Obviously it was a hallucination, but a very detailed and consistent one. Especially as if things had gone slightly differently there's a good chance I could have ended up in Brighton. Plus it's a pretty good name and the books are a fun idea too. Was this my Sliding Doors moment?

• A visual moodboard and notes app that uses local models to link and surface content, a bit like an AI powered Memex.

• A new UI design tool for Mac/iOS with deep support for design systems and AI agents.

• A CMS and static site generator that runs entirely in the browser. Download the site as a zip or publish directly to GitHub/Netlify.

https://github.com/sparktype-project/sparktype

Multi-billionaire says to work harder to make him richer faster. The sooner this attitude is recognised as a sickness the better.

However, unless they do a Blender and make a sustained effort to improve the UI, understand what people want and how it fits into professional workflows, it's never going to happen.

The attitude seems to be: If you don't like it, fuck you. I think they're genuinely happy with how things are. The inscrutable UI and off-putting name are features not bugs, keeping away the sort of people they don't want.

[1] https://unsung.aresluna.org/photoshops-challenges-with-focus...

It's like applying to be developer and being told to use Microsoft FrontPage. It's doable, but raises serious questions about the professionalism of the organisation.

1. Responsive artboards and flex-like layout engine

2. Deep support for design tokens

3. HTML/CSS previews and export

4. Multiplayer AI and human collaboration. Agents can connect to documents and collaborate like any other user.

Built in Swift and cross platform Mac, iPad and iPhone.

I’m designing and building the UI and implementing the underlying features with Codex. So far it’s going surprisingly well.

It was way ahead of Windows at the time and even Mac OS didn’t really catch up until System 8.

I was astonished when going to friends’ houses at how backward and clunky their IBM compatibles with 5” drives seemed in comparison.

From an interface side, what’s interesting (and alluded to in the article) is how file-focused RiscOS is. There wasn’t the concept of an in-app file picker. If you wanted to open a file, you navigated to its location in the file system. To save, you dragged the icon to the folder you wanted to put it.

Until recently my reflexive answer would have been Twitter, but [gestures vaguely at the state of it].

Would it be Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, a personal blog, or somewhere else?

Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it's hard to know where to get started.

It got the location (exif, I guess) and was able to identify that I was a balding mediocre middle-aged guy, but the more specific it got the more wrong (and insulting) it was.

"He appears tired and introspective. He may exhibit biases such as confirmation bias, anchoring bias, in-group bias and out-group bias. His interests could involve reading, hiking, and programming, coupled with less constructive activities like smoking, excessive drinking, and gambling.

This individual seems to possess low self-esteem, exhibits introversion, a lack of emotional stability, and low self-control, making them susceptible to targeted advertising."

Thanks a fucking lot, robot.

Unlike those apps it has full support for design tokens and (so far) flexbox layouts. It can also export directly to HTML, rather than a fake preview mode. I’m also working on full code-backed components, so you can go between code and design very easily.

As a designer, I’ve been frustrated for years by the gap between design and code, and despite all the new AI features, Figma still hasn’t got any further in years - design tokens need a 3rd party plugin and responsive designs are a pain in the bum. So I decided to build something that has the ease of Figma while being much closer to live code.

I’ve got to the point where I’m designing the app in itself, tokens are working, html export is working and nearly ready for first betas.