I’m making an app that makes you know way too much about your dice rolls. It’s live already, a PWA, you can install it.

Tell Story Press@tellstorypress.com · last wk.

We couldn’t break through a monster’s armour. After the fight, the GM told us the roll’s difficulty. It felt low, but was on the hard side. That inspired me to make Dice Accountant, a dice roller with roll statistics. Check your rolls' stats: diceaccountant.tellstorypress.com #ttrpg #dice

If you use a local #LLM for code predictions and it’s too verbose (generates ten lines of code when completing the one would do), try using the “base” variant of the model. “Base” is designed for “predict next token” and works better for text extension.

Penpot Desktop v0.24 is live. The release focuses on the local instance creator, enabling automatic Docker configuration updates when containers are created/updated, and porting the upstream @penpot.app Docker Compose config updates (e.g. the MCP server) to the app’s Docker configuration template.

Surprisingly, in the last few months, my go-to library for building components became… @lit.dev. For its well-balanced abstraction that makes web components not feel like a chore. You should try it if you bounced off web components in the past or dread working on a custom element.

You would think rolling 12 or higher with 2d8 can’t be that bad. It’s a little over a 23% chance. Painful if you are rolling a skill check.

Going down the rabbit hole of interactive conference badges and landed on the following setup: - 3-5" LCD + ESP32, - 2400mAh LiPo battery, - laser-cut PVC front, - 3D-printed back (battery holder, colour accent). Now need to make sure the display module has built-in charging - no battery swaps.

I was making an eBook, and the space of publishing software could really use some concept of reusable components. Currently, if you need to change the design (e.g. fancy quote, recipe structure), you are in for a journey through the entire eBook. Unless you use Paged.js, the web way, coding though.

I wrote this Open Source Contribution guide 2 years ago, thanks to @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social we updated it to include a section on how you can contribute as designer to Open Source. Eriol I appreciate your time and sharing your journey www.santoshyadav.dev/blog/contrib...

Contribute to Open Source:A Comprehensive Guide for Everyone

I often get this question "How can I contribute to Open Source." It's time I put my experience and suggestions in a blog.

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How to self-host Penpot: A technical implementation guide

Once you've decided to bring Penpot into your own infrastructure, the next step is making sure your instance runs smoothly, stays secure, and scales with your team. Learn how to self-host Penpot in yo...

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Penpot Desktop v0.22 is out. It’s a small release with: 📝 improved instance editing (more accessible UI structure, experience unified with local creator), 📇 standardised installer naming (also smaller, arch-specific Windows installers), 🏷️ improved Flathub meta info. github.com/author-more/...

Penpot Desktop now lets you open a file’s view mode in a new window and can auto-reload the view when the @penpot.app file changes. They are available as independent options and off by default, so make sure to check out the settings after the update to 0.21.0. Release: github.com/author-more/...

Penpot Desktop’s macOS builds are now signed and notarised. From v0.20.0, builds: 🔒 are recognised by Gatekeeper, ❌ don’t need quarantine bypass, ✅ and have auto-update. github.com/author-more/...

Release v0.20.0 (2025-10-24) · author-more/penpot-desktop

Features [macOS] Added signing and notarisation of the macOS builds. #230 🚦 macOS builds will now be recognised by Gatekeeper and work without quarantine bypass. On the first run, they will have t...

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Local instance updating is live. In the local instance creator, you can now 📝 edit a local instance's settings and ⬆ upgrade it to the newest @penpot.app version. You can find details and get the version 0.19.0 from the release page: github.com/author-more/...

New release! Penpot 2.10 is here 🎉 ✨ Variants are now available! And also, Design Tokens get more typography options plus plenty of quality-of-life improvements Check what's new : community.penpot.app/t/penpot-2-1...

Penpot 2.10: Go your own way 🛤️

In this release we introduce what’s (probably) the top community request: Variants are a powerful way to bring order and flexibility to your design system in Penpot. On top of that, Design Tokens now...

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I have an idea for a content management system plugin for @penpot.app. Below is a video with a PoC: - 🧱 batch item creation from a data set, - ↔️ two-way editing, - 🏷️ layer name based content pairing - the project works without the plugin. Community discussion: community.penpot.app/t/penpot-cms...

I just ran the first test update of a local @penpot.app instance using Penpot Desktop. Everything went well, with one click to trigger @docker.com to pull new images and (re)create the containers. 🎉

How do you use view mode in @penpot.app? Here is a proof of concept of an auto-reload for the view window. Once the file changes are saved, Penpot Desktop would refresh the view for you.

You can now specify the @penpot.app version of the local instance to create. It defaults to the “latest”, but any valid Penpot Docker repository tag should work, with suggestions for ten of the most recent tags.

Tabs pinning, improved accessibility, and a stable Penpot embedding solution. I started work on the Penpot Desktop’s in-house tabs setup.

We're celebrating! We've just launched our brand new (and free!) Penpot Course, and we're kicking things off with the UI Design with Penpot Free Course! Check out the course and get all the details here: community.penpot.app/t/our-new-fr...

Our new (free!) UI Design with Penpot course

Hello friends! I’m excited to share our new (free!) UI Design with Penpot course. Together with the wonderful Penpot team, I’ve been working on this for a while! We’re bringing together: Practic...

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You can now download all your @penpot.app projects at once, with Penpot Desktop. Open the dashboard, click “Download all projects”, specify the path and the archive name, and wait for the download to complete. Get version 0.16 at github.com/author-more/...

A new feature for the Penpot Desktop is in the works. Can you spot the change in the @penpot.app UI?

You can now enable the native title bar for your Penpot Desktop window. It is a new option in the settings panel, set to “overlay” by default, and a change takes effect after a restart. Available in version 0.15 on its release page github.com/author-more/... and in the Flathub store.

Penpot Desktop can now set up a local @penpot.app instance for you. Launch creator, name your instance, click “Create”. ⚠️ It’s an experimental feature. 🪟 Windows is supported, but untested. 🛡️ Requires a non-sandbox environment. Download: github.com/author-more/... Docs: github.com/author-more/...

Next in Penpot Desktop: one more step towards a seamless offline experience. With a click of a magic wand, you will be able to set up a local @penpot.app instance. It requires @docker.com and will launch as an experimental feature.

A new, mysterious button showed up in the settings during the Penpot Desktop development. What could it be doing with @penpot.app?

Recently, I learnt that in VS Code, you can have inline Git blame info without needing any extensions. 1. Go to Settings. 2. Search for "Git blame". 3. Tick the box for "Git › Blame › Editor Decoration”. Or you can set "git.blame.editorDecoration.enabled" to `true` in the Settings JSON. Enjoy.

I went on a small bug fixing spree for Penpot Desktop this week. It means: - visual indicators for colourless tabs' states, - a persistent "new tab" button, - and more tab space in macOS's full-screen mode. Just one more issue with instances to sort out and the v0.12.1 update will be out to you.

New release Design Tokens are here and much more! Tokens Studio Have you been missing Design Tokens? Penpot is the first design tool to integrate native design tokens, developed in collaboration with Tokens Studio by Hyma. Tokens are small design decisions expressed as code to master complexity.