🚀 Today’s the day! I reunited with my friends at Stripe to build the website for joinopenstandard.com This one has a *ton* of little details (and easter eggs! 🥚) and I had a blast working with the folks on Stripe’s brand & web teams.

Couldn’t help myself from adding the Larry O'Brien trophy in my 🏀.app for the Knicks theme 😏💅

Just realized that one of my favorite easter eggs I made while at Stripe is still on the /jobs page… The monitor in the photo mimics everything you do on the page itself. 🥚💅 (only visible on Firefox because it uses an experimental feature)

Long overdue to get @cushionapp.com on here! Follow along if you’re into #buildinpublic bsky.app/profile/cush...

Haven’t shared much online about a new 🏀-related side project, but I gotta start sharing these fun little details… Ahead of the NBA Finals, I added Conference Finals trophies to player avatars with Knicks/Spurs themes. 🏆

every time I see a child sitting courtside at an nba game

✏️ New blog post about establishing a weekly user interview routine for cushionapp.com destroytoday.com/blog/establi...

@aaron.mn I can’t believe they actually called a 2 on him

Now that I’m actively working on cushionapp.com again, I’m making sure to blog every feature launch, like I used to. Feels so good to bring closure to a launch and celebrate it, but also provides extra marketing content for new users exploring the features. Check it out here: cushionapp.com/blog

I wrote a new process post about building a feature I’ve always wanted, then hearing from other users that they’ve always wanted it, too—they just didn’t think to ask for it. destroytoday.com/blog/buildin...

✏️ Eating my own dogfood again destroytoday.com/blog/eating-...

@esb.lol I don’t follow college ball closely, but seemed like ya’ll needed more than that one guy dribbling around while everyone else waited around at the 3-point line

I spoke at the Kinference design conference last fall about a randomly available domain name that was so good that I felt obligated to start a new passion project. No spoilers, but it’s a real rollercoaster ride of a talk… 🏀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um0x...

🚀 It’s live! For the past couple months, I’ve been jamming with @devin.bsky.social & @narrowd.bsky.social on a website for NBA All Star Luka Dončić: 77x.world. The 3D was all Nick & Devin while I tackled the UI and user flows. I had a ton of fun matching the glitchiness in the UI, if you notice it…

Quickbooks is *designed* to make your blood boil, right?

I love working on these little big details

one of those days where I replaced every filter in my house 💆‍♂️

I recently wrapped up a project for @larvalabs.com, animating their “Quine” generative art series, and I wrote about the process: destroytoday.com/blog/animati...

me, wanting to work on my personal site vs all my other priorities

Going independent again: destroytoday.com/blog/going-i...

Already had a great plumber and a great electrician. Finally found a great drywall guy.

New profile pic! 🤗

I just discovered that HBO has 24 seasons of “How It’s Made” 💆‍♂️ www.hbomax.com/shows/how-it...

i'm hiring a 'growth engineer' to work side-by-side with me at val.town in brooklyn we're a small team on a mission to spread the joy of programming we're looking for someone self-directed, loves talking to users, write english & typescript, and own projects end-to-end if this is you, reach out!!

@aaron.mn 🦅

If anyone’s had to deal with disputes before, this is one of the most practical and useful applications of AI I’ve seen.

Happy NIN Tron soundtrack release day for those who celebrate! open.spotify.com/album/47pjW3...

Two somewhat contradictory beliefs I hold: 1. You should absolutely overengineer your personal homepage/blog/projects. Experiment with as many things as you can as quickly as possible. 2. If you _really_ wanted to write that blog post, you'd figure it out with a .txt file. Don't overcomplicate it.

Had a blast sharing a new side project at the AIR Show & Tell last night at Index Space. (and love seeing all the smiles after the fact since it was tunnel vision for me during the talk 😅)

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All I want is a Love Island season where someone takes the money.

I wish I could have AI in my IDE in the sense that I could tell it to never show me certain auto-suggestions ever again and it’ll listen and maybe even apologize.

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In case it’s helpful to anyone else… my local `vercel dev` randomly slowed down to 1-2 sec for every request that went through it—even assets. No idea what it was until I realized that the requests were directly affected by the number of files in my repo. Using `.vercelignore` instantly fixed it. 🌠

Just troubleshooted (shot?) an issue that stumped multiple AI models, but was the first Stack Overflow result when searching Google. 🙃

Update: I got my hopes up too soon. While the fixed worked locally, it broke production and further attempts by the AI agent to fix it ended up down red herring rabbit holes and used up all my “premium request” credits for the month… in a single night. 🙃 bsky.app/profile/did:...

If this actually works, I’ll never say anything bad about AI ever again. (if only coding agents were around when we had Webpack…)

Diving into the complex world of push notification logic…

I think the reason I’m having so much fun building a native app with Capacitor is because it feels like Adobe Air did for my Flash apps—nothing’s different about the code I’m writing, but now I have access to the OS’s SDK. If you’re not a React person either, check it out: capacitorjs.com

I’ve officially joined the “Waiting for review” club 🥱 (the web club is way better 🤫)

Trying to get an app on the App Store and wondering at what point the bridge troll asks me to solve 3 riddles.

I can’t believe this is real life. 🏀

Going through the ropes to set up an Apple developer account so I can build for iOS and I already miss the web.

When you’re excitedly building something fun for the web, but reach the point where you need to wait for DNS propagation.

There are 3 walking speeds at IKEA: - I have no idea what I need - I know exactly what I need - I want a divorce

Pacers fans have it too good. 😭

Several months ago, my dad invited me to go with him to the Indy 500, which is this upcoming weekend, and it couldn’t be a better weekend for NYC basketball, so I took full advantage of the opportunity…

👋 Looking for a full-time backend engineer to jam with. - a plus if they’re into AI - a bigger plus if they’re into automating personal finance - US-based (a huge plus if NYC/east coast) Would love some help asking around. 🙏

When you finally fix the bug that’s been haunting you all day.

Late to the party, but I’m blown away by YouTube TV—a great example of a service that breaks the traditional design paradigm. Instead of focusing on channels and a scrolling guide, just pick the shows & sports you like and we’ll pin those and DVR every single time they’re on TV… like every time.