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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 05/08/2026

Buried in a cabinet in our bedroom, we have this CD and Cassette Player. We (almost) never use it. And it has a giant "MP3" on it, announcing an important feature? There is a parallel here for our moment as product people. Don't know what it is, but there is a parallel.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 17/06/2026

@beflagrant.com on your new case study for Contributed Systems (nice work!), the Visit link isn't clickable on desktop widths (overlay on top, blocking?)

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 16/06/2026

We were sold on the idea that learning is a solo thing. Today I'm launching ReadWith, my pushback on that. I had been yearning to read deeply with others, and the app allowed this with a new mechanism: Others' notes appear as you add your own, free from spoilers. More below...

A screenshot of a reading thread with notes, showing that if you add a note on the book "Hidden Potential", the user will get access to Jordan's note, who is ahead.

A screenshot of the opening screen, showing notebooks on a shelf, and a welcome note, with a way to add more notebooks, and a button to Rearrange.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 02/05/2026

Tell me if I'm wrong, but I think Nusii is probably the kind of software that's a quality of life improvement over duck-taping a process manually. If true, then a before-and-after right at the top would make your pitch clear. Like Intercom's OG page:

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 04/03/2026

That's not quite how the spine of a hardcover book is supposed to be modelled

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 22/02/2026

Any of you like this effect? 1. Hitting "Rearrange" on the book page 2. Enable MagLev 😂

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 09/02/2026

I'm going to lead the next cohort of the rails.builders accountability group, taking over from Rich Steinmetz. Starts this Thursday Feb 12, until May 7. DM me if interested.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 04/02/2026

Is Eragon the last sequel in the Aragon series? Aragon Bragon Cragon Dragon Eragon

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 04/01/2026

1. I consider myself in the camp Justin describes here in the screenshot. 2. I dont concretely know how else to use this edge than by creating products and sell them. I would not join an established company by offering this mix of skills. Why would I? Why would they hire me? I don’t understand.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 30/12/2025

More like it. The original one was funky, this one is plain, clean, and obvious. But... I like this one a little less, for some reason.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 30/12/2025

Not quite there... Giving the biog some view transitions:

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 17/11/2025

Just dug up an old design for a site a buddy of mine and I were working on in 2001

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 19/09/2025

Ever wonder how in Star Trek, nobody’s on their PADD, doom scrolling? It’s a loaded question, because it’s a show. I wonder, because I think it might have something to do with the adventure they’re on, and the discipline and the hurry to make it happen. You made it through the Academy!

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 16/09/2025

Anybody have any idea what to do to fix bottom sticky elements in iOS Safari 26? I'd like to either hide whatever comes after this bottom sticky bar (it doesn't scroll behind Safari's new liquid bar), or position it to the absolute bottom (below the new liquid bar) safe-area-inset-bottom is no use

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 10/09/2025

Putting the whole computer board in the bump, the antenna, everything... ...that must have been a fun set of eureka moments for the designers #AppleEvent

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 05/09/2025

You know, y'all who are trashing Safari... How is it the hanging-punctuation is like this in 2025? What's going on, Internet? caniuse.com?search=hangi...

Screenshot of the caniuse website showing browser support for the 'hanging-punctuation: first' CSS property, all browsers set to not supported except Safari (going back to version 10!)

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 26/08/2025

Fun! You get a lot for free with Turbo Frames. The Cancel link targets the right data-turbo-frame and boom.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 25/08/2025

RE: View Transitions and Turbo... Anybody run into this problem? In Chrome, the view transition gets skipped from a Turbo Frame render. Works in Safari.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 22/08/2025

Was just at a local accelerator hub (Invest Ottawa) for an event, and look at what I found: A "Take a Book" bookshelf of entrepreneurial titles. So I took one that had a double: "Onward", about Starbucks' CEO. And look at the Montreal Entrepreneur's Guide from early 2000s!

A bookshelf full of entrepreneurial titles I found at Invest Ottawa, a local accelerator hub. "Take a Book!"

Zoom into a few of the books, in particular two copies of Onward, a biography of Howard Schultz, Starbucks' CEO.

Close up of a copy of Montreal Entrepreneur's Guidebook

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 20/08/2025

Today hitting "deploy" on a small step with ReadWith that's been long in the making: If you're in the beta: Look for the "Invite others to read with you" link. If you're interested in joining the beta, hit me up, I'll add a few spots.

Screenshot of ReadWith, an app that lets you share notes with other readers. The screenshot highlights a new feature: "Invite others to read with you".

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 16/05/2025

Today I'm sending out updates to friends with whom I've been reading books with my ReadWith app. The new version of ReadWith is redesigned, adds a way to discover other friends whose book reading notes I've vouched for. Looking forward to hear people's feedback.

