Libbie Frost

Having a “let’s talk about design” dinner tonight in nyc with lots of talented amazing people eek I’m so excited. cc @jackieberardo

Before founding @tldraw, Steve (@steveruizok) was an artist in Chicago painting landscapes and writing for magazines. After moving to England, he decided to bring his analytical and creative sides together, teaching himself to design and code and working through roles at @framer and Play. Five years after closing his studio, he was raising money for a company of his own. That company is tldraw, and if you have used an AI product recently, there is a good chance you have used it without knowing. tldraw is an infinite canvas, the deceptively simple whiteboard surface that lets you draw, arrange, and connect ideas in open space. Building one well is famously difficult, involving years of work on problems like selection, multiplayer sync, and the exact feel of an arrow or a stroke of ink. Today the canvas sits inside products from @Replit to @autodesk to @BlackRock, usually as the place where people do their more advanced, visual, and collaborative work when the chat window falls short. We admire Steve for his charming simplicity behind the engineering. The product only allows twelve colors, four sizes, and rectangles whose corners are ever so slightly, deliberately wonky, all in service of a clear idea about what a good creative tool should and should not do. In our conversation, we trace the arc of his career, the thinking behind the brand, his bet on the canvas as a natural home for AI agents (including a detour into fairy lore 🧚), and his newest experiments letting coding agents work directly on the canvas. cc @thisisrayouf

thank you jacob / @pierrecomputer for sending me down a very fun rabbit hole on MTV's iconic brand and their constant re-inventiveness

Jacob Thornton (@fat) is the founder of Pierre Computer Company (@pierrecomputer). Pierre provides the building blocks of the computers that agents will use to do work. But Pierre is as much a brand and culture project as an infrastructure one. Jacob believes brand is the most important thing you can be doing in 2026, and his references run from MTV and skateboard brands to Godard films and the magazine racks at sf Heath newsstand. In this interview, we talked about why MVP culture is cringe, how to find and hire obsessives, why the best creative work at Pierre starts in iMessage threads, and the real reason the company is named Pierre… sort of. Read the full interview "Virtual computers for agents, chrome blobs, and MTV" linked in the thread. cc @thisisrayouf