Ale Muñoz

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This is the best thing I’ve seen online in a while 👏👏👏

Playdate’s Design Guide is a pretty nice read, even if you’re not interested in developing games for it.

I wish more systems (including design systems!) included docs like this.

help.play.date/developer/de...

Designing for Playdate - Playdate Help

Advice on making your game accessible, pleasant to use, and at home on Playdate—from the UI to performance, and more.

The summary of my relationship with @astro.build is: it feels nicer the more I use it, and it’s getting even better with every release.

Matt Kane @mk.gg

Astro 5 beta 10 is out, with an experimental feature that I've been working on. Pass a "layout" prop to an Image and it auto-generates the srcsets, sizes and responsive styles. I'd really like it if people try it out and give feedback on the RFC 5-0-0-beta.docs.astro.build/en/reference...

Experimental responsive images

I am tempted to apply to this job offer with:

“I hate your product with the burning passion of a thousand suns.

Hire me, so I can delete your main code repository and then quit on my first day on the job.

Sincerely yours,
Ale”

This is, by far, the best Product Design job offer I’ve seen in a very long time: sudowrite.com/jobs/designer

Sudowrite is hiring a Product Design Lead to reinvent writing

We're a small, very nice group of writers and technologists using AI to help authors tell stories. If you love writing and design, and you want to make creative tools, not B2B SaaS, this is your place...

As a designer-who-codes who has learnt CSS by picking random bits here and there as needed, I’m enjoying every-layout.dev very much.

They have a 50% off Black Friday promo, and the content is well worth the price of admission.

Relearn CSS layout

I wrote a long piece about how I read 10x more books this year, in case it can help you do the same (or apply the same strategy to other life endeavours) ale.today/how-to-read-...

How to Read 10x More Books

A simple strategy to read more books

Another reason to love @astro.build is the *fantastic* community they have. I just asked a question on their Discord server, and it only took @hideoo.dev 5 minutes to determine it was a bug, and work on a fix.

100% of my interactions there have been like that. Great job, Astro team 🧡

I am taking a break from working for others, to focus on working for myself.

And I am happy to report that I still love my profession: building things out of thin air is amazing (specially when you do it on your own terms, and not following someone else’s roadmap).

Building something to share bike activities on my blog, without sharing too much information…

Apparently there’s a ray of hope for those of us who’ve been in product for a while and have discovered that we *don’t* want to manage people: garrone.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

The rise of the "Super IC" product designer

I’ve always had a tepid relationship with the idea of thought leadership, whether it be on Linkedin, Medium, Substack or any other platform.

The best thing you’ll read today is this article with basic graphic design concepts explained using smiley faces. Specifically: optical alignment and size adjustment to make things look pretty and balanced.

Enjoy! minoraxis.medium.com/advanced-ico...

Advanced Icon Design: Dots

This is the first in a series of advanced icon tips. We’ll cover optical effects that elevate icons from good to great, borrowing heavily…

Just finished reading this and it’s a MUST read if you’re working on or around design (or even if you’re not: it’s *very* good).

I hope it inspires other people working on AI projects to reflect on what they’re building (and why).

Bravo @penpot.app for sharing this 👏👏👏

Ale Muñoz @bomberstudios.com

“we hope that reading this piece will provide you with a nuanced perspective on why the vast majority of the current industry efforts (vibe coding/designing, design to no-code, prompt to prototype) are doomed to fail” Ok, you have my full attention penpot.app/blog/penpot-...

Penpot's AI whitepaper

This piece explains some of Penpot's relevant findings around AI and UI Design, what we’re building (and why) and what you should expect from us in the future.

Working in tech in a Spanish company is FUN:

- IA can mean Information Architecture, or Inteligencia Artificial (Artificial Intelligence)
- AI can mean Artificial Intelligence, or Arquitectura de Información (Information Architecture)

Even more reasons to hate acronyms 🎉

Docs is a Notion alternative that is:

- European
- open source
- built with public financing (public money, public code!)

github.com/suitenumeriq...

GitHub - suitenumerique/docs: A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline.

A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline. - suitenumerique/docs

I know I’m old school and people no longer care about these things.

But sometimes, when I feel like crying, I press ⌃ P on a Figma file with icons and remember the good old times.

You know your dev workflow is broken when you can fix an issue and push it to production while your team is discussing if the Jira card should be filed under “bugs” or under “improvements”…

Looks like the UE is (finally) working on a European OS (Fedora under the hood, plus some customization layers) using the “public money, public code” spirit.

I’m not super optimistic (we’ve seen similar initiatives come and go in Spain), but it sounds like a Good Thing™ to me.

eu-os.gitlab.io

EU OS

Proof-of-Concept OS for the EU

Unnecessarily animated toggle element, because why not:

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Alguien se ha bajado los 16 DVDs que componen las 4 temporadas de ALF y se dispone a fumárselos a lo largo del verano. Ask me anything.

The older I get, the more I think that people need to stop taking themselves so seriously.

FI-NA-LLY

Ale Muñoz @bomberstudios.com

Listen, I’m not Figma’s biggest fan, but this is simply unacceptable. How are y’all living with this?

As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to review my CV and rewrite some parts to improve its score in ATS systems.

Now I have something that flies through automatic checks, but that’s so full of bullshit that I’m ashamed to sharer it.

The state of hiring in tech in 2025 is *horrendous*.

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