Partner & Creative Director @ Thread
Lancaster, PA
Joined January 2013
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Chris Conley retweeted
We need to stop talking about product design in absolutes… there are no rules. Everything is made up. Do what makes sense and feels right.
Chris Conley retweeted
🚨SOMEONE REINVENTED HOW TEXT RENDERS ON THE WEB AND ITS ABSOLUTELY INSANE.
the goated dev behind react, reasonML, and midjourney’s frontend, just dropped Pretext. a tiny typescript library that measures and lays out text 500x faster than the DOM.
he trained models against real browser rendering for weeks until the output matched safari, chrome, and firefox exactly.
the demos are insane!! hundreds of thousands of text boxes at 120fps. magazine layouts and chat bubbles that actually wrap right.
engineers from Vercel, Remix, Figma, and shadcn all cosigned. this is the kind of open source that makes you want to be a better dev.
here are some cool demos in the past 24hrs👇
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
Chris Conley retweeted
🚀 finished the MVP sprout.store today
💌 writing the rest of the docs now — email access going out in the next few weeks, sign up today
📍 public roadmap w/ voting so you decide what gets built next
💗 lifetime licenses so buy once access forever
Chris Conley retweeted
I absolutely loved Carl's talk at Kinference. Nodded my head in agreement so hard I got a neck injury.
The new bar for software: "can I vibecode this?"
We’re heading into a world of personal software — built for one person and their needs — and premium software, designed with such depth that you’re buying a solution, not a tool.
Most software today sits in the middle. And the middle is death.
As the market catches up to our new reality, it won’t just be the ai bubble popping — it’ll be a lot of traditional SaaS getting wiped out
(From my recent Kinference talk.)
Don’t even want to see what Lighthouse has to say about this site 🫣, but dang...we had an absolute blast getting to build a little @sanity_io world for @icreature to build in. Grateful to the team for throwing down on this! @kegansovay
Chris Conley retweeted
Our first website in 10 years is live!
invisiblecreature.com/
Chris Conley retweeted
New work →
spence.us
Chris Conley retweeted
4o image gen is astonishing, and yet I still feel nothing. In translating photos into abstractions—even our most beloved motifs—something essential is lost. What remains may be technically beautiful, but spiritually diminished.
Anybody out there have some sort of a prelaunch checklist for @Shopify Hydrogen builds? Looking at my buds @ian_dot_exe, @ryanohara_ , @_HHFF, and all you other people that I love.
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Do I know any people who are Agile wizards? @kegansovay and I are curious if the methodology could be beneficial with a small team like ours! If you’re keen and can give me a run down/sales pitch, I’ll buy you coffee. :)
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