I wrote ~4000 words on how I built Cartique, diving into the engineering and design challenges behind features like undo-redo management, auto-centering, canvas interactions, and more. https://t.co/ogjhLRmDtA
It's Sunday June 12th, 2016 and the world is mourning the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. Trump, who recently clinched the Republican Party nomination, posts on Twitter that Obama should leave office over the shooting.
You walk to a nearby cafe thinking about the possible implications of Move 37 (played a few months prior) and how neat the SpaceX reusable rockets are.
On the way, a mysterious gentleman pulls a newspaper out of his cloak and hands it to you. It's dated June 12th, 2026.
Top Headlines:
- Elon Musk Becomes World's First Trillionaire as SpaceX IPO's
- Department of War Publishes Third Release of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Files
- Citing Safety Concerns, Trump Administration Places Anthropic's New 10T Parameter AI Models Under Export Control
Huh? Still holding the newspaper, you look up... but the mysterious gentleman has already vanished. You look down... the headlines are also gone. Sipping your coffee, you think to yourself "Wow, these art students sure are are getting stranger and strfr!"
Before heading home, you find yourself checking the price of BTC... honestly, $600 per BTC seems pretty high. Maybe it's time to sell??
you have to be a little obsessed and crazy to truly push on craft and design. smaller teams with passionate builders shine here.
craft is spending 7 hours on the minuscule polish thing you thought was going to take 30 minutes but you keep going deeper. the thing that is absolutely of trivial necessity that most would think is a waste of time. sane people would compromise and find another solution.
crazy people that eschew the standard way of designing and building common interactions, UI, and hardware just to see how it feels, or to tug at an inkling of a vision
then do that about 100 more times throughout your product before you're remotely proud of it. it can't be outsourced or handed off to others to implement.
When it comes to more visual work, like animations, coding agents don’t quite know what great feels like yet.
Here’s my way of fixing it:
https://t.co/wKFBqSYh1B
Fun fact: the Fellowship of the Ring wasn’t recruited, a bunch of them just happened to be in Rivendell
Boromir came to figure out his prophetic dream
Legolas came to report that Gollum had escaped
Gimli came to get advice after emissaries of Mordor visited Erebor
Maybe it was fated, but def not explicitly planned. And then when the need for a heroic world-saving quest came up, the remainder of the nine qualified largely by virtue of being there
Introducing Runbuds - a Strava competitor.
For the past 6 months @rafsoh, @drqas, @gabfoulon, and I have been working nights and weekends to build a social running app that feels up to par with today's standard for consumer mobile experiences.
Motivation + download link below: