Ismael Canal

Builder with Product Design & Front-end skills. Design Engineer at @github. Making @listy_is a little better everyday.

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

Ask an agent to build a color system and watch it invent random hex values.

Rampa is a toolkit with the actual primitives they need. Contrast ratios, harmonies, accessible ramps. All mathematical formulas built in.

Color systems as JS SDK and CLI:

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

@XMihura @GooglePlay Yo pillé un apartado de correos y una línea de móvil dedicada. Funcionó de lujo en Apple pero el apartado de correos no coló con Google

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

AI can be pretty

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

we really need a new kind of interaction with computers

[XH @xhfloz]

We were going to build a smart pen prototype, then @shensitivity just bought one off-the-shelf + used Codex to decompile + integrate it into our software system

And it's so smooth

[Toño Huerta @tohuerta]

Muy contentos de poder compartir por fin esta gran noticia 🎉🎉🎉

https://t.co/HkFcgqilJa

Infinitas gracias a @BisiestoEstudio y a @relajaelcoco por unirse al barco de @secture_com 🏴‍☠️ (Tres empresas, un único equipo 💛🧡🖤)

@MiguelBisiesto entra como coCEO del grupo para ayudarnos a seguir creciendo.

Os comparto tambien esta entrevista de @ChemaNieto donde le contamos como ha sido el proceso y nuestros planes de futuro junto a grandes amigos https://t.co/fZzB7FYDtm

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

You don’t need a camera at all, just a smarter pen:

https://t.co/X2YUitztoF

[Noah Tye @noahlt]

Lately I’ve been learning math with ChatGPT (Astra) as my tutor, using this document scanning camera and a vibecoded tool that pastes the captured image right into the chat.

This way, I just work problems on paper and ChatGPT gives feedback. It’s really nice.

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

@MarkVillacampa buen ojo eh

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

AI can be artistic

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

Soromona

[jordi @jordienr]

me after spending 40 hours a week talking to LLMs

[Microsoft AI @MicrosoftAI]

MAI-Code-1.1-Flash is going local with on-device model calls inside Github Copilot.

High-quality agentic coding on your device, with no inference charge for local model calls.

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

@inakitajes Iñaki estoy usando @calisteniapp enhorabuena es un producto muy bueno y lo pago con gusto

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

Stop. Think. Prompt.

Taking a step back and rethinking what’s taken for granted it’s a super power

[rc @RamsesCabello]

small update to the sessions menu in the GitHub Copilot app 💫 worked with @gimenete to make it all a little calmer 〜

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

https://t.co/7uXPkAhiGi

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

Os dejo bibliografía de la charla y las slides

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

Diseñando a velocidad terminal ya está online:
https://t.co/FnhVajHdjN

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

https://t.co/FnhVajGFuf

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

Os dejo bibliografía de la charla y las slides

[Mark Villacampa @MarkVillacampa]

the man, the myth, the legend 🐐

@basiclines at #fredcon

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

@MarkVillacampa @dsaltaren @xoelipedes @ChristianPalou @adrianmg Dream team

[Jorge Galindo @JorgeGalindo]

La crisis de vivienda en España: lo que creo que puede funcionar para solucionarla... y lo que probablemente no sirva o sea directamente contraproducente. En siete minutos y medio.

Dentro video 👇

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

Capture screenshots from your connected Android or iOS devices and start sketching on top

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

@omixam https://t.co/fSlt7I9ICi

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

convergence to the mean

when everyone looks at everyone else to decide what to make, we eventually stop making anything of our own.

we copy what works. borrow the language, the aesthetic, the features. we call it learning from the market, following best practices, staying competitive. together, everything starts to feel familiar. polished, interchangeable. nothing wrong. nothing alive.

the mean isn’t necessarily bad. it’s where everything lands when we remove the reasons for it to be different.

numbers are easier to compare than feelings, so we make things that produce numbers. we study what gets attention, then shape ourselves around it. eventually the feedback stops informing the work and starts authoring it. we’re no longer asking what we want to say. we’re asking what will be rewarded for saying.

ai makes this loop frictionless. it can draw from more references than we could see in a lifetime. but access to every perspective isn’t the same as having one. it hasn’t lived a particular life that makes one detail unbearable and another beautiful. when we ask it to choose for us without bringing any intention of our own, we get something plausible, easy to approve.

then we ship it, measure it, copy it, and feed it back into the next round. a tidal wave of mid.

this changes not just the work, but the people making it.

we describe ourselves in categories platforms can distribute and markets understand. designer. founder. creator. pick a niche. build a brand. be consistent. the parts that don’t fit become inconvenient, even when those contradictions might produce our most interesting work. we become easier to classify and harder to tell apart.

i think we need to approach making things more like artists.

an artist develops a perspective through the work. making, noticing, choosing, failing, returning. learning what matters even when nobody else cares. craft gives that perspective a form precise enough for someone else to experience.

the life outside the work matters too. the places you’ve lived, the people you’ve loved, the things you’re embarrassed to care about. these aren’t distractions from having something to say. they’re how you come to have something to say.

we understand this with music, paintings, photographs, movies. we expect a person to be present in the choices. we want to experience something we wouldn’t have encountered without them.

software can do this too.

a piece of software expresses beliefs about how life should feel. what deserves your attention. what you should be free to change. whether a task should feel like paperwork or play. even a small interaction can carry someone’s care, humor, or curiosity.

but we rarely talk about software as a medium. we talk about it as an industry. markets to capture, workflows to optimize, competitors to catch up with. we add a feature because someone else has it, without asking whether it belongs. products accumulate the same parts and lose what made them worth choosing.

underneath the branding, it’s all the same thing.

artists learn from others too. the question is whether you’re absorbing those influences into a point of view, or using them to avoid developing one.

what are you trying to let someone feel, understand, or do? why this particular shape? what have you noticed that the existing tools don’t seem to notice?

those questions don’t have answers you can borrow from a competitor’s roadmap.

if we can make almost anything, deciding what deserves to exist becomes more important, not less. speed gives us more chances to exercise judgment. it doesn’t remove the responsibility.

i don’t want a world where every person becomes a more efficient distributor of the same ideas. i want people to use these tools to go further into what they actually care about. to make things specific enough that we can feel someone behind them.

what is the point of everyone being able to make something, if we all end up making the same thing?

[Ismael Canal @basiclines]

Que todos queremos diseñar coches de fórmula 1 pero hay pocas escuderías. Si trabajas en Dacia no esperes trabajar la aerodinámica y el peso del coche.

Preocúpate de aprender mucho de materiales económicos y de cómo optimizar cada detalle al céntimo

Conoce el negocio en el que estás y no innoves en el diseño, eso está resuelto, profundiza en optimizar el diseño de lo que es relevante para tu negocio, nada más