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title: Notes, Arthur Galvão
url: https://arthurgalvao.work/notes
lang: en
---

# Notes, Arthur Galvão

> Short pieces on design, brand systems and building with code, as posted on LinkedIn, X and Instagram.

Markdown version of https://arthurgalvao.work/notes, the same content as the page, for AI agents and language models.

## [Berlin, Germany](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/berlin-germany.md)

Nov 8, 2026. Posted on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dff820UDNXE/)

🇩🇪

## [Brussels, Belgium](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/brussels-belgium.md)

Nov 6, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2118713057719279710), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7524478340917829633/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfZ0KV0srT2/)

🇧🇪

## [Toulouse, France](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/toulouse-france.md)

Nov 4, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2117777981149975013), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7523543556490375168/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfTLe9-IQf3/)

🎯🇫🇷

## [Monument brand (collab with Serious Business)](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/monument-brand.md)

Oct 27, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2115220709722984588), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7520986008419663872/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfBAB0NRfJ1/)

Monument is live, another one with the team at SERIOUS.BUSINESS.

A brand for an independent TV production company from Salt Lake City, drawn from the rock formations of Monument Valley: bold, solid forms with a warm, playful edge, from the posters and decks to the website.

We designed it back in 2024, crafted from scratch, with no AI involved.

Thanks to the whole team at SERIOUS.BUSINESS, Huy Phan, André Ponce, Ashley Cabulagan and Marty Patch.

Live site: https://monument.tv/

## [walk through the fire](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/walk-through-the-fire.md)

Oct 24, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2114108241000939645), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arthurgalvao_share-7519873877959925760-vAID/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/De5G2b0x2Kn/)

🧯

## [symbiosis or replacement?](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/symbiosis-or-replacement.md)

Oct 16, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2111210820889727404), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7516978994681061378/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/DekhDOnH3gt/)

symbiosis or replacement?

## [a crab with brains](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/a-crab-with-brains.md)

Oct 7, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2107970733196411196), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7513736283785945088/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeNfQ6hkexc/)

if you grew up in recife, you've seen this crab sold tied in bunches on the side of the road.

it's the caranguejo-uçá, from the mangrove mud. in the 90s, chico science and the manguebeat crowd called themselves crabs with brains.

i figured a crab with brains would also know how to fight 🦀💥

## [pago em tokens. paid in tokens.](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/paid-in-tokens.md)

Oct 1, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2105521687391592768), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7511287481535856640/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd8GHG3Ee43/)

pago em tokens. paid in tokens.

every word you send an ai, and every word it sends back, is cut into small pieces called tokens. it's the new currency.

so i took everyday things from my city, recife, and asked how they would work if they were paid in tokens.

## [nature doesn’t decorate](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/nature-doesnt-decorate.md)

Oct 1, 2026. Posted on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7511271137729753088/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd7-cO-Ebc1/)

nature doesn’t decorate. every texture here solves a problem.

butterfly wing: scales bending light into color.
fly eye: thousands of lenses, one world.
shark skin: made of tiny teeth.
termite wood: eaten until only the walls remain.
squid skin: pigment dots that open and close.
sea urchin shell: every bump once held a spine.
frozen soap bubble: ice on a film thinner than a hair.

## [comfort is not the absence of chaos](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/comfort-is-not-the-absence-of-chaos.md)

Sep 26, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2103953351603892658), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7509719148369870848/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddw8an0CNTu/)

comfort is not the absence of chaos

## [the umbilical cord, 2026 edition](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/the-umbilical-cord.md)

Sep 24, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2102967153117012293), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7508732620315324417/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddp71vjRdyV/)

the umbilical cord, 2026 edition

## [still: a perfume bottle that works backwards](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/still.md)

Sep 24, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2102967086637093185), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7508732480108085248/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddp0EJ6EdVA/)

we record everything. four thousand photos of a trip. not one of them smells like it.

smell is the only sense wired straight into memory. and the only one we never learned to record. there is a camera for light. there is nothing for the smell of a room.

still is a perfume bottle that works backwards. it gives nothing. it takes.

it arrives empty, sealed under vacuum. you open it somewhere, and somewhere goes in. you close it. that is the whole procedure.

the bottle is shaped after a dried poppy capsule. the poppy is the flower of forgetting. i made it a vessel for remembering.

there is no fragrance in it. there is a place.

open it later and the place comes back, for a few seconds, once. then it is gone. every return spends it. you will decide which day is worth the last of it.

it holds the trigger, not the memory. someone else can open it and smell a room. only you will be back in it.

still.

