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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 23/09/2026

New hero animation for thatch.com ✨

Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 22/09/2026

Earlier this year, I reunited with my friends at Stripe to build the Open Standard website, and I wrote about the process of animating it: destroytoday.com/blog/buildin...

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 21/09/2026

I hosted the inaugural “Ball.app Invitational” last weekend—a 3-team round-robin tournament with a championship game at the end, “sponsored” by ball.app (i.e., my treat to the guys). Way more gratifying than just working on the software. Can’t wait to do it again. 🏀

A group of basketball players playing basketball in an indoor basketball facility.

5 basketball players posing with a trophy

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 21/08/2026

When you have a moisture issue in your home, but you’re also an engineering who loves troubleshooting

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 14/08/2026

Nobody tells you the home ownership will give you a deep fear of water.

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 10/08/2026

Designed a new onboarding flow for ball.app, and having way too much fun including little details for real ballers 🏀

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 30/06/2026

🚀 Today’s the day! I reunited with my friends at Stripe to build the website for joinopenstandard.com This one has a *ton* of little details (and easter eggs! 🥚) and I had a blast working with the folks on Stripe’s brand & web teams.

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 15/06/2026

Couldn’t help myself from adding the Larry O'Brien trophy in my 🏀.app for the Knicks theme 😏💅

A closeup of the Knicks team holding the Larry O'Brien trophy

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 09/06/2026

Just realized that one of my favorite easter eggs I made while at Stripe is still on the /jobs page… The monitor in the photo mimics everything you do on the page itself. 🥚💅 (only visible on Firefox because it uses an experimental feature)

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 05/06/2026

Long overdue to get @cushionapp.com on here! Follow along if you’re into #buildinpublic bsky.app/profile/cush...

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 03/06/2026

Haven’t shared much online about a new 🏀-related side project, but I gotta start sharing these fun little details… Ahead of the NBA Finals, I added Conference Finals trophies to player avatars with Knicks/Spurs themes. 🏆

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 23/05/2026

every time I see a child sitting courtside at an nba game

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 11/05/2026

@aaron.mn I can’t believe they actually called a 2 on him

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 04/05/2026

Now that I’m actively working on cushionapp.com again, I’m making sure to blog every feature launch, like I used to. Feels so good to bring closure to a launch and celebrate it, but also provides extra marketing content for new users exploring the features. Check it out here: cushionapp.com/blog

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 29/04/2026

I wrote a new process post about building a feature I’ve always wanted, then hearing from other users that they’ve always wanted it, too—they just didn’t think to ask for it. destroytoday.com/blog/buildin...

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Building for myself and delighting others - Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)

After building a feature I’ve always wanted, I hear from users that they’ve always wanted it, too—they just didn’t think to ask for it.

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 29/03/2026

@esb.lol I don’t follow college ball closely, but seemed like ya’ll needed more than that one guy dribbling around while everyone else waited around at the 3-point line

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 14/02/2026

I spoke at the Kinference design conference last fall about a randomly available domain name that was so good that I felt obligated to start a new passion project. No spoilers, but it’s a real rollercoaster ride of a talk… 🏀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um0x...

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Jonnie Hallman - Ball is Life - Kinference '25

YouTube video by Kinference

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 28/01/2026

🚀 It’s live! For the past couple months, I’ve been jamming with @devin.bsky.social & @narrowd.bsky.social on a website for NBA All Star Luka Dončić: 77x.world. The 3D was all Nick & Devin while I tackled the UI and user flows. I had a ton of fun matching the glitchiness in the UI, if you notice it…

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 14/01/2026

Quickbooks is *designed* to make your blood boil, right?

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 07/01/2026

I love working on these little big details

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 05/01/2026

one of those days where I replaced every filter in my house 💆‍♂️

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 22/12/2025

I recently wrapped up a project for @larvalabs.com, animating their “Quine” generative art series, and I wrote about the process: destroytoday.com/blog/animati...

