We remake ourselves over our lifetime, usually as a result driven by personal change. Sometimes it comes from shifts in our own lives, and sometimes from inspiration we feel compelled to pursue. Either way, it tends to be localized to an individual journey. What is happening right now feels different. This is a shift on a national, and possibly global, scale, one that demands change regardless of our personal feelings about it. This is especially true for software developers, in part because the...
The Strange Side-Effect of AI Coding
One of the weirdest things about using AI to write software isn’t the speed, the convenience, or the “oh wow it actually worked” moments. It’s the fact that-for the first time ever - we get a shockingly clear picture of what it In a traditional setup, you ask a team to add a feature like “generate a social graph image that combines multiple product photos into one.” The team looks at it, throws some points on the ticket, and off you go. Maybe it’s an 8-pointer. If you’re lucky, you’ve got at le...
Create Spot Changelog for January 12th, 2026
This week focused on major UX upgrades, better localization support, stronger profile/portfolio tools, and improvements across exhibitions and media handling. The project is now in a much stronger place for multi-language experiences, richer visual browsing, and a more cohesive design system....
Using Factory.ai
I spent most of yesterday building a pretty simple website called https://prompts.iwonderdesigns.com The idea came from my wife. She and a few photographer friends run a small creative exercise together. Each week, one of them sends out As soon as she explained it, I thought this would be fun to open up to a wider audience. It also felt like a perfect excuse to lean hard on an AI coding tool and see how far I could push it. So I used If you have not heard of it, Factory is a coding focused LL...
Numb Days
A maintenance-mode guide for days when nothing feels worth doing Some days don’t feel bad in a dramatic way. They feel flat. Muted. Empty. You’re not sad enough to cry, not anxious enough to panic — just stuck in this weird space where nothing feels worth doing… and you’re unhappy that you’re not doing anything. This isn’t a motivation problem. It’s a On days like this, trying to “find purpose” usually makes things worse. So instead of chasing meaning, I use something simpler: Maintenance mode....