If software becomes ephemeral
When software can be conjured from a conversation, the real differentiator won't be the code — it'll be the taste, the brand, and the vision behind it.
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Create a daily brief with Claude scheduled tasks and ContextStore
I built an autonomous research assistant using Claude scheduled tasks and ContextStore. It scans my projects, picks topics itself, and delivers a daily brief every morning. Karpathy recently posted about a similar workflow in Obsidian — nice validation that this pattern is taking hold.
Generating ASCII wireframes and flowcharts with Claude
ASCII wireframes and flowcharts are one of the most practical things you can ask Claude to generate. I use them for UI tasks, dev plans, and increasingly as the design artifact itself.
Three areas of AI innovation
AI is advancing on three areas at once. Better models, better harnesses, and better hardware. Understanding how they work together helps you make sense of where things are headed.
Introducing the ContextStore CLI
Your AI agent can read local files, but it doesn't know about your other ContextStore spaces. The cstore CLI bridges that gap — giving any agent access to all your context from any project.
How to use ContextStore with Claude Desktop
A step-by-step guide to connecting ContextStore to Claude Desktop using Cowork. Grant folder access, co-create documents with Claude, and give your AI the context it needs.
Make your AGENTS.md a table of contents
Most AGENTS.md files try to do too much. Treat yours as a table of contents — link to essential docs, let your LLM know where to look, and keep the file itself short and scannable.
The hidden cost of remote MCPs
Remote MCPs add a round-trip tax every time your AI needs context. Local Markdown files are faster, cheaper, and more reliable. Here's why that matters.
Introducing ContextStore: a native Mac app for context repositories
Poor AI output is usually a context problem, not a prompting problem. ContextStore is a native Mac app that makes it easy for anyone on your team to build and manage a Markdown-based context repository.
Why I built my own comment system instead of reaching for Disqus
The build vs. buy equation has radically shifted. I built a full comment system for my blog in a few hours with AI — moderation, magic link auth, spam protection — and I own every piece of it.
Give your AI the full picture with a context repository
Poor AI output usually isn't a prompting problem, it's a context problem. A context repository gives your AI the business knowledge it needs to make good decisions. Here's how to build one.
Introducing Quiddity: generate essential skills for your dev workflow
Quiddity interviews you about your tools and process, then generates custom /new-issue, /next-task, and /approve skills tailored to how you actually work. One install, one setup command, and you're off.
Build a /new-issue skill and stop writing issues by hand
The final post in my series on skills for dev workflow. A /new-issue skill lets you describe a bug or feature in a sentence and get back a well-structured issue with wireframes and acceptance criteria — better than most people write by hand.
Extracting sub-skills from agent skills
As your agent skills grow, some parts want to be their own thing. Here's how I used a simple prompt to extract a standalone /approve skill from my /next-task skill — and why thinking of skills like functions leads to better workflows.
Building a /next‑task agent skill
A step-by-step guide to building a /next-task agent skill that pulls from your issue tracker, manages branches, implements changes, and opens PRs. Customize it for your own tools — Linear or Jira, GitHub or GitLab.
How I manage my dev workflow with three Agent skills
One of the most exciting things about LLMs is their ability to do useful things that would be hard to script in the traditional sense. Skills take this further, letting you build intelligent workflows that handle the messy, context-dependent parts of product development.
AI, design, and the modern frontend on the Changelog & Friends podcast
Back in January, I posted on LinkedIn about using AI to build a documentation site for Opine. This prompted Adam Stokoviak to reach out about joining him on the Changelog & Friends podcast to talk about AI and the modern frontend. Adam and I have been friends for a very long time now, having collaborated on The Sass Way together. He's a great host, and really put me at ease as we talked about how…
Sweeping activities
I’m actually not sure when I first noticed this. Perhaps it goes back to my teen years when I helped with the construction of our church building. Or, perhaps it was before that when I worked at a Christian camp. But there are some activites that seem to make everything else more productive. I call these sweeping activities. Sweeping activities make it easy to get work done.
