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The more I add to kage.design the more useful it’s becoming for actually building stuff I don’t really want another gallery where I scroll through nice landing pages I want to find a component I like, copy the idea as a prompt and immediately do something with it That’s the bit I’m finding genuinely useful

There’s a weird sweet spot for software where it does exactly 3 things extremely well and then just stops Every app eventually seems to get tempted into becoming an entire operating system I want more tiny tools like Glance & Boop I have a few ideas for more

Getting older has completely changed what I want from games I used to want the biggest 80 hour RPG possible Now “I can play this for 25 minutes and actually make some progress” is a genuine selling point until WoW Forever comes out..

One underrated thing about LLMs is how many things I’m now willing to learn Not because learning got easier exactly It’s just that there’s always someone there who will answer the stupid question you were too embarrassed to ask

There’s something really satisfying about self hosting tiny open source tools A little VPS with a bunch of software you actually understand and control feels so much nicer than having 15 different SaaS subscriptions

I miss when the internet felt like loads of weird little websites made by individuals Feels like AI might weirdly bring some of that back The cost of making something stupid just because you want it to exist is basically zero now

SaaS isn't dead but I think I’m slowly becoming obsessed with software that I can just buy once and own No account, no subscription, no “£7.99/month billed annually” Just give me the app and leave me alone sometimes

kage.design is slowly turning into the design reference library I wanted for myself - Find a page you like - Drill down into the individual components - Copy one as a prompt and throw it at your agent Should I allow people to create accounts and save collections?

Odin 3 might be the perfect travel gaming device A Steam Deck and my MSI Claw are obviously way more powerful but they’re absolute units This thing disappears into my backpack and can emulate basically everything I’d actually want to play on a flight Been excellent in Japan 🇯🇵

I think local-first software has completely ruined me stowdrop.app opens instantly, stores everything locally and doesn’t need an account Now whenever another app makes me wait for a loading spinner just to see my own data it drives me insane GPUI 🧡

I think the hardest part of getting AI to build good UI is actually showing it what “good” means “Make this look beautiful” is basically useless Giving it an actual component you like + a prompt describing it gets you so much further Pretty much the idea behind kage.design

My coding agent starter pack: kage.design - Give it real UI references + copy them as prompts styles.refero.design - Give it better design rules vibeprompts.dev - Give it ready-made component prompts screenshottocode.com - Turn visual references into code uiable.com - 600+ React components aicss.dev - Components for AI interfaces agent-memory.dev - Give the agent persistent memory Claude can write 10,000 lines while I make coffee. Might as well make those lines look good.

Going to Japan is going to force me to do something I’m apparently incapable of doing at home Stop building things for a couple of weeks I’ve been going a bit ridiculous with side projects lately so I think I actually need the forced break 😅

Stop building the same boring SaaS UI. Steal some taste from these instead: builtbydesigners.com - Products actually built by designers kage.design - Real interfaces broken down by page + component rareui.com - Unusual animated React components interior.dev - Beautiful interactions and motion glass.samasante.com - Glass effects done properly vibeui.online - Components for vibe-coded apps uiable.com - 600+ open-source React components Save it. You’ll need one of these eventually.

Got 3 hours sleep then stayed awake in Tokyo walking 24000 steps to beat the jet lag My Fitbit thinks something is terribly wrong

Running my own VPS used to be one of those things I just couldn’t be bothered to learn properly Networking, firewalls, Docker, debugging some random Linux issue at 1am… Now I can just have an LLM guide me through being a part time sysadmin It’s genuinely not scary anymore

7 tiny frontend tools I wish I’d found earlier: torph.lochie.me - Zero-dependency text morphing typehug.aliszu.com - Keep related text together scrit.to - Beautiful animated text dicebear.com - 60+ open-source avatar styles uisfx.com - UI sound effects fluidfunctionalism.com - Open-source UI components kage.design/tooling - Curated tools for building better interfaces Bookmark folder getting out of control (use Stowdrop.app for that)

I don’t think I’ve ever had more ideas for things to build than I do right now The annoying part is building has become the easy bit Deciding which ideas deserve more than 2 days of my attention is much harder

Building UI with AI? Save these: aicss.dev - UI blocks for AI agent interactions ui.halaska.com - Components for AI products vibeprompts.dev - 286 components with ready-to-use prompts styles.refero.design - High-quality design.md examples agent-memory.dev - Persistent memory for coding agents 21st.dev - 1,000+ community-built UI components kage.design - Real product UI you can copy directly as an AI prompt or MCP Your coding agent can build fast. Give it better taste.