## [consistency values reliability more than occasional brilliance](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/consistency-over-brilliance.md)

Sep 23, 2026. Posted on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdnT41EEZxq/)

consistency values reliability more than occasional brilliance.

## [Taste is compressed time](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/taste-is-compressed-time.md)

Sep 18, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2100782601598378104), [LinkedIn](https://lnkd.in/p/d8P9rpXg)

I work in fast environments and I like it that way. My instinct on almost anything is to get it out early. Speed is not the part I struggle with.

So a line quoted in Dazed this week landed on me sideways: "you can't be thoughtful quickly."

True, and incomplete. Most of what fills a week is execution, and treating every task as though it deserves contemplation is its own way of shipping nothing.

What changed with AI is that the slow part moved. Execution collapsed to almost nothing and judgment stayed where it was. It used to be a slice of the work and now it's most of it.

What lets you move fast through judgment is the word everyone is using right now: taste. You look at three directions and you know which one it is before you could explain why.

What gets left out of that conversation is where taste comes from. It's compressed time. Every snap decision I make well is one I already paid for, in years of making that same call slowly and badly until it stopped being slow.

Bryan Nash Gill's Woodcut prints are literally this. He didn't draw them. He cut a cross-section from a fallen tree, burned the surface so the soft spring growth fell away, inked what was left and pressed Japanese paper onto it by hand. The print is made by the tree.

Every ring is a year. The narrow ones are the hard years. You read the whole life in a second, and it took a whole life to make.

Time is king, and I mean practice, not deadlines.

And taste runs out. It works on problems I've seen before. On the ones I haven't, the eye has nothing to match against, and no amount of hours in a single week fixes that. It takes days, and usually days spent away from it.

I've used this one myself: "it needs to mature" is the most respectable excuse in our field. Slowness is a good hiding place, and it hides well because it looks like care.

So when something is sitting on my desk, I try to be honest about which one it is. Sometimes the work needs the days. Sometimes I just don't want to decide.

## [On reliability](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/on-reliability.md)

Sep 8, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2097518770050809922), [LinkedIn](https://lnkd.in/p/dzF993MV)

For me, one of the most important virtues a person can have is reliability.

It took me a long time to land on that. For years I'd have said something more exciting. Talent, maybe, or courage. Reliability sounded like the compliment you give when there's nothing else to say.

What changed my mind is that reliability has no single instance. Nobody was ever reliable on a Tuesday. It only exists across time, so you can't perform it on demand and you can't claim it about yourself. Other people hold the evidence. I find that honest.

It also sits underneath most of what I admire more loudly. Talent you can't count on is weather. Kindness that arrives at random is pleasant, but nobody can lean on it. Consistency is what lets other people build on you.

The distinction that took me longest was between reliable and agreeable. They look alike from outside and I think they're closer to opposites. Someone who says yes to everything is pleasant, and pleasant runs out. The people I trust most disappoint me earlier and less often. They say no at the start, while it's still cheap for me to hear it.

The test I keep coming back to is who you call when something matters. You call whoever picks up, says what's true, and does what they said. Talent doesn't come into it.

## [Awwwards Honors: revelatio.studio is up for a vote](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/awwwards-honors-revelatio-studio.md)

Sep 1, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2095551697091215851), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7501314950775201792/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc1QvSaRKrM/)

ok, last @awwwards. post for a while, i promise.

revelatio.studio is up for the awwwards honors, portfolio category. this one comes down to votes.

if the site did anything for you, voting takes ten seconds: https://www.awwwards.com/sites/revelatio-studio

🖤

## [Dive Club shoutout: Ridd, Tommy Geoco and the Grok Bot episode](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/dive-club-shoutout-ridd.md)

Sep 1, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2094800171896832254), [LinkedIn](https://lnkd.in/p/dRxBR-57)

No disrespect to my Apple TV subscription, but the best series I'm following right now is Dive Club.

(The subscription isn't going to waste though. Widow's Bay and Presumed Innocent are both worth it.)

