ollie (career boy arc)

still my favourite version of the trolley problem

dream last night involved meeting a hot guy, chiseled jawline, crazy abs, and then it turned out it was Danny DeVito on the full looksmaxxing stack

@falcone_design @ridd_design @stephenhaney co-signed

@ridd_design @stephenhaney you should just do a quarterly vid on your stack / workflow - i’d watch!

there's one element of my design workflow today that I definitely did not see coming... a year ago I thought I would be making a (functional) mess in code and then dialing in the details in Figma turns out the opposite thing happened? instead I typically start by ideating with Claude inside of @paper maybe I'll make some manual tweaks but more often I'm simply getting to a rough concept that feels directional correct the canvas has become my whiteboard and the output is rarely any higher fidelity than the example video above 🤷‍♂️ at this point I have Claude quickly scaffold the concept I like the most and start to dial in the details in code two tools I use constantly: 1) Agentation 2) DialKit that combo move speeds up frontend iteration immensely also Claude is SO good at extrapolating styles. Sometimes I say things like "use our tertiary button styles but extrapolate the inner shadows to make them higher contrast for this large card" and it freaking works not only that but the way I use inner shadows, border rings, etc. takes forever to create manually (or forever to create a system large enough to not be rigid in Figma). I'm genuinely faster in code which I never saw coming. dialing in the visuals in code also brings motion and interaction details into the process. how things move and feel is now 100% included in "UX Design" finessing in code gives me wayyy more control than I've ever had as a designer

@Actualwebutante @ThinkingBone the pubs do last call at 11 😬

@ThinkingBone the sun never sets, but the trains sure fucking do!!! how am I supposed to hit the pubs like this!!!

London is an unserious city. The trains stop running after midnight.

@thorstenball are you seeing this manifest mostly in the grindset / 996 / great lock-in?

It does feel like that in recent years tech went from non-zero thinking towards zero-sum. Am I only feeling this? In any case, I wonder: Is that due to ZIRP/post-ZIRP or is it (and that's today's thought) due to the AI race and model houses just not being able to stop?

@thomson_xyz @timoshando lmao

@timoshando Like the iconic poster! 😊 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Enfan…

here’s why I can’t make Jesscamp how bout you?

@timoshando AHHHHhHhHHHHHHHH

i forget who but i heard someone pronounce Xian famous foods like “Zion famous foods”

@shinboson offensive to actual stupid twinks who can’t stay above 125

ok did not expect this

i love barrel leg pants but i often wonder if they make me look like i have scoliosis

@danywander 🤤

some interactions

(very rough) JRPG themed portfolio in the works

@sarthakgh hate this but tbf to him caving to special interest groups is the MO of all NYS and NYC politics

Congrats to NYC Mayor on yet another push to harm the majority in the interest of protecting a minority interest group Waymo rollout in NYC has been stopped

@danielbrottman @sarthakgh not the first for me (there haven’t been a huge number) but this is such a damn miss

@sarthakgh aw, this is the first mamdani thing i've disagreed with

@carolleii @andyhsuco ooo this sounds great

Hosted a design reading session with @andyhsuco, where we read and discussed a range of topics from how Reddit influences LLMs to how Brian Eno applies Axis Thinking in his work Hmu if you want to attend the next 🙇🏻‍♀️

i'm a unique character in tech bc i scored a 0 on both the autism and adhd inventories

babe it's fine, i swear i got x premium for grok and not for engagement

claude is definitely better at working with @paper (guessing bc it's more used to html than @figma 's node tree representation), but overall this was a great release and has made me more bullish on figma again

finally! been using it this past week and it has been pretty great. v glad i put off translating the design system from code to figma because now claude is taking care of it for me, and it's v good at it