Yo! Podcast

Celebrating leading designers, developers and makers. New website experience ( now powered by @boldvid ✨ 🎙 Host @RobHope 📬

[Rasmus Andersson @rsms]

Was an honor to chat about software at @southpkcommons with Soleio and everyone who showed up. SPC is a really special place

[Tokyo Design Forum @forum_tokyo]

📣 The Forum Library just opened its doors.

@soleio’s closer from Tokyo Design Forum 2026 is now its very first piece.

The Geometry of Luck is live.

Watch + read ↓

[Yo! Podcast @YoDotFM]

RT @robhope: insane hype/noise lately but still some incredible content dropping. Wanted to spotlight these 3 in case they are not on your…

[vijay verma @realvjy]

Yes, All these made in @figma 🎨

I still make these by hand, and I'm going to keep doing it. Figuring out how to get the exact look I wanted for these illustrations taught me so much.

Lately my dm has been flooded with messages and emails pointing out how AI can just generate this stuff in seconds. My response to that is simple. Even if AI can do it instantly, I still choose to sit down, learn the craft creating it myself. Because honestly, it is not about how fast you can make something. It is about the actual process of making anything and what you learn along the way.

I've also been getting a ridiculous amount of emails offering me big money to promote AI tools. To those people: No. I am not going to promote your AI crap just to make a quick buck.

All these file available on community.

[One Page Love @OnePageLove]

RIP browser tabs 🪦

[Rasmus Andersson @rsms]

Today we at Playbit are sharing our first iteration of the Playbit runtime, our vision for building playful personal-scale software.

https://t.co/kIhrQoVnJL

Personal-scale software means programs by you, for you and for the people in your life. An app for your friends isn't very useful if only some of them can run it, so usually these projects have only one option: the web, an abstraction which many apps don't fit well into.

We wanted a better solution, so that's what we're building. A runtime designed for highly dynamic graphical apps that are collaborative, with a really good set of developer tools.

The Playbit runtime is a bit like an OS, but lives inside a host environment and gives guest code a small system layer to interface with. In practice it’s a minimal ABI-stable syscall interface with well-defined semantics.

While we only support macOS in this initial release, our vision is for a powerful multimedia and collaborative platform which you can write your app for once, and run it on any platform.

Learn more and grab the macOS app at https://t.co/kIhrQoVnJL

With love and a bit of code,
– Edward, Nick, Julia and Rasmus

[Tokyo Design Forum @forum_tokyo]

Rob Hope (@robhope) opened the live podcast panel: "We're not here to host a pity party about Twitter. We're here to spotlight a wholesome time and hopefully spark ideas to bring it back."

Four designers. 170,000 combined Dribbble followers. Halfway through, Rogie told the story about his sister's house. Drew and Brian, who helped back then, were sitting right there.

Fifteen years later. Nobody was performing.

You had to be there.

[Yo! Podcast @YoDotFM]

Our first ever live podcast happened last week at @forum_tokyo - 2 panels. 45 mins each. So many fun moments and insightful stories. Can't wait to share more!

[Rob Hope @robhope]

We take things seriously on @YoDotFM 🎙️💦

[Rob Hope @robhope]

Almost time… @YoDotFM live 🎤

[Yo! Podcast @YoDotFM]

RT @robhope: ICYMI: I'm hosting 2 design panels at @forum_tokyo next week🇯🇵 and both will be recorded live for @YoDotFM episodes!🎙️

Panel…

[Yo! Podcast @YoDotFM]

👀 give it a spin: https://t.co/WKNNfP8dtZ

[Peter Suhm @petersuhm]

I was positively surprised after trying the demo on @robhope's site: https://t.co/6Y8FtEJ3JD

Felt more useful and interesting than I expected!

Not saying I'd pay for this specifically, but I could see it be helpful if it was part of something I was already paying for! (ie. good for retention maybe)

[Rob Hope @robhope]

🎞️ Big personal news! 🎉

I’m joining Bold Video (https://t.co/aiPlpXR40a) as a co-founder and going all-in with @marcelfahle to build something ambitious in the AI video space.

