Author Archives: Johan

Screenshot to layout 2.0: demo + looking for comp sci contributor

- Posted in build-in-public figma-plugins screenshot-to-layout

I am looking for a computer science student or someone interested who wants to help with the next iteration of Screenshot to Layout. Here’s a demo of Screenshot to Layout 2.0 and how I am working on it. I share a bit of the history and vision of the project. Since this project is so […]

Launched: Obra shadcn/ui pro kit

- Posted in obra-studio product shadcn

Today we launched the Obra shadcn/ui Pro Kit. You can read more on the Obra shadcn/ui blog in the announcement post!

New Figma plugin – Obra Autodocs

- Posted in build-in-public figma figma-plugins

Editorial note: I totally forgot to publish this. By now Autodocs has its own website; and it’s being used in our Obra Shadcn/ui Pro kit. I posted a video about the first version of Obra Autodocs about two week ago.  Since this first version was so promising, I kept working on it to improve it. […]

Bedrock 3: a tool to bring structure to (vibe-coded) front-end prototypes

- Posted in bedrock build-in-public obra-studio

Yesterday I was working on the Angular and React versions of Bedrock 3. The Angular version has been tested with a real prototype. The React version is early but coming along nicely. What is Bedrock 3? It’s a layer on top of a dev environment that helps you make sense of your project when it’s […]

Bedrock 3: A design deliverable for the AI age

- Posted in bedrock build-in-public open-source

I’m currently working on Bedrock 3, and I wanted to share some context about why I’m bringing this project back to life. Bedrock was a static site generator designed to create HTML/CSS prototypes, originally released in 2015 under an MIT license. We used it heavily at my previous design company, Mono. Bedrock 1 (2015) The […]

Why I’m bullish on $FIG

- Posted in beleggen

A few years ago Adobe wanted to buy Figma for 20 billion dollars. There was a deal, and if that deal eventually went through, fine, but if the deal fell apart, 5% would be paid in cash to Figma — so 1 billion dollars. And that deal did indeed fall apart. A regulator in the […]

Year in Review 2025

- Posted in lifelog year-in-review

Editor’s note: didn’t have time to publish this, and publishing it later than now would make me never publish it, so here goes! I find myself in Berlin, visiting family. This past week, I re-read my last year in review and decided to repeat the format for this year. Meta: tech/website experiments I used to […]

Nog eens in België

- Posted in agency-life nederlands obra-studio

Ik ben de laatste weken nog eens in België, met als primaire reden om familie te zien voor kerst. Op professioneel vlak heb ik van het moment gebruik gemaakt om Momenteel heb ik het gevoel nog veel werk te hebben om het jaar te kunnen afsluiten, maar ik merk ook dat het tijd is om […]

Zo gaat het goed, zo gaat het beter

- Posted in agency-life nederlands obra-studio

We zijn nu 1 jaar bezig met Obra Studio, en ik had onlangs een hele analyse geschreven van acht pagina’s over het hoe en waarom. Ik heb besloten die verticaal te klasseren — ik ben Warren Buffett niet… — en enkel de conclusie mee te nemen: als bedrijf moeten we een breder aanbod hebben, en […]

Frictie

- Posted in de-afspraak persoonlijk

Deze week was de heer Julien de Wit op TV, die een column in Trends had geschreven over “moeilijk gaat ook.” Dat balans ook enkel kan bestaan door disbalans. De arme Julien werd in De Afspraak bijna levend gevuld door een psycholoog, een gen-Z actrice en natuurlijk de immer politiek correcte Bart Schols. Ik vond […]