Introducing tiny.london A massive isometric pixel map of London, based on amazing NYC demo by @_coenen from 9 months ago My agent created the dataset, finetuned qwen image LoRA adapter, did a multiday inference run and built an efficient tile viewer!

here's yours @rsms mo.rgan.co/gh/rsms

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you'll do your best work in a tool that allows you to be whimsical, too! 🔊🔊🔊 — lol i've lost hours building fun stuff like this with code layers… @figma code layers starting to roll out into open beta TODAY! incredibly excited to see what you'll cook!

Today, I’m releasing Nestag! It’s an app that lets you visualize Finder tags as containers in nested hierarchies (kinda like folders). I actually created this app with AI back in February. It’s an app I have dreamt of having for nearly a decade. nestag.app

What I don't understand is: Why would I cancel my Adobe products only to use some uninspiring copycat slop apps that look and work exactly the same? This is a once in a life-time opportunity to completely re-think and personalize your unique workflow. A dream come true for anyone who has a unique view on their creative process. I’ve been designing for more than twenty years, almost entirely with tools I had no say in. Someone else decided how they should work, and I adapted. So as you can imagine I have endless ideas about how things could and should work. Not for everyone, but specifically for myself. I don't even have an interest in distributing my unique creative flow to anyone else, because after all its mine. If I could design and build my own Photoshop/Illustrator/etc..., then I’d start from first principles and build it for an audience of one. I wouldn’t copy a tired, bloated or outdated workflow just because it’s what I’ve used since the late 90's. Because then I may as well just stick with what I had. As designers, lets think a little bigger here. Build something tailored exactly for YOUR needs, with every decision shaped by how you work, think and create. PS: And if an existing app/flow solves your problems already perfectly, then yes, use it. Just doing your own custom solutions for the sake of it (or for clout) is doing it for the wrong reasons.

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An interface to ChatGPT Dot via a $30 Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-1.8 device, wrapped in a 3D printed shell designed by @RobertJBye

I don’t care what product this is for, I just love the analog humanity of this

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Figma I tend to believe that of all public software companies, Figma is perhaps one of the most underrated in terms of their ability to monetize and have a second act crossing the chasm into being ai-native (after admittedly taking way too long to transition). I believe in order to do so they must collapse some of the product primitives to allow people to start to think of FIgma as a starting and finishing point for more workflows (Figma Make should be considered the v0 of this, and while they can keep the discrete products, it's possible agentic UI that does multi-product routing on top of each individual one should be pulled to forefront of experience). It also feels pretty clear that after Weave, the company understands that some M&A could be accretive if they want to own more horizontal parts of asset, product, and software creation. All of this gets at the idea that that Figma needs to talk and think about the business less as "we are for designers, designers are more important as code commoditizes" (paraphrasing somewhat bluntly) and into instead the narrative surrounding seat and user profile expansion + ai being able to translate creative non-designers into designers (Figma Agent is a clear, just-now monetizing push towards this). There has been some whiplash around this narrative positioning on earnings calls/from exec team as they discuss the importance of being for professional designers, while also touting engineer seat usage growing over designer seats (again, nuance to this but still creates complexity in the story of whether or not this is a slowly dying business versus a company that can kingdom build with AI). To bring it back to the AI point because that is what matters, as with many companies, you will likely see margin erosion due to AI (as we saw last quarter) and then re-expansion over time, especially as the company has hinted towards training its own models. With that said, my gut tells me that alongside of that, one could expect to see surprise top-line acceleration in 2027 if products can feel more cohesive and ai-first while expanding scope of Why Figma across an org versus a variety of death-by-a-thousand-cuts software/platforms. Anyways, we are long $FIG at Compound as a disclosure despite many people telling us we are morons for being so.

This is a good idea