For over two decades, I’ve juggled many side projects. It’s been fun, energising, and taught me a whole range of skills... but now it's time to focus on one thing and give it all the oxygen it needs to navigate a wild AI landscape.

So, what exactly is Bold Video?

Bold trains on coaches’ and educators’ videos (tutorials, live streams, meetings) to give their community context-aware knowledge support.

tl;dr - you are offline and Bold is your 24/7 AMA. Answers are accurate, personalized and in your tone.

Bold comes in two forms:

1. Hosted - where you upload/import your videos into Bold, then customize our pre-designed template (see https://t.co/15pGk02Ob6).

2. Headless - where you upload/import your videos into Bold, then use our API to pull videos and our chat experience into your existing platform.

Bold does these things well:

1. Serves fast, high quality video with no branding.

2. After bulk uploads/imports, it auto-generates titles, descriptions, chapters etc. (customized to the settings/tone you define).

3. Provides quick search for videos or topics.

4. Helps answer questions for your users, while you're offline. The chat can summarize a video or compile answers across your entire video library.

The real x-factor happens when Bold knows a bit about your users, then the answers are tailored to their use-case. It can really feel like magic sometimes ✨

Ok, think that pretty much covers it :)

Next up is integrating my course and podcast into the platform. Follow @boldvid for updates!

ps. see a need for Bold for your business?

Let me know and we can create a custom demo 🎞️🙏

[Tokyo Design Forum @forum_tokyo]

Rob Hope (@robhope) joins the lineup.

South African maker behind One Page Love - curating single-page sites since 2008.
Built Email Love. Hosts the Yo! podcast.
Master of landing pages and indie bootstrapping.

17 years of making things that last.

Feb 16-18, Tokyo.

https://t.co/lBB9RiVwLN

[Amrit Nagi @amritnagi]

@robhope @adamwathan @YoDotFM If you're going to be near Shibuya crossing, that would make a neat short series - maybe your rapid fire round?

[Tokyo Design Forum @forum_tokyo]

Podcasts while walking the Tokyo streets?
This is gonna be legendary 🇯🇵🎙️

Can't wait to hear those design chats on the move.

See you all in Feb! @robhope @YoDotFM

[Yo! Podcast @YoDotFM]

Tok(Yo!)? Season 4?

[Rob Hope @robhope]

Inspired by @adamwathan 's recent walk-the-dog podcasts, I want to pull off Yo! Podcast Season 4 on the move in JAPAN, while at the Tokyo Design Forum 🇯🇵 (Feb)

Yes, that's Tok(yo!) 🎙️😄

The idea is walking around the place while talking about design topics 1-on-1 with some speakers and attendees. I'm roping @theJoshLoh and his skills in, we brainstorming daily.

The logistics + variables are quite overwhelming, so I'm seeking any references to moving interviews done in a lite/DIY way (huge thanks in advance - really want this to happen!).

cc/ @forum_tokyo @YoDotFM

[Ridd 🤿 @ridd_design]

cooking up some vibe sliders for @inflight with @radbar_1 ❄️🔥

[Rasmus Andersson @rsms]

It’s not that we can’t make lean, quality software anymore, but a cultural shift that happened: people expect very different things from computers today (and are generally okay with paying for it with lower quality.)

The Web platform today is the culmination of two decades of relentless pursuit of industrial-scale software. A sort of economic minima; the equilibrium between “just good enough” and “checks all our checkboxes”

You can’t make top quality software on the web, but you do get “a lot for your money.” Kind of like buying a $15 knife set on Amazon that lasts a few years vs a single $200 knife that lasts a generation.

The sad reality for people like myself is that 99% of people don’t care much about what happens beyond fixing the problem in front of them, today, so the Web platform is what we all have to work with.

[MDS @mds]

Next time you use AI to work with a large amount of information:

- transcript
- notes
- documents
- whatever

Use this as your first "system" prompt of sorts to help you process the information better.

https://t.co/GFGep4mReZ