What @ridd_design and @designertom are doing, on Dive Radio and in the videos Ridd makes with people working at the frontier of design, digital and AI, is genuinely useful. I come out of almost every episode with something I can apply to how we work.

The latest one is a good example: John Bai on the design journey behind Grok Bot, while it's still going viral. That kind of breakdown usually takes years to surface.

Just a shoutout to them. Keep pushing, what you're building is seriously good. 🌊🤿

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-VxnQO73s4

## [Four more for revelatio.studio: CSSDA, GSAP, MUUUUU and Details](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/four-more-curations.md)

Aug 26, 2026

Updating you all: revelatio.studio keeps earning recognition in curations we respect.

Website of the Day at the CSS Design Awards. Site of the Week at GSAP. Site of the Day at MUUUUU.ORG, the Japanese gallery. And now selected into details.so.

Two of those stand out for different reasons. GSAP weighs motion and animation engineering rather than the whole package, so it speaks to how the site was built. And details.so doesn't award sites at all, it files the individual parts: heroes, footers, transitions, preloaders. Being in there means the pieces hold up away from the site they belong to.

Four curations, four sets of criteria, the same site. On something we made for ourselves, that means a lot. 🖤

https://revelatio.studio

## [synyx identity: first round of visual exploration](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/synyx-identity-first-round.md)

Aug 17, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2089321352243327148), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arthurgalvao_quick-initial-round-of-visual-exploration-activity-7495087281834491904-WhN3/)

Quick initial round of visual exploration for the Synyx identity. Made last year.

## [revelatio.studio footer rebuilt as a Code Grid tutorial](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/revelatio-studio-footer-rebuilt.md)

Aug 16, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2089054873845203356), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arthurgalvao_revelatiostudio-footer-tutorial-on-codegrid-activity-7494829427797794816-hM65/)

revelatio.studio footer tutorial on codegrid

## [revelatio.studio is Awwwards Site of the Day](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/awwwards-site-of-the-day.md)

Aug 12, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2087526757297479886), [LinkedIn](https://lnkd.in/p/djmiGcpS), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db8POBSBX8b/)

Happy to announce our website is #SOTD at the @awwwards!

Earning this on something we built for ourselves hits different. 🖤

https://www.awwwards.com/sites/revelatio-studio

## [Obliant rebrand: Figma flyover](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/obliant-rebrand-figma-flyover.md)

Aug 6, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2085335077500903852), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arthurgalvao_another-figma-flyover-this-time-of-the-obliant-ugcPost-7490975054764158976-PlA4/)

Another Figma flyover, this time of the Obliant rebrand.

The project covered the whole arc: renaming, strategy, positioning and verbal identity, then the visual identity, guidelines, go-to-market assets, website and motion.

And as you've probably noticed by now, Figma organization isn't a quirk for me. On a project with this many fronts, it's what keeps the team fast.

The full case has been live for a while, if you want a closer look: https://revelatio.studio/project/obliant

## [Awwwards Honorable Mention for revelatio.studio](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/awwwards-honorable-mention.md)

Aug 5, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2085149448485671269), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbrVBFepiDc/), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7490915043929268224/)

Our website just earned an Honorable Mention at the @awwwards.

A site we built for ourselves: clean and minimal, ASCII effects as design language, and the team front and center of the whole experience.

## [Serur rebrand: strategy to site for a 30-year firm](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/serur-rebrand.md)

Aug 4, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2084647999867605064), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7490411843069435904/)

We rebranded Serur.

Strategy, positioning and verbal identity first, then a new visual identity, a new design language and a new website. All of it built together with their marketing leadership.

Serur is a law firm with 600+ people and 30 years of history. We've been their innovation partner for almost 3 years, so this rebrand ran deeper than a fresh coat of paint: we knew the firm from the inside.

And the part I enjoy most is that the team has been seeing results since the launch.

## [In the running at The FWA](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/in-the-running-at-the-fwa.md)

Aug 3, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2084365555666931756)

Our website is now in the running at The FWA!

https://thefwa.com/cases/revelatio-studio

## [Backyard Designers: Dive's dream-team draft game](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/backyard-designers.md)

Jul 31, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2083281913561669956), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7489046451998711810/)

Dive Club just shipped one of the most fun things I've seen in a while: Backyard Designers.

