A designer, an engineer, and a philosopher walks into a bar.
I've led design at open-source and developer tools companies, created quicktype, coined “papercut” while designing Ubuntu, and co-founded Glide. More about me →
- EssayOct 2026The Plenitude of Arboreal Beauty, Vol. IA magazine with a circulation of one.
- ConceptOct 2026Ring OnsenThe whole house is one circle.
- ConceptOct 2026Self-Driving Hotel RoomsWhat if the car were a room?
- ConceptOct 2026Onsen Lake HouseAn excuse to design my dream house.
- DemoJan 2026Claude CanvasWhat if your coding agent had a monitor?
- EssayDec 2025Ten Billion Lines of CodeThe most prolific code generator before Copilot.
- EssayDec 2025Claude Code in iMessageClaude remembers what I've forgotten.
- ProjectDec 2025quicktype MCPLLMs drown in JSON; quicktype swims.
- SongOct 2025Trump Is Smarter Than Y'allHe meant to do that.
- SongOct 2025The CaveA cowboy's bewildering vision of superintelligence.
- DemoJul 2025Coding in Vision ProBaby strapped to chest, coding in mid-air.
- DemoMay 2025Glide AgentOne AI, two jobs: data and design.
What if Claude Code had an external display? Introducing Claude Canvas! Especially useful if you're using CC as a personal agent.
I was on Ubuntu's first design team in 2009 London, hired by Mark Shuttleworth to make Linux beautiful. It didn't work, and Omarchy is making me think about why.
How UI development will work in the future (or today with @glideapps).
Made a storybook generator (uponatoken.com), now we create & read 4-5 stories every night. Sends stories to Kindle, and cover art to the frame. Try it!
@glideapps is our love letter to the software developers of the future, and the billions of people who will use the software they build.
Everyone's talking about Agents but few are demoing. Watch me build an AI Agent in 5min that has already helped us make a killer hire at @glideapps.