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I wrote ~4000 words on how I built Cartique, diving into the engineering and design challenges behind features like undo-redo management, auto-centering, canvas interactions, and more. deeepsig.me/cartique?v=1

you have to be a little obsessed and crazy to truly push on craft and design. smaller teams with passionate builders shine here. craft is spending 7 hours on the minuscule polish thing you thought was going to take 30 minutes but you keep going deeper. the thing that is absolutely of trivial necessity that most would think is a waste of time. sane people would compromise and find another solution. crazy people that eschew the standard way of designing and building common interactions, UI, and hardware just to see how it feels, or to tug at an inkling of a vision then do that about 100 more times throughout your product before you're remotely proud of it. it can't be outsourced or handed off to others to implement.

When it comes to more visual work, like animations, coding agents don’t quite know what great feels like yet. Here’s my way of fixing it: emilkowal.ski/ui/agents-with…

@utkarshaaag Lessgoo

utkarshaaag.neocities.org finally made my own little corner of the internet<3

We're teaming up with @asallen, @glennui, @lochieaxon, and more. The mission? Recreate and preserve software history.

Hayao Miyazaki trains newcomers during the production of Only Yesterday (1991), directed by Isao Takahata

Fun fact: the Fellowship of the Ring wasn’t recruited, a bunch of them just happened to be in Rivendell Boromir came to figure out his prophetic dream Legolas came to report that Gollum had escaped Gimli came to get advice after emissaries of Mordor visited Erebor Maybe it was fated, but def not explicitly planned. And then when the need for a heroic world-saving quest came up, the remainder of the nine qualified largely by virtue of being there

Introducing Runbuds - a Strava competitor. For the past 6 months @rafsoh, @drqas, @gabfoulon, and I have been working nights and weekends to build a social running app that feels up to par with today's standard for consumer mobile experiences. Motivation + download link below:

retro · share memory by @retrodotapp

made a tamagotchi you keep alive by going offline

No matter how old I get, I am still looking for this magic portal

For Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend, we created a miniature city with real-time data to celebrate businesses building on Stripe.

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there can never be too many layout transitions

knowing how something was made greatly appreciates the value for it. in an era where so much can be generated, i suspect we’ll get more glimpses into the craft behind seemingly innocuous moments.

The 1999 Sony PocketStation is such a cool, neat little thing to own

Art takes time, heart and soul. Not a 5 second prompt