On Lucasart’s Afterlife

I can hardly believe I’m writing a blog post about a game that came out 27 years ago, but here we are. Lucasfilm, at one time had a gaming subsidiary called Lucasarts, and they produced somet…

How Uber Built an Agentic System to Automate Design Specs in Minutes

Uber is setting a new standard for design systems by using the Figma Console MCP to shatter the manual documentation bottleneck. By letting AI agents pull directly from design data, weeks of spec writing turns into minutes of automated precision.

arnegiacomo/fugleramme: E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations.

E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations. - arnegiacomo/fugleramme

How to Write an Effective Software Design Document

Best practices for writing a design doc based on my experience working as a developer at Google and Microsoft.

Doomscrolling ourselves to death

James Marriott’s The New Dark Ages

Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

AI policy

The Restroom Archive

This restroom is accessible from the main interior of the bar and is the restroom through the door on the right. The room is compact with a patterened black, red, and white tile floor, completely covered with liquid. The surface of the walls is clad in reflective dark blue tile, and the brown door, wall above the toilet, and vaulted portion of the ceiling are completely covered in graffiti tags. The hand dryer is covered with stickers. There is a small wall mounted corner sink. There is no mirror. The lock on the door was unreliable, so I had to hold the doorknob with one hand while scanning.

AI Operating Principles

Five principles for protecting a strong creative practice as AI increases what designers can do.

“Weird” is a weird word

From Beowulf to Shakespeare to you