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- Agents that read the room — 2026-08-20
One room might type in lowercase fragments. Another might write careful paragraphs.
- Building hilos — 2026-07-20
A lot of us work with AI agents now but… we all do it in isolation. I sit in my terminal with my agents, by myself.
- The idea becomes a machine — 2026-07-17
Madrid, January 1996. Sachiko Cho and Jo Watanabe cover a gallery wall with irregular wavy bands of color ink, working from a typewritten in…
- Airport food — 2026-07-15
There’s a scene in WALL-E where humans are floating in their hover chairs, and the ship announces try blue, it’s the new red!
- My canvas became a terminal — 2026-07-13
There’s always another agent to launch. Another branch to review.
- Always on — 2026-07-02
Here’s the thing about me and vacations. In five years of running my startup I took two.
- Token budget — 2026-06-01
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- But he said I’m smart — 2026-05-26
So apparently Meta is gonna start recording every click and keystroke on their employees’ work computers to train AI.
- Even if AI did it better, I’d still do it — 2026-04-27
Lately, I find myself wondering what the point of anything is…
- Mute the noise and stay curious — 2026-04-20
There’s a lot of loud voices telling us Claude Design means designers are cooked, or that it’s proof the machines have no soul… and that “on…
- AI feels like a drug — 2026-04-13
The whole time I was drawing… my head kept going: what if u trained a LoRA model to generate pixel art in this style?
- taste.md — 2026-04-09
And I’m sitting here like… sure, some companies invested in design, the one discipline in tech that was actually about this stuff.
- Friction Is the Feature — 2026-04-06
If you’ve ever worked with a good design team, or at a design studio, you know the magic doesn’t come from everyone agreeing. It comes from…
- Fried — 2026-03-13
Not burned out. Not tired.
- A design tool for humans and robots — 2026-02-28
it has all the tools, infinite canvas, and layers we humans love…
- Efecto Angles: generate any angle of an Image — 2026-02-24
Added a simple tool called Angles on Efecto that lets you take any image and generate new views of it from different camera angles.
- Extended Overthinking — 2026-02-23
Every new model, every new tool, every new workflow. Yes, they’re powerful.
- A new way of interacting with the machine — 2026-02-17
Everyone, including designers now, has been talking about coding with LLMs for over a year… building apps by talking to AI.
- Monday Tech Update — 2026-02-16
OpenAI scooped up Peter Steinberger, the guy behind OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot, formerly Moltbot… Anthropic made him rename it twice lol)…
- bye, chatgpt 4 — 2026-02-13
But also… it helped a lot of people.
- The People Ringing the Alarms Are Leaving the Building — 2026-02-11
A lot happened in AI this past week. Like…
- Glitch Art: From Broken VHS Tapes to Digital Aesthetics — 2026-02-10
For decades, these were mistakes.
- Claude Code for Noobs — 2026-02-06
I’ve been using Claude Code every day since it launched and some have asked me how… I wrote about my whole terminal journey last week. But h…
- Halftone: From Newspaper Ink to Digital Shaders — 2026-02-02
Before halftone, printing photos was basically impossible.
- Stuff I liked this week #5 — 2026-01-29
Illustration by Eiko Ojala… from his “Everyday” series.
- Your Vibecoded App Is Probably Hackable — 2026-01-28
Tenzai tested five major vibe coding tools in December 2025: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Replit, and Devin. They found 69 vulnerabilities ac…
- The Design Vibeshift — 2026-01-27
I’ve been watching my feed on X and the vibe has changed. More and more, I see designers sharing finished experiments or prototypes they cod…
- A Heated Rivalry: Claude Code + OpenAI Codex — 2026-01-26
I read somewhere on reddit that Codex was great at finding bugs, so, I decided to try it out. After Claude Code finishes building something,…
- how to be efficient ⏰ — 2026-01-23
Now… supposedly, there’s research suggesting that urgency activates parts of the brain that help with concentration…
- Stuff I liked this week #4 — 2026-01-21
Illustration by Kanioko… pink face peeking through an igloo with penguins.
- How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Terminal — 2026-01-21
I’m a designer. For years, my world has been Figma, Sketch, Adobe.
- Stuff I liked this week #3 — 2026-01-13
Happy New Year! First batch of 2026.
- Stuff I liked this week #2 — 2025-12-29
Happy holidays! Here’s another batch of cool stuff I’ve been collecting.
