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tonsky.me

Every frame perfect

How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product.

gridlanes.webkit.org

The field guide to CSS Grid Lanes

Create masonry layouts in pure CSS. Absorb the possibilities with the Field Guide’s interactive playground.

blog.stdlib.io

What we’re no longer seeing: AI and the invisible newcomer in open source

How AI is absorbing the visible friction that open-source communities have always relied on to see—and welcome—newcomers.

cssbuttons.io

CSS Buttons

A diverse collection of over 100 unique button styles. Get the code you need to enhance your web projects with stylish, functional buttons.

blog.murphytrueman.com

What Figma made visible

And whether the next generation of practitioners will get the same thing.

yusufaytas.com

Vibe Coder vs Software Engineer

Vibe coding is useful for discovery, but software engineering starts when generated code has to be reviewed, owned, operated, and safely changed.

wiki.wordsoftype.com

Words of Type

Multilingual encyclopedia of typographic terms.

blog.damato.design

Lawful Design

The least fun but most required part of our work.

worldcupmap.app

World Cup Map 2026

An interactive 3D globe showing every match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup — browse by date, group, team, or city.

arun.is

How Japan’s railways stayed one while splitting apart

When Japan broke up its national railway in 1987, the new companies agreed on one thing to keep the same.

bit.ly

html.to.design — New Chrome extension featureSponsored

Capture entire webpages (or sections), copy to clipboard, Ctrl+V into Figma, start editing.

uxdesign.cc

The flaw is the feature

What is polish actually worth?

extend.ai

Extend UI

Open source UI kit for modern document apps. React components for PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and CSV viewers, file upload, e-signing, and more.

kasperjunge.com

Everyone got excited they can suddenly code, and completely missed the point

Coding agents made software cheap to build. That just exposed the bottleneck that was always there: deciding what to build.

influence.citationneeded.news

Tech Influence Watch

Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.

maeda.pm

For most of my career I designed the cockpit

The functional alignment between AI capabilities and human intent.

shrtcts.click

Know your shortcuts

An interactive 3D keyboard for learning the keyboard shortcuts of the apps you use every day.

truehenrique.com

Single responsibility, the distorted principle

How the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) is often misinterpreted and how to apply it correctly to avoid overengineering and underengineering.

boneyard.vercel.app

Boneyard: skeleton screens for your UI

Pixel-perfect skeleton loading screens auto-extracted from your real DOM. Zero configuration, zero layout shift.

antmurphy.me

Exploring vs Exploiting

The two modes of product discovery.