Pavel Laptev

A while ago I vibe-coded a small tool to speed up the ASCII graphics for GitMerge 26. I've cleaned it up and it's now public: meet ASKI. Unlike most ASCII tools, it's built for art: graphic tablet support, layers, fonts and transform effects. pavellaptev.me/ascii-editor

I noticed that popular variable fonts like Inter and Geist lack some of the special symbols found in their static versions.

Figma color-mix feature. Posting it now so future me can check how wrong (close?) I was.

...or what, Cursor?

While we're still waiting for overlay scrollbars in CSS, here's a nice article on making one in 2026 using modern CSS: blog.master.dev/custom-scrol...

Wrote a small post about experimenting with the Figma agent + Claude + GitHub Actions to ship our design tokens to npm. The agents wrote all the scripts. Then a button ran them faster. blog.gitbutler.com/design-token...

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Encountering an issue with SVG rendering in Chrome 151.0.7922.75. Elements using vector-effect appear at half their intended stroke width. Wonder if I'm missing a configuration detail or it's a bug 🤔 codepen.io/editor/Pavel...

Impressive

CSS in Rust is wild. Spotted it today in a vibecoded project.

Not sure how long it's been like this, but I only just noticed that Figma is using web components. Neat.

Finally added a proper JSON preview to the TokensBruecke plugin. Now you can fold groups and search for items without needing to open your editor. Also, the plugin now converts the entire JSON to align with the latest DTCG specs.

This demo doesn't use a single line of JS code to respond to the arrow keys. Movement of the player is handled 100% by the upcoming `focusgroup` HTML attribute! Focusgroup was definitely *not* made for this 😅 But, so cool to have this out of the box on the web. More ➡️ open-ui.org/components/s...

Another interesting case: data population. A while back I built the JSON to Figma plugin to solve that. With FigClaw, I don't think I need it anymore.

Interesting that @figma.com still hasn't built anything like FigClaw. You can design in Figma Make, reach the canvas via MCP from your IDE — but nothing in between that just does things for you inside Figma itself, beyond some image generation and text editing. www.figma.com/community/pl...

I stumbled upon Josh Puckett's lovely Interface Craft website. I wanted to see how well the cards interaction (built with Framer Motion) would translate to native View Transitions. These don't have the little animated graphics, but that should be feasible with this approach.

One of the coolest web features I’m waiting for is the `focusgroup` attribute open-ui.org/components/s...

New @gitbutler.com stickers just arrived 🤡🎇🎸

Been thinking about how much JavaScript we ship for basic UI patterns. Wrote it up. Anchor positioning, Popover API, Scroll-Driven Animations and more — what they replace and what's still missing 👉 blog.gitbutler.com/the-great-cs...

Didn't know there was an issue about a new CSS logo github.com/CSS-Next/css.... Here are my favorite designs. It feels like a missed opportunity for something fun, because they went with a different direction.

Am I accidentally building a Color OS? :D Different needs require different stats, so I decided to let users rearrange, show, or hide color stats however they want.

I love being able to draw any crazy stickers I want for @gitbutler.com! That’s a big part of what makes them different.

Saw a project called Readout by @benjitaylor.bsky.social. Neat idea, but a 14MB file size for a 200x200px image? That’s wild. Hard to trust the underlying code when the basics are that bloated.

yes editor.p5js.org/isohedral/fu...

That’s funny. I miss Silicon Valley 🥲