Ale Muñoz

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.

For the people who complement their work with consulting / advisory roles for other companies or startups: how did you get started?

I’d like to explore that avenue in 2025, but I have to admit I’m completely lost.

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

My dear iOS dev friends, you *need* to take a look at this thing to record app demos: matte.app

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.

Fuck capitalism in general, and Bending Spoons in particular www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/05/komo...

Komoot Team Says Goodbye

 Through the magic of YouTube’s recommendation algorithm, it gave a flyer and suggested the above video to me. It’s a quick recap of the vast majority of the Komoot team throwing one last party, afte...

Today I’m playing with omlet.dev and I’m loving it. If works beautifully out of the box, and they just released a VS Code extension that’s *magic*.

If you have a project with React components, take it for a spin because it will tell you things about your own code that you may not already know.

Omlet

Component analytics and insights for React.

Por aquí no lo había puesto aún, y me haría ilusión llegar a 100 subscribers antes de fin de año: si no tienes suficiente con las estupideces que digo aquí, tengo un canal en Telegram donde comparto las cosas que voy encontrando por el mundo (sean naranjas o no)

Naranja Naranja

Cosas que me encuentro y quiero compartir. No es imprescindible que sean naranjas. Pero ayuda.

Today’s plan: listen to @choan.es’s latest album on rotation because it’s beautiful and soothing.

You can do the same (which I definitely recommend doing) and buy the album at: choan.bandcamp.com/album/dream-...

Reply to @karramarro.eurosky.social

Te iba a decir que algún día, cuando no temiese por mi vida si lo cuento, te explicaría una historia que hicieron en México para lo mismo.

Pero ya te lo cuenta la prensa de allá www.eluniversal.com.mx/metropoli/am...

Amazon financia proyecto para mejorar distribución de agua en CDMX; la infraestructura y operación es del gobierno: Segiagua | El Universal

Con una inversión inicial de 450 mil dólares, la empresa instaló válvulas y sensores inteligentes que ya ahorran 70 litros por segundo y beneficiarán a medio millón de capitalinos

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…

Remember that time when Reddit users started a competition to design the worst UI for a volume control?

Someone took inspiration from that and made a full game out of increasingly infuriating UI designs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Dh...

Is this rage game really as hard as they say? (Agreee)

YouTube video by Lethamyr Two

This reimagined Tetris for #pico8 is absolutely amazing. Everything from the physics and game mechanics to the music is a work of art.

Go enjoy it and have a great Friday!

www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=152...

Detris

I don’t know how deep you think you are into your hobbies, but I’m pretty sure you can’t beat “I made a subway for my cats”

Enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRty...

I made a Subway for My Cats!

YouTube video by Xing's World 爱鼓捣的邢志磊

Another (way simpler) option to get your daily brown noise dose if you use Apple platforms: ale.today/generating-b...

Generating brown noise, take 2

a small life log

I just read this on the docs for a documentation framework:

“a new type earns existence only when no existing recipe’s contract fits without breaking it”

My brain:

Pulp Fiction: English Mother******

ALT: Pulp Fiction: English Mother******

Someone has recreated Lemmings in PICO-8, and made it available for download for *free*, not only for PICO-8 but also for Mac, Linux, and Windows.

I know what I’ll be doing today:

Lemmings by Buzzard

The Classic, Recreated in PICO-8

Reply to @vale.rocks

This was pretty enjoyable to read, thanks for sharing!

I’m definitely sending the link to my (dev) friends who say “I’m not a designer” 😊

If you’ve read the Bun rewrite blog post (and you should because it’s fascinating from a tech perspective), you should 100% read this reply from Zig’s lead developer: andrewkelley.me/post/my-thou...

Things I’m going to regret watching: video of a dude who’s set up his cargo bike as a coffee stand for weekend farmer’s market 😅

Reply to @bomberstudios.com

Paraphrasing the old adage: “it’s cool to be an expert, but it’s much cooler to have an expert friend“.

Make friends, they’re a way better investment than a Claude Code subscription 😘

Anthropic says “Claude Code Dynamic Workflows”, but what I hear is “chicken chicken chicken chicken”

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It also has very strong “Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken” vibes

isotropic.org/papers/chick...