- Stuff I liked this week #1 — 2025-12-24
Hey! Gonna start sending these just to get in the routine of sharing stuff I like.
- The Boy and The Machine — 2025-11-10
It’s a personal story about how AI went from helping me look smart in front of lawyers (or so I thought) to helping me process anxiety late…
- Empathy Patch — 2025-10-30
In stories, we’ve always imagined robots wanting to feel. From Blade Runner’s “tears in rain” to Kubrick/Spielberg’s A.
- Purple 💜 — 2025-10-23
You can say plz, make it minimal, brutalist, sharp edges, monochrome, and somehow you still get… more purple.
- Vibecoding Basics — 2025-06-23
Vibecoding is pretty simple: you describe what you want in plain language, and an AI tool turns that into working code. You say, “Add a dark…
- Identity Unemployed — 2025-06-02
But the problem is not just the jobs. It’s who we are without them.
- Orchestrating AI Agents Feels a Lot Like Managing a Team — 2025-05-19
Quick heads up—after dragging my feet for ages, I’m finally moving this newsletter to Substack. (Yeah, I know, I’m late to the party.
- a few design inspiration links and a thought from hunter s. thompson — 2024-08-21
This letter, by Hunter S. Thompson, to a fan who asks for advice, reminds me of the importance of self-discovery and not letting predefined…
- just dropping some new inspo — 2024-08-20
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- some inspo to get the week started — 2024-08-19
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- just five inspiration links… also, are you lonely? — 2024-08-17
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- an old esquire cover, doodles, and some cool landing pages — 2024-08-16
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- happy faces and old-but-gold links in this desigeisttttt — 2024-08-15
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- happy faces and old-but-gold links in this desigeisttttt — 2024-08-14
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- I only got eight links, two are about typefaces, one about toothpaste — 2024-08-13
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- Some stuff I found during a lazy Sunday — 2024-08-12
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- Design Inspiration… NOW IN 3D!!! — 2024-08-11
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- Would you wear a ketchup bag? and other inspiration links — 2024-08-10
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- Clamping on Inspiration Mountain 🏔️ — 2024-08-09
Do Good Even in a world that feels chaotic and overwhelming, you don’t need to wait for the perfect moment to make a difference—just start d…
- Creativity on Tap: FREE REFILLS 🥤 — 2024-08-08
Play Deficit Children today are cossetted and pressured in equal measure. Without the freedom to play they will never grow up.
- Caution: Inspiration Overflow Ahead!!! ☢️ — 2024-08-07
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- inspiration: minimalist posters and doodles — 2024-08-05
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- pretty ok-ish design links — 2024-08-03
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- Not Stale Inspiration Links 🍍 — 2024-08-02
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- Hey, we made a design course! 🤓 — 2024-02-13
Yo yo yo! My team and I are working on this dope course called “Master Gorgeous UI Design”, where we will share our secrets to creating stun…
- Hey, we made an AI design tool — 2023-12-12
It’s been a while since I last wrote to you. My recent posts were all about AI and its potential for designers—a bit philosophical, lol.
- Transhumans: Free Punk-Inspired Doodles Inside 🎨 — 2023-08-14
The vibe behind Transhumans is kind of inspired by the punk posters I used to do as a teenager—what actually got me into graphic design.
- The Illusion of Free Will and AI — 2023-05-22
Free will is commonly understood as the idea that we make our own choices. However, this notion is often challenged by the belief that our a…
- The Future of Work for Designers — 2023-05-15
I don’t know if you’ve noticed all the recent massive Twitter threads and news, but design is undergoing rapid change as a result of AI.
- Bringing Analog Back 🎨 — 2023-05-01
As a digital artist, I’ve spent the last couple of years arguing for the value of digital art and saying, “JPEGs are art too!
- The Almighty Text Input: Our Savior and Undoing 😱 — 2023-04-24
Let’s talk about a thing we interact with daily but often overlook—the text input field.
- 🌱 Rethinking Growth: A bit about Degrowth Economics 🎨 — 2023-04-17
Today, I’d like to dive into the unconventional world of degrowth economics.
- 🤖 Embrace the Present: Top AI Tools for Designers and Creatives 🎨 — 2023-04-10
Yo!!! I’ve been playing with a bunch of cool AI tools lately and wanted to share them with you.
- Sketch Together: Update Profile — 2023-04-04
If you did not make this request, it was probably submitted by someone else by mistake. You can ignore this email, and no changes will be ma…