Focus and consistency pay off
As a teenager I learned to program and it wasn't long before I had a directory filled with unfinished projects. Working on a large variety of projects is a great thing when you are first learning a language or framework. It helps you begin to recocognize patterns. Patterns that end up being useful when you start going deep on larger projects.
Open Sourcing 200 Zest Icons
Since launching Zest Icons last year it was always my dream to have a free version of the set. I launched Zest with Zest Social, which was free and contains a handful of Social icons. But Zest Social wasn’t very comprehensive. Now that Zest Pro has over 600 icons I’m ready to launch a larger set. Today, I’m happy to announce that I’m open sourcing 200 Zest Icons in a new set called Zest Free.
Using rotation to draw complex shapes in Figma
I build web applications for a living. And while I love working on software, there is something temporary about the work. Very little of what I make lasts for any length of time. The pace that software evolves is so rapid that 10 years out and what remains is either so dated that I wouldn’t put it in my portfolio or it has evolved so much that little remains from the original design.
The Designer’s guide to the OSX command prompt
Not quite as glamorous as The Matrix may make it appear, the command prompt is still an essential part of the modern web design workflow. Whether you’re seeking to transform your CSS with Sass, itching to try out Webpack or Typescript, or thinking about writing a program in JavaScript with Node, you’ll need to understand the command prompt.
Introducing Zest: a bold & refreshing modern icon set
I like to describe Zest as a modern icon set that has been meticulously handcrafted for web and mobile. What makes Zest exceptional is the attention to detail. Zest was created with bold and simple aesthetic. It purposefully emulates the friendly styles of applications like Whimsical and the new Jira. The lines are thick so that they stand out. The geometry is rounded and exaggerated. Lined icons…
Mixins for semi-transparent colors
Learn how to use Sass color functions to calculate backwards compatible colors for browsers that don't support alpha transparency and wrap up this functionality in a couple of handy mixins.
Modular CSS typography
Learn how to modularize your typography to create solid foundation for your projects. Use multiple classes and the @extend directive to create a reusable set of typographical styles.
Modular CSS naming conventions
The more you write your own stylesheets, the more you begin to value using good names in your code. Naming is by far one of the most difficult and debated activities of a developer. To many, naming is an art form.
Modular CSS, an example
If avoiding nested selectors in favor of a flatter class-based CSS scares you, maybe this example will help you embrace some of the principles of modular CSS.
Avoid nested selectors for more modular CSS
We've written before about the dangers of nesting your CSS selectors too deeply. The Inception Rule is a good one for getting you to avoid some mangled CSS selectors. But there's actually a lot of benefit to taking this concept a couple of steps farther. What happens when you avoid nesting for almost all of your major selectors?
How to structure a Sass project
One of the coolest features of crafting CSS with Sass is that you can build out a file structure that puts all your components in their right place. BUT the question is ... where is the right place? Is there a standard way to structure your Sass files?
Sass vs. SCSS: which syntax is better?
Since the creation of Sass, it has been plagued by many levels of controversy. It billed itself as "a better CSS" and added brand new features unheard of to CSS authors such as variables, nesting and mixins. Sass also introduced an entirely different indentation-oriented syntax and a brand new perspective on how to author CSS. Then the SCSS syntax (Sassy CSS) was introduced ...
Serve 1.5 – utterly delicious ERB, Haml and Sass
If you've been following my Twitter stream during the last month, you know that I've been hard at work on a project callded Serve. Serve is an open source project that makes it easy to build websites with HTML, ERB, Haml + Sass.
Serve: a rapid prototyping framework for designers
Since Adam McCrea has introduced his solution for simplifying HTML mockups over on the EdgeCase blog, I thought I would take the time to reintroduce my own: Serve.
Introducing Serve: now with gemmi goodness!
Based on my HAML server for web designers article, I've created a small gem "serve" which makes it extremely easy for a Web Designer to get up and running with Haml and Sass.
A Haml server for web designers
I have a script named serve in my bin directory that let's me quickly startup a Webrick server in any directory. This is handy for serving HTML mockups or other files. Today, updated it to work with.