Building UI in GPUI
A reasonably unstructured collection of tips and tricks for building UI in gpui. This post will give a bit more flavor as we go to the examples in the gpuiexamp
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Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
Maggie's amazingly in-depth guide to experiencing the drug trip Yegge's Gas Town without actually needing to visit yourself.
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CSS Grid Lanes
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Immediate Mode GUI Resources
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- About the IMGUI Paradigm - Dear ImGui Wiki - Explains how UI state lives in your code rather than hidden in the library
- Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces (2005) - Casey Muratori - The original blog post that coined "IMGUI"
- Why is UI in Rust So Hard? - Warp Dev - Challenges of Rust's memory safety rules with traditional GUI patterns
- Managing State
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Adding Extended Context in GPUI
Inevitably when building an app you have various state and data that you want accessible from anywhere in an app. When using gpuihttps://www
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The Black Magic of Canvas and Text Editing
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Did anyone ever write a little memento/recognition of room-like user interfaces? In my head it‘s nice, interactive, and ...
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TIL about jsonl... pretty interesting. tinkering with a music player and streaming library imports... anything better?
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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one of the worst modern web trends:
{sitename}.com - lots of useful information! what {sitename} is!
{sitename}.com (lo...
TIL this is a thing. Apparently enough for hardware stores to make these types of signs 😅
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just when you were having a good night... BAM – you have to implement soft wrap
TIL about having different test behavior in dev & release:
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I did a podcast?
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The Surprising Complexity of Simple Features
Danilo explores some of the decisions and small details that go into every feature.
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Generating a Content Index
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Writing with ADHD
This post is a reflection on Geraint Evans' "This is how an ADHD person actually writes.https://www.geraint.works/post/adhdwritingstyles" I'
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Good Software
- Mac Apps
- Cleanshot - The best screenshot tool for Mac
- Alfred - Powerful launcher and productivity tool
- Magnet - Window management tool
- Figma - Collaborative design tool
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Web Dev Resources
- Preface
- Tools
- VS Code u2013 More or less the god of code editors at this point. I was resistant to moving to something so "heavy", only to find once I tried it it is incredibly fast on top of being packed with useful stuff.
- Codekit u2013 All sorts of fun things out of the box. Compass, local servers, sass compilation & more. I use VSCode more these days to cover these needs, but I relied on Codekit for years.
- RunJS - JavaScript playground for your desktop
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Design Resources
- Books
- Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug - Practical guide to web usability
- Graphic Design: The New Basics - Ellen Lupton & Jennifer Cole Phillips - Fundamental principles of graphic design
- Steal like an Artist - Austin Kleon - Creativity framework for finding inspiration
- The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman - Principles of intuitive design and usability
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