Jonnie Hallman

I spoke at the Kinference design conference last fall about a randomly available domain name that was so good that I felt obligated to start a new passion project. No spoilers, but it’s a real rollercoaster ride of a talk… 🏀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um0x...

@nba.com Really don’t love the "on next" feature in the bottom-right corner of the Apple TV app that appears when a game has 1 minute left and looks like it’ll auto-switch the game… It covers the score in some broadcasts, and a minute in a game is an eternity—just show it when the game ends.

Earlier this year, I reunited with my friends at Stripe to build the Open Standard website, and I wrote about the process of animating it: destroytoday.com/blog/buildin...

I hosted the inaugural “Ball.app Invitational” last weekend—a 3-team round-robin tournament with a championship game at the end, “sponsored” by ball.app (i.e., my treat to the guys). Way more gratifying than just working on the software. Can’t wait to do it again. 🏀

When you have a moisture issue in your home, but you’re also an engineering who loves troubleshooting

Nobody tells you the home ownership will give you a deep fear of water.

Designed a new onboarding flow for ball.app, and having way too much fun including little details for real ballers 🏀

🚀 Today’s the day! I reunited with my friends at Stripe to build the website for joinopenstandard.com This one has a *ton* of little details (and easter eggs! 🥚) and I had a blast working with the folks on Stripe’s brand & web teams.

Couldn’t help myself from adding the Larry O'Brien trophy in my 🏀.app for the Knicks theme 😏💅

Just realized that one of my favorite easter eggs I made while at Stripe is still on the /jobs page… The monitor in the photo mimics everything you do on the page itself. 🥚💅 (only visible on Firefox because it uses an experimental feature)

Long overdue to get @cushionapp.com on here! Follow along if you’re into #buildinpublic bsky.app/profile/cush...

Haven’t shared much online about a new 🏀-related side project, but I gotta start sharing these fun little details… Ahead of the NBA Finals, I added Conference Finals trophies to player avatars with Knicks/Spurs themes. 🏆

every time I see a child sitting courtside at an nba game

✏️ New blog post about establishing a weekly user interview routine for cushionapp.com destroytoday.com/blog/establi...

@aaron.mn I can’t believe they actually called a 2 on him

Now that I’m actively working on cushionapp.com again, I’m making sure to blog every feature launch, like I used to. Feels so good to bring closure to a launch and celebrate it, but also provides extra marketing content for new users exploring the features. Check it out here: cushionapp.com/blog

I wrote a new process post about building a feature I’ve always wanted, then hearing from other users that they’ve always wanted it, too—they just didn’t think to ask for it. destroytoday.com/blog/buildin...

✏️ Eating my own dogfood again destroytoday.com/blog/eating-...

@esb.lol I don’t follow college ball closely, but seemed like ya’ll needed more than that one guy dribbling around while everyone else waited around at the 3-point line

🚀 It’s live! For the past couple months, I’ve been jamming with @devin.bsky.social & @narrowd.bsky.social on a website for NBA All Star Luka Dončić: 77x.world. The 3D was all Nick & Devin while I tackled the UI and user flows. I had a ton of fun matching the glitchiness in the UI, if you notice it…

Quickbooks is *designed* to make your blood boil, right?

I love working on these little big details

one of those days where I replaced every filter in my house 💆‍♂️

I recently wrapped up a project for @larvalabs.com, animating their “Quine” generative art series, and I wrote about the process: destroytoday.com/blog/animati...

me, wanting to work on my personal site vs all my other priorities

Going independent again: destroytoday.com/blog/going-i...

Already had a great plumber and a great electrician. Finally found a great drywall guy.

I just discovered that HBO has 24 seasons of “How It’s Made” 💆‍♂️ www.hbomax.com/shows/how-it...

i'm hiring a 'growth engineer' to work side-by-side with me at val.town in brooklyn we're a small team on a mission to spread the joy of programming we're looking for someone self-directed, loves talking to users, write english & typescript, and own projects end-to-end if this is you, reach out!!

@aaron.mn 🦅

If anyone’s had to deal with disputes before, this is one of the most practical and useful applications of AI I’ve seen.

Happy NIN Tron soundtrack release day for those who celebrate! open.spotify.com/album/47pjW3...

Two somewhat contradictory beliefs I hold: 1. You should absolutely overengineer your personal homepage/blog/projects. Experiment with as many things as you can as quickly as possible. 2. If you _really_ wanted to write that blog post, you'd figure it out with a .txt file. Don't overcomplicate it.

Had a blast sharing a new side project at the AIR Show & Tell last night at Index Space. (and love seeing all the smiles after the fact since it was tunnel vision for me during the talk 😅)

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All I want is a Love Island season where someone takes the money.

I wish I could have AI in my IDE in the sense that I could tell it to never show me certain auto-suggestions ever again and it’ll listen and maybe even apologize.

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In case it’s helpful to anyone else… my local `vercel dev` randomly slowed down to 1-2 sec for every request that went through it—even assets. No idea what it was until I realized that the requests were directly affected by the number of files in my repo. Using `.vercelignore` instantly fixed it. 🌠

Just troubleshooted (shot?) an issue that stumped multiple AI models, but was the first Stack Overflow result when searching Google. 🙃