Manas Vaze

give me this and an LLM

Designers, now it’s your time. AI can generate interfaces. It still can’t figure out what feels right for humans.

For anyone who used a computer between 1990 & 2005… what’s the one game you still think about?

I built a Chrome extension that helps you extract styles from any website and generate DESIGN(.)md or SKILL(.)md files Works with Google Stitch, Claude Code, Codex etc ... and it's free!

design é um trabalho muito de corno ne. eu amo muito a pratica, mas é uma humbling experience muito grande sempre. porque ao contrario de estrategia, marketing, redação parece que todo mundo quer dar pitaco e sabe fazer melhor que vc - independente da area. e vc tem que aceitar a maioria das vezes, porque beleza é subjetiva e no fim não é só para os outros mas também sobre os outros

Exploring switching language transition

In 452 AD, Pope Leo I met with Attila the Hun near Mantua, Italy, and successfully persuaded him to halt his invasion of Rome. Prayers for Leo XIV 🙏

Advice to fellow side project tinkerers: don't forget to set up aggressive logging! (OTel traces + manual event capture + Vercel log drain into Axiom works great for me) I can fix most bug reports by pasting the user's email into an LLM connected to the Axiom MCP. Between events and traces, the model can replay nearly any timeline of activity and figure things out with a high level of detail. Don't forget to scrub PII. Over-log at first and trim back as you build confidence in different areas of the code. MCPs are still fine, ignore the haters. This works fine at a small scale, ofc.

When your working life rewards you, it’s easy to ratchet up the complexity: homes, cars, travel, possessions etc. I have found that all that complexity comes at the sake of your most fleeting asset: your time. Instead of building things, all of a sudden you’re dealing with minutiae and logistics. Instead of talking mostly to engineers, you’re talking mostly to non-engineers. The building stops…the business of managing self inflicted complexity begins. It’s worth noting that the best players in the game (Buffett, Elon) have kept their life extremely basic, almost monastic/nomadic, as success ratcheted them ever higher. I think it’s the biggest secret hiding in plain sight: When the world upgrades your status, downgrade your complexity.

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