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kaizenb

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Working independently for 20 years, designing brands and building digital products.

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kaizenb··on Freedom is the only thing that matters. Living freely. Creating freely
That's the only true constraint.
kaizenb··on Freedom is the only thing that matters. Living freely. Creating freely
● Freedom Index by Country 2026 https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-i...

● The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz https://youtu.be/9vz06QO3UkQ

● Short film Wim Wenders: The Keys to Freedom https://youtu.be/slcNOnogtps

● What I Misunderstood About Freedom https://senasletters.substack.com/p/what-i-misunderstood-abo...

● Living in an unreal world : A short film By Adam Curtis https://youtu.be/yGhrQkjCI6I

● The Matrix Ending Explained: A Guide to Freeing Your Mind https://youtu.be/SDkAGkd4NLc

kaizenb··on Android Developer Verification
Exactly. This is why I love building web apps, shipping features easily without needing any one's approval.
kaizenb··on Repo of Claude Code skills I've been collecting
Some mine, some from the community. 17 so far across copywriting, SEO, design, and frontend. Any suggestions? What's in your toolkit?
kaizenb··on Issue Tracking Is Dead
ツ That was harsh. But true. Workflows are rapidly changing. Hard to adopt. Can we slow down-pause somewhere, so we can focus on building.
kaizenb··on Claude Code Cheat Sheet
Same here. Work through UI, navigating, reviewing and editing repo files easily.
kaizenb··on Digg is gone again
results are important, not the tools or process. (on this matter)
kaizenb··on Digg is gone again
A curator with a great taste and judgement is king.
kaizenb··on 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
After creating the plan in Plan mode (+Thinking) I ask Claude to move the plan .md file to /docs/plans folder inside the repo.

Open a new chat with Opus, thinking mode is off. Because no need when we have detailed plan.

Now the plan file is always reachable, so when the context limit is narrowing, mostly around 50%, I ask Claude to update the plan with the progress, and move to a new chat @pointing the plan file and it continue executing without any issue.

kaizenb··on 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
Thanks for the video.

His fix for "the dumb zone" is the RPI Framework:

● RESEARCH. Don't code yet. Let the agent scan the files first. Docs lie. Code doesn't.

● PLAN. The agent writes a detailed step-by-step plan. You review and approve the plan, not just the output. Dex calls this avoiding "outsourcing your thinking." The plan is where intent gets compressed before execution starts.

● IMPLEMENT. Execute in a fresh context window. The meta-principle he calls Frequent Intentional Compaction: don't let the chat run long. Ask the agent to summarize state, open a new chat with that summary, keep the model in the smart zone.

kaizenb··on Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport refused a $23B offer – then sold for $32B
Closed for $32 billion in cash in March 2026, Google's largest acquisition ever.

What makes Wiz valuable enough that Google couldn't build it in-house, with all the engineering talent they have?

kaizenb··on The Met releases high-def 3D scans of 140 famous art objects
No idea. But I've integrated their API to a commercial project (https://bookmarker.cc) without any issues. Users are exploring The Met Collection and save images to their library directly in the app.

> Through The Met Collection API, users can connect to a live feed of all Creative Commons Zero (CC0) data and 406,000 images from the The Met collection, all available for use without copyright or restriction. The Met Collection API is another foundational step in our Open Access program, helping make the Museum's collection one of the most accessible, discoverable, and useful on the internet. The Met Collection API is where all makers, creators, researchers, and dreamers can now connect to the most up-to-date data and images of artworks in The Met collection, representing five thousand years of human history.

source: https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/met-collection-api-2

kaizenb··on Meta acquires Moltbook
Why people hesitate directly saying all this is just about money?

I thought hairstylist was a joke. Ohhh mann. "Now my hairstylist, who recognized ChatGPT as a brand more readily than she did Intel, was praising the technology and teaching me about it. "

kaizenb··on Agents that run while I sleep
Works for PR reviews. Separating context for code review with the same model has significant impact.