Screenshot of the new version of ReadWith, showing accountability groups and a reading club, and books.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 29/04/2025

Currently Reading... A couple of these pair well with each other. I like reading a couple books at the same time, on a similar subject.

Screenshot of a list of book currently being read:
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling
- 140 SaaS Marketing Ideas by Corey Haines
- This is Marketing by Seth Godin

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 28/04/2025

Curious for your take: What does this screen tell you, in a book club app?

Screenshot of a Groups screen, with a "Run a new group" button, two cards, one with "club" and the Club name, and the other with "Accountability Group" with what seems to be the name of a book. Each card has number of readers. The accountability group one has a start date and percentage.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 04/04/2025

Thinking of putting together a local meetup in #ottawa #yow. Tentative name: "Minimum Viable Meetup" Who it's for: devs and creatives working on side projects, digital inventions or products. Format: A recurring "Projects Night" event to start, every two week. Feedback on a logo to use (1-4)?

4 sample logos to choose from for a meetup called "Minimum Viable Meetup".

The first is a mountain range zig zag shape, sort of looking like an m followed by a v.

The second is a squiggly array finding its way to a bursting idea.

The third and fourth are variations on the idea of a network of people or ideas, emphasizing intelligence through a network.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 01/04/2025

Got it into the app. I kinda like it.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 25/03/2025

Equal height back-card: If the back card would take more room than the front card would take, use min-w-full on both and -translate-x-full on the back card.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 25/03/2025

Avoiding a dropdown is fun, but I don't know if I'm going to regret this...

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 25/03/2025

Something like this treatment...

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 25/03/2025

Too much? I'm trying to avoid a dropdown for 👆

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 24/03/2025

Can I get your opinion? Which icons do you like better? Left or right? (for Edit Note and Delete...) It's for a book club app.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 22/02/2025

Accountability: Did a little more design work on this today. Just sketches, but it's for a part of the app that look pretty horrible right now.

Screenshot of the prototype screen with real content. Messy.

Paper sketch of some new directions for that Community screen, showing Books people are reading, and a People list to filter the books.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 15/02/2025

I think I've figured out an important design bit here, allowing to show in the thread whose other notes you see... Reading With: - Your own previous reading - Readers You Picked - an Accountability Group called "Alpha" (??)

Screenshot of a design for ReadWith. Selected thread: Reading With "Your own first reading"

Another screenshot of the top of the thread with selection:
Reading With "Readers You Picked"

Another screenshot of the top of the thread with selection:
Reading With "Accountability Group Alpha", naming the accountability group members who have notes ahead of you.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 09/02/2025

Update on this design Going with a chat-like left-right cards, with a subtle timeline in the middle What about the simile book spine for the "book" title-author?

Screenshot of a new iteration: chat-like cards left and right, with a subtle timeline in the middle.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 05/02/2025

🙋‍♂️ Who here has ever played Mathable, the Scrabble-looking arithmetic tabletop? I've been thinking about writing about it in a blog post...

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 01/02/2025

Direction #2: Move to a timeline-like layout Mockup plus hand sketches below... Reminiscent of a book crease, but that might not stay. Which direction should I take, in your opinion?

Mockup of the desktop layout of a timeline layout, with a sort of book crease in the middle.

Hand-drawn sketch of the timeline layout on desktop

Hand-drawn sketch of the timeline layout on mobile, where all notes are left aligned with bold lines indicating which timeline (theirs or mine) this belongs to.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 01/02/2025

Direction #1: Keep a chat-like bubbles layout Something more serious, or something more whimsical...

Mockup of the desktop UI with a more serious layout

Screenshot of the more whimsical chat-like UI shown on readwith.club

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 01/02/2025

Can I ask your opinion? I'm going to design the ReadWith notes timeline away from the default aesthetic, and I have two directions: 1) Keep a chat-like bubbles layout, or 2) Move to a timeline-like layout Currently:

Desktop view of current look of ReadWith, with a chat-like interface

Mobile view of the current ReadWith interface, with a single right-aligned chat bubble in view

Mobile view of the current ReadWith UI, scrolled down to view difference between right-aligned own notes, and left-aligned other person's notes

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 14/01/2025

I wanna say the resemblance is intentional. That or Kirby.

geodesic spiky dome vs spike mushroom from Mario bros.

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 12/01/2025

Weekend project: Generate a pdf with monthly calendars to print. For years I've been pulling out a .sketch file each month to create a month calendar pdf to print for the fridge. Anyway, now it's a single command for 12 months worth.

Screenshot of a 12-month calendar pdf file generated by a script

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Pascal Laliberté @pascallaliberte.ca · 20/12/2024

This bowling alley terminal begs to differ

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