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Ron Goldin

Design leader who has led design at Google, Shopify and Uber Eats, and co-founded the brand-partnerships product MTCHMKR.

2 things

Claude CodeSoftware Anthropic

uses

I designed and built the site entirely in Claude Code with Github and Vercel.

Newsletter post on redesigning and rebuilding his portfolio with AI

2026-10-07·rongoldin.substack.com ↗

CursorSoftware Anysphere

uses

I sketched out my idea in Figma and used Cursor x Figma MCP to vibe-code a fully functioning proof of concept

Newsletter post on vibe-coding an internal proof of concept to win over stakeholders

2025-09-05·rongoldin.substack.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.