The Curious Engineer

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Sam Solomon

solomon.io

Designer and entrepreneur in Atlanta. Notes on building with AI agents, plus essays, photography and side projects from a decade and a half of making things.

AI / MLEssays / personalFrontend / CSS / browsers

’10’15’20’25
Posts
232 from 27 Jan 2009 to 26 Oct 2026
Posting
weekly (25 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 25

  1. Fit Shapes
  2. Plan Review Skills for Agents
  3. Three Looks at the Brooklyn Bridge
  4. New Course, New Site, New York
  5. Repeating Patterns
  6. Getting Started with Agents
  7. Calm Morning Waters
  8. Chinatown and SoHo
  9. Flow Field
  10. Terminal Light and Lines
  11. Under the Brooklyn Bridge
  12. Fearless Girl at NYSE
  13. One World Trade Center
  14. South Street Seaport
  15. The Continental Hotel
  16. Sorry! We're Closed
  17. Three Questions
  18. 96 Rock
  19. Garbage Truck
  20. Sfo
  21. Product Design in 2026
  22. Relay Inspect MCP
  23. Particle Smiley
  24. Zen HN
  25. Agents Are About To Change Software

2024 11

  1. Fast
  2. Derby Days
  3. Richard "Pop" Sullivan
  4. PrizePicks: The Early Days
  5. Costa Rica Honeymoon
  6. Jekyll Island 2024
  7. Designing Command Palettes
  8. So Long and Thanks for All the Hi-Fives
  9. Designer News is Dead
  10. Hide or Disable
  11. 2023 Year in Review

2023 11

  1. Daufuskie and Hunting Island 2023
  2. The Pooch Pontoon
  3. Yosemite August 2023
  4. Giant Face Houses
  5. Overdesign
  6. Generative AI for Industrial Design
  7. Exploring Emoji Prompts in Midjourney
  8. Projects, Projects, Projects
  9. Redesigning MARTA's iOS App
  10. New Year, New Newsletter
  11. 2022 Year in Review

2022 13

  1. A New Logo
  2. A Children's Story Written and Illustrated by AI
  3. Experimenting with AI Artwork
  4. Holly's 30th Birthday
  5. Code School, 10 years later
  6. We're Engaged
  7. Improving Accessibility with Design Tokens
  8. Snoqualmie July 2022
  9. Still Morning in New Orleans
  10. Otto's First Beach Trip
  11. The People I Met Hosting Interviews
  12. About Signal Tower
  13. 2021 Year in Review

2021 4

  1. LEAD Capstone
  2. Munchie and Mangia
  3. Salesloft Pause Cadences
  4. Salesloft Icon Fundamentals

2020 2

  1. 2020 Year in Review
  2. 2019 Year in Review

2019 6

  1. Better Markdown in Visual Studio Code
  2. Hunting Island State Park 2019
  3. Sketch Shortcuts
  4. How to Organize Your Sketch Color Palette
  5. Aerodero: A Tool to Track Cheap Flights
  6. 2018 Year in Review

2018 9

  1. What Is Clip Art? A Brief History
  2. How to Setup Discourse on DigitalOcean
  3. What Can You Do?
  4. Side Projects and Marketing
  5. Team Badge Design: License to Trill
  6. Course Notes: The Skeptic's Guide to American History
  7. 2017 Year in Review
  8. Using Toggles in User Interfaces
  9. Book Review: 1984 by George Orwell

2017 12

  1. Review: Moto G5s Plus
  2. Salesloft Team Cadences
  3. Review: Breville Boss To Go Blender
  4. The Abercrombie Farm
  5. I'm Joining SalesLoft
  6. Agency or Indie Band?
  7. Trustfuel Gmail Integration
  8. Trustfuel Salesforce Integration
  9. Misc Trustfuel and SidePrize Work
  10. Will Offering Discounts Keep Customers?
  11. I'm Skipping the 2016 MacBook Pro
  12. 2016 Year in Review

2016 20

  1. Ash Huang: Artist, Author & Designer
  2. Client Success vs. Customer Success
  3. Understanding Net Promoter Score
  4. Clark Valberg: Invision Co-Founder & CEO
  5. Linda Liukas: Rails Girls Founder & Author of Hello Ruby
  6. In Search of the Best Net Promoter Score Software
  7. Jessica Hische: Lettering Artist & Author
  8. Randy J. Hunt: VP of Design at Etsy
  9. Rachel Andrew: Developer, Speaker & Founder of Perch
  10. Tim Van Damme: Founder of Abstract
  11. Amandah Wood: Founder of Ways We Work
  12. Scott Belsky: Investor, Author & Founder of Behance
  13. Aarron Walter: VP of Design Education at InVision
  14. I’m Hosting The Designer News Podcast
  15. Mikael Cho: Founder of Unsplash & Crew
  16. How Dashboards Become Product Feature Landfills
  17. Building a WordPress Job Board
  18. Writing Again
  19. What We Can't Control
  20. 2015 Year in Review

2015 12

  1. Joel Califa: Product Design Lead at Digital Ocean
  2. William Channer: Host of DRT, Founder of Panda
  3. The Pink Startup
  4. Doors of Italy
  5. A Quick Guide to Net Promoter Score
  6. Fantasy News
  7. Truss Resume Creator
  8. Spring Cleaning
  9. So Long and Thanks for All the Job Jackets
  10. Brian Lovin: Host of Design Details
  11. My To-Do List Framework
  12. Cap Watkins: VP of Design at Buzzfeed

