Tom de Visser

Figuring it out in public

Shuki – Pomodoro Menu Bar (macOS) – 26/08/26
Nugget – People Notes (iOS) – 29/08/26
Pivot – Display Layouts (macOS) – 11/09/26

[Tom de Visser @tomdevisser]

Most Pomodoro apps that should help you focus, are secretly distracting you with statistics, streaks, and trying to create a brand

That’s why I launched my first completely free macOS app, Shuki

It’ll blend right in with your MacBook, is super lightweight, has handcrafted sound effects and lets you personalize around what matters, the functionality that helps you focus

You can download it now from the App Store – if you like it, I hope you will leave a review!

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@saragordic We need more women in tech

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@Tijnie5 @cilistor @AlexanderNL Het een sluit het ander niet uit

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@cilistor @Tijnie5 @AlexanderNL Presidenten en andere politici gebruiken al decennia lang speech en tekst schrijvers, en grammaticacontrole (gebaseerd op eerdere versies van AI)

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@madebycyberdyne @dhh The contrary

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Wait until you hear about web development

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These are the new screen poses you’ll need to support for the new iPhone Duo

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@madebygps @grok What keyboard is this?

[Shu @shuding]

13 years ago, Apple asked a question that hits me harder today than ever:

If everyone is busy making everything, how can anyone perfect anything?

Every day, I see a world flooded with effortless AI slops. I’m realizing that to build something truly great today, you need a level of focus the world has never demanded before.

It feels like trying to write a quiet, beautiful song in a room full of loud noise.

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Designing for someone with genuinely bad taste is so frustrating

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@ilyamiskov Why? I'm learning design right now because I just couldn't get the results I wanted with AI, and I've used dozens of tools with multiple years of experience in agentic engineering – it's still nowhere close to really good designers

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@ioniels Interesting, I just started switching to Figma to design first, because I felt like designing while coding was distracting me from design too much

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@jonathan_wilke Same in the Netherlands

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@LouiseDSadeleer Oh wait, I misinterpreted it, a cold pillow is a good thing of course

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@ioniels You're quickly becoming one of my favorite designers on X

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And so it begins…

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@benspringwater This looks so beautiful