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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 30/08/2026

I made the Comic-Con schedule app for myself (and any interested nerds). With AI, anyone can DIY software just for their own needs or a small community. Full newsletter here: open.substack.com/pub/lunarboy...

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 23/07/2026

Holy shit. Using the Compound Engineering plugin and Fable, I planned out an iPad port of my app this morning. Then before dinner, kicked off Codex on the goal of implementing it. 4 hours later, it’s alive!!!!

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 21/07/2026

Just in time for San Diego Comic Con! @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social I made a full schedule explorer app. It's super fast and even contains a relatedness graph view so you can explore by genre, franchise, or even people. Best of all, it's free...

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 20/07/2026

Working on something kind of fun. The @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social schedule is notoriously terrible. With nearly 3,500 events over 5 days and 51 rooms/venues, it's an information nightmare. SDCC's app and site aren't great. So I decided on Friday to see if I can make a better one. #sdcc2026

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 07/07/2026

Regarding macOS Tahoe and the requirement of squircle app icons, I think it's an accessibility play by Apple. Here, in Mac OS X 10.4, I'm trying to click in the blank space around the shape. Didn't work. 1/

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 18/05/2026

Been writing about designers-as-orchestrators for a year. "Editorial" is the better word. Orchestrator suggests conducting players who already know their parts. Editorial means standing over the whole portfolio, deciding what belongs and what gets killed. 1/2

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 10/05/2026

Designers and PMs are writing markdown files like DESIGN.md or SOUL.md for their agents. The files hold what used to live in our heads as taste. New newsletter: newsletter.rogerwong.me/p/out-of-you...

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 09/05/2026

I mean, let's call a spade a spade. rogerwong.me/2022/08/trum...

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 08/05/2026

You ever get the feeling that Claude Opus 4.7 was trained only on Willam Gibson novels?

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 27/04/2026

AI tools agree with everyone. They're designed to. They remove the friction that used to keep design honest, and whoever learns to put that friction back is doing the actual work.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 19/04/2026

We're getting good at accelerating design work. Automating it is still hazy. AI will ship a passable prototype in minutes, but it can't tell you where your judgment goes when the model handles production.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 14/04/2026

Acceleration is not automation. Engineers crossed the line this year: four agents in parallel, wiped out by 11am. Design hasn't. Faster PRDs and prototypes are acceleration. Automation needs specialist agent teams, with your judgment shaping the output.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 13/04/2026

LinkedIn's working Full Stack Builders all spent years as specialists first. That's the part of Tomer Cohen's pitch that nags me. They flex because they built taste one lane at a time. The new APB program bets juniors can skip that phase and still develop the judgment. I'm not convinced. 1/

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 12/04/2026

Gen X gets forgotten AGAIN. Thanks @wsj.com www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 27/02/2026

Boom. I’m glad @anthropic.com is not caving in. Anti-mass domestic surveillance and anti-autonomous murderbots are moral red lines to have.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 16/02/2026

Designers vibe-coding these days...

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 30/01/2026

Well that's a first. At least Claude is admitting to making it up? 😂

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 26/01/2026

I'm seeing this more and more across sites. Overly-strict anti-AI bot firewalls are blocking legitimate human traffic (me). I'm just using an AI-enabled browser (ChatGPT Atlas in this case). Get with the times! cc @linkedin.com

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 23/09/2025

As designers, as people who make technology, it’s time we took responsibility. The assassination of Charlie Kirk was shocking, but it wasn’t unpredictable. It was the inevitable outcome of platforms designed to optimize for outrage. 1/

Dark red-toned artwork of a person staring into a glowing phone, surrounded by swirling shadows.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 12/09/2025

At midnight Eastern Time, Apple Music updated with a new pre-release album from Pink Floyd with cover art—the 50th anniversary edition of “Wish You Were Here.” It’ll be fully released on December 12.

Apple Music screenshot showing Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here 50 pre-release album with new cover art and tracklist, releasing December 12, 2025.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 11/09/2025

Pink Floyd blacked out all their album covers on streaming services, replacing them with “alt text” titles like “A PRISM REFRACTS LIGHT INTO THE SPECTRUM.” There are fan theories. I have mine (which is no different than the consensus TBH). rogerwong.me/2025/09/a-mo...

Screenshot of Apple Music showing Pink Floyd albums with covers replaced by text-only descriptions, such as “A WALL OF WHITE BRICKS WITH RED GRAFFITI” for The Wall and “A PRISM REFRACTS LIGHT INTO THE SPECTRUM” for The Dark Side of the Moon.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 18/07/2025

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 04/07/2025

Happy 249th America! This is still my favorite logo. rogerwong.me/2025/07/amer...

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 03/07/2025

I was riding the London Underground last week with my family and spotted this ad: "Humans Were the Beta Test" from Artisan. I've done plenty of B2B campaigns. Shock isn't a tactic I'd recommend when you're essentially promoting the death of the human race.

London Underground tube car advertisement showing "Humans Were the Beta Test" with subtitle "The Era of AI Employees Is Here" and Artisan company branding on a purple space-themed background.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 16/06/2025

Whoever designed this map for Trump Mobile obviously doesn't know our flag. 🇺🇸 I understand it's a mask and the numbers won't be perfect, but personally, I wouldn't have gone over 50 stars and 13 stripes. I counted 148 (mostly) visible stars and 15 stripes. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 03/06/2025

Design leaders are using #AI 50% more than individual contributors. That nine-point gap (29.0% vs 19.9%) from the new #UX Tools Survey caught my attention. Why? 🧵 1/ #designsky #uxdesign

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 27/05/2025

Just got @figma.com Make access, and after two days of testing, the thesis is solid. Generate working code from designs. But the execution? Not quite there yet. Quick thread on what works, what doesn't, and where this is all heading 🧵 1/5 #DesignSky

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 24/04/2025

This would scare any alien invader away.

