Ahmad
@ismailahmad.com
at the intersection of Design & Business.
This is my digital gardens—it’s quiet, personal, and it’s a space I document my experimental knowledge on design, business and personal philosophy.
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This is my digital gardens—it’s quiet, personal, and it’s a space I document my experimental knowledge on design, business and personal philosophy.
🌐 ismailahmad.com
💭 wandarer.com
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Ahmad
@ismailahmad.com
· Feb 5
the tech industry is in an age of anti-design where critical thinking, a basis of design, is actively avoided
The word here is not “anti-design.” It’s more like “anti-quality”—speed at the detriment of craft. Love is rarely poured into software these days, except by the crazy ones who defy the odds. Art itself is deteriorating, maybe due to all the new definitions (I could be wrong).
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You too can make a tiny, fixed-width website in the year of our lord 2025 ⚡️ lynnandtonic.com
Lynn Fisher
Lynn Fisher is a web designer, CSS developer, and artist from Phoenix, Arizona.
lynnandtonic.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
You too can make a tiny, fixed-width website in the year of our lord 2025 ⚡️ lynnandtonic.com
My take on Affinity being 100% free. Of cos I am excited, but I am also skeptical. So I wrote my thought down, and will be correcting my self as time goes and their strategy reveals.
open.substack.com/pub/wndrgrnd...
open.substack.com/pub/wndrgrnd...
Affinity is "free", at what cost?
Last year Canva acquired Affinity a professional design tools alternative to Adobe for several undisclosed millions of dollars, it was exciting and comes with a breathe of fresh air for the creative c...
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
My take on Affinity being 100% free. Of cos I am excited, but I am also skeptical. So I wrote my thought down, and will be correcting my self as time goes and their strategy reveals.
open.substack.com/pub/wndrgrnd...
open.substack.com/pub/wndrgrnd...
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Dispatch #31: Anti-Design
Design to compensate for a lack of design
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eL...
Audio: pnc.st/s/faster-and...
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Design to compensate for a lack of design
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eL...
Audio: pnc.st/s/faster-and...
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Dispatch #31: Anti-Design
YouTube video by Faster and Worse
www.youtube.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Dispatch #31: Anti-Design
Design to compensate for a lack of design
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eL...
Audio: pnc.st/s/faster-and...
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Design to compensate for a lack of design
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eL...
Audio: pnc.st/s/faster-and...
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Sometimes it’s good to stepped outside and watch the sun and water. Favorite part, waiting for the sunlight
April 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Sometimes it’s good to stepped outside and watch the sun and water. Favorite part, waiting for the sunlight
Focusing is hard! Onward, I have decided to just stick with three areas — Business, Software Design and Technology!
Because learning is so addictive, you can easily fall into the rabbit hole, biting everything without committing to it! This road leads to mediocrity.
Because learning is so addictive, you can easily fall into the rabbit hole, biting everything without committing to it! This road leads to mediocrity.
March 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Focusing is hard! Onward, I have decided to just stick with three areas — Business, Software Design and Technology!
Because learning is so addictive, you can easily fall into the rabbit hole, biting everything without committing to it! This road leads to mediocrity.
Because learning is so addictive, you can easily fall into the rabbit hole, biting everything without committing to it! This road leads to mediocrity.
"The hard part isn’t finding proof before you begin. The hard part is beginning, knowing you might not succeed." — Seth
March 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"The hard part isn’t finding proof before you begin. The hard part is beginning, knowing you might not succeed." — Seth
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TLDR: a personal wiki. They’re notes and ideas linked together by association. Less formal than a blog and embrace the concept of learning in public. M. Appleton’s post on the concept is often cited! Use of gen AI has made so many blogs unreadable for me, so I’m finding gardens refreshing to read.
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
maggieappleton.com
February 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
TLDR: a personal wiki. They’re notes and ideas linked together by association. Less formal than a blog and embrace the concept of learning in public. M. Appleton’s post on the concept is often cited! Use of gen AI has made so many blogs unreadable for me, so I’m finding gardens refreshing to read.
The word here is not “anti-design.” It’s more like “anti-quality”—speed at the detriment of craft. Love is rarely poured into software these days, except by the crazy ones who defy the odds. Art itself is deteriorating, maybe due to all the new definitions (I could be wrong).
the tech industry is in an age of anti-design where critical thinking, a basis of design, is actively avoided
February 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The word here is not “anti-design.” It’s more like “anti-quality”—speed at the detriment of craft. Love is rarely poured into software these days, except by the crazy ones who defy the odds. Art itself is deteriorating, maybe due to all the new definitions (I could be wrong).
A lot is not going as planned, feels like chaos is all around. But this peace, this peace, where is it coming from.
February 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A lot is not going as planned, feels like chaos is all around. But this peace, this peace, where is it coming from.
I think Google is the winner of this whole AI game.
January 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think Google is the winner of this whole AI game.
Human’s clamor for something that’s outside their control, it’s why we invented religion—to yearn, worship, but since that system is flatlining and no longer serving us we seek something fresh, unique relatively owned by us — this generations.
January 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Human’s clamor for something that’s outside their control, it’s why we invented religion—to yearn, worship, but since that system is flatlining and no longer serving us we seek something fresh, unique relatively owned by us — this generations.
Universe does have a way of keeping scores. Both evil and good are sometimes equally rewarded. I am not talking about karma here.
January 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Universe does have a way of keeping scores. Both evil and good are sometimes equally rewarded. I am not talking about karma here.
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all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art
January 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art