The idea: draft your dream design team. 7 real designers, each one costs their follower count, and you've got a 400,000 cap to spend. It's Backyard Baseball for the design industry, packed with Easter eggs and personalized interactions.

Honestly, it's also the easiest way to figure out who's worth following in design right now. If you work with design in any way, go build your team: backyarddesigners.club

Congrats Ridd and everyone involved.

## [meet-memory: your calendar is a CRM you didn't notice](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/meet-memory.md)

Jul 30, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2082845665739116872), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7488611076146888704/)

Your calendar is a CRM you've been filling in for years without noticing.

Every calendar tool manages the meetings ahead of you. I wanted the ones behind me. So I built meet-memory: it syncs years of history into a local SQLite file and gives Claude 15 tools to query it. 26,000 events from every calendar I sync, indexed on my machine.

The interesting part wasn't building it. It was running it against a real calendar and finding the numbers were wrong.

73% of the database was the future, because Google expands recurring events forward until 2040. The most frequent contact came back with 2,798 meetings when the real number was 662. And 20 email addresses turned out to be 18 people.

Calendar data looks clean and isn't. I spent more time finding out the numbers were lying than writing queries.

Claude native Calendar connector is better than mine at scheduling. It just can't aggregate history: it queries the API per question, and 26,000 events don't fit in an answer.

Against Google it only reads, by design. If you'd rather it created and edited events, fork it and build that.

Source available, FSL license, becomes MIT in two years.

https://github.com/arthurglv/meet-memory

## [CareCrowd product design: zoomed-out Figma flyover](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/carecrowd-figma-flyover.md)

Jul 29, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2082435973493948639), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7488210349481943040/)

I've been showing a lot of our branding work here. This is the other side of Revelatio Studio: product design.

This one is for CareCrowd. The product hasn't launched yet, so here's a zoomed-out pass over the Figma. Even from this distance, the scale shows. Full UX and UI, a lot of screens.

We also built the CareCrowd brand, and that case is public: https://www.arthurgalvao.work/carecrowd

## [Voice as the interface: 24k words dictated with Wispr Flow](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/voice-as-the-interface.md)

Jul 28, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2082131261083001256), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7487896810930356225/)

Most of my communication with AI these days starts with my voice.

I've been using Wispr Flow for almost 2 months, and the counter just passed 24,000 dictated words. Prompts, briefs, strategic planning...

The speed difference is real. We speak at 150+ words per minute, while most people type at 40 to 80. That gap changes how you work with AI: talking hands the model more context, and more context means better output.

It helps beyond AI too, messages and docs included, but prompting is where I feel it most. Natural language is becoming the main interface for building things, and speaking is the most natural way to produce it.

There are free dictation options out there. Wispr Flow is the one that stuck with me, the most polished I've tried.

## [Testing the Figma MCP for write: drawing a flow from a .md](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/figma-mcp-for-write.md)

Jul 24, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2080608949058068841), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7486374642891386880/)

Today I tested the Figma MCP through Claude Code to draw a commercial flow from a .md file. It worked really well.

I'd heard the Figma MCP wasn't running well for write operations, only read. Not what I saw here: Claude read the markdown and built the flow directly on the canvas.

This opens some really nice doors for building processes, user flows and similar artifacts straight from plain documentation.

Worth the test.

## [Vitable Health brand system (collab with Serious Business)](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/vitable-health-brand-system.md)

Jul 23, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2080392478964810229), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7486157859970473984/)

Vibrant and dynamic. That was the direction for the Vitable Health brand, a project we did in collaboration with Serious Business.

It starts with a custom typographic logotype. From there we built the full system: color palette, typography guide, graphic device, custom illustrations and iconography, all consistent across every application.

It's all live on their site: https://www.vitablehealth.com/

## [Brand and product systems are becoming part of production](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/systems-as-production.md)

Jul 22, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2079772417640054877), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7485535682711638016/)

Chris (@goodhabitchris) shared an example on LinkedIn that captures where brand systems are heading. The work doesn’t end with a handoff. The system keeps producing new work through a generative tool.

The same shift is already happening in product design.

In mature teams, design decisions already live beyond the Figma file. Design tokens can be synced from tools like Tokens Studio to a Git repository and versioned alongside the product. Components, states, interaction rules, and accessibility requirements live alongside the code used to build it.

