Writing

Everyone who works on interfaces should have a lab. Here's a blank one: your agent builds components, you keep or toss them, and your notes become your taste. You are the skill.

No design skills? That's fine. How I use agents and Paper to work on a design system, with a shadcn Alert as the example.

Some thoughts on design systems, the debt that builds up when you ship fast, and what rebuilding Mastra's taught me about building at agentic speed.

I added sound to my site, then wrote a skill to audit it and deleted half of what I'd added. Levels in dBFS, why synthesis beats recordings for some sounds and loses badly for others, and the bug that made the first click silent.

There's a link in my bio that lights up like a neon tube. An agent wrote every line of the CSS. Here's what the other half of that job actually looked like.

I replaced a perfectly good contact dialog with a 3D paper envelope that flies in, does a loop, and hands you a note to write on.

I turned a boring list of bookmarks into an infinite canvas you can throw around, fed by a Discord channel.