AI will not make you rich
The disruption is real. It’s also predictable.
Tuesday09/16
Monday09/15
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The UX Design Awards Spring 2026 are now open for entries!Sponsored
Showcase your UX projects globally, earn expert recognition, and give your design team the credit they deserve! Submit your work until November 15!
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While you’re fixing the fun stuff, fix the important stuff too
We walk through a fictional bug and fix a little visual issue, but we then spend time uncovering other much more important issues and fix them too.
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The amazing art of the video game marquee
The marquee back then had to do a lot of work, because the games themselves were all low resolution and blocky affairs.
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Accessible writing techniques
If you want your content to reach and engage more people, accessibility should be at the heart of your writing process.
Friday09/12
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How to fold socks
How do you think about your creative practice? What are the most important parts of it?
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Stop shipping PNGs in your games
Are you shipping textures to players as PNGs? Here's a better approach.
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The scam called “you don’t have to remember anything”
Debunking the myth that search engines and AI eliminate the need for memory.
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Your target market isn’t demographic
How to define your actual target market, which probably isn’t traditional demographics and firmographics.
Thursday09/11
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AI as teleportation
Here’s a thought experiment for pondering the effects AI might have on society: What if we invented teleportation?
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News minimalist
A news aggregator that ranks news by significance. It uses ChatGPT to analyze ~30,000 news articles every day, ranking significance from 0 to 10.
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The trust quotient (TQ)
Trust is a broad word that will be unbundled as it seeps into the AI ecosystem.
Wednesday09/10
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Skip to the end
Computers gave us the means, but AI gives us the ends. What was virtually impossible became trivial in a hurry.
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The destination for AI interfaces is "do what I mean"
A smart + straightforward way to frame how AI will change the user interface.
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Panama playlists
The real Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists.
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The last programmers
We’re witnessing the final generation of people who translate ideas into code by hand.
Tuesday09/09
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A cynical read on Anthropic’s book settlement
$1.5B. Damn. Who can afford to pay that? A very cynical read.
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OKLCH color picker, generator and converter
Build unique and uniform color palettes. Preview on UI components, export CSS or Tailwind variables, and learn why OKLCH outperforms RGB and HSL.
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Video game blurs
How to build realtime blurs on the GPU and how the best blur algorithm works.
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Why is corpcore suddenly such a thing?
Software swag has upped its swag factor. Here’s why wearing your app on your sleeve has gone from cringeworthy to cool.
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A history of our browser
Chrome turns 17 this week, and it feels like a good time to reflect on how far we have come in terms of Chromes guiding principles.
Monday09/08
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The Playbook: behind the screensSponsored
Raw design and startup lessons. From craft to chaos, learn how great apps are built, and the truths nobody shares. For ambitious builders.
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No, AI is not a bubble
Why the AI bubble argument misunderstands both bubbles and AI.
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Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring
The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
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On dashes, AI, and screen readers
Em dash, en dash, hyphen, minus symbol - what do they have to do with AI and how do screen readers treat them?