With a second kid, the dad jokes don’t level up, they switch from active skill to passive buff. No cool down, affects everyone in the party.

I'm doing a 50% off Black Friday sale, but really, whether you care or not, just go to the site, close the fake window, and interact with the plugin demo. I put a lot of effort into trying to be hilarious and not enough people stumble across it. guideguide.me/

I launched GuideGuide for #aftereffects *checks watch* probably a decade after its relevance, but better late than never. There's still no great built in guide option for managing guides in After Effects, so why not.

After putting it off for years, it took all of about three hours to build it 🙃. I realize I'm trying to squeeze blood from a stone but embracing dying niche markets is kinda my thing.

It’s curious how Sketch seems to be growing, but plugins quietly died years ago. I looked at the numbers and only had 1-2 daily paid users. It's just not worth the technical debt to support the decaying libraries required to keep limping along.

This works whether you're a customer or not, so please enjoy GuideGuide for free, on me, for a nonspecific amount of time.

True story: I've been telling customers the behavior in Illustrator is as designed for years. Even had a well written explanation for why it is how it is. This week I looked at the code and found… // TODO: This is only half implemented, it should add canvas guides too. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Been out of the illustration game a while, but the @flipper_cloud folks (who I worked with at GitHub) asked if I'd do an "octocat style" version of their dolphin mascot.

The guys at @syntaxfm were kind enough to have me on to talk about my time doing octocats, being a creative director, and building plugins for design software. I don't *think* I embarrassed myself, but I'll let you be the judge. syntax.fm/show/743/javascrip…

With this latest launch, I've built GuideGuide for 6 different apps in 8 different software stacks over the last 13 years. Each plugin system has its aggravating quirks, but Figma has been — by far — the most pleasant, ergonomic experience of them all.

Figma's plugin playground files are pretty cool. For this launch I used mine as the template for a screencast about how GuideGuide works. youtu.be/9cbupfri5DA

I turned off the beta flag on GuideGuide for Figma today. Please tell all your design friends. guideguide.me #Design #ProductDesign #UI #DesignTools #Figma

I'm going to try an experiment to get more people to hear about GuideGuide. I'm offering a free additional year on the license of anyone that creates tutorial content that involves GuideGuide. Figma is ideal, but any version qualifies: guideguide.me/support/can-i-…

Well, I submitted GuideGuide to Figma for review out of an abundance of caution. Didn't want to risk the 5–10 day approval timeline not lining up with launch. They approved it in about an hour. Good problems to have, I suppose. figma.com/community/plugin/1…

I've submitted GuideGuide for Figma for official review. Seems like they don't allow for a delayed release, so rather than risk it not being approved in time, I've submitted a beta-flagged version early. If you want to try it out before then: guideguide.me/beta/

Design folks: where do you get your design news these days? Do they do sponsorships? I'm going to launch the Figma version of GuideGuide in a few weeks and I'd like to put some money down to extend my reach.

It took me 3 weeks to build thanks to the last decade of tech investments I've made. It just took me four years since Figma added plugin support to get around to doing it… but hey, now GuideGuide supports a modern design tool. That's cool.

I've been keeping my work quiet for fear that I might hit some sort of impassable obstacle with the API, but save for a few minor UX quirks, it all works nicely.