Dan Hollick

Last week, I published a chapter about color. It's fairly comprehensive: makingsoftware.com/chapters/color…

@lenjaminbeonard can't wait to drop $1m on one of these

@usagimaruma very cool. have wanted to play with multi-col layouts too but find it difficult with lots of images

シングルカラムなWeb記事はなんだか読みにくいと感じていたので、誌面のような2カラムデザインにしてみた。行内の文字数が減るので読みやすいかも？ あと脚注をインタラクティブにした。

@YaelBienenstock this is incredibly cool.

For years I've been taking selfies of my outfits just to remember what I wore or share with friends. Camera roll: thousands of pictures, zero of them findable. So i built the thing i wanted. Meet Yafa 🧵

@steveruizok back to the good old days

good heavens that's fast

Playing with codex + goal mode. here is a "dab brush" raster renderer. Create an algorithm that simplifies the body of the drawn shape behind the live edge into arcs and curves. Fewest number of arcs/curves vs. highest similarity to the raster input.

@antoniolupetti These are stunning!

"Algebrica" is a free and open mathematical knowledge base. All entries are progressively being released in Markdown format on GitHub for anyone who wants to study mathematics freely and openly. Alongside the texts, the individual SVG illustrations are also made freely available. They are minimal, mathematically accurate, and designed to be easily reusable in notes, lecture material, or educational resources. Since they are vector-based and code-driven, they can also be modified or improved simply by editing the source. Another step toward making the knowledge base more open, transparent, and genuinely useful over time.

@ghumare64 How about changing the text though?

@DanHollick I am no designer, so I am just referring to specs and using the cursor and Claude to code it. Using free SVGs, fonts, etc. I am not sure I can cook animations like you.

I loved this spec, so re-designed aiengineeringfromscratch.com - very beautiful indeed.

@raphaelschaad Haha thanks. I'm physically incapable of being salesy.

@DanHollick I really liked listening to you talk. Smart, no fluff, not salesey.

Have you ever wondered how I make some of the illustrations for makingsoftware.com? Well, I made a video walking through some of the tooling I've made. Hopefully its interesting.

@davidishim Haha thanks man, very kind.

@DanHollick Dude your stuff is so amazing!

@robhope haha thanks man

@DanHollick that last one was noms shoh

@nlevin Thanks Noah

@DanHollick incredible!!! LOVE to see this, Dan! what an amazing era we're in for toolmakers — so exciting 🤩

@raunofreiberg *resolution starts to decrease

Good question and the answer has changed over time. Basically, I'm now happy to make a plugin for a single graphic and then throw it away. As long it made the graphic easier/better in some way. As a rule, I try to avoid making "super plugins" that do multiple things at once because then their resolution starts to increase and its easy to get sucked into building the tool when my main goal is writing the book.

@gabyyyre Cursor 😂

@DanHollick Awesome, with Figma Make? or outside via Claude/other?

@astarcodes soon.

@DanHollick All this is great but can you tell me where can I buy the license for the chapters? 😭

@gabyyyre Each one is unique, like a snowflake. Don't really care what the stack is - I just describe what I want, usually with some reference image I've made, and let the agent choose how to solve the problem.

@DanHollick What’s your stack for building the Figma plugins?

@amarelodandara Yeah, I've already recorded a mini tutorial series for the "advanced edition"

@DanHollick I think if you offered a plus option to the project just of you doing deep dives in the process people would be here for it (I am people)

@jamesm @Lovable Stoked for you man - stacked team.

I’m excited to share that I’m joining the team at @Lovable ✨ I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work with this unbelievably talented team—and I can’t wait to show everyone what we’re working on!

@msllrs hahahaha

@DanHollick tingling rn

@deereis Thanks Adriano - you're definitely in the right place

@DanHollick This is the nerdy corner of X I want to be in, great video Dan! Love how you always complement things with visuals in your videos 👏