● Separation of concerns. No single agent plans, implements, and verifies. The agent that writes the code is never the agent that checks it.

kaizenb··on Meta acquires Moltbook
Thought and came up with nothing.
kaizenb··on Meta acquires Moltbook
ツ
kaizenb··on Meta acquires Moltbook
"Meta acquires Moltbook" vs "Meta hires duo behind Moltbook"

The deal brings Moltbook's creators — Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr — into Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)

kaizenb··on macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses
This is driving me crazy for some time. Worst with Calendar. (don't looook)
kaizenb··on How to send your app code to Figma using Claude Code
As a designer, I work through interfaces, not terminals. Claude Code changed that; letting me direct the work the way I’d brief a collaborator: plain English, clear intent, real output. I think in systems, design psychology, user experience. Claude handles the implementation.

Most design tools assume you start in Figma and build toward code. This workflow goes the other way: you have a working app, and you want design documentation that stays in sync with it; without rebuilding every screen from scratch.

This guide covers one specific workflow: pushing your running app into Figma as editable design layers. Not screenshots. Real frames, real components, real layer trees you can inspect and hand off.

kaizenb··on Ask HN: How to be alone?
Solitude is a hard won ally. Faithful and patient.
kaizenb··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
Designing a conversational UX for Bookmarker.

I was stuck on this conversation problem. First version had a dead-end search box: six starter prompts, one referencing a tool that didn't exist. No follow-ups. No guided flows. Users got an answer and had to invent the next question from scratch.

Now the assistant explores your library with you. Tag discovery, color browsing, weekly digests, smart collections that auto-curate as you save.

Semantic search runs hybrid, keyword matching plus pgvector cosine similarity on 768-dim embeddings. Streaming responses.

Almost there. https://bookmarker.cc/

kaizenb··on Agent System – 7 specialized AI agents that plan, build, verify, and ship code
I open-sourced a set of 7 agent instruction files that define a multi-agent workflow for AI-assisted development.

Each agent has a narrow role with hard constraints: the Coordinator delegates but cannot edit files. Implementors execute single tasks and report back. The Verifier only approves with concrete evidence per acceptance criterion. The PR Shepherd polls CI and review comments in a loop until the PR is merge-ready.

Core idea: separation of concerns. The agent that writes code is never the agent that checks it. Work is split into parallel waves (2-4 non-overlapping tasks), verified per wave, then verified again at the end.

The agents are plain markdown files — no framework, no dependencies. Install with npx agent-system init or just copy the files you want.

GitHub: https://github.com/boraoztunc/agent-system

kaizenb··on Writing code is cheap now
● When everyone has access to the same models, and those models can produce working software quickly and cheaply, the code itself stops being a moat. A reasonably skilled person can now build what used to take a team of engineers months to ship.

● A competitor can reach feature parity in days. The thing that used to protect a business, the sheer effort required to build it, is mostly gone.

● Think of it like oil. If every property owner had a well that was cheap to operate, the price of oil would fall toward the price of water. The resource is abundant, the extraction is easy, and the margin disappears. Software features are heading in the same direction.

https://designexplained.substack.com/p/the-moat-has-moved

kaizenb··on Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation
Pinterest sucks.

You can create your private archive with Bookmarker. Share collections publicly if you want.

https://bookmarker.cc/

kaizenb··on Acme Weather
Good one thanks.
kaizenb··on Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
For those who want to take a trip down memory lane about Cameron, here you go: http://www.thehoweofitall.com/
kaizenb··on Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
Yess! Fav quote from the series.
kaizenb··on Claude Code is being dumbed down?
Thanks Boris, great insights for builders.
kaizenb··on My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder
These things also on my mind recently. I'm a freelancer, providing design-development services, and trying to understand as things changing rapidly.

I don't think even the tools are advancing, allowing us to build in a new way, not everyone will be able to develop production ready products. Or good looking ones. So there will be always in need for people know how to orchestrate the new workflows with good taste and years of experience.

Couple of articles I've bookmarked recently:

● What, then, are we paying for? https://quinnkeast.com/writing/software-is-problem-ownership

● Designers as agent orchestrators: what I learnt shipping with AI in 2025 https://uxdesign.cc/designers-as-agent-orchestrators-what-i-...

● The new UX Toolkit: data, context, and evals https://uxdesign.cc/the-new-ux-toolkit-data-context-and-eval...

● How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Terminal https://pablostanley.substack.com/p/how-i-stopped-worrying-a...

● The rise of the Model Designer https://uxdesign.cc/the-rise-of-the-model-designer-cef429d9c...

kaizenb··on Luce: First Electric Ferrari
They only shared the interior, not exterior.
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