This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width In pursuit of making Obsidian insanely fast and cohesively designed, I always found the Mermaid library to be too big, too slow, and too hard to theme. Pele will be the new renderer in the next version of Obsidian, but you can start using it now. Pele [ˈpɛlɛ] is named after the goddess of volcanoes and fire. It's open source under the MIT license. Try the playground!

A few of you asked how this came together. This is the trail of iterations that led to the video!

I added a new /state-machine skill to the collection. It renders any component you want in all of its states on a throwaway page with mock data. I enjoy working like this a lot. It makes it very easy to work on more complex components. github.com/jakubkrehel/skill…

Most UI sound libraries ship folders of audio files, so I made cuelume synthesise all 14 of its cues live in four materials cuelume.dev/

the gradient tool is out! and man, i'm so touched by all the overwhelming support i got for it last week... if you have any suggestions for mmeshy, rip me apart in the comments! SOUND ONNNN 🗣️ mmeshy.com

what if you let music take control of motion?

Video search + dragging objects out of scene Not sure what dragging things out should actually do yet, maybe bring up some editing interface for that entity across entire video/film?

What if you could explore your codebase rendered as a city right in the terminal. Watch your agents work as they create, delete, refactor and build software as an interactive visualisation. @fabricated_it and I built this last week

🎓 Join us for the Dyson School of Design Engineering’s annual Commencement Lecture! This year, we’re delighted to welcome John Maeda @johnmaeda author of "Laws of Simplicity" and "How to Speak Machine", who will deliver talk: “Design and Engineering Are the Same Job Now.” 1/2

Continuation of my old video-as-3d-object demo Always wanted to extend it further with segmentation so you can search for any type of object within the scene

project is live! check here type-garden.vercel.app

convergence to the mean when everyone looks at everyone else to decide what to make, we eventually stop making anything of our own. we copy what works. borrow the language, the aesthetic, the features. we call it learning from the market, following best practices, staying competitive. together, everything starts to feel familiar. polished, interchangeable. nothing wrong. nothing alive. the mean isn’t necessarily bad. it’s where everything lands when we remove the reasons for it to be different. numbers are easier to compare than feelings, so we make things that produce numbers. we study what gets attention, then shape ourselves around it. eventually the feedback stops informing the work and starts authoring it. we’re no longer asking what we want to say. we’re asking what will be rewarded for saying. ai makes this loop frictionless. it can draw from more references than we could see in a lifetime. but access to every perspective isn’t the same as having one. it hasn’t lived a particular life that makes one detail unbearable and another beautiful. when we ask it to choose for us without bringing any intention of our own, we get something plausible, easy to approve. then we ship it, measure it, copy it, and feed it back into the next round. a tidal wave of mid. this changes not just the work, but the people making it. we describe ourselves in categories platforms can distribute and markets understand. designer. founder. creator. pick a niche. build a brand. be consistent. the parts that don’t fit become inconvenient, even when those contradictions might produce our most interesting work. we become easier to classify and harder to tell apart. i think we need to approach making things more like artists. an artist develops a perspective through the work. making, noticing, choosing, failing, returning. learning what matters even when nobody else cares. craft gives that perspective a form precise enough for someone else to experience. the life outside the work matters too. the places you’ve lived, the people you’ve loved, the things you’re embarrassed to care about. these aren’t distractions from having something to say. they’re how you come to have something to say. we understand this with music, paintings, photographs, movies. we expect a person to be present in the choices. we want to experience something we wouldn’t have encountered without them. software can do this too. a piece of software expresses beliefs about how life should feel. what deserves your attention. what you should be free to change. whether a task should feel like paperwork or play. even a small interaction can carry someone’s care, humor, or curiosity. but we rarely talk about software as a medium. we talk about it as an industry. markets to capture, workflows to optimize, competitors to catch up with. we add a feature because someone else has it, without asking whether it belongs. products accumulate the same parts and lose what made them worth choosing. underneath the branding, it’s all the same thing. artists learn from others too. the question is whether you’re absorbing those influences into a point of view, or using them to avoid developing one. what are you trying to let someone feel, understand, or do? why this particular shape? what have you noticed that the existing tools don’t seem to notice? those questions don’t have answers you can borrow from a competitor’s roadmap. if we can make almost anything, deciding what deserves to exist becomes more important, not less. speed gives us more chances to exercise judgment. it doesn’t remove the responsibility. i don’t want a world where every person becomes a more efficient distributor of the same ideas. i want people to use these tools to go further into what they actually care about. to make things specific enough that we can feel someone behind them. what is the point of everyone being able to make something, if we all end up making the same thing?

Chatted w/ the creator of d3-dag about a topological rank operator to enable pre-sorting nodes, and the feature just landed. Makes it possible for me to create DAG minimaps for Rill Developer! Here's a sketch of a query DAG navigator in a @sveltejs repl svelte.dev/repl/83b44d5d50be…

How well can models design icons? @andpoul and I benchmarked frontier and open weight models The results: they’re steadily improving execution, their choices often overly literal