Benjamin De Cock

Design Lead @SpaceXSI. Formerly @cursor_ai, @stripe, @csswg.

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

The paradigm shift created by @bot is real and disrupting the very idea of an "operating system". Grok Bot is becoming "the computer" for an increasing number of people, not just us geeks. It’s now the entry point for many, where all the tasks previously handled by separate apps are centralized and accessible within the same window, with the same interface. That’s the closest we’ve ever been to the end goal of human-computer interaction (HCI) design, offering a unified mental model and completely eliminating the cost and friction of constant context switching.

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

@_atilla1 Agreed!

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

In this day and age when web design seems to mean tacky shaders, infuriating scroll hijacking and generic AI slop, this feels refreshingly tasteful, at least on desktop: https://t.co/j8yEJUcEW4

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

@soleio @ndstudio @jgebbia @SecRubio I'm actually blown away with this. It is so hard to make meaningful improvements in big corps, let alone the actual government, and here we are with a stellar web experience. Seriously, good job.

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

@zeeg That's not my experience at all. Do you have an example to share?

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

@mechibaz @stripe Woah, time flies! Congrats Mechi, what an amazing run 🙏

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

Turns out Jobs' "bicycle for the mind" was quite the understatement.

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

@ryolu_ @bot @NotionHQ this is the most you garage sale ever

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

Introducing Cursor for iOS.

Build from anywhere by launching always-on cloud agents. Or remotely control agents running on your computer from the app.

Composer 2.5 is 75% off in the app now through July 5.

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

I built myself a TUI portfolio tracker and I think I'm love 💕

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

@auchenberg Nice Speedy 👌

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

Highly recommended if you're into design/branding/marketing 🔥

[Dan Hollick @DanHollick]

Have you ever wondered how I make some of the illustrations for https://t.co/Em92bQM8y3?

Well, I made a video walking through some of the tooling I've made. Hopefully its interesting.

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

How did we get here?

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

@olliewagner 🤩

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

Use Design Mode in Cursor 3 to annotate and target UI elements in the browser.

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

Friendly reminder:

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

Live demo: https://t.co/F69akC37zW

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

CSS view transitions + anchor positioning now let you easily build smooth SPA-like navigation on a good old static website!

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

CSS spacing grids usually mean verbose calc() chains or a pile of custom properties. Instead, you could repurpose the rarely used rlh unit as a short and flexible grid token: