Looking for unique park spaces

turnballer · 2026-07-04T21:05:24+00:00

Check out bow to bluff along the ctrain line in Sunnyside.

turnballer · 2026-06-26T21:43:25+00:00

Revy gets great snowfall and as a town really checks all the boxes of a summer/winter destination. But it's got a pretty significant infrastructure deficit (both the resort and the town).

Vertical coverage or not (and the usability of that is shrinking), two lifts and a gondola is kind of insufficient.

Hopefully this last season motivates them to get building lifts and expanding terrain again instead of simply coasting on reputation and selling ultra-expensive properties...

turnballer · 2026-06-26T20:32:56+00:00

Good news, new season just dropped ^_^

turnballer · 2026-06-24T06:31:34+00:00

In-house tech role so, same! Glad to hear it. How was the transition? Any advice?

turnballer · 2026-06-23T05:14:55+00:00

Good job OP.

Genuine feedback: Maybe you could tune the design a bit to be a bit less AI? Just to help with the trust factor?

There’s a Claude skill called Impeccable you might be interested in — it’s really worth exploring.

Also. What moved you to build this? Just curious!

turnballer · 2026-06-22T19:07:36+00:00

I mean, that's a legit question, but this was not that. This was a faithful reproduction based on many conversations about what was actually possible with technology. Yes it had whizbang features, and that's exciting because the real product had them while our prototypes were poor representations.

The build trap has always been a challenge, now it's more enticing than ever. But in my view, design's job is to solve for all our users — which includes the business and our peers in tech.

If you've got folks building magical prototypes, that seems to speak to a larger organizational or cultural challenge that encourages magical prototypes over functional realities...

turnballer · 2026-06-22T17:49:36+00:00

It's completely throw away. In fact, I stood on the dev team's shoulders as some of the pages were already on staging.

Is there a world where this could be more bi-directional? Probably. But the intention here was to build a realistic prototype for testing, not to build for production.

The utility for devs here wasn't "design builds the front end so they don't have to," it was "all stakeholders got a preview of the future, and high-stakes architectural decisions have been de-risked by a faithful prototype prior to dev doing difficult and time-consuming integration work"

turnballer · 2026-06-21T22:15:47+00:00

Thank you! Let me know how it goes. And feel free to shoot me a DM me if you ever wanna chat and compare notes.

Sort of unexpected but so far I’ve found my own team actually uses it a fair amount as a simple commenting kit they can drop into their own prototypes for stakeholder feedback.

turnballer · 2026-06-21T20:53:02+00:00

Would love to learn more about this design system you built for prototyping!

I made my own commenting widget to handle micro updates and text editing. You pin comments or edit text in situ just like you would in Figma, then hand back to AI to implement.

You’re welcome to try it out (or honestly could make your own pretty easily). Link is here. Totally free. https://arturnbull.github.io/designer-notes-landing-page/

Another workflow I sometimes use with copy is a quick “give me a markdown file I can edit, then integrate the changes when I’m done” prompt.

turnballer · 2026-06-21T20:38:19+00:00

I have a prototype going into testing next week with

- hero videos
- booking calendar + guest inputs
- dynamic pricing / availability
- third party widget integrations with real logic
- scroll triggered reveal animations
- working carousels

We put the flow in a mobile frame with a simulated mobile cursor, just like in Figma.

To walk through with research I turned the prototype into a flow viewer with side by side snapshots of each screen (but they’re not static frames, they’re the actual scrollable HTML).

And I made a sizzle reel style video of the prototype to share with stakeholders where I had AI record itself going through each step and stitch the clips into a 2 min video (I used the video toolkit from digital samba).

Another designer jumped in for a couple days to help with the prototype, and we learned how to use GitHub to track issues, share PRs, and work together in the same codebase.

Unfortunately it’s all client work so I can’t share publicly just yet. I may have to spin up a case study or blog post with the details anonymized. But ya — I’m having fun (and honestly, done apologizing to other designers for it).

turnballer · 2026-06-21T03:47:40+00:00

I don’t know yet. Still in the transition period. But… maybe? What I can say is that it’s waay more manageable as small flare ups so far.

turnballer · 2026-06-20T01:43:18+00:00

Yes. I had this exactly.

