I do actually really like this, but there it is a little ironic that the website advocates for straightforward, unpretentious UI (e.g., one should make a button "look like button" not, say, a kitschy bird), but this idea is expressed not through plain-spoken words, but a kitschy caveperson gimmick.
I think this kind of undermines the point, and goes a long way to showing that sometimes the best way to communicate actually is in a way that is unique.
This made me chuckle. Part of software development in 2025 is covertly getting high signal feedback from (watching) actual users of the product, and ignoring high noise feedback from "stakeholders" who often don't (know how to) use the product.
I don't know where they keep finding these product managers, but they must have one hell of a smile and handshake to get hired and then never learn the product or ever contribute anything of value.
Grug Dev is my hero, the pinnacle of the bell curve meme.
Grug design reads like a shallow copy, not written by an actual designer but by a developer with a passing, and frustrated, experience with design. It also lacks references to shiny rocks and complexity daemon, and *shaman*. Because the design system shaman reliably summons the daemons.
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 31.6 ms ] threadWebsite doesn't scroll unless you are directly inside the main div.
Also that HTML is an abomination for such a minimal site...
> grug like dense UI that show all tools.
And yet I have to scroll on this very site while two thirds of my monitor are empty.
Seems like they just pasted the original grug article into gpt and said rewrite this but about design.
> scroll override
no. bad grug
I think this kind of undermines the point, and goes a long way to showing that sometimes the best way to communicate actually is in a way that is unique.
This made me chuckle. Part of software development in 2025 is covertly getting high signal feedback from (watching) actual users of the product, and ignoring high noise feedback from "stakeholders" who often don't (know how to) use the product.
I don't know where they keep finding these product managers, but they must have one hell of a smile and handshake to get hired and then never learn the product or ever contribute anything of value.
The real https://grugbrain.dev has much better design.
The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303542
Grug design reads like a shallow copy, not written by an actual designer but by a developer with a passing, and frustrated, experience with design. It also lacks references to shiny rocks and complexity daemon, and *shaman*. Because the design system shaman reliably summons the daemons.
That's a very sophisticated statement from a cave ~painter~ designer :)