2014 23

  1. 2014 Year in Review
  2. Advertisers.io
  3. Justin Jackson: Host of the Product People Podcast
  4. Chmod Calculator
  5. Kelly Sutton: Creator of Designer News & CEO of Layervault
  6. Podcasting Seasons
  7. Linda Liukas: Author of Hello Ruby, Rails Girls Founder
  8. Wiry: An Open Source Wireframe
  9. All the Jobs I’ve Had (2014)
  10. Sol Orwell: Co-Founder of Examine.com
  11. Learn from Side Projects
  12. Murat Mutlu: Co-founder of Marvel
  13. Signal Tower: Longform Interviews
  14. Icon Yard
  15. Fletcher Richman: Managing Director of Spark Boulder
  16. Travis Truett: Co-founder & CEO of Ambition
  17. Matt Ström & Josh Gross: Founders of Planetary
  18. Alex Mark: Founder of Truthly
  19. Websites are for Humans
  20. Jason Shen: Author of Winning Isn't Normal
  21. Why I Removed Social Media Buttons from My Site
  22. Jacob Hinmon: Director of Four + One Productions
  23. Jennifer Dewalt: 180 Websites in 180 Days

2013 23

  1. Samuel Hulick: User Onboarding Champion
  2. Michael Fitzgerald: CEO of Submittable
  3. Kirill Zubovsky: Founder of Scoutzie
  4. Rick Knudtson: Co-Founder of Flywheel
  5. Mikael Cho: Founder of Ooomf
  6. Romain Dardour: Founder of Hull
  7. Jerome Choo: Founder of Whizzimo
  8. Adam Wexler: Founder of Insightpool
  9. Aswin Natarajan: Techstars Associate
  10. Jon Birdsong: Founder of Rivalry
  11. James LaCroix: Founder of LaCrox Design Co
  12. Rashad Abdul-Salaam: Founder of Happy Health
  13. The Experience Deficiency
  14. Scott Weisman: Co-Founder & President of LaunchPad Lab
  15. Andrew Brant: Founder of Mt. Zion Press
  16. How to Start a Talk Show
  17. Jenny Lustig: Starter League Mentor
  18. Will Richman: Co-founder of Bitmaker Labs
  19. The Last Two Jobs on Earth
  20. Why College Graduates are Underemployed
  21. Treat Problems, Not Symptoms
  22. Vaibhav Puri: Founder of Taggito
  23. Create When You Are Inspired

2012 18

  1. Mountain Metrics TSL Demo Day Launch
  2. Why we started Mountain Metrics
  3. Hello Mountain!
  4. Extensions and Apps I love
  5. The Dashboard Builder
  6. Thoughts on Entrepreneurship with Jason Fried
  7. Week Four at The Starter League
  8. Startup Idea Generator
  9. Week Two at The Starter League
  10. Week One at The Starter League
  11. 6 TED Talks About the Future of Education
  12. Drzzle: The Sound of Rain
  13. Democratization of Knowledge and the Fall of College
  14. Mathematicians of the Roman Empire
  15. 8 Books That Will Change Your Life
  16. The Venture for America Essays
  17. The Architecture of Success is Failure
  18. A Windows Desktop Mac Users Envy

2011 15

  1. Bison Box Performance Desktops
  2. How to Get A Job Interview Using Facebook Ads
  3. Burn, Beard & Stache
  4. FRUGGL: A Successful Failure
  5. A Few Favorite Startup Articles
  6. My Favorite Educators on Twitter
  7. Lunch with Bobby Lowder
  8. Promoting Ideas with Klout
  9. Please Excuse the Mess
  10. PaperMob App Concept
  11. Resting Clouds
  12. Lonely Barber
  13. Magnolia Coffee and Tea Co
  14. Yosemite August 2011
  15. Twitter for Classrooms

2010 9

  1. ISP’s winning the fight against net neutrality
  2. Big Gigantic
  3. An Idea for Navigation Companies
  4. Education inflation, a new look at school
  5. Almost Genius: 1965 International Riding Lawn Mower
  6. Ideas for the Future of Desktop Computing
  7. A Day Flying
  8. Thoughts on Cognitive Surplus
  9. Snow Day February 2010

2009 19

  1. America’s Forgotten Problem
  2. $42,500 in Laptop Computers Stolen from Haley Center
  3. Remembering the Berlin Wall
  4. Awards Given at Photo XI Exhibition
  5. Robot Simulates Sight for Blind
  6. Asphalt May be Source of 'Green' Technology
  7. Premature Prize for the President
  8. Students Take Adderall Even When It's Not Prescribed
  9. Saturn's New Ring
  10. New Car Plant Coming to Alabama
  11. Lawmakers Meet to Discuss Distractions Facing Drivers
  12. NASA Awards Auburn University $600,000 Grant
  13. Tiger Transit Stolen Saturday
  14. SUSCC Hosts Healthcare Forum
  15. FEMA Demands Money From Baldwin County
  16. Toomer's Ten Welcome Downtown
  17. Yosemite July 2009
  18. Snow Day March 2009
  19. A Place Online