- Posted in career entrepreneurship mexico nederlands
Deze zomer beëindigde ik na 2,5 jaar mijn contract bij Doccle. Ik woon sinds 2 jaar in Mexico-stad, waar ik de liefde van mijn leven heb ontmoet. Na een schitterend huwelijk en bijbehorende huwelijksreis was het twee weken geleden de tijd om de draad van het werk opnieuw op te pikken. Het voelt aan als […]
- Posted in design design-systems process productivity
I would like to take a stand against “design systems” as standalone work; meetings to “officialize” components and designers building three tier token systems that most likely will just get ignored by other team members. I believe that for some teams, the design systems pendulum has swung too far. We have people spending days and […]
- Posted in aspirations build-in-public entrepreneurship professioneel - 1 comment
Yesterday was my last day at Doccle, and I’ve been asked what I’m going to do now. Over the past few months I’ve been thinking about this. As I talked about in my “choose your own adventure” blog posts, different options were in my head: a full-time position at a US company; an agency; founding […]
- Posted in road-biking
Het is me al wel een fietsweek geweest. Vorige week dinsdag ben ik voor de eerste keer “Bosques” gaan doen, dat wil zeggen: gaan fietsen in Bosques de las Lomas. Vandaag was ik er opnieuw en ik moet zeggen: damn, dit is toch wel de eigen grenzen verleggen. Hier in Mexico-Stad heb je een aantal […]
- 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. […]