Julien Dorra
@juliendorra.com
Design, build and consult for tech products. Designed Peco Peco. Built Fugue AI and Esquisse AI. Museomix co-founder
- Save clean screenshots of the Macintosh display. Save in MacPaint and name your drawing, the screenshots use that name (in-browser OCR).
- Save a timelapse of your drawing as a super-light MP4 (in-browser ffmpeg). Easiest MacPaint timelapse I know (I used it to make the video in this post.)
- Save a timelapse of your drawing as a super-light MP4 (in-browser ffmpeg). Easiest MacPaint timelapse I know (I used it to make the video in this post.)
October 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
- Save clean screenshots of the Macintosh display. Save in MacPaint and name your drawing, the screenshots use that name (in-browser OCR).
- Save a timelapse of your drawing as a super-light MP4 (in-browser ffmpeg). Easiest MacPaint timelapse I know (I used it to make the video in this post.)
- Save a timelapse of your drawing as a super-light MP4 (in-browser ffmpeg). Easiest MacPaint timelapse I know (I used it to make the video in this post.)
- Real-size display option to match the 9” Macintosh CRT screen. Uses a custom list to guess your physical display size, with calibration for purists. Great to feel the constraints Bill Atkinson, Jeff Raskin, and Susan Kare faced when designing the UI.
(even more below!)
(even more below!)
October 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
- Real-size display option to match the 9” Macintosh CRT screen. Uses a custom list to guess your physical display size, with calibration for purists. Great to feel the constraints Bill Atkinson, Jeff Raskin, and Susan Kare faced when designing the UI.
(even more below!)
(even more below!)
It uses the insanely great Infinite Mac as the embedded emulator—and adds useful tools around it:
- One-click shortcut to open MacPaint
- Crisp fullscreen by default, perfect for the original 1-bit UI.
(more below!)
- One-click shortcut to open MacPaint
- Crisp fullscreen by default, perfect for the original 1-bit UI.
(more below!)
October 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It uses the insanely great Infinite Mac as the embedded emulator—and adds useful tools around it:
- One-click shortcut to open MacPaint
- Crisp fullscreen by default, perfect for the original 1-bit UI.
(more below!)
- One-click shortcut to open MacPaint
- Crisp fullscreen by default, perfect for the original 1-bit UI.
(more below!)
It’s also pure fun: draw in a retro way and explore the creative constraints of 1-bit illustrations.
October 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It’s also pure fun: draw in a retro way and explore the creative constraints of 1-bit illustrations.
MacPaint is a key step in the history of UX (and visual design!)
I built a super simple way to use MacPaint 1.0 in workshops and lectures. Try it: juliendorra.com/macintosh/
I built a super simple way to use MacPaint 1.0 in workshops and lectures. Try it: juliendorra.com/macintosh/
October 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
MacPaint is a key step in the history of UX (and visual design!)
I built a super simple way to use MacPaint 1.0 in workshops and lectures. Try it: juliendorra.com/macintosh/
I built a super simple way to use MacPaint 1.0 in workshops and lectures. Try it: juliendorra.com/macintosh/
October 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
in Accelerando (2005) by @cstross.bsky.social at the start the main character is using smart glasses and have the same disconnect with people. He's an early adopter, tech obsessed. It costs him something. Very relevant book.
Captures from @mkbhd.com's review of Meta's Ray-ban display
Captures from @mkbhd.com's review of Meta's Ray-ban display
October 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
in Accelerando (2005) by @cstross.bsky.social at the start the main character is using smart glasses and have the same disconnect with people. He's an early adopter, tech obsessed. It costs him something. Very relevant book.
Captures from @mkbhd.com's review of Meta's Ray-ban display
Captures from @mkbhd.com's review of Meta's Ray-ban display
You should care about Kare
(because she's the first digital design professional)
(because she's the first digital design professional)
October 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
You should care about Kare
(because she's the first digital design professional)
(because she's the first digital design professional)
Artificial Intelligence programming book from… 1986
September 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Artificial Intelligence programming book from… 1986
What if the atomium was a giant rotating sculpture? Shot with a 1997 camera, animated with a 2025 AI
September 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
What if the atomium was a giant rotating sculpture? Shot with a 1997 camera, animated with a 2025 AI
Black Lava, made with Live Code Lab
September 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Black Lava, made with Live Code Lab
AI and video games: using light fast AI models to get impactful results
- Combining game's ingredients in detailed monster description => GPT5 Thinking (ok, heavy model)
- Monster image gen => Flux Schnell, optimized for speed, <2s generation
- Monster video gen => Luma Ray3 draft, fast, 20-30s
- Combining game's ingredients in detailed monster description => GPT5 Thinking (ok, heavy model)
- Monster image gen => Flux Schnell, optimized for speed, <2s generation
- Monster video gen => Luma Ray3 draft, fast, 20-30s
September 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
AI and video games: using light fast AI models to get impactful results
- Combining game's ingredients in detailed monster description => GPT5 Thinking (ok, heavy model)
- Monster image gen => Flux Schnell, optimized for speed, <2s generation
- Monster video gen => Luma Ray3 draft, fast, 20-30s
- Combining game's ingredients in detailed monster description => GPT5 Thinking (ok, heavy model)
- Monster image gen => Flux Schnell, optimized for speed, <2s generation
- Monster video gen => Luma Ray3 draft, fast, 20-30s
Créez le problème pour mieux annoncer la solution 🙃
September 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Créez le problème pour mieux annoncer la solution 🙃
By the way, the images are all generated using Flux Schnell, a very fast <2s, and quite small open weight image gen model, that can give you great results if prompted right. In this case the prompts are themselves generated and decided by the text model based on a mix of traits.
