Inaugural design engineer at DuckDuckGo.
Part of the “Cracked Photoshop & MySpace” generation.
Tinkering with apps, utilities and plugins on the side.
#SwiftUI #Design #ProductDesign #Development #Nextjs #DesignEngineering
| Website | https://www.karlkoch.me |
I believe Elon Musk’s superpower is that he is really good at convincing smart people to do work for him where he takes the majority of the credit and financial rewards.
The Twitter debacle is because he drank his own kool aid about being a tech genius and purchased it on impulse with no exit plan.
Spending a Sunday revitalising my garden soil with stulch (straw mulch) was surprisingly therapeutic. Smells like a barn out there but it should help replenish the soil health.
New build (even 3 years old) garden soil sucks. It’s mostly building material and a sandy, clay-y mess.
In light of the recent #WWDC23 announcements, I decided to revisit my 2021 thoughts on Spatial Design.
TL;DR, I got it pretty right. https://kejk.tech/thoughts/the-spatial-interface
Another day, another update to a Figma plugin. This time, it's my oldest but most loved, Hand››over.
Now you can copy your current result as CSS to your clipboard and experience a bunch of fixes/tweaks. This is one I, and others, really wanted.
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/837070613195594890/Hand%E2%80%BA%E2%80%BAover
Figma Community plugin - Selection-based pixel to rem conversion, with modifiable base pixel and scale. Need to handover to developers? Tired of trying to figure out what the relative em value would be for your pixels? Well, no longer. With Hand››over you can: Open the plugin without selections to convert any number t...
Finally got around to updating one of my oldest Figma plugins to use the menu Params for a more customised experience without limiting speed of use.
Figma Community plugin - Default export uses the menu bar to let you input any number value, pick a specific format, or apply a preset. The presets reflect modern development across Web, iOS and Android with several types to choose from. Picking a value and a format enables you to stack up options as the export setting...
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