The Pinion Dispatch
Nov 24, 2024 — Jun 14, 2026Skills, specs, and seamsThe spec is the new skill
You've been quietly curating a curriculum for machines — design specs, skill libraries, and the small interface details that make code feel made.
You've stopped asking which agent wins. You're collecting what to hand them: specs that read like design briefs, skills for Manim and view-transitions, Lazyweb's 257k screens plumbed into Claude and Codex. The thesis tweet writes the headline: if your agent can't spec like a senior designer, it's NGMI. The model is becoming a commodity. The craft of instructing it is not.
Stained glass, voxels, and a CRT swimming in fluid
Threejs fluid, ASCII, and CRT stacked in one shader. Cellular automata rendered as stained glass. A voxel engine exporting pure SVG. Someone's having too much fun with the math, and that someone is you.
Dithered shadows and a Cheng Lou manifesto
Interface craft at the seam: scrambleText easings, dithered shadows, hover dot patterns, font pairing that escapes Inter. Plus Cheng Lou on what UI owes us next. The texture matters.
Plain text, riced desktops, and a terminal that breathes
A Zig terminal renders to the DOM. A Linux rice tool ships with sound on. Plain text is having a moment, and the rice cooker is on the stove.