Back to work after a nice little week of family time. There’s a lot to do for our Obra shadcn/ui kit. We’re building out the code part to deliver more value. Pro Blocks in React to start with.

We released the 1.8.0 version of our Obra shadcn/ui kit for Figma. You can find all the info here: shadcn.obra.studio/blog/1-8-0-r... .

Here's a demo of Obra shadcn/ui Pro 1.8.0, which is releasing this Friday. youtube.com/watch?v=IxiGWsCiLfc&feature=youtu.be this is a raw take, might make a more polished take over the next few days.

Last chance to buy the Obra shadcn/ui pro kit at the lowest price today. 75% discount in March, 50% in April, 25% in May. shadcn.obra.studio/products/obr...

New blog post on the Obra shadcn/ui blog: 1.8.0 preview shadcn.obra.studio/blog/1-8-0-p...

Crossed $1k USD in sales for Obra shadcn/ui Pro in just 5 days 🤩 shadcn.obra.studio/products/obr...

Here's a demo video of our Obra shadcn/ui pro kit for Figma: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDyP...

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New blog post: Why the Obra shadcn/ui kit is going commercial shadcn.obra.studio/blog/why-the...

New Figma plugin - Obra Autodocs www.youtube.com/watch?v=eafe...

New blog post - Bedrock 3: a tool to bring structure to (vibe-coded) front-end prototypes johanronsse.be/2026/02/04/b...

New blog post: Bedrock 3 - A design deliverable for the AI age. johanronsse.be/2026/01/31/b...

New blog post on the Obra shadcn blog - new icons community file: shadcn.obra.studio/blog/new-com...

Doing a bunch of overdue maintenance work on the shadcn/ui kit. Getting it in shape for a new project that’s coming up.

New blog post: Why I'm bullish on #$FIG johanronsse.be/2026/01/16/w...

We released 1.4.0 of our @shadcn.com kit for @figma.com . This release includes a design to development plugin and better multi-theme support. Free and open source. More details at shadcn.obra.studio/blog/1-4-0-r...

Ik ben op zoek naar een freelance front-end developer met snelle beschikbaarheid om de groei van Obra Studio te ondersteunen. Meer info: florentine-peak-bd0.notion.site/Front-end-de...

Happy new year everyone! For things regarding Obra Studio, I will be focusing a lot more on communicating via our own newsletter in 2026 instead of depending on algorithmically driven social media channels - if you are interested, you can sign up here: buttondown.com/obra

I finally got around to publishing my year in review 2025, which you can read on my blog: johanronsse.be/2026/01/06/y...

“Why designers can no longer trust the design process” (it could never be trusted anyway) - trust in yourself more. Great talk by @jenny_wen youtu.be/4u94juYwLLM?...

New blog post (in Dutch) - Nog eens in België johanronsse.be/2025/12/19/n...

Yesterday I saw Frankenstein by Guillermo del Toro on Netflix - what a great movie. ★★★★

(in Dutch) I wrote a blog post about 1 year of Obra on my personal blog johanronsse.be/2025/11/29/z...

We’re doing great work for a new German client, using our shadcn/ui system. The work inspires improving the kit, too, which will be useful for any other project using it.

New YouTube video: I vibe coded this Tailwind color pallette tool www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPFG...

Nieuwe blog post: Frictie johanronsse.be/2025/11/13/f...

I can’t believe I am learning PHP again

Nieuwe blog post: Gekleurde vakjes johanronsse.be/2025/11/06/g...

You can say what you want about Wordpress (and I will likely agree) but Gutenberg is a better editor than the CKEditor in Craft CMS. Hated it at first and grown to love it.

Dispatch (the PC game) is pretty entertaining, finished the already released 4 episodes. Better than watching a series at night

Continuing some deep thinking on Obra Studio's positioning and making some early updated website mockups. Where do we change copy, how do we organize the sections? Always a challenge to do this for yourself.

Trying something new - I have a new Figma specific blog over at obra-figma.ghost.io/welcome-to-o...

Doing some research on Django and Wagtail. First impressions are rather good.

11 more ♥️s to reach 1000 likes for our Obra shadcn/ui kit on Figma community. Thanks for the love so far 💕 www.figma.com/community/fi...

Figma outage... #temporarilyunemployed

Hades II is an incredible game

Based on a community question, I wrote a blog post and made a new video that shows how to upgrade the Obra shadcn/ui kit. Upgrading Figma libraries is not for the faint of heart, but it can be done. See this post: shadcn.obra.studio/blog/how-to-...

New blog post on my personal blog: VoIP adventures johanronsse.be/2025/10/14/v...

Shutting down a few old domains. Breaks my archivist heart. Cool URLs stay the same...

Time to arrange the ability to do proper phone calls without the international cost. I live in Mexico, have a local number here , and a Mobile Vikings account in Belgium. Does anyone know a good solution for making & receiving calls via VOIP that would make it work anywhere?

One Battle After Another ★★★ not PTA’s best but a very entertaining roadshow

“The interface is restless, needy, less predictable, less legible, and constantly pulling focus rather than supporting seamless access to content“. First time I didn't update my phone to the latest iOS. As an app designer, I have... questions.

I've been using Wisprflow for a while, great dictation app that works system-wide on Mac. Use it to vibe code and dictate e-mails and messages. Join Wisprflow (this is a referral link) and I get 1 month free wisprflow.ai/r?WOLFR1

#shadcn UI kit related: we would like your input on a simplified version of the kit. This would likely be released as a new community file. Please find the Github discussion via github.com/Obra-Studio/...

Craft 6 will be built on Laravel craftquest.io/lessons/what...

Nieuwe blogpost op mijn persoonlijke blog: Kwartaal 4 / Oproep voor scharniermoment #1 / Figma workshops gepland johanronsse.be/2025/10/06/k...

We're closing down Screenshot to Layout, our Figma plugin to do OCR in Figma. Announcement here: screenshottolayout.com/closing-down/

The nichest of blog posts - Combining puma-dev (for RoR projects) with regular localhost (for Next.js and node-type projects) johanronsse.be/2025/09/17/c...

When I signed up to aftermath.site I thought I would get something akin to Edge magazine, but there is an overt focus on meta game journalist topics and politics and not on the games themselves. It auto renewed for another year but I don't think I'll be paying again.

New blog post on the Obra shadcn/ui blog: 0.4.0 released (plus: variable plugins for consistency) shadcn.obra.studio/blog/0-4-0-r...