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Creative Director and Design Engineer. Making cool stuff with startups at @neither___nor

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today’s experiment: chimera. a little tool that let’s you realtime morph through a design system matrix generated by 4 reference images. this one was inspired by listening to techbimbo talk about her process on Dive Club with Ridd 🤿 and How I AI with claire vo 🖤. her approach to choosing moodboards over prompts made me wonder what might be possible if we applied that same approach to generative UI. and after a few dead ends, the idea turned into chimera. the results are very generic at the moment but I might tune it up if people seem interested. the big reminder for me is how much more inspiring a tool feels when you can explore in realtime instead of waiting for results every time you make a change. lots more things to try in that direction.

today’s experiment: chimera. a little tool that let’s you realtime morph through a design system matrix generated by 4 reference images. this one was inspired by listening to techbimbo talk about her process on Dive Club with Ridd 🤿 and How I AI with claire vo 🖤. her approach to choosing moodboards over prompts made me wonder what might be possible if we applied that same approach to generative UI. and after a few dead ends, the idea turned into chimera. the results are very generic at the moment but I might tune it up if people seem interested. the big reminder for me is how much more inspiring a tool feels when you can explore in realtime instead of waiting for results every time you make a change. lots more things to try in that direction.

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Ok, you asked and the little dragon lives on mobile now. For those interested in the technical side I had to change the text rendering from canvas to native to make it look crisp on mobile. Which means I had to lose the heat distortion effect on the flame displacement. But I think it's worth it for clear text. (If anyone knows how to make canvas text render crisp on mobile I'd love to hear about it. I'm hoping it's just something simple I'm missing!)

Ok, you asked and the little dragon lives on mobile now. For those interested in the technical side I had to change the text rendering from canvas to native to make it look crisp on mobile. Which means I had to lose the heat distortion effect on the flame displacement. But I think it's worth it for clear text. (If anyone knows how to make canvas text render crisp on mobile I'd love to hear about it. I'm hoping it's just something simple I'm missing!)

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This little illuminated dragon is very happy about Pretext. He's too busy having fun to care about people's "hot takes" on how "it's not that special." (This little dragon also only works on desktop right now but maybe I'll do mobile later)

This little illuminated dragon is very happy about Pretext. He's too busy having fun to care about people's "hot takes" on how "it's not that special." (This little dragon also only works on desktop right now but maybe I'll do mobile later)

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what's your ideal inspiration process? you know i love cosmos, and pinterest. but i have problems with all of them. pinterest has a great discovery algo. but it's tuned for engagement, so once it starts feeding you a certain type of image you end up in a spiral that's hard to escape. cosmos is great when culture-drive curation is the goal. but heavy curation has a cost: you end up seeing the same references everyone else does. is a wild child. no notes on that. but as much as i love quirky human curation, i also love an algorithm that feels like it understands how i think. i've tried mymind and i respect their commitment to no collaboration but i need collaborative features since i think the real unlocks happen when you combine personal thought, collaborative though, and algorithmic discovery. so this is why i'm building memio. memio is a local-first, creative memory companion. i've been tuning a similarity algorithm that’s been really fun to use. it's looser than pinterest and cosmos, which means it surfaces unexpected connections instead of just showing you more of what you already clicked on. the goal is for it to feel like a little like human curation. here's where memio is going: multi-modal. right now it handles images. text, links, video, and audio are all in the works. cli, mcp, and all the other acronyms too. private by default. your library lives on your computer or in your own cloud storage. the core algorithm runs entirely on-device, so you can do a lot without ever hitting an external api. collaborative when you want. you'll be able to choose which boards you share with other people and llms and that will extend what you can do in the base version. capture whatever. find connections you couldn't find any other way. make cool shit. i'm building this for all of us so tell me what you want from a tool like this!

what's your ideal inspiration process? you know i love cosmos, and pinterest. but i have problems with all of them. pinterest has a great discovery algo. but it's tuned for engagement, so once it starts feeding you a certain type of image you end up in a spiral that's hard to escape. cosmos is great when culture-drive curation is the goal. but heavy curation has a cost: you end up seeing the same references everyone else does. is a wild child. no notes on that. but as much as i love quirky human curation, i also love an algorithm that feels like it understands how i think. i've tried mymind and i respect their commitment to no collaboration but i need collaborative features since i think the real unlocks happen when you combine personal thought, collaborative though, and algorithmic discovery. so this is why i'm building memio. memio is a local-first, creative memory companion. i've been tuning a similarity algorithm that’s been really fun to use. it's looser than pinterest and cosmos, which means it surfaces unexpected connections instead of just showing you more of what you already clicked on. the goal is for it to feel like a little like human curation. here's where memio is going: multi-modal. right now it handles images. text, links, video, and audio are all in the works. cli, mcp, and all the other acronyms too. private by default. your library lives on your computer or in your own cloud storage. the core algorithm runs entirely on-device, so you can do a lot without ever hitting an external api. collaborative when you want. you'll be able to choose which boards you share with other people and llms and that will extend what you can do in the base version. capture whatever. find connections you couldn't find any other way. make cool shit. i'm building this for all of us so tell me what you want from a tool like this!

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here's another little tool i've been working on called "typoverse." i have thousands of fonts but i find myself always using the same ones. and i am simply not going to manually tag or categorize fonts either. so i built a tool that compares all my fonts to each other and maps them based on similarity. would this be useful to anyone?

here's another little tool i've been working on called "typoverse." i have thousands of fonts but i find myself always using the same ones. and i am simply not going to manually tag or categorize fonts either. so i built a tool that compares all my fonts to each other and maps them based on similarity. would this be useful to anyone?

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