Michal Chovaňák — writing, resources, reading
Michal Chovaňák
Developer · co-founder of Echt Brands
For the past ten years, I've been building brands and leading digital brand experience. I'm drawn to intuition, creativity, psychology, and the places where human experience meets science. I build with AI and write about what I find along the way.
Michal Chovaňák
Developer · co-founder of Echt Brands
For the past ten years, I've been building brands and leading digital brand experience. I'm drawn to intuition, creativity, psychology, and the places where human experience meets science. I build with AI and write about what I find along the way.
Currently
- Vibe coding my first paid project.
- Renovating an apartment with my partner.
- Reading: Existenciálna fyzika by Sabine Hossenfelder and Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
- Thinking about: where AI brings the most value inside a studio — not the obvious places.
Latest writing
all articles→What we mean when we say "intuition"
A friend thinks AI has it. I'm not so sure. A short reflection on what intuition actually covers, and why the difference matters more than it looks.
·en·intuition · ai · embodied-cognition·11 min readYour Intuition Is Your Expertise, Compressed
That gut feeling when parking, or when a "small tweak" email lands. It isn't magic. It's your expertise, compressed into a single moment.
·en·design · craft · ai·10 min readHello, World
A lot comes in. The question is what to do with it.
·en·meta·3 min read
AI skills
all skills→- remotion/agent-skillsai · video · react
Programmatic video generation with React — render Remotion compositions from AI agents.
Motion-first UI primitives — drawers, toasts, gesture-aware components.
Resources
full list→- Claude Code Usage Monitorai · dev · terminal
Real-time token and cost monitor for Claude Code sessions — live usage stats right in the terminal.
- mactopterminal · dev · mac
Real-time CPU / GPU / memory / network monitor for macOS, right in the terminal. Apple Silicon aware — the htop of the M-series era.
Currently reading
reading list→- Existenciálna fyzikaSabine Hossenfeldercurrently
- PiranesiSusanna Clarkecurrently· book club