When you create a new Figma account, all your plugins are gone. This creates an interesting situation where you’ll only install plugins that you actually use. The plugin list on my Mono Figma account is huge from trying things in the past and not cleaning it up. But my new freelance account, it’s clean. Here’s […]
Author Archives: Johan
Ten great movies
I’ve been a bit dissapointed with the quality of series on streaming platforms. My solution to that: return to great cinema. Here’s ten great movies that were released between 2000 and 2020, in no particular order. Ponyo (2008) – Directed by Hayao Miyazaki Maps to the stars (2014) – Directed by David Cronenberg Boyhood (2014) […]
Interoperability dreams
- Posted in computers interface os productivity - 1 comment
I think one of the biggest problems in computing is transporting complex data from one app to another. Or put another way – manipulating the data that’s on your screen in a sensible way, regardless of the app that you are using. If I draw a table in Figma, and I have a few numbers, […]
End of an era
- Posted in entrepeneurship mono nederlands ondernemen persoonlijk professioneel reflectie
We hebben het vandaag officieel aangekondigd: Mono stopt ermee. Ik schreef in de blog post dat het wat zwaar aanvoelde. En dat is ook zo. Sommigen vinden dit een moedige beslissing, om op een hoogtepunt te stoppen. Dat is leuk om te horen. Ook de complimentjes over Mono zijn tof. Maar ergens voelt het ook […]
Computer says no
De meeste mensen gebruiken hun computer omdat het moet, en ik denk dat ik stilaan ook zo ga worden. Want de laatste weken hebben de computers zoiets van: FU Johan, we gaan u gewoon een beetje tegenwerken. Mijn Withings horloge is gestopt met werken, de minuutwijzer draait niet meer. Een week in rijst leggen brengt […]
Google Drive for Desktop v50: manual reindexing
With the new Google Drive for desktop update, Alfred stopped working. I rely heavily on Alfred to find files, to move to deep folders quickly etc. For reference here is the version I am using: I think reason it doesn’t work is because Spotlight doesn’t index the drives anymore. You can solve this by running: […]
Designers: please use rectangles for borders, not lines
To draw a line, use the line tool. Sounds logical, doesn’t it? However, since year and day, I’ve avoided using the line tool and I don’t think I am the only designer to do so. If you’re using a line for a border, do yourself a favor, and just draw a rectangle instead. What you’ll […]
ACT-2: my first bikepacking adventure
- Posted in bikepacking vakantietip
A few notes from my first bikepacking adventure. Cross-posting my comment to the ACT-2 bikepacking route. Thanks for this route Berten! This was my first bikepacking adventure. I had a lot of fun taking it on this weekend. I started at home in the morning. Left 9:30 in Antwerp, went to Schilde, passed by the […]
Coming to terms with Tailwind
- Posted in css development tailwind webdev workflow - 8 comments
For a while, I blocked the Tailwind keyword on Twitter. I was a bit mad that @tailwindcss and author Adam blocked me on Twitter after I wrote a bit of criticism that got popular. I was also tired of getting dragged in every Tailwind related conversation on the Svelte Discord. Apparently people thought it would […]
Tweaking a plugin to provide batch translations in Figma
- Posted in blijvend-leren development figma javascript - 1 comment
This probably the nichest of niche blogposts, but if anyone finds themselves in this situation, here’s some help. I wanted to translate an entire Figma document to another language. The document contains about 20 screens with a moderate amount of text layers on every screen. The use case was to do a usability test in […]