Fran's Realm

Another image from our trip to Morocco, three years ago. [^1] We spent one night in the Erg Chebbi near Merzouga and, while waiting for the sunset, I took this picture of my wife walking her way up on a dune.

Two years ago me and my wife spent two weeks exploring the Dominican Republic by car.

During the six years Tula has been with us, I've tried multiple times to represent her on paper or screen, using multiple techniques.

In 2022, hit by nostalgia for that beautiful macOS Lion look, I purchased this gorgeous set of wallpapers.

I purchased Mood camera when it first came out, after taking it for a quick spin and appreciating what the developer was trying to do: I wanted to create an experience that encouraged users to stay in the moment and just take photos, not stand there, twea…

For all of my side projects, I recently moved away from classic semantic versioning (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH) to a more liberating CalVer one (YYYY.MM.RELEASE (PATCH)).

When I’m stuck on a route, getting pumped out, with no way to cleanly make it to the next hold, I often say: "Well, I guess this just became a dyno”. [^1] I’ve been repeating this for so many years that I made a little tattoo-project about it.

You've always liked philosophy.

Bear is a beautiful (if not the most beautiful) markdown app out there.

Bear still is one of my favorite apps.

Todoist's Head of Product posted on Reddit that they're retiring the Goals experiment on July 13th: The short version: Goals didn't clear our bar of simple and powerful. […] We could have kept patching, but I didn't believe that was the right call.

In most sports, competition results are your legacy.

This year we went to Pantelleria earlier than usual, in May.

iA has released version 8 of iA Writer.

People often ask me what I look for when hiring designers, especially for small teams like ours.

import Accordion from '@components/Accordion.astro'; For my 38th birthday, my wife surprised me with five days of ice skating across Sweden's frozen lakes.

I've been listening to Pink Floyd since childhood.

I recently wrote about using mtd to manage my project tasks.

Since Trump was elected back in 2016, I've been referencing these laws to people.

I was watching Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery a while back and thinking: this is clever, but it's not that clever.

I manage various projects and not all of their tasks end up in Things, my default task manager.

I love the Flexoki theme by Steph Ango, and I use it across several apps.

I've finally started working on an iOS app I've had in mind for a while[^1].

While browsing Nova's themes today I discovered there's now an unofficial Flexoki theme for it!

import LinkPreview from '@components/LinkPreview.astro'; I love Claude Code and how it works from any folder.

import LinkPreview from '@components/LinkPreview.astro'; Apple Shortcut is extremely powerful and flexible.

Usually, with the beginning of a new year I find an excuse to completely redesign my site.

January 7, 2026.

Torino is where I studied during my university years, met my wife, and spent eight years living in.

A must read for any product designer out there.

As I keep doing these posts (see 2023 and 2024), I strip out everything unnecessary or duplicated, so I've ended up with a simple list: Email: iCloud + Apple Mail Browser: ~Arc +~ Safari Task management: ~Things + Reminders~ Ivy + agenda/notebook Bookmark…

More and more often, I find myself halfway through a TV series thinking: "This should’ve been a movie.”

Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins published "The 25 best movies of the century" on their podcast The Big Picture.

We spent the first few days of 2026 near Klosters, in Switzerland.

<aside class="legenda"> 1–5 — Rating (1: Bad, 2: Could be better, 3: Ok, 4: Good, 5: Amazing) ⭐️ — A masterpiece ❤️ — Loved it!

Files outlast apps.

After leaving Magic Wood, we crossed some beautiful valleys on the way to Val di Mello.

Even if I seemed critical in my previous post about WWDC 2025, [^1] I want to address the misconception that Liquid Glass is “just a skin” layered on top of the existing interface. [^1]: Even if I don't agree with something, I know that doesn't mean I'm r…

This is not a summary of the WWDC event: multiple journalists, bloggers, and YouTubers are much better than me at that.

After leaving our bags at the Airbnb at the bottom of the valley, we took a few hours before sunset to explore the area around the Dades river.

One of the few things I use Siri for is to quickly save tasks that come into my mind those rare moments I don’t have access to my phone (i.e. while driving or cycling).

Beautiful, beautiful piece by Louie Mantia on all this Humane shit-show.

Here's an app I really love and use on a daily basis but rarely see mentioned around.

In a past life, I was an architecture student[^1].

The Verge: To be eligible for the maximum safety rating […], cars will need to use buttons, dials, or stalks for hazard warning lights, indicators, windscreen wipers, SOS calls, and the horn.

Hugo Pratt wrote, drew, and travelled a lot.

If you’re managing a design system without semantic tokens, you’re missing out on a key tool for scalability and efficiency.

Looking for wilderness in the Netherlands is a difficult task.

Scrolling through the list below, you'll see some numbers, letters, or emojis assigned to them.

Il Monte Bianco appearing through the clouds, on our away to Italy for Christmas.