it’s Thanksgiving in Canada and the sun is shining bright.
PSA: the sprint is on, just 70ish days left in the year.
shifting this log towards ships and lessons learned. blah blah.. that’s fewer posts, more building..
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…
The thing about a 20 slide deck previously taking hours to construct vs having AI now do it in minutes is that the hours it took to create it in the old world meant that everything was thoughtful, crafted, and scrutinized. In the hands of someone good, it made for breakthrough…
— Michael J. Miraflor (@michaelmiraflor) September 26, 2026
and back into figma slides with ANOTR =)
update on the build thesis.. it’s now a 100 page deck, lol
cutting it down today, working on shipping v1 by 5pm
if you want an early look, drop me a note
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.
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.
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:
These are all part of the learning process, right? AI build reps!
What else?
Happy friday
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
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