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apeatling.com

Your product is not the center of the universe

Established products have a problem. They assume they’re the center of someone’s universe, and everything should feed through them.

seangoedecke.com

AI is driving a boom in modestly successful software projects

If AI is so great, why aren’t we seeing an explosion of new, amazing software products?

toolcraft.sh

Toolcraft

An open-source starter kit and UI library for building custom design apps with AI.

editui.app

EditUI

Point at your UI. Tell your coding agent what to change.

maxschmitt.me

A simple guide to calm UI

A few basic rules to keep in mind to make simple UIs feel a lot better.

uxdesign.cc

Design in the material you ship

Designers should understand code the way an architect understands stone: what it can do, not how to cut it. AI now does the cutting.

davedavies.dev

State of Ecommerce Accessibility 2026

An audit of 59,400 ecommerce product pages. 64% had at least one automatically detected accessibility failure rated critical.

world.hey.com

Acceptance

If you haven’t accepted that these things are smarter than you, even in your own domain of expertise, I’m sorry.

logo.dev

Logo.dev MCP server

Connect Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, or any MCP client to Logo.dev, and let your agent look up brands, logos, and brandmarks.

newsletter.posthog.com

38 things we’ve learned about building AI products

Lessons from four years of building AI products at PostHog.

bit.ly

Beautiful icons that make products feel premiumSponsored

Hugeicons offers 60,000+ icons across 10 styles for Figma, React, Font, and more. Fully customizable, beautifully crafted.

karrisaarinen.com

Someone behind the software

I think good products carry something of the people who make them. Their experience, what they care about, and how they think things should work.

programasweights.com

English ↔ Claudish

A bidirectional English and Claudish translator powered by compiled 0.6B neural programs.

technooptimism.org

Techno-optimism archive

Old promises of new technologies.

marcabraham.com

Personal agents are getting their own computers

The question is no longer whether an agent can answer my questions. It’s whether I’m willing to let it act on my behalf.

petermerholz.com

Design owns coherence

There exists an actual business problem that the C-suite now acknowledges, but no function has stepped up to address it.

mattrothenberg.com

Pure UI in the Agentic Era

I stopped thinking of UI as event handlers that change the DOM and started thinking of it as a snapshot of data at a point in time.

text-effects.colorion.co

117 CSS text effects & animations

Glitch, neon, gradient, typewriter, 3D and more. Pure CSS, no JavaScript. Copy & paste the code.

prompt-motion.com

Prompt Motion

A collection of motion videos made with Claude Opus 5.5, with the prompts and skills behind them.

sightlessscribbles.com

The “disability dongle”: Why Silicon Valley hates me and you

Mood: Wanting to throw a $30,000 prototype into a lake.