iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 05/03/2026

Losing a pet that you love is incredibly painful. They aren’t just animals they are family, they become so intertwined with your life. Their absence is crushing. I wrote a piece to process and honor Sammie’s life. If you are a dog owner you may enjoy it. www.imkylelambert.com/articles/my-...

imkylelambert.com

My pack

010

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 05/03/2026

Goodbye Samurai Warrior Princess 💔 You were the sweetest girl. You loved us so well. 16 years with you wasn’t enough. We didn’t deserve you. Cuddle and feast with Chainsaw in heaven. I can’t believe my babies are gone. I hate it. RIP

240

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 28/02/2026

Your corporate organization doesn’t care about you. People at your organization may. But your organization doesn’t.

030

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 24/02/2026

My Loom Chrome Extension is live! Long press your mouse key on a Loom video while it’s playing to increase the playback speed to 3x (customizable). Been begging for this capability so I built it myself. Thanks AI. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/speed...

chromewebstore.google.com

Speed Press - Chrome Web Store

Hold mouse button while a Loom video is playing to temporarily increase playback speed.

000

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 18/02/2026

I’m a big fan of Loom videos, I watch & record a ton of them. I’ve always wanted the same functionality that YouTube has: Long-press your mouse while the video is playing to temporarily increase playback speed. So I built a Chrome Extension you can run in dev mode. github.com/kslambert/Sp...

010

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 08/02/2026

My advice for folks in tech who want to stay in tech: If you’re at a company who won’t let you work with and experiment with AI tools and workflows… get out. Even if it’s a pay cut, get out. How we work is changing. Find a place that will help you navigate this change.

031

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 31/01/2026

I know keeping up with our industry can be challenging. I’m going to try and compile some summary posts. Here’s my first: kylelambert.substack.com/p/this-week-...

kylelambert.substack.com

This week in AI and Design

The design world is constantly shifting which can be exciting, and cause some anxiety.

030

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 24/01/2026

I’ve been working on a CLI at work. Figma is terrible for designing a CLI and trying to work on flows and styles within a dev environment isn’t great either… so I started vibe coding a CLI design tool. It feels magical to build niche tools and utilities!

060

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 17/01/2026

Finally getting around to reading Red Rising. My friends have been pushing it for years. I’m more of a fantasy reader and I thought this was going to feel sci fi heavy. It’s very good and I am realizing I owe my friends an apology for being stubborn.

020

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 17/01/2026

I started vibe coding a mini design tool. A CLI workflow designer. It’s so helpful to build workflows and have a GUI to mess with CLI designs! I’m hooked.

010

Reposted by Kyle Lambert

johnphamous @handle.invalid · 12/01/2026

vercel web interface guidelines are an installable agent skill 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚕 -𝚏𝚜𝚂𝙻 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚎𝚕.𝚌𝚘𝚖/𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗/𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜/𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕 | 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚑 - supports claude code, @opencode, @cursor, @geminicli & @windsurf - suggestions output file:line:column for 1-click

051

Reposted by Kyle Lambert

Soren Iverson @soren.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history

2763698

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 04/01/2026

I’m not ready to go back to work after 2 week winter break 🫠

030

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 02/01/2026

I just want to make rad thins this year. More fun at work!

010

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 04/09/2025

Today is my 6 year anniversary at Webflow... How did this happen?

050

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 04/09/2025

All I want is an external Touch ID not connected to an Apple keyboard so I can clamshell my laptop.

020

Reposted by Kyle Lambert

Brad Frost @bradfrost.com · 21/08/2025

NEW RECORD! I logged into Quickbooks and got hit with not one, not two, not three, but FOUR modals at once!

A screenshot of Quickbooks with 4 different modal overlays

9615

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 20/08/2025

This is such a great post: “What made those projects glamorous and desirable was her and how she approached the work… The projects weren’t good. They were made good.” capwatkins.com/blog/make-th...

capwatkins.com

Cap Watkins – Make things happen

010

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 18/08/2025

A new post from yours truly. ✍️ AI prototyping pitfalls for product designers I have been thinking a lot about designers hesitant to embrace AI, along with AI creating new traps for enthusiastic designers. www.imkylelambert.com/articles/ai-...

imkylelambert.com

AI prototyping pitfalls for product designers

As tech rapidly shifts, it only makes sense that how we show up as designers needs to change too. For years, we held on to clean, linear process...

070

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 16/08/2025

I love playing blocks with my 3-year-old 🟩🟦🟨🟥

060

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 13/08/2025

Something I have been chatting with for a little while now with a lot of my teammates. A great essay from Maggie Appleton: A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...

maggieappleton.com

A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment

On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions

000

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 10/08/2025

Solo camping trip. I can’t remember the last time I got time away just by myself. Camp fire (no fire ban), hike, and lots of reading!

