- Posted in digital-archiving side projects that could become main projects side-projects
I’ve been doing some digital digging while creating some much needed backups. I found this old map project where I was trying to put markers on a map. I remember I made that project when I just arrived in Mexico. I had implemented it in Svelte and in React but I was not very happy […]
- Posted in build-in-public obra-icons
I started working on Obra Icons in August 2023 with a first release in november 2023. Now one year later, the project is stronger than ever with it’s 2.0 release. It grew from 350 icons to over a thousand icons; and the quality of the set has vastly improved. Just two weeks ago, we released […]
- Posted in figma figma-plugins
My Obra Icons project has always been available from the website, but now you can also use the Figma plugin. Earlier this week, we also released a package for React. Any feedback is welcome!
- Posted in apps build-in-public
Yesterday I took the idea of prompting to make an iOS app much further than with my experiments of last week. I have this web-based version of a currency conversion app – which you can try here – and I converted most of the logic to an iOS app. I wanted to see how far […]
With my “newfound” prompting superpowers, I tried to generate the code for an iPhone app and see how far I could go. Once again, I was pretty amazed by the Claude/Cursor workflow. In a rather limited time I had the scaffolding for a wedding app done. I ended up getting a subscription to Cursor which […]
- Posted in aspirations career
Last work week I spent a good chunk of time on my projects Screenshot to Layout and Obra Icons. I also spent some time investing the hype around Cursor and oh boy… the hype is real. I built a mobile-optimized Currency Converter app in a few hours of work mostly by prompting what I wanted. […]