September 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
By the way, the images are all generated using Flux Schnell, a very fast <2s, and quite small open weight image gen model, that can give you great results if prompted right. In this case the prompts are themselves generated and decided by the text model based on a mix of traits.
What if nobody knew what you will found playing? What If the experience was about finding the paths that nobody has ever taken? How to balance between randomness and consistency? These are key design question for native generative AI user experiences. These are some of the early results.
September 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
What if nobody knew what you will found playing? What If the experience was about finding the paths that nobody has ever taken? How to balance between randomness and consistency? These are key design question for native generative AI user experiences. These are some of the early results.
I built a new generative AI prototype! The goal? Find out how gen AI can expand playful user experiences that have been traditionally limited by fixed rules and pre-created content. What if crafting-based games were much more open ended?
September 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I built a new generative AI prototype! The goal? Find out how gen AI can expand playful user experiences that have been traditionally limited by fixed rules and pre-created content. What if crafting-based games were much more open ended?
Brussel has a special mix of architecture, and the Sony Mavica FD7 (1997 floppy camera) is particularly adapted to shooting the 70s - 90s buildings there. I especially love the quite tacky neo-neo-classic ones.
August 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Brussel has a special mix of architecture, and the Sony Mavica FD7 (1997 floppy camera) is particularly adapted to shooting the 70s - 90s buildings there. I especially love the quite tacky neo-neo-classic ones.
AI chatbots: so cheerful and happy to grant your wish in a totally wrong way
August 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
AI chatbots: so cheerful and happy to grant your wish in a totally wrong way
The world before containerization
(Retable of Saint Nicholas, ≈1479/1505)
(Retable of Saint Nicholas, ≈1479/1505)
August 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The world before containerization
(Retable of Saint Nicholas, ≈1479/1505)
(Retable of Saint Nicholas, ≈1479/1505)
Who's afraid of blown out highlights and color fringing? Not me! The Atomium in Brussel, shot with a Sony Mavica FD5, a 1996 camera that uses diskettes (!) and take 640x480 pixels photos using a video sensor.
August 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Who's afraid of blown out highlights and color fringing? Not me! The Atomium in Brussel, shot with a Sony Mavica FD5, a 1996 camera that uses diskettes (!) and take 640x480 pixels photos using a video sensor.
The Paris Olympics flame, up again for 3 summers. Shot with a Mavica FD5, a camera that uses diskettes to take 640x480 pixels photos using a video sensor!
August 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The Paris Olympics flame, up again for 3 summers. Shot with a Mavica FD5, a camera that uses diskettes to take 640x480 pixels photos using a video sensor!
In 2013, Mozilla partnered with ZTE to create a phone with a FLOSS OS based on web tech: Firefox OS!
You could build native apps using only HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
This is a piece of tech history, from a moment many believed there still was a chance at a really open and accessible OS for phones
You could build native apps using only HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
This is a piece of tech history, from a moment many believed there still was a chance at a really open and accessible OS for phones
July 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
In 2013, Mozilla partnered with ZTE to create a phone with a FLOSS OS based on web tech: Firefox OS!
You could build native apps using only HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
This is a piece of tech history, from a moment many believed there still was a chance at a really open and accessible OS for phones
You could build native apps using only HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
This is a piece of tech history, from a moment many believed there still was a chance at a really open and accessible OS for phones
A new tool that lets its users work 80 times faster? It was released, and it was 46 years ago: VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet, which allowed users to do in 15 minutes what used to take them 20 hours! Did their professions disappear? No.
July 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A new tool that lets its users work 80 times faster? It was released, and it was 46 years ago: VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet, which allowed users to do in 15 minutes what used to take them 20 hours! Did their professions disappear? No.
Early Aqua (10.1 2001) compared to later Aqua (10.7 2010)
June 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Early Aqua (10.1 2001) compared to later Aqua (10.7 2010)