Fred's posts
New color palette
In the spirit of Kaizen, I'm always making incremental improvements to the things I design and build. Recently, that has meant an addition to the footer. And today, I'm introducing an updated color palette. It's pretty subtle, and most visible in dark mode, but the…
Fun with footers?
A lot of what you see here can be traced back to an idea I had when I saw someone, do something, somewhere else. I guess that's the definition of being inspired. A while ago, I came across the personal website of Zoe Minikes. I pretty much love…
Is it just me, or is AI already getting worse? For a while it felt like it was improving rapidly, but lately it seems to trip over itself as it overcomplicates things and tries to go about simple tasks in a roundabout way.
Interactive Resume
I created an interactive resume. It's a choose-your-own-adventure wizard where you can learn more about me. Here's the story of how it came to be. A few weeks back, I started to create an interactive resume. The first version was a sidescrolling game. The idea…
A successfully abandoned project
This weekend I spent some time on a project that I'm now abandoning. You might be surprised to hear (read) that I still consider this a success and a long term win. Here's what happened. I wanted to create an easy and fun to digest…
30 years later, still a favorite.
Playing around with Claude Design and realizing it very much behaves like an intern. I can get draft-level output from it, but need to hold its hand. There's lots of editing and re-prompting that needs to happen, but it's definitely faster than an actual human. My 2 main concerns are: how much work would it be for a developer to take this from prototype to production-ready? And, would it ever contribute cool, valuable, or surprising ideas like a good intern would?