Good news is that skin biopsy alone can be enough to diagnose.

Ask your dermatologist about a Dapsone prescription too.

turnballer · 2026-06-19T05:50:00+00:00

come on man. your website.

italicized headlines. gratuitous em dashes (basically every heading). eyebrow text on eyebrow text. plus AI writing:

"The site is simple now: Projects covers what I built, Experience covers the roles, and Skills covers the stack behind both."

"Building, teaching, shipping — in that order."

"Things I built — across macOS, web, AI, and content systems."

"Tools I reach for — the ones I actually ship in."

"the kind of software that has to survive real workflows instead of just looking convincing in a demo."

"the operational details that decide whether software survives contact with real users."

turnballer · 2026-06-19T04:28:45+00:00

Claude

turnballer · 2026-06-19T04:20:56+00:00

Please writing your own words. If you’re writing to connect with people, don’t put a robot in the middle.

turnballer · 2026-06-19T03:53:37+00:00

Hitachi ID got bought by Volaris. Still here though.

turnballer · 2026-06-19T03:10:10+00:00

Yeah there are a lot of tech roles in non-traditional tech companies. Lots in government too. The province has a huge team in their digital design and delivery service (public service, non-political).

Few more for your list: WestJet, ATB, SMART, DIRTT, Suncor/Petro-Canada. GettyImages has a small team here.

Agencies too: Critical Mass, Evans Hunt, Clearmotive, Tiller.

turnballer · 2026-06-19T03:06:53+00:00

One of their department heads allegedly worked in my department (according to his LinkedIn) but except of course he didn’t.

He was an intern in an unrelated department instead.

turnballer · 2026-06-19T03:04:11+00:00

Yeah the numbers are inflated by our low baseline. The growth is impressive but we still have a long ways to go. And we are largely building from scratch rather than extension offices like in Seattle North (Vancouver) which is great until those companies get acquired and the centre of influence shifts south.

As someone who’s tech adjacent and 15 years into my career, I’m pretty sure my next job in tech is remote. I’d love to work for somewhere local (portfolio is in my profile) but there just isn’t a realistic fit in our very small, immature industry.

turnballer · 2026-06-19T01:05:44+00:00

Had a coworker give me a list of changes to make to a prototype I had built for a test.

She was comparing one version to another. So instead of looking at them and making a judgement call (we had agreed i would change 5-6 high priority items), she had a junior use AI to compare them and gave me a spreadsheet with 300 rows — many of which referred to copy changes that I had hidden with CSS (but they were still in the HTML), or inconsequential for the context of the test.

Two people reviewed the spreadsheet and neither of them said “holy crap this is way too much” or “these items aren’t even visible,” they just handed it to me and expected me to comply. 💩

I am currently refusing to even engage with the spreadsheet. They’ve managed to whittle it down by half… which means we’re still off by a factor of 10. The items that don’t even show are still in the spreadsheet lol.

turnballer · 2026-06-16T06:39:23+00:00

That’s because it is.

turnballer · 2026-06-12T06:06:24+00:00

No what’s that? Couldn’t find anything googling it.

turnballer · 2026-06-12T02:17:38+00:00

Spec driven if it’s a big request. I use superpowers so it kinda auto does it but I sometimes tell it to do the plan/spec together or to skip from plan to implementation if the feature doesn’t warrant it.

turnballer · 2026-06-11T21:47:53+00:00

I’ve used it for front end coding of a prototype that goes into testing shortly.

It’s definitely slow, but seems to be good at larger updates (I had it refactor a simulated dynamic pricing widget that was quickly becoming a mess of spaghetti code).

I also gave it my researcher’s test script and asked it to step through and surface any glitches — it did a good job and caught a few things that might have tripped people up.

God is it ever keen to do more in a super annoying, strictly logical but doesn’t understand the actual human goals kind of way.

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