Callum Flack

I'm Callum Flack—a design engineer and product leader with over 20 years of experience. I design and build beautiful hypertext products that work in the blink of an eye. Read about the work and team I'm after


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Notes on coding with LLMs

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Mar 22, 2025

Selected Work


Selected Writing

Nembrotha Aurea

The instantaneous language of beauty

We rely on the pre-verbal language of aesthetics to sense our environment before we can think. We are naturally attuned to beauty because we innately know it represents a higher possibility of worthwhile information.

David Lynch and his fingerspitzenfughl

The matter of taste

When business hinges on the user experience and how products make people feel, success or failure is often a matter of taste. But only when one understands taste as intuitive knowhow, not subjective preference.

Mick Jagger reading the tracklisting of Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home

Creativity starts with love and theft

Making something new doesn’t happen by magic. An irresistible itch has to be scratched, love has to be found. An accidental essay about the missing triggers in the creative process, inspired by my years of collecting soul 45s.