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 14/12/2025

me, wanting to work on my personal site vs all my other priorities

A frame from the movie Speed where Beth Grant reaches out of the bus, knowing it’ll probably blow her up.

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 22/11/2025

Already had a great plumber and a great electrician. Finally found a great drywall guy.

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 28/10/2025

i'm hiring a 'growth engineer' to work side-by-side with me at val.town in brooklyn we're a small team on a mission to spread the joy of programming we're looking for someone self-directed, loves talking to users, write english & typescript, and own projects end-to-end if this is you, reach out!!

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 03/10/2025

If anyone’s had to deal with disputes before, this is one of the most practical and useful applications of AI I’ve seen.

An email from Stripe announcing “Smart Disputes” using AI

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 19/09/2025

Happy NIN Tron soundtrack release day for those who celebrate! open.spotify.com/album/47pjW3...

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TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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jordan @jdan.me · 14/09/2025

Two somewhat contradictory beliefs I hold: 1. You should absolutely overengineer your personal homepage/blog/projects. Experiment with as many things as you can as quickly as possible. 2. If you _really_ wanted to write that blog post, you'd figure it out with a .txt file. Don't overcomplicate it.

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 18/07/2025

Had a blast sharing a new side project at the AIR Show & Tell last night at Index Space. (and love seeing all the smiles after the fact since it was tunnel vision for me during the talk 😅)

A photo of me giving a talk with a slide showing my personal website.

A photo of me from behind while giving a talk with a crowd of ~150 smiling people.

A photo of me giving a talk from a side angle, including the crowd on the right.

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 14/07/2025

All I want is a Love Island season where someone takes the money.

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 14/07/2025

I wish I could have AI in my IDE in the sense that I could tell it to never show me certain auto-suggestions ever again and it’ll listen and maybe even apologize.

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 10/07/2025

In case it’s helpful to anyone else… my local `vercel dev` randomly slowed down to 1-2 sec for every request that went through it—even assets. No idea what it was until I realized that the requests were directly affected by the number of files in my repo. Using `.vercelignore` instantly fixed it. 🌠

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 09/07/2025

Just troubleshooted (shot?) an issue that stumped multiple AI models, but was the first Stack Overflow result when searching Google. 🙃

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 06/07/2025

Update: I got my hopes up too soon. While the fixed worked locally, it broke production and further attempts by the AI agent to fix it ended up down red herring rabbit holes and used up all my “premium request” credits for the month… in a single night. 🙃 bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 05/07/2025

If this actually works, I’ll never say anything bad about AI ever again. (if only coding agents were around when we had Webpack…)

A screenshot of github copilot trying to fix the typescript config for a repo.

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 26/06/2025

Diving into the complex world of push notification logic…

A still from Always Sunny in Philadelphia where Charlie is standing in front of an evidence board trying to figure out who Pepe Silvia is when it’s actually “Pennsylvania”

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 21/06/2025

I think the reason I’m having so much fun building a native app with Capacitor is because it feels like Adobe Air did for my Flash apps—nothing’s different about the code I’m writing, but now I have access to the OS’s SDK. If you’re not a React person either, check it out: capacitorjs.com

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Capacitor by Ionic - Cross-platform apps with web technology

Build iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 21/06/2025

I’ve officially joined the “Waiting for review” club 🥱 (the web club is way better 🤫)

a screenshot of an app waiting for review on the Apple Developer Portal

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 19/06/2025

Trying to get an app on the App Store and wondering at what point the bridge troll asks me to solve 3 riddles.

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 16/06/2025

I can’t believe this is real life. 🏀

A screenshot of Stripe Atlas congratulating me on incorporating Ball Is Life, LLC.

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 03/06/2025

Going through the ropes to set up an Apple developer account so I can build for iOS and I already miss the web.

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Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com · 01/06/2025

When you’re excitedly building something fun for the web, but reach the point where you need to wait for DNS propagation.

A frame from the show Narcos where Pablo Escobar is sitting waiting on a swing set.

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