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Gosh, I hadn't thought about that for a long time. That was fun.

I immediately think of the hot air balloon.

I've just added support and it seems to work in the testing I've done. If you find anything that's off, feel free to let me know. Have fun!

Username checks out.

Do you have any notes/write-up on that? I'd love to read.

Wonderful.

I never thought of that, actually. Perhaps I should as I don't remember shimmer or sparkle. I'll see if I can find some examples (if you happen to know of any I can reference please send them over).

I wanted to make a faithful recreation of the original WordArt so I went through the various screenshots I could find and tweaked the built-in styles by eye. It's pretty fun to play with, and I didn't realise it would take me back to sitting in the ICT computer rooms at my school in the late '90s.

Enjoy!

And please feel free to share anything you make with me — I'd love to see. (Contact details in the help menu.)

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I turn unclear product problems into useful, well-designed software. I talk to customers, turn what I learn into product and technical specs, design the workflows and interface, build the system, then help launch, market, and support it. That breadth is my strongest skill: it keeps the customer problem in view throughout.

At Flowstate, I took a workforce-planning SaaS from blank repo to paid pilot in 10 weeks as sole engineer-designer. I've since owned product design, backend, mobile apps, Stripe Connect payments, AI-assisted listing tools, and infrastructure for a US trading-card marketplace.

I use and evaluate new AI models and coding workflows to make product development faster, while preserving quality through type safety, tests, CI, review, and product judgement.

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