AI workflows, design craft, engineering notes. A field log from shipping product end-to-end.
05 Sept 2026 · AI & Workflows
Most AI rollouts fail because they speed up a legacy process instead of changing it. Notes on what actually shifts when you redesign roles alongside the work, from a five-person team where everyone went full stack, and why the same move is so much harder, and so much more necessary, at enterprise scale.
14 Jun 2026 · Notes
Every feature in this month's Tessera release started as a box drawn badly on paper and one sentence of intent. I handed the build to Claude Fable 5, got out of the way, and read the diffs.
26 May 2026 · AI & Workflows
I used AI to build an automated daily puzzle and a marketing machine around it. New puzzle at midnight, screenshot to five social networks at 08:00, reminder email at 06:00, stats dashboard refreshing itself. I went on holiday for a week. It kept shipping.
09 May 2026 · Design & Craft
A second mode for the daily word puzzle, and a fairer way to grade your solve.
04 May 2026 · Notes
Made redundant on Friday. One rule for the week that followed: ship something every single day. No skipping a day, no half-finished. Here's the receipt.
28 Apr 2026 · Design & Craft
A 4x4 word puzzle where rows and columns both have to spell words. New one every day. Now living at its own home, tesserapuzzle.com.
27 Apr 2026 · Design & Craft
A browser stone-stacking toy. No rules, no score, just real physics and the rhythm of finding the balance point.
25 Apr 2026 · Design & Craft
A two-weight pixel typeface designed in Python and licensed under OFL. Free for any use, including commercial.
24 Apr 2026 · AI & Workflows
Specialists get compressed into agents. Generalists with taste, deployment scars, and a domain get compounded by them. Field notes on the role modern companies are quietly starting to need.
Two AI content pipelines running at Sourceful. A Veo 3 video-ad workflow that replaced a production agency, and a six-agent OpenClaw system that researches, writes, publishes, and promotes blog posts end to end. Field notes, including the morning it trolled a supplier.
22 Apr 2026 · AI & Workflows
A few hours in Claude Design, a rebrand to roll out, and a reasonably honest review.
22 Jan 2026 · AI & Workflows
Building a marketing site that serves four different audiences, welcomes AI crawlers, and prioritises accessibility from day one. Three weeks, two people, no agency.
06 Jan 2026 · AI & Workflows
34 hours of actual work, 50+ production-ready components, and a story about where all that computational power actually comes from.
01 Oct 2010 · Notes
In 2010, Dennis Publishing paid me to ship the Viz Profanisaurus to the App Store. It taught me more about product than any design degree.