Quiddity interviews you about your tools and process, then generates custom /new-issue, /next-task, and /approve skills tailored to how you actually work. One install, one setup command, and you're off.

The final post in my series on skills for dev workflow. A /new-issue skill lets you describe a bug or feature in a sentence and get back a well-structured issue with wireframes and acceptance criteria — better than most people write by hand.

As your agent skills grow, some parts want to be their own thing. Here's how I used a simple prompt to extract a standalone /approve skill from my /next-task skill — and why thinking of skills like functions leads to better workflows.

A step-by-step guide to building a /next-task agent skill that pulls from your issue tracker, manages branches, implements changes, and opens PRs. Customize it for your own tools — Linear or Jira, GitHub or GitLab.

One of the most exciting things about LLMs is their ability to do useful things that would be hard to script in the traditional sense. Skills take this further, letting you build intelligent workflows that handle the messy, context-dependent parts of product development.

Back in January, I posted on LinkedIn about using AI to build a documentation site for Opine. This prompted Adam Stokoviak to reach out about joining him on the Changelog & Friends podcast to talk about AI and the modern frontend. Adam and I have been friends for a very long time now, having collaborated on The Sass Way together. He's a great host, and really put me at ease as we talked about how I'm using AI in my own workflow as a designer. On the show we discussed how I'm integrating AI into my workflow as a designer. We also talked about Framer and Figma, Next.js, and other topics.

I’m actually not sure when I first noticed this. Perhaps it goes back to my teen years when I helped with the construction of our church building. Or, perhaps it was before that when I worked at a Christian camp. But there are some activites that seem to make everything else more productive. I call these sweeping activities. Sweeping activities make it easy to get work done.

As a teenager I learned to program and it wasn't long before I had a directory filled with unfinished projects. Working on a large variety of projects is a great thing when you are first learning a language or framework. It helps you begin to recocognize patterns. Patterns that end up being useful when you start going deep on larger projects.

Since launching Zest Icons last year it was always my dream to have a free version of the set. I launched Zest with Zest Social, which was free and contains a handful of Social icons. But Zest Social wasn’t very comprehensive. Now that Zest Pro has over 600 icons I’m ready to launch a larger set. Today, I’m happy to announce that I’m open sourcing 200 Zest Icons in a new set called Zest Free.

I build web applications for a living. And while I love working on software, there is something temporary about the work. Very little of what I make lasts for any length of time. The pace that software evolves is so rapid that 10 years out and what remains is either so dated that I wouldn’t put it in my portfolio or it has evolved so much that little remains from the original design.