tiny teams to deliver functionally equivalent outcomes at a fraction of the cost. once that happens, pricing power potentially collapses. imagine payroll… today you’re paying a fat margin for “trust + compliance + saas software” that increases prices so fucking often. like we have a startup & everyone is charging us up the ass for everything on a per seat basis. you can imagine tomorrow a 2 person shop empowered by ai can ship the same output, hit the same regulatory checkboxes, & charge 70% less because their cost structure is basically nil. today saas margins exist because: - engineering was scarce - compliance was gated - distribution was expensive ai nukes all three in many ways, especially if you’re charging significantly less & know what the fuck you are doing when using ai. if you go to a company & say we will cut your fucking payroll bill by 50%, they will fucking listen. the market will likely get flooded with credible substitutes, forcing prices down until the business model itself looks pretty damn suspect. someone smarter than me educate me on why this won’t happen please.

@get_artcraft Very cool!

Sound on. (psst: all of this, and it's open source)

@chongdashu @Deploydon spritefusion.com

@Deploydon Same here, most are just too general purpose and heavy handed for what i need. I think building your own editor is the way to go, especially if it can be integrated into the game

Out of sheer frustration ... I decided to vibe code my own tile map editor to see if it can help with making my agent skills be able to build better levels. It also proves that the agent skill is sufficiently good enough to know how to read the tilemaps - just bad at level design. So maybe I just need to build a level design skill.

@hugothomel Cool! Will try!

i built the 1st "world model game engine" it makes games from scratch, all running locally on my Mac M1 - 30fps - 40ms latency - ⁠50 million parameters - trained on 15 min of footage made using only "synthetic" datasets this is the first of its kind, & you can try it now

@rsms @adityaag The Industrial Age of software. >Regardless, it feels like desperate times of gold rush, not like a renaissance of software. That's what the current incentives are pushing towards.

This isn’t the first time a shift like this happens and it won’t be the last. I feel like what’s happening right now is what happened to photography — when everyone has an amazing camera and a publishing outlet to the entire world, we just get more of everything. Diversity and new ideas, class differences erased. But also a huge noise increase. The people who would wade through the mud of challenges to master photography pre iPhones were on a path of commitment to being the best they could be. Nowadays the vast ocean of noise has weirdly dampened photography as an art. I for sure thought the opposite would happen, that people without the means to pursue photography in the pre-iPhone times would now have a stage, but they too drowned in the noise. The same thing happened to sign making and many other fields of craft. It’s happening to software now. Average actual quality will go down and consumer expectations on quality will fall. Maybe the next 10-15 years is simply the cost of progress and we’ll build Star Trek-grade computers in a few generations from now. Perhaps this is “good”, perhaps not. Regardless, it feels like desperate times of gold rush, not like a renaissance of software. In some ways, software around 2010 felt like peak avg of quality. What did we culturally do back then that we changed or stopped doing, I wonder…

It's a weird time. I am filled with wonder and also a profound sadness. I spent a lot of time over the weekend writing code with Claude. And it was very clear that we will never ever write code by hand again. It doesn't make any sense to do so. Something I was very good at is now free and abundant. I am happy...but disoriented. At the same time, something I spent my early career building (social networks) was being created by lobster-agents. It's all a bit silly...but if you zoom out, it's kind of indistinguishable from humans on the larger internet. So both the form and function of my early career are now produced by AI. I am happy but also sad and confused. If anything, this whole period is showing me what it is like to be human again.

@Wattenberger Great to see some Svelte in your explorations !

Working with agents is a collaboration problem. Our tools didn’t even really support working together *before* agents. What happens when we reinvent then around collaboration? If we get the primitives right, we can build workflows that match exactly how we want to work

@covacut So cool

day one of building a tamagotchi smol + personal tech is the future <3

@studio__aaa Fine software

Dither Boy v5.1.1:

@thecosmos Congrats, awesome product!

A new era for Cosmos starts today. → Profiles reflect your taste. Profiles are now element-first. Clusters still live in a separate tab. → A more social following feed. A single stream makes it clear who saved what, and where it lives. → We’ve raised $15M, co-led by @ShineCapital and @matrix, with participation from @GVteam, @Accel, PNP, and @acasalena. Cosmos is where inspiration lives. Come dream with us.

@lucacs illustration → 2D animation → 3D animation → design → engineering

question for Design Engineers: did you get your start as a designer or an engineer?

@BenjaminLegget3 Great, can't wait to see it!

@HugoDuprez Thanks mate, I'm working on and off on a bigger Gameboy colour version (currently my pfp). I'll message you a link when it's done. Project looks really cool.

You can just add a CRT shader to your software.