Will King

Craft is expertise. It’s the attention to details that only come from dedication to your medium. Your ability to create work that feels like magic to others.

Soul is emotion. It’s the heartbeat that gives rhythm to your work. Your ability to look beyond data and feel what others need before they can articulate it.

Taste is curation. It’s the unique lens you distill information through. Your ability to pattern match across disciplines and draw connections others miss.

To grow as a designer, this is your foundation. The qualities AI cannot replace, only amplify:

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You two are definitely in the wrong business. lol

I would consider value based pricing vs hourly for this revenue stream though.

We should be paid by the hour to come up with nicknames. @wking.dev podcast.thunk.dev/episodes/64-...

shout out to @wking.dev for doing some design work for us. Getting there!!

This looks slick in app. 🤘

❌ Approve working changes and move on.
✅ Ask for it to explain changes you don't understand

❌ Tell it to go off and create building block
✅ Ask for 3 different versions of each building block and ask to explain the best option based of decisions made on previous building blocks

❌ Give it broad ideas/changes to do
✅ Ask it to break down them into small building blocks, and then ask why

Vibe vs Mentor Coding

Make these 3 changes and you get more than code from your time spent building your ideas:

Yup! And it is hard to have concrete opinions when you never get your hands dirty.

Taste lives at the intersection of creation and consumption.

Consumption broadens possibilities. Creation sharpens it.

This back and forth refines your intuition for what matters.

You can just turn your kiddos handwriting into a font.

📣 Attention agency workers, owners, subcontractors, and freelancers:

I'm in customer interview mode for our new product. I would love to have an open ended conversation with you about what tools you use, and how they could be better. Reply to this or email me at john@thunk.dev if interested ❤️

Having a kitchen doesn’t make you a chef.

The number of creative AI tools is exploding. They can feel like creative superpowers, but it is still your job to put in the reps. You can’t generate taste.

It's Laravel, React, Tailwind. Most of the map generation logic is in Laravel and the game loop is in React.

Concepts definitely reused.

How do you stand out as a junior dev in today’s market?

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YouTube video by jess::codes Draw fewer tiles - by using a Dual-Grid system!

Thanks Connor!

Been thinking through the tileset and sprites and uncovered this "dual grid" system and this is going to be so fun.

youtu.be/jEWFSv3ivTg?...

I heard on the pod this morning! I have been itching to see it since hearing about it. Your idea for it being a platform that can be leveraged for in person and company events is something I have thought a lot about recently.

I wasn't planning on it...but the wheels of fate keep turning.

Thanks Ryan!

Well I do not come even close the the depth of Laravel experience everyone else has so I might as well lean into the strengths I do. 🤣

Thanks Justin! Building this has been more akin to sculpting than engineering.

I'm launching a blog. In 2025. After saying blogging was dead. I was wrong!!!

Journalists and writers like @andydehnart.com and @maliha.site have shown me how wrong I was about this.

Why I'm doing this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcXq...

The blog: RevenueRulebreaker.com

100% artisanal code. [REDACTED] since it is for my Laracon talk, but I will invite you after I finish up the WIP today.

I'm doing a talk on it in July, and will share more of the nitty gritty here as well!

Thank you! It is just getting started. 🤘