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@hbons

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product designer who codes.
I design and build software.
both how it looks, and how it works.

🌱 laid off in 2026 and now running free design services for #FOSS projects. want to become a sponsor? https://planetpeanut.studio/sponsors 🌱

been doing design in #OpenSource like #GNOME, #Pidgin, #Intel, #RedHat, #Xamarin, #VSCode and more for 2 decades. enjoy creating #PixelArt #RetroGames for #GameBoy / #NES.

loves 🍵, 📷, and 🌌.

#NoAI in my work.

Website	https://planetpeanut.studio
1 icon a week	https://planetpeanut.studio/icons
Sponsor my work?	https://planetpeanut.studio/sponsors
GitHub	https://github.com/hbons

oh wow it’s like the Pepsi brand document. someone needs an intervention.

I’m having fomo. what’s with the goose and 74?

Win 2k's graphical style was quite good! I always forget it existed.

this looks amazing! step aside OpenEmu.

this. or instead of opening a slop PR, donate the money? if I wanted LLM output I could have run the prompts myself.

let the project decide if they want to buy tokens (unlikely) or spend it in the way useful to the project.

I've suggested this once. tumbleweeds of course...

one day I will fix that opening .md files on my system launches the Mega Drive emulator...

got a code snippet that I'm pretty proud of. it describes some complex steps and every time I read it I understand it immediately...

but it's no longer needed. #KillYourDarlings

spent the whole day writing the README.md for the #SparkleShare command line mode.

writing down how I want the flows to work first exposed several flaws in my thinking. and now I have a better picture of what the design should be.

now to do the code adjustments (luckily it's not much :)

this week will be scorching. but the good news is that the nights will be pretty cool. as low as 15C.

all the windows opened now to lock in that cool air.

@hbons Vibecoders will never appreciate how much work goes into writing as little code as possible.