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uxdesign.cc

Taste cannot be delegated

The death of design by committee in the age of AI.

museum.parallel.ai

Museum of the Human Web

Preserving the cultural artifacts that shaped internet history.

handwritten.danieljanus.pl

Hyperlinks in handwriting

How a handwritten blog is actually written.

ai-2040.com

AI 2040

A detailed forecast and recommendation for how the US, China and the rest of the world should navigate superintelligence.

weblog.rogueamoeba.com

Free the icons

Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons.

theatlantic.com

The people who will thrive in the AI age

What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.

dotmatrix.zzzzshawn.cloud

Dot Matrix

A React component library of dot matrix loaders—expressive loading primitives you install via the shadcn registry and own as local code.

stevekrouse.com

Learning to code is still worthwhile

Code is possibly the best medium to learn mathematics, and meta-skills for learning in general.

neal.fun

Wiki Spy

A site that turns Wikipedia's image library into a sprawling searchable visual mosaic.

thinkingmachines.ai

The future worth building is human

AI built for autonomy crowds people out, making us passive observers of what’s coming. We’re building toward a different future.

bit.ly

Flodesk Studio: AI email design, built by real designersSponsored

Describe what you want, get a beautiful on-brand email. Human-crafted foundations, AI-accelerated. Free in beta, works with any ESP.

hvpandya.com

The hard things about design

An honest accounting of what the craft costs, and why it costs more than the crafts sitting right next to it.

rexa-developer.github.io

tiks

Procedural UI sounds. Zero audio files. Pure synthesis.

a11y.quest

a11y.quest

128 questions to level up your web accessibility game. Practice WCAG 2.2, ARIA, semantic HTML, keyboard, and contrast, with plain-English answers.

herbertlui.net

Creative focus

This year is Apple’s 50th year in business. Decades ago, it lost creative focus, and spread itself too thin.

alecscollon.com

I think I have LLM burnout

I didn’t expect to get so tired of reading LLM output.

getdesign.md

Getdesign.md

Browse independent design system analyses from popular websites. Drop one into your project as design reference for your coding agent.

carmenansio.com

Ease in, ease out, and everything between

If you have ever grabbed a handle in the pen tool, you know how to write a CSS easing curve.

soullessmusic.com

Soulless Music

A list of AI artists hiding on Spotify and stealing from real artists. An open source project.

seldo.com

AI has torched the market for junior programmers

Junior programming roles are getting destroyed by AI. Meanwhile, millions of non-developers are shipping real software without the job title.