Michael Hanson

I'm increasingly convinced that terminal UIs are the last remaining bastion of good, fast, reliable software.

After a few years, I'm realizing that I don't actually like ultrawide displays. Surprising.

This looks neat! As long as it's more "Bluesky" and less "Mastodon"…

Playing with some ideas for our client-facing proposal UI.

Some Buildertrend command palette designs from a while ago.

After 13 years with my HHKB Pro 2, I finally built a new keyboard.

Playing with some ideas for my personal site.

Last week I wanted a larger, 4x4 pixel-ish font for a terminal-based timer I was building. So I designed this one out of Unicode full- and half-block characters. Maybe I'll wrap it up and release it as a Go and/or Typescript library.

In Things on macOS, you just type to search. From anywhere. Just start typing stuff. Then hit enter, and you're at the thing. No hotkey required. It's one of my favorite interactions in any of the software that I use.

I built a simple command-line tool to grab YouTube transcripts. Handy if you use your coding agent for summarizing videos! github.com/mybuddymicha...

In the 300s and 400s AD, the ancient Christian church held a series of four councils, trying to define what the Bible taught about the person and nature of Jesus. Their creeds came to form what's now called the Chalcedonian Box, with each council forming one side.

My annotation component I'm using for designs in Figma.

The other night I couldn't sleep so I made a simple MCP server to let LLMs grab YouTube transcripts. Quickly get a summary, ask questions about it, etc. github.com/mybuddymicha...

why is coding with agents so addicting

About once a week, I'll remember that Mike Matas once built a neural network in Quartz Composer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUE...

Working on a Time Timer-esque app.

I finally set things up so I can build for iOS without running Xcode. And now I'm at, approximately… 50% of the joy I feel when building for the web. 🫠

Proposal builder idea.

Working on some tables and row highlighting.

Project proposal UI details.

Playing with ideas for estimates using Monte Carlo simulations.

Hey @figma.com! Help me out by letting me jump to whatever file and page a teammate is currently looking at (across all of Figma!). Pasting Figma links in chat is getting old! 😅

In my experience, LLMs are amazing at the first 90% of a software project, and really bad at the second 90%.

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I feel like I've yet to find a use case where I prefer reasoning models to Sonnet 3.5. But maybe I'm just holding it wrong?