This image depicts humans licking, eating, and drinking as modes of consumption.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 17/04/2025

A film that takes place where you're from

A man in a white shirt operates audio surveillance equipment at a cluttered workbench, surrounded by reel-to-reel tape machines and electronics. Still from the film "The Conversation."

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 17/04/2025

I've been thinking a lot about the future of #uxdesign #productdesign recently after reading the "AI 2027" scenario report. Here's my take: Product design will look very different in 24 months. #AI will automate a lot of the busy work. Our human judgement and taste will be more important. 1/3

A graph comparing AI Foundational Model Capabilities (orange line) versus AI Design Tools Capabilities (blue line) from 2026 to 2028. The orange line shows exponential growth through stages including Superhuman Coder, Superhuman AI Researcher, Superhuman Remote Worker, Superintelligent AI Researcher, and Artificial Superintelligence. The blue line shows more gradual growth through AI Designer using design systems, AI Design Agent, and Integration & Deployment Agents.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 22/03/2025

Although Trump disavowed Project 2025 during the campaign, he's 42% done with executing it. Love this visualization by a couple of Redittors in the style of a project management app or todo list. ✅ #Project2025

Screenshot of the “Project 2025 Tracker” dashboard showing 301 total objectives, with 104 completed and 45 in progress (42% overall progress). Countdown timer displays 1399 days left in term. Progress by agency includes USAID at 100%, Dept. of State at 89%, and White House at 88%. Completed DHS objectives are listed below.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 10/02/2025

I’m really appreciating the minimalistic lower-thirds for this Super Bowl broadcast. It’s refreshing.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 06/02/2025

Yet another cool thing while code jamming with #CursorAI on a personal web app project: Have it run your unit tests and automagically fix any errors!

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 26/01/2025

Finally watched “The Brutalist” today. Loved it. Also adored the Bauhaus / Constuctivist main titles and end credits.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 23/01/2025

I made this anti-Trump poster about two-and-a-half years ago. Still apropos today.

Golden bust of Donald Trump, angry and yelling, over a red background. The phrase "False God" is below that.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 15/01/2025

Uh, yeah. OpenAI's Sora is NOT ready for primetime. Here was the prompt: "Closeup of a homechef thinly slicing a tomato on a mandolin"

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 12/01/2025

I just did a search of the USPTO site for patents filed by Apple and Meta since 2007. Since then, Apple has filed for 44,699 patents. Meta, nee Facebook, has filed for 4,839, or about 10% of Apple's inventions in the same time period. 2/

Screenshot of search results for Meta inventions since 2007 from USPTO website. Shows 4,839 results.

Screenshot of search results for Apple inventions since 2007 from USPTO website. Shows 44,699 results.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 05/01/2025

“Return of the Jedi.” And I’m sure I watched it as soon as it came out.

Movie poster for "Return of the Jedi," the third Star Wars movie. Two hands are holding a light saber.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 30/12/2024

Companies are asking more from their UX designers. They want **product** designers who can think more strategically and connect business with audiences. #Designsky 🧵 1/

Chart of Google Trends data for searches for "UX design" and "product design"

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 23/12/2024

The "R" here looks like the digitized Granby.

Still from the "Superman (2025)" teaser trailer. The text says, "Director of the Guardians of the Galaxy Trilogy" and is set against a starfield.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 23/12/2024

It's the same font used for the opening titles for Superman (1978). (Although the "R" looks a little different in the digitized version, here by Elsner+Flake. The Scangraphic version is the same, FWIW.) #designsky

Still from the Superman (1978) opening titles. The text "Christopher Reeve" appears on a starfield.

Screenshot from MyFonts showing a sample of Granby EF Extra Bold. The sample says "Christopher Reeve."

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 23/12/2024

For those designers wondering, the font used in the title cards for the new #Superman teaser trailer is Granby Extra Bold.

Screenshot from MyFonts showing a sample of Granby EF Extra Bold. The sample says "James Gunn."

Still from the Superman (2025) teaser trailer. The text "From James Gunn" appears on a starfield.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 22/12/2024

Moody barely made it 🤦🏻‍♂️ #nflsky #niners

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 20/12/2024

I remember using Xerox copiers extensively in the 1990s for design. Whether it's to blow stuff up for hand-tracing, distressing, or doing crazy effects like this. Distressing was, by far, the best use case. Here's something I did back in the mid-90s for Levi's.

Graphic for Levi's. The words "Levi's Jeans" are set above a star, which sits atop a bottle cap shape.

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 19/12/2024

This is what happens when money=speech. An unelected billionaire can threaten to primary anyone who doesn’t fall in line with what he wants. Crazy times.

Screenshot from the Wall Street Journal. It shows a photo of Elon Musk walking through Congress, surrounded by reporters. The headline read, “Musk Draws First Blood With Spending Bill Bombshell.”

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 19/12/2024

Co-presidents? Also, has anyone checked on JD Vance lately?

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Roger Wong @lunarboy.com · 27/11/2024

Done. Some stuff coming your way. Happy holidays to you and your girls!

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