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maggieappleton.com

One developer, two dozen agents, zero alignment

Why we need collaborative AI engineering.

font-stealer.vercel.app

Analyze any font

Extract and analyze fonts from any website instantly.

reuters.com

How California fights fires from the skies

High-stakes data visualization saves lives. This breakdown shows how clear mapping helps people navigate chaos.

davidmello.com

Playwright accessibility testing

Axe and Lighthouse miss 60–70% of WCAG violations. Learn the limitations of automated accessibility testing and how to write smarter Playwright tests.

lukew.com

The new designer/developer collaboration

A collaboration model that shined a light on how things could (no, should) be.

matthiasott.com

Design and engineering, as one

Most of us are still running product teams on a model that was designed for a problem we don’t have.

awwwards.com

Case study: 100 Lost Species

A digital story about extinction that people could actively explore.

acolorbright.com

Aesthetics of AI

Observations on the visual identities of standout AI brands and the trends shaping them.

robonomics.substack.com

Org design in the age of AI

Everyone is adding AI to their workflows. Almost no one is rethinking why the workflow is shaped that way in the first place.

aestheticamagazine.com

The endurance of brutalism

This new exhibition spotlights Scotland’s post-war modernist architecture, selected from Phipps’ photographs of 160 buildings across the country.

joshwcomeau.com

Squash and stretch

Using Disney's animation principles to create SVG micro-interactions that feel way more natural and believable.

trainjazz.com

Every train, a note

A jazz combo played in real time by every active NYC subway train.

theyseeyourphotos.com

They see your photos

Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees. Spoiler alert: more than you think.

nngroup.com

Handmade designs: the new trust signal

In an era of AI-generated-everything, AI-fatigued users want designs that look like they were made by a person.

factory.ai

How missions work

Agent sessions work well for focused tasks, but most real projects are too broad and complex for a single context window.

bit.ly

html.to.design — chrome extensionSponsored

Browse any website. Capture the full page or just a section, and send it straight to Figma. Re-capture anytime.

informationisbeautiful.net

Visualizing Billions

Some gargantuan numbers often make little sense unless put in context and comparison with other billions.

maxvanijsselmuiden.nl

Productive procrastination

Understanding why we avoid the work we actually love might be the key to getting more of it done.

visiteamazonia.com.br

Branding Amazonia

9 states. 772 cities. 28 million inhabitants. Among us, the largest tropical rainforest on the planet.

perevillega.com

Building agent memory that survives between sessions

Two practical approaches to the same insight: memory is a design problem, not a tooling problem.