Benjamin Dauton

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Software Product Designer • Freelance • Former frontend developer • Rock'n'roll lover, rookie guitar builder • Dad life is the best
Websitehttps://benjamindauton.com
Twitter@bdauton

Announcing Dye! (no relation)

Set a different theme color for each one of your apps: make Finder red, and Photos blue, each one’s tint’s now up to you.

Dye is a free, tiny app, handwritten with care. And it’s open-source!

https://lemon.garden/dye/

First time playing with Blender geometry nodes last night 🤓

Gave my portfolio a little refresh over the last few weeks:
• Added recent projects
• Polished personal brand
• Auto-switching light/dark mode based on system preferences

More soon 🤓

👉 https://benjamindauton.com

Benjamin Dauton • Software Product Designer

Freelance designer with 10+ years of experience crafting intuitive UIs and high-end visuals.

Finally took some time today to try Claude Code (yes I know, I'm late 😅).

I built a little tool for myself: a GitHub-style activity map generator so I can track work charge or other habits through the years 🤓

I kept the UI basic since the goal is to use these heatmaps externally rather than within the tool itself.

Still blown away by what Claude can do 🤯

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

tonsky.me

Exploring some #threejs magic ✨

Spending way too much time tinkering with the debug panel 🤓🎚️

Memories Unlocked: my first laptop as a kid, called "Le Manager" in 🇫🇷🥖. Now I need to find one on eBay…

https://vtechequalizer.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/vtechs-the-equalizer-laptop/

Vtech’s “The Equalizer” Laptop

The Background The year is 1998. I’ve been using my trusty 1995 Acer Aspire for three years. My dad had recently just picked up a CTX Minitower from Best Buy, and my interest in computers was…

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First time doing fretwork tonight!
Starting to look like what I've in my mind 🔊