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Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
Maggie's amazingly in-depth guide to experiencing the drug trip Yegge's Gas Town without actually needing to visit yourself.
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Powering a static site with AT Protocol
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Spool
Spool Spool is a git-native, event-sourced task tracker. Tasks live in the repo as append-only event logs — no server, no SaaS, no separate
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Ferrotype
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Player
Player Player is a toy music player built with GPUI, the GPU-accelerated UI framework that powers Zed. It started as an excuse to build something real with GPUI
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Immediate Mode GUI Resources
- Design
- About the IMGUI Paradigm - Dear ImGui Wiki - Explains how UI state lives in your code rather than hidden in the library
- Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces (2005) - Casey Muratori - The original blog post that coined "IMGUI"
- Why is UI in Rust So Hard? - Warp Dev - Challenges of Rust's memory safety rules with traditional GUI patterns
- Managing State
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Product Design Is Lost
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please can we standardize this already 🙏 1p isn't even in the brawl here, sometimes there are 3 or more of these.
Congrats y'all - excited to see where things go for here.
Now... deltadb OS please? 😁
I've been having a lot of fun letting agents do things together using telephone today.
Give it a spin and let me know w...
god ui, great tool 🔥
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I'm back from pat leave, and been getting back into #gpui again! And thus, gpuikit 0.9 is out!
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Is the Safari team doing some sort of social experiment? "What happens if we make Safari completely unusable for everyon...
Ahhh this is awesome. Good shit 🔥
Both of these are objectively correct. Anything not neutral, flat and soul-less.
congrats to the @zed.dev team for reaching the 1.0 milestone :) it's been my daily driver for... a long time
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Congrats @nathansobo.bsky.social, @maxbrunsfeld.bsky.social , @as-cii.com, the entire team; and the community that helpe...
Got to talk at @aidotengineer.bsky.social conf last week about the need for collaborative AI engineering.
All our curre...
Same task, same prompt... why does opus-4-6 take 3,4,5,6x longer to do things??
Putting together the final touches on slides for my talk at AI Engineer conf this Thursday @aidotengineer.bsky.social
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This just wasn't possible until like, yesterday
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Building UI in GPUI
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 examp
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Adding Extended Context in GPUI
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The Black Magic of Canvas and Text Editing
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
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Work
- Zed Industries
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- LOOKBOOK
- York University
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I did a podcast?
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The Surprising Complexity of Simple Features
Danilo explores some of the decisions and small details that go into every feature.
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Launching Zed's agent panel, inline assist and more
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NR-31 Adding a Favicon in 2024
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 ar
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Generating 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 End
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Building a New Site with Astro
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Design Docs V2
Design Docs V2.0 brings a new site built in Next.js, refined content, and a dedicated domain at designdocs.co. !A screenshot of the Design D
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fig-gen: Making Generative Art in Figma
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Writing with ADHD
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,
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Good Software
- Mac Apps
- Cleanshot - The best screenshot tool for Mac
- Alfred - Powerful launcher and productivity tool
- Magnet - Window management tool
- Figma - Collaborative design tool
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Mixblocks
!Mixblocks thumbnail The Concept Inspired by a project a friend did recently about a display that reacts to your music, I started exploring mixblocks. A creatio
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Web Dev Resources
- Preface
- Tools
- VS Code u2013 More or less the god of code editors at this point. I was resistant to moving to something so "heavy", only to find once I tried it it is incredibly fast on top of being packed with useful stuff.
- Codekit u2013 All sorts of fun things out of the box. Compass, local servers, sass compilation & more. I use VSCode more these days to cover these needs, but I relied on Codekit for years.
- RunJS - JavaScript playground for your desktop
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Design Resources
- Books
- Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug - Practical guide to web usability
- Graphic Design: The New Basics - Ellen Lupton & Jennifer Cole Phillips - Fundamental principles of graphic design
- Steal like an Artist - Austin Kleon - Creativity framework for finding inspiration
- The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman - Principles of intuitive design and usability
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Design Docs
!Design Docs Home An open source design doc site focused on helping early career designers and new grads on their journey into the design industry. Go to Design
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