Last year I wrote in detail about the state of web-based rich text editing. Not much has changed since. It’s still way too hard to create a custom rich text editing experience for the web and I still recommend using ProseMirror if what you need is essentially a classic document editor (think Microso…

I’ve been on a path of self-discovery for a few years now, and yet, it is only today that a very basic and obvious truth about myself has come to my awareness: my relationship to my own body is an absolute mess. I have learned to love myself, but somehow I’ve managed to do so without loving my body;…

Lots of takes like this lately, surely not unrelated to the past year’s layoffs in tech and design. But I think there’s more to it than that. Traditional software product design is being disrupted from two complimentary directions: hybrids and AI. My background is in design, but not pure design. My …

Let’s assume we want to develop a web app called Blog. With Blog people are able to write and publish blog posts in a visual editor. We want to make this app available to everyone, not just software people who know how to use Git, SQL databases, and deploy to a web server. In other words: How can we…

In our upcoming game Repeat we work with world, that seems to be infinitely looped for the player. This mechanic, as simple as it is, has become increasingly challenging to implement over time. One thing that was tricky are particles. Particles, and some other objects that are not meshes (decals, li…

An old friend contacted me the other day. They have a new client project, and their goal is to improve the entire process of publishing reports in a big institution. Knowing that I worked in scientific publishing for many years he asked me: “What is it that typically goes wrong?” If I had to answer …