Josh On Design

A diatribe in when I am greatly disappointed in my industry.

If you live on planet earth and you are at all connected to software you've probably tried out 'vibe coding', ie: using an AI tool to write software for you.

Layout is one of the hardest problems in UI toolkit design because there are so many different ways to design a layout.

This year's JS13K Entries.

As part of my ongoing research with embedded Rust on ESP32 devices, (starting with the T-Deck but eventually branching out to other devices), I started creating a simple reusable UI toolkit to automate the boring code that I end up writing over and over f…

I’m really enjoying using nostd Rust for embedded programming on the [Lilygo T-deck](https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck?

I don't know why I waited until I was almost fifty to read Slaughterhouse Five.

I've been having a lot of fun with this little device called a LilyGo T-Deck.

Thoughts on LLMs and the coming AI backlash I find Large Language Models fascinating.

Working in the Mixed Reality group at Mozilla was the most fun I ever had in my 30 year career.

I’ve been quiet lately, not because I’ve had nothing to say but because I’ve not felt well enough to say it.

One of my original IdealOS blog posts from 2017 showed up on the front page of Hackernews the other day (comments here).

It's been a bit since I've posted on my round screen watch project.

It’s a truism of the web that when something becomes free it turns to crap.

I’m continuing to work on a little smartwatch prototype using a little round LCD and I want to have nice looking text.

For my next project with the WaveShare Round LCD I want to create an animation of Dr Strange's Eye of Agamotto.

I'm enamored of all of cheap and hackable screens and embedded CPUs coming onto the market.

I love HTML Canvas.

I’ve been teaching my nephew to code for the past few years and we did a game jam together over the winter break.

In the last couple of years I’ve seen a lot of lamenting about the browser mono-culture.