That gives tools like Claude Code enough context to generate and refine real interfaces using the production design system as a source of truth. Figma can remain part of the process, but in some workflows, the first meaningful artifact is already code.

The model is only one layer. Quality comes from the system around it: tokens, components, documentation, context, and review. Without that maturity, AI just produces inconsistency faster.

Apparicio Junior has explored this topic extensively through Design Takes, and his perspective has reinforced a lot of my own thinking on it.

Brand and product design are moving in the same direction. In both, the system is becoming part of how the work gets made.

Original post by @goodhabitchris: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chrislukesmyth_kotos-stack-overflow-rebrand-has-a-detail-activity-7485262622406291456-7SGQ

## [Carnaúba: branding & packaging for a premium cachaça](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/carnauba.md)

Jul 21, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2079536874428018982), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7485302619968733185/)

We did a branding and packaging project for a premium artisanal cachaça called Carnaúba. If you're not from Brazil, cachaça is our native spirit.

The work is fully proprietary. We refined a custom wordmark down to the typographic details and drew an original symbol for the brand.

The illustrations brought the refinement and life the story needed, pairing with the narrative of the brand's two main cachaças.

This one also went deep on the product itself: choosing the bottle silhouette, the printing methods and the finishes that elevate the packaging.

We work a lot with digital products. Every now and then it's a real treat to design something physical, where every decision ends up in your hands.

## [Cubemos brand & web design (collab with Serious Business)](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/cubemos-brand-and-web.md)

Jul 20, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2079310287723721169), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7485075846672617472/)

A few pieces of the brand & web design we built for Cubemos, in collaboration with Serious Business.

A really fun one to develop. At the center is a custom illustration set with an artistic feel, a light and clean world, a little idealized, built on its own unique palette and grounded in the identity we created.

Every part has its own personality: the logo, the colors, the graphic device, the illustrations, the web assets. Each one stands on its own and still reads as one system.

Full case study coming soon with a lot more detail.

## [GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex: keeping the work moving](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/gpt-5-6-sol-in-codex.md)

Jul 16, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2077617721391399284), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7483383175788982272/)

I’ve spent a good part of this week testing GPT-5.6 Sol inside OpenAI’s new ChatGPT experience, with Chat, Work and Codex now living in the same app.

What surprised me most was the depth of the model and how efficient it was with tokens.

I used it for some pretty heavy work in Codex, with the effort set to Ultra. We kept going for a long time before I finally hit the usage limit.

I’m on ChatGPT Plus, not Pro, so my included usage currently resets weekly. The additional resets OpenAI has made available have been a nice touch too. They gave me more room to keep working without upgrading or buying credits.

I still subscribe to Claude Max. After so much time using it, Claude already understands the way I build systems and projects really well. It’s still where I start most of this work.

But when my Claude usage runs out, Codex with GPT-5.6 Sol lets me pick up the work and keep building.

A few things I worked on with it this week:

A new version of the Archive page:
https://www.arthurgalvao.work/archive

A refreshed Work page:
https://www.arthurgalvao.work/work

And a new version of the About page:
https://www.arthurgalvao.work/about

Across both desktop and mobile, it handled this level of detail really well. That alone has made it a very useful part of my workflow.

## [Craft observation: the Codex pet widget is a UX masterpiece](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/codex-pet-widget.md)

Jul 15, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2077240164246557049)

This new pet widget is a ux masterpiece @OpenAI

## [Revelatio website: multi-section video tour](https://arthurgalvao.work/notes/revelatio-website-tour.md)

Jul 15, 2026. Posted on [X](https://x.com/arthurgalvaorl/status/2077475222421201248), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/Da02vSuCQGQ/), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7483237619192004608/)

A quick tour through some sections of our new website.

Designing for yourself is the hardest brief. No client, no deadline, endless opinions. So we took our time with this one and refined every detail we felt deserved it.

The direction: clean and minimal, true to our identity. ASCII effects run through the whole site as part of our design language, and the photoshoot of our team carries a lot of the experience. Seeing our people front and center was the most rewarding part of the project.

BTW, the site is currently an @awwwards nominee and voting closes in a few days. If the work resonates, your vote helps a lot: https://www.awwwards.com/sites/revelatio-studio