Daily log / shipping

shipping

ahhh or argggg, back inside Figma. After giving keys to Fable I’ve reclaimed those back, working through what looks like the third rewrite of my thesis deck.

so far my favourite aspects of working through decks with Fable and Figma slides are the ability to produce certain designs or specific layouts and have those recreated across huge decks =)

Since this is a v1 deck without a brand it’s taking a bit longer.. however, I plan on loading this into claude design system for the next one

My least favourite part is Claude producing designs on its own and any sort of storytelling or flow is just incoherent…

and back into figma slides with ANOTR =)

3rd rewrite

update on the build thesis.. it’s now a 100 page deck, lol

Slide titled AI goal gaslighting. In a generative, tokenmaxxing world, goals once seen as difficult or specialized get commoditized. Agents and specialized models will far surpass your abilities, and your struggle. When anything can get finished, finishing stops meaning much. AI is constantly questioning your identity, your skillset, your competence. Which sparks the real question: what makes a worthwhile goal?

cutting it down today, working on shipping v1 by 5pm

if you want an early look, drop me a note

out by 5

New Boom TLD secured!! Will share later!

At least three times this afternoon I caught myself giggling at BOOM or if anyone actually cares about a headless shareable room builder in this AI era, especially one named Boom. And is it boom, Boom, or BOOM?

My new rules for picking side quest domains? No more than 10 minutes and 10 dollars.

Boom domain prices

Successfully recorded my first Boom video, 5 minutes, a little bit salesy, and all on my 2nd take. When creating anything, we are our own worst judge. The inner critic can rage. Ironically there’s that clip going around Twitter that screams the complete opposite. The ultra successful have zero introspection. Well, good for them I suppose.

The good news about whatever side quest you’re building → this is the worst it’ll ever be.

Builder Notes

It's up from here, baby

Raincouver is going off and I’ve carved out a few days to get my to-do list checked off. Let’s gooo

This morning I built attempted to build a mini tool that scrapes various web pages, reports back fonts, takes screenshots, and produces those results into a single page. Something I was expecting to crank out within 30-45 minutes turned into a 2.5 hour adventure where I eventually trashed the project.

Two minor frustrations:

  1. HTML files produced by app kept crashing Claude. Regardless of working in Cowork, Command Prompt, or the web based version it would time out and run out of context. It’s very peculiar bc the HTML page rendered properly within Safari and Chrome but Claude just wasn’t having any part of it.
  2. Hallucination. It flat out lied, ignored instructions, told me it scraped fresh content when it leveraged previous data.

These are all part of the learning process, right? AI build reps!

What else?

  • published v1 blog post draft The Plus Exchange
  • learning more on ai harnesses and chunking
  • had an agent review 150 designer applications
  • hoping to ship a mini app tonight

Happy friday

when it rains we ship

Non-negotiables

Blasted the newsletter yesterday, and heard back from a few friends with life updates. Andre shared this, which if the AI quality is true, is fairly astonishing and frightening

Rumours confirmed Anthropic is opening, or at least hiring people in Vancouver! Sort by BC - anthropic.com/careers/jobs

anthropic-vancouver

It’s monsoon, rainy af… worked super late last night, trying to ship v0 of new landing pages, but ai copy never feels human, or like my tone of voice. Rewriting the copy manually, and will a/b test it.

Came across this hilarious portfolio with lol CTA hover -> iamarnob.com

Don’t shoot the messenger: besides manus, the AI wave in Singapore and SE Asia is moving noticeably slower from what I’m seeing.

today / wip

  • spending 20-30 minutes per day in Figma, rebuilding graphic design muscles
  • looking for new swipe file systems (help?)
  • invited a few friends to Ship10, and despite the inner cringe, I’m committing to writing daily logs alongside it, at least for the next 10 days
  • prototyping a mini app, hoping to ship / send that by monday am
anthropic in vancouver