Benjamin De Cock

Designer @cursor_ai. Formerly @stripe, @csswg.

[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?

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@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:

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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:

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

We’re introducing Cursor 3. It is simpler, more powerful, and built for a world where all code is written by agents, while keeping the depth of a development environment.

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

Pretext is awesome for other reasons, but seeing all the comments on "editorial design being finally possible on the web" makes it clear most people don't know that ˋshape-outsideˋ does the job natively in CSS for DOM layouts in all browsers.

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):

I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

better *and* cheaper than Opus 4.6 is not a bad one-two punch if you ask me https://t.co/VtClskIF6C

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@SlexAxton happy birthday old man! 😘

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

@billlabus Well, *someone* has to feed those LLMs fresh designs, am I right?!

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Back to work.

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

@paulg You understand design better than most designers.

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@jordanborth Stay tuned!

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

@jsngr @iamnalimov reminds me of something, can't quite put my finger on it

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@oykun Good times 💕

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

Good lord, @height_app is ✨ pure magic ✨

[Michaël Villar @michaelvillar]

Confession: I’m bad at project management.

So much that I automated it.

[Benjamin De Cock @bdc]

@auchenberg Following your example (as always!) 💪