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Ha, openlibrary and google books for now. And yes, the covers are not great. Currently just pleased to get it working, will add better providers later.

I’m making Stacks, an open source ebook manager and server, as a lightweight alternative to Calibre. Written in Swift, it consists of a SwiftUI browser and a Mac/Linux server and C…

I had that same model, except I fitted the chips myself. The first time I’d really ever looked inside a computer and very exciting for me age 11. The old Arthur ROMs were a prize p…

I reckon the same dipshits responsible for Microsoft’s product naming in the early 2000s all moved on to Google to wreak the same havoc there.

I once had a model insist that I was a web designer living in Brighton who ran an agency called 'Guerilla Futures' and was the author of a series of UX design for babies books. Obv…

• A social ebook reading app where you can create reading groups and have realtime discussions. • A visual moodboard and notes app that uses local models to link and surface conten…

Where are we on the embrace/extend/extinguish curve right about now?

What an arsehole. Multi-billionaire says to work harder to make him richer faster. The sooner this attitude is recognised as a sickness the better.

Ah design by committee, that well known route to design excellence!

Obltrtr

That’s an insane take.

Maybe if they're posted again and again, they're real pain points and should be addressed?

Photoshop's interface is getting worse [1] and everyone hates Adobe, so there's a great opportunity for a tool like GIMP to step up and become the default alternative. It's got a l…

The company absolutely failed the test. If they're not using industry standard tools then it's a sign they don't take the role seriously. That would be a huge red flag to me. It's …

I’m building a UI design app similar to Figma or Sketch, but with a few differences: 1. Responsive artboards and flex-like layout engine 2. Deep support for design tokens 3. HTML/C…

Pipedream was an odd bit of software, but the article is a bad take on RiscOS itself. It was way ahead of Windows at the time and even Mac OS didn’t really catch up until System 8.…

Programs being folders was useful for mischief. Most people never noticed the ! in the filename, so I’d amuse myself by turning classmates’ document folders into applications that …

I’m building a new product design app that is made from the start for design systems and agentic collaboration. Tried posting about it a few times in the UX design sub as I thought…

Genuinely curious where the best place online to do this is today. Until recently my reflexive answer would have been Twitter, but [gestures vaguely at the state of it]. Would it b…

The company I currently work for is both a B-Corp and an employee-owned trust. The difference in culture, attitude and behaviour to the previous place I worked at, which only cared…

It’s not really, companies like GM used to boast about how well they treated their employees and communities. It was Jack Welch and a legion of like-minded arseholes who decided th…

About as accurate as a horoscope. Sherlock Holmes it is not. It got the location (exif, I guess) and was able to identify that I was a balding mediocre middle-aged guy, but the mor…

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 ca…

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 …

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 a…