I'm a designer & maker enabling people's creativity and ability share knowledge. Chances are you have probably used something I've built.
I want to help people create the things important to them—To empower them to create something themselves and feel the euphoria it brings. My goal is always to help the people around me level up, in their careers & lives.
I post about all types of things here. You will find a mix of work, top of mind, reflections, & process. Enjoy!
An overview of how to build in gpui, and the tricks I've learned over the last 2 years.
A reasonably unstructured collection of tips and tricks for building UI in gpui. This post will give a bit more flavor as we go to the examples in the gpui-examples repo. Application & Context Remove the default titlebar Example – Hide titlebar This one is pretty straight forward. but immediate...
Make global items accessible from anywhere in your app through cx.
Inevitably when building an app you have various state and data that you want accessible from anywhere in an app. When using gpui, thanks to Rust's powerful trait system, you can use an extension to do this–and it is pretty handy. Let's take a look. How it works Here's the basic idea: Define a t...
Or: Writings on how complex canvas editors and text systems work.
As I dive into building my own canvas editor I'm starting to wonder about the folks and tech that has come before. Here is a collection of things I've found so far (with hopefully more to come!) Canvas Figma - Evan Wallace A collection of writings on technical work on Figma. Figma - Rasmus Ander...
What do we actually need to do to add a favicon to a site in 2024? With a little Astro flavor.
Let's go on a quick side quest to add a favicon to this new site. These always seem to be a bit of a pain because the vendor requirements are always changing. Evil Martians have a really great writeup that covers a lot of this here: How to Favicon in 2024: Six files that fit most needs . We'll most...
Ahead of some schemes of building site-wide content search, and perhaps an RSS feed, let's build a content index.
I've been eyeing TinySearch for a long while, and now is a great chance while things are super simple to try to get it working. Matthias Endler has a great post on experimenting with building a really tiny site-wide search utalizing Rust & WASM, and ever since I read it I've been wanting to try it...
It's that time of year again – time to build a new site. This time, I'm using Astro. Here's how it's going.
I'm out on paternity leave until early April, and with things finally calming down a little bit with the little one I thought I'd take a little time to build a new site. For now this is a bit of a back-to-basics approach. I'm trying out Astro, and it feels oddly nostalgic for some reason – like I'm...
Design Docs V2.0 brings a new site built in Next.js, refined content, and a dedicated domain at designdocs.co. It aims to give early career designers resources and a roadmap to improve their craft, prepare a portfolio, and get their first job in the industry.
Design Docs V2.0 brings a new site built in Next.js, refined content, and a dedicated domain at designdocs.co. [image] I've been working on updating resources to make it easy for people to contribute to the project and plan over the following few versions to have clear tasks for people to pick up....
Exploring the new Automator plugin for Figma. I thought exploring a minimal generative series using pixels and mapping equations would be a fun way to try it out.
Generative Art with Figma & Automator I spent the evening exploring the new Automator plugin for Figma from Jordan Singer. I thought a minimal generative series using pixels and mapping equations would be a fun way to try it out. [image] Process I started by pushing on nesting shapes – How does...
A personal reflection on how ADHD affects my writing process, inspired by Geraint Evans' article on ADHD writing styles.
This post is a reflection on Geraint Evans' "This is how an ADHD person actually writes." I'd start there first! I'm a terrible writer. Or, at least, I've convinced myself of that my whole life. The things that I write flow awkwardly, and I never understand all the rules of writing and the way to...
A collection of excellent apps and tools that make life better.
Learn, create & remix with light and sound. mixblocks lets you create small, open source blocks that anyone can use to make creations, license-free–with a focus on physical output to displays like LED Dot Matrices.
A curated collection of web development tools, references, and learning materials.
A curated collection of design resources and references.
An open source design doc site focused on helping early career designers
A set of backgrounds for the iOS 11 GUI
A two part project: one part illustration, one part narrative. It was born out of a desire to make without a problem, to make for the sake of making.
This is a project about discovery, identifying weakness, and finding strength. A two part project: one part illustration, one part narrative. It was born out of a desire to make without a problem, to make for the sake of making. Learning to Make The illustrations began by exploring the ideas of lo...
