Product designer / developer with too many side projects. https://teapawt.org/t.co/X7DzHox1fY
Chicago, IL
Joined January 2009
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⚫️⚪️ Gammon: Learn & Play just released (iOS, iPadOS & MacOS) — and Duo ready! apps.apple.com/us/app/gammon…
Learn to play if you're new—use One Roll for mini games to improve your strategy, and replay full matches with a Gammon coach recommending different ways to play.
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Totally free
I wasn't sure how best to layout frame info, since each frame is also responsive. But using vertical text works across all viewport sizes, and keeps primary actions in consistent places.
Figma / Sketch brought the infinite canvas to product design, and wrapped it with great workflows. Today though—they're limiting agents by the number of MCP calls.
And I'm realizing, the 80/20 of how I use these tools is shifting a lot … I really just need the canvas to visualize the entire flow; or companion versions. I've also never stopped at flat files, and worked through front-end and want tools to keep up and help push other designers farther into what actually ships.
This isn't a design tool, it's a read-only canvas for you to review, revise, and iterate with your agents.
Playing with an MCP design canvas. I'm getting tired of paying for Figma, Paper, Pen—anything that caps MCP usage.
My design workflow is moving more in this direction. The 20% of what I use is the canvas for review.
Design tools are capping MCP calls, and it feels like per-seat pricing is being reinvented for agents.
I’m already paying for the agent that’s making the calls and doing most of the work. As more services become headless, more of the interaction—and the friction of getting things done—is moving into the LLM harness.
That makes me wonder whether a flexible, universal canvas makes more sense for some of this work than calling into a dedicated design tool.
Give me a way to visualize what the LLM has made, comment on it, pick it apart, and give feedback. Let the canvas adapt to the work.
I don’t always need the full feature set of Figma or Paper. Sometimes I just need a shared surface to think and iterate with an agent.
🎉 Cerca.me now available as an official GPT plugin: chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_a…
Once you start saving places to your profile; pair with GPT on trip planning, recommendations, finding favorites with friends!
Dasha.fm is now an official ChatGPT plugin.
If you’re using ChatGPT for astrology, give it a try. It uses ephemeris data to calculate your chart from your birth date, time and location. Vedic, not Western.
chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_a…
Hoping tomorrow's Apple events emulates their robotic demo from last year: machinelearning.apple.com/re…
Bring a little personality to our future home robots.
What about a ⌘T quick switcher in the Claude desktop app @bcherny? Looking at how Notion does there as a primer.
Improving my backgammon game by learning dice probability—here's a Claude Artifact to help: claude.ai/artifact/a407c5e0-…
Love backgammon? Getting a Duo? Working through initial designs, let me know what you think.
Not sold on the crease of the boarding being centered when creased.
In testing haptics for my iOS app, I developed a quick sheet for all the possible haptic spots, so I can dial in each setting on device.
I turned my scroll-to-scrub video technique into a free, reusable TypeScript package. No framework, no scroll-jacking—just CSS for the stage and JS for video time.
Demo + code: arv.in/scroll-video-scrubber…
Redesigning + rebuilding the Enduvo.com site from scratch—working through scroll effects, without hijacking your scroll speed.
What do you think?
Untangling Interface from Architecture—a reason to visualize architecture the way we do interface.
open.substack.com/pub/arvind…
Shipped a silly thing, ASCII charts: tufte.ai ps. there's no actual AI involved :shrug:
Having taught a course that takes non-coders from idea to a shipped app. The hardest part isn't writing code anymore, it's the dependency sprawl. If you’re just starting out take the box off the shelf that does most of the things you need out of the box.
open.substack.com/pub/arvind…
John Gruber’s recent post got me thinking about the inflection points between iPhone and Mac processing. How far apart were they … until they weren’t? Here’s a breakdown of each iPhone compared to an equivalent Mac by processing power.
open.substack.com/pub/arvind…