070

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 06/08/2025

I heard a term today that resonated: “Faux productivity” Even with all the technological leaps most software leaves us in this state.

030

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 28/07/2025

We all have our own paths to walk, but if you’re a designer unwilling to invest in new skills and technology, here is my advice: Research graphic design’s transition to computers in the 80’s. Or prints transition to digital being prominent. These shifts leave folks behind.

030

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 22/07/2025

Sometimes AI just shows up. My 3 year old son’s current obsessions include cherry picker trucks and ballerinas. So I prompted ChatGPT to generate a coloring sheet. He’s going to flip when he sees it.

010

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 12/07/2025

I read a ton of fantasy. I decided to give writing it a go over my vacation. Who knows where this will go? A short story, a book, a forgotten file on my Drive… No matter what it’s been a fun practice. Here’s the start of something I’m working on.

100

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 12/07/2025

My mother-in-law repaired a railing post at the lake house years ago. It kills me every time I see it.

171

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 25/06/2025

Back to work. Turns out I like PTO better.

040

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 03/06/2025

Product Design is cool and all but sometimes I dream about not spending my days behind a computer

4221

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 28/05/2025

👀👀👀👀 Yikes www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-tech-w...

150

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 21/05/2025

Stay at a job because you like your coworkers, you enjoy the work, you are growing. Don’t stay at a job because “you feel loyal.” Executives and Boards won’t hesitate to eliminate your role if they see an upside to their bottom line.

070

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 05/05/2025

I just want Figma to be fast again.

2142

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 05/05/2025

I have been trying to find meaningful ways to curb my phone usage, and implemented an impactful change: 1. Moved almost all Apps off my home screen by only utilizing one page 2. Hid my iOS toolbar with a visual hack: www.digitalminimalist.com/blog/how-to-... 3. Removed the search bar

251

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 29/04/2025

Back from my social media break. My team shipped something our developers are going to love. webflow.com/updates/site...

webflow.com

Site previews with custom code | Webflow Updates

Preview custom code in Webflow’s preview and comment modes

250

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 04/03/2025

90s kid peak performance

0150

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 04/03/2025

Recruiter: We’re on a mission to revolutionize… Chat GPT can you interpret this for me? “Sure, Acme Corp builds enterprise software tools”

040

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 03/03/2025

Took my kid to Monster Jam.

050

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 27/02/2025

I want messaging apps to have a better experience when you miss a bunch of messages. scenario: your friends group chat blows up, you see 65 notifications 👀 half of these are Apple reactions. Then you are thrown into a giant thread vs any kinda of focused what did you missed experience.

030

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 27/02/2025

You know you’re working at a growing company when someone new starts with a job title so confusing you can't even guess what they actually do.

0120

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 25/02/2025

Love this piece about our friend’s kid Lewis. Rachel and Luke are the best parents and Lewis is an absolute legend ❤️ we are still so pumped his tump is gone 🥹 www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/st...

theatlantic.com

Small Hero, Big Victory

Two-year-old Lewis’s complicated brain tumor surgery at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health brings hope to families like his.

010

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 25/02/2025

My 3-year-old made this. I’m obsessed. Maybe it’s because it captures how I feel.

040

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 23/02/2025

My wife took our son to a play date. I’m alone in my house which is very rare. My wife asked me what I was going to do. Taxes 🫠

2120

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 23/02/2025

Such a thoughtful piece. ‘What could be more colonizing than leap-frogging an individual’s power to create, making “creative tools” depend on databases of predigested thoughts and images?’ www.nataliailyin.net/blog/2025/2/...

nataliailyin.net

“Just a Tool” and Other Fictions — Natalia Ilyin

Ever one to hope for the best, last semester I suggested that students use ChatGPT as a “research partner” in the big bibliographic project they do in the Fall term of Parallel Narratives , their Jun...

042

Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 23/02/2025

With all the AI hype we are inundated with I believe it’s wise to read skeptics views. It helps us raise healthy questions, this piece raises a lot of questions that many are sweeping under the rug. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

wheresyoured.at

The Generative AI Con

It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st ...

060

Reposted by Kyle Lambert

Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 21/02/2025

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

Googling for “bees in my computer”.

Google AI Overview: “Bees can be present in desktop computers built after the l mid-2000s, but only at a microscopic level. These bees are a special breed of Apis Arithmeticam that perform basic computations in the CPU.”

1976442595