The reasoning behind the product seems incredibly similar to Twist[0]. What would be the key differences besides “new is always better”?
[0]: https://twist.com
Readit Newsichik commented on Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss getdock.io/... · Posted by u/yadavrh
Location: Berlin, Germany
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: CSS, HTML, TypeScript, Figma, Photoshop, After Effects
Résumé/CV: https://vaitenko.com/cv.pdf
Email: vadim@vaitenko.com
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I’m a digital product designer with decades of experience focused on UI, UX, and scalable design systems. For the past decade, I’ve been a principal maintainer and contributor to design systems, owning Figma libraries, documentation, and collaborating closely with engineering (including contributing frontend code) I’ve led and mentored small, distributed teams and work comfortably in remote, cross-functional environments. I value clarity, consistency, and practical systems that help teams move faster and ship with confidence.
ichik commented on Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI blog.google/technology/de... · Posted by u/xnx
Frankly, it's insane how laughably bad under scrutiny their own examples are. It both distorted the data and made the chart less readable (labels placement, segments separation, missing labels, worse contrast). And it combined them into one, so you you'll have harder time comparing them compared to the original image! Isn't it amazing that it added a toggle? Post author seems to think it deserves an exclamation point even.
ichik commented on Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? vgel.me/posts/seahorse/... · Posted by u/nyxt
It correctly represents "seahorse emoji" internally AND it has in-built (but factually incorrect) knowledge that this emoji exists.
Example: "Is there a lime emoji?" Since it believes the answer is no, it doesn't attempt to generate it.
Was the choice of example meaningful? Lime emoji does exist[0]
ichik commented on Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny techcrunch.com/2025/08/02... · Posted by u/bingden
I think the Figma IPO proves Khan was right. $60B market cap today vs the $20B Adobe offered in 2023.
There was some criticism about regulatory overreach when the deal got blocked. Now Figma employees are rich, the design tools market stays competitive, and we have another major independent tech company instead of just another Adobe product line.
This is exactly why we need regulators willing to tell Big Tech "no" sometimes. Competition creates more value than consolidation.
> design tools market stays competitive
Adobe killed their Figma competitor (XD), so the reality of the UI design tools niche in the design tools market is that Figma actually has a near monopoly. Sketch still chugs along, but its market share is negligible. Penpot is a neat idealistic community effort that is lightyears behind.
This is one of the reasons why Figma continues to tighten the screws on their userbase, who doesn't like it one bit, but continues to pay.
Now, this is all not to say, that it would've been any better with Adobe's involvement, more like lamenting the fact that Figma lived long enough to become a villain.
I was one of their first Enterprise customers way back in 2017’ish-give-or-take.
The brilliance of the system he built was that it allowed for real time collaboration. Which was god send from the Sketch -> Zeplin -> Invision -> Avocode (version management) ‘stack’ that lost Enterprise design orgs were using.
Which was already a large leap from what Adobe was expecting us to do with Photoshop/Illustrator (after they depreciated Fireworks).
Figma made handoff much easier. Made version control dead simple. Made my life as a UX leader much much better. I remembered talking to a few now-Gigantic companies back then and we all plotted the move together
It wasn’t lost on us that Sketch is/was much much smoother with its usage of Mac OS’s native shape rendering. It’s just that the benefits far outweighed the small drop in snappiness.
And for anyone who’s going to say “Sketch was Mac only that’s why it failed!” I assure you that had nothing to do with it. For the same reasons an entire generation of UX/UI designers stopped using Axure. But we would need to start talking about Invision 7 and Invision Studio if you wanted to get into the nitty gritty.
> It wasn’t lost on us that Sketch is/was much much smoother with its usage of Mac OS’s native shape rendering.
Writing this from the perspective of someone who used to spend all day every day in Photoshop/Sketch/Figma for decades. This markedly contradicts my recollection of the state of Sketch at the time Figma was in its first public beta. Sketch's performance was abhorrent and it was constantly crashing while working with libraries. I was very skeptical about web-technology based tool in terms of performance, but Figma blew me away. It was FAST.
ichik commented on The <select> element can now be customized with CSS developer.chrome.com/blog... · Posted by u/tosh
Looks pretty broken in FF 136.0.2 (missing backgrounds/boxes, the popoup menus are visible).
ichik commented on Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly github.com/zlwaterfield/s... · Posted by u/zlwaterfield
I have developed a system-wide writing assistant like you're describing. By design, it has no exceptions to where it works.
Currently, it's only for Mac, but I'm working on an Electron version too (though it's quite challenging).
Check out https://steerapp.ai/
Is the Electron version supposed to be available on Linux? I see only mentions of Windows on the website.
ichik commented on Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly github.com/zlwaterfield/s... · Posted by u/zlwaterfield
For me the huge part of Grammarly's magic is that it's not just in the browser, but in any text input on desktop with their desktop app (with some exceptions). Having it only in only in one application just doesn't cut it, especially since it's not my browser of choice.
Are there any plans regarding desktop integration. Linux is woefully underserved in this space with all major offerings (Grammarly, Languagetool) having only macOS/Windows versions.
https://youtu.be/JJz5D9txeGA