mattkevan

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by mattkevan 6mo ago
I’m making Bezier, a mac-native vector design app as an alternative to Figma and Sketch. Unlike those apps it has full support for design tokens and (so far) flexbox layouts. It can also export directly to HTML, rather than a fake preview m
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by mattkevan 6mo ago
As an experiment I built a prototype chatbot app that uses the built-in LLM. It’s got a small context window, but is surprisingly capable and has tool-calling support. Without too much effort I was able to get it to fetch weather data, fetc
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by mattkevan 7mo ago
We’re way beyond Idiocracy now, we left that timeline six years ago. For all his flaws, Camacho was a good leader - he recognised there was a problem, knew he couldn’t fix it and actively rallied the world around the one person who could. T
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by mattkevan 7mo ago
There’s a big difference between working on a computer and working with a computer. The people doing the former use computers for ‘real work’. They are using a computer as an end in itself, care about operating systems and have strong opini
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by mattkevan 7mo ago
I sometimes think there should be a completion state to capitalism. When you reach an arbitrary score, like $100 million, you get presented with a cup that says ‘congratulations, you won capitalism’ and are given the choice of either playin
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by mattkevan 7mo ago
There’s nothing Christian about what Thiel is talking about here, even if he does wrap it up in the bible. Whether you believe in Christianity or not, his views are deeply, deeply heretical. He’s so far out of pocket he’s in a completely di
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by mattkevan 7mo ago
Not agreeing as a society that money == speech would be a good start.
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by mattkevan 7mo ago
Greta Thunberg, according to Thiel (seriously).
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by mattkevan 7mo ago
Behind the Bastards did a good two-parter on Thiel's lectures. He sounds dangerously insane. It'd be bad enough if he was just some random crank, but the fact he's got the level of power and influence needed to actually make
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by mattkevan 7mo ago
I built something similar to this. It's a SSG and CMS that runs in the browser and publishes the raw Markdown and JSON metadata alongside the rendered HTML. Unlike this it doesn't use encryption as it only publishes public data. A
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by mattkevan 8mo ago
“They ‘trust’ me. Dumb fucks.” - Mark Zuckerberg
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by mattkevan 8mo ago
Sonnet told me I was lying when I said that gpt-5 was a model that actually existed. It kept changing the code back to 4o and flatly refused to accept its existence.
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by mattkevan 8mo ago
Cancelled my Anthropic subscription this week after about 18 months of membership. Usage limits have dropped drastically (or token usage have increased) to the point where it's unusable. Codex + Z.ai combined is the same price, has far
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by mattkevan 8mo ago
Ha, Claude Code on a pro plan often can't complete a single message before hitting the 5h limit. Not hit it once so far on Codex.
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by mattkevan 9mo ago
Yeah it’s easy to do. Is why I prefer to design in the browser than using Figma. Drawing boxes on an artboard does not translate well to components or systems. First things I stress to devs I’m working with are, here are the rules for break
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by mattkevan 9mo ago
I was confused when I first heard about 'Design Thinking' as a thing because as a designer it sounded just like the standard design process that I already knew inside-out and backwards. After a while I realised a few things about
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by mattkevan 9mo ago
Hey I’m a designer and I love UI frameworks. Why design and build something from scratch if someone’s already doing it for you? Unless there’s a very specific business case that requires a custom UI it’s not worth the hassle. I want to be d
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Does anyone know who currently owns Graphic (formerly Autodesk Graphic)?(graphic.com)
1 points by mattkevan 9mo ago|1 comments
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by mattkevan 9mo ago
Graphic, formerly iDraw, is one of my favourite vector design tools, but it's been abandoned since being dropped by Autodesk in 2018. At one point it had genuine potential to be a viable lightweight Illustrator alternative, similar to
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by mattkevan 9mo ago
The barbers I went to recently were playing a channel on the TV which was an endless series of clips panning through ultra-nostalgic French Riviera-style scenery, accompanied by mellow guitar music. Seemed fine at first glance but like all
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by mattkevan 9mo ago
Glad to hear you’re not going to be as shellfish as other billionaires.
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by mattkevan 10mo ago
It’s pretty easy. I’ve written a fairly detailed guide to help Claude write in my tone of voice. It also coaxes it to avoid the obvious AI tells such as ‘It’s not X it’s Y’ sentences, American English and overuse of emojis and em dashes. It
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by mattkevan 10mo ago
Love how Microsoft decided that a desktop UI was the right approach for a handheld OS. Then when the iPhone showed that it wasn’t, they overcorrected and put a tablet UI on their desktop OS. Geniuses.
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by mattkevan 10mo ago
- Building a micro-learning platform that uses AI-powered role plays and conversational assessments to gauge learner understanding instead of eg. a multiple choice questionnaire. - I’ve just started designs and initial setup for a personal
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by mattkevan 10mo ago
Really interesting. Going to have to watch in detail. I’m in the process of designing an os interface that tries to move beyond the current desktop metaphor or the mobile grid of apps. Instead it’s going to use ‘frames’ of content that are
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by mattkevan 10mo ago
I still have my Newton eMate next to me on my desk. It makes for a surprisingly decent distraction-free writing machine and looks like something from a strange Cronenbergian alternate future. At some point I’d like to do a casemod with it,
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by mattkevan 10mo ago
Yeah the Sharp purchase was what got us.
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by mattkevan 10mo ago
It's a genuinely terrible name. Maybe it should just be pronounced eck-ma-script so it's got the same number of syllables as ja-va-script.
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by mattkevan 10mo ago
First place I worked at where we got audited, Monotype presented us with a bill in the high six figures. It came as a surprise as the entire product and tech team had turned over at least three times since it was set up and no-one knew anyt
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by mattkevan 10mo ago
So if I wanted to write some notes or edit a photo you’re saying I should pay a team of developers to write custom code for me up front? Literally nothing works like that. There’s a huge difference between creative work and intellectual pro

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