design

All my posts about design.

Two Soups, Two Cookies

Apr 11th 2026 – liamhammett.com

A lovely analogy about software craft. Same ingredients, same features, but the invisible process behind the decisions is what separates "this works" from "this feels right."

Designing with Claude Code

Apr 7th 2026

Steve Schoger shows how he uses Claude Code to design and build UIs, turning natural language prompts into polished interfaces.

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Oh Dear is now mobile-friendly

Mar 7th 2026 – ohdear.app

Every page in Oh Dear now works on mobile. Not just slapped-on media queries, but reworked layouts: a floating action button for navigation, dedicated mobile card views for monitor lists, scrollable tables with fade hints, and bigger touch targets throughout. Over 160 Blade templates were touched.

Behind the Terminal

Jan 15th 2026 – gusk.ca - submitted by Gustavo Karkow

Why I made my portfolio feel like a terminal, and how it works

Keeping feature creep at bay

Dec 29th 2025 – buttondown.com

The true work is in building complexity into software, then thoughtfully editing and pruning it into something that takes a minute to learn, yet offers a lifetime of mastery for those who want to accomplish complicated things.

A cartoonist's review of AI Art

Oct 23rd 2025 – theoatmeal.com

Matthew Inman's take on AI Art. Some good points, and beautifully illustrated as always.

Preventing scrollbar layout shifts

Jul 24th 2025 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

Have you ever been on a website and navigated between pages, only to notice that the layout shifts slightly because the scrollbar suddenly appears on longer pages?

Recreating Laravel Cloud’s range input with native HTML

Jul 3rd 2025 – phare.io - submitted by Nicolas Beauvais

Making a visually appealing range input based on Laravel Cloud's design, native HTML and only a few lines of JavaScript.

API design note: Beware of adding an “Other” enum value

Mar 11th 2025 – devblogs.microsoft.com

Beware of "Other"!

Build UI's that don't suck

Mar 10th 2025 – tailwindcss.com

Christmas came very early! Adam Wathan published a new free course.

Seeing Red, or Maybe Green? How Tailwind Helps Colourblind Designers

Feb 28th 2025 – liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett

It may only be a side effect of its colour palette and class naming conventions, but as a colourblind developer, Tailwind has made it SO EASY to design with sensible colours - a superpower I've been missing my whole life

Command Line Interface Guidelines

Dec 24th 2024 – clig.dev

Good naming, consistency, clear communication, and discoverability. These are things that do not only apply to command line programs, but to general development as well.

Reasons you don't need a modal

Sep 23rd 2024 –

This site offers some good alternatives for modals

Mailcoach has a beautiful new coat of paint!

Apr 17th 2024

Mailcoach is our premium mail service that allows you to send newsletters, build powerful email automation, and send transactional mail. It truly can cover all your mailing needs.

Unlike most competitors, we only price by the number of emails you send and not by how large your subscriber list is.

After having revamped our marketing pages last month, we’re launching our new beautiful UI for the app today. Let’s take a closer look at all the changes.

A fresh look

Let’s dive straight in; here’s what a list of subscribers now looks like.

If you’ve used Mailcoach previously, you’ll notice immediately that this screen has been redesigned from scratch. The colors, font, and general layout have all been updated to reflect the design we introduced to our marketing pages.

Behind the scenes, we use Filament to render those tables. We’ve highly customized how they look, so you don’t have the feeling you’re looking at the stock tables. Of course, every list has powerful sorting, search, bulk actions, and filtering options that you know and love from Filament.

Easy to use automations

Email automation is one of Mailcoach's most powerful features. Using automations, you can build up any email flow you might need. You might also know this as “drip campaigns.”

We’ve totally revamped how automations look. Here’s a simple automation that sends mail 10 minutes after someone signs up.

At Spatie, we use this feature to send a couple of emails during the trial period on Flare.

The real power of automations comes into play when using branching logic. For Flare, we’ll automatically invite people who are subscribed after two months since onboarding to our affiliate program.

Self-hosted Mailcoach

Next to the hosted version of Mailcoach, we also offer a self-hosted version. This version has been updated as well. Because we need to update every view, we decided to tag it as a new major version. You’ll find the upgrade notes here.

In closing

With both the Mailcoach marketing pages and the Mailcoach app itself updated to the new design, we feel the Mailcoach platform is on another level now.

Take a look for yourself by starting a free 14-day trial.

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