The default is not a design decision
How the design industry built the infrastructure of sameness, and called it best practice.
Tuesday09/29
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Plan mode is dead
Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI.
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The age of the soft skill
The engineer who missed meetings, answered Slack when they felt like it, and audibly sighed when you asked them to write something down.
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What your phone is made of
The mined materials in a mobile phone, and which countries produced each of them in 2025, from U.S. Geological Survey data.
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How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with Al
As AI makes it easier to build, how do we keep products from becoming generic “zombie UI”?
Monday09/28
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Productivity for people with back to back meetingsSponsored
You know that feeling when you leave a meeting and immediately forget half of what you agreed to?
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12 CSS features you can use today with no build step
Modern CSS features that replace Sass, PostCSS plugins and JavaScript hacks.
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The four tiers of tab importance
Arc is the greatest web browser ever, and has been tragically moved-on-from by The Browser Company of New York-come-Atlassian.
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Is your app ready for iPhone Duo?
Rebuild with Xcode 27.1, then let size, Split View, the fold, and system controls decide how your app uses the extra space on iPhone Duo.
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A eulogy for the software engineer
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to bury the software engineer.
Friday09/25
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I don’t want the details
Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.
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Anatomy of a $100 bill
A 3D tour of the U.S. $100 bill, plus 15 design and security feature groups explained.
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Skip the tools, make the outcomes
The pervasiveness of tools may have implanted the wrong instinct in our heads in a world of AI.
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Isometric NYC
A giant isometric pixel-art map of New York City. And an excuse to push hard on the limits of the latest and greatest coding agents.
Thursday09/24
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The fear of AI
When numbers do not match the fear, and where fear should be aimed.
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I gave my website a boss fight
Building a little piece of it involved Claude, 4,096 colors, and a surprisingly difficult pair of legs.
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Code as the source of truth
With AI tooling, code being the source of truth just makes sense.
Wednesday09/23
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Petdex
Open-source animated pets for coding agents. Browse pets, preview their animations, and install one with a single command.
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The 3 roles of context for AI agents
AI-agent power users curate 3 kinds of context: global (across tasks), local (task-specific), and ambient (raw streams like email).
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Image to ASCII converter
Convert images to ASCII art locally in your browser. No upload, no signup. Copy ASCII or export TXT, PNG, SVG, and Markdown.
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Audit your agent files
A practical guide to auditing what your coding agent still needs.
Tuesday09/22
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I am often wrong
Six steps for pretty much every problem, and pretty much every product.
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The Enshittification Resistant Software
A self certification process with a somewhat official blessing.
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Scenarios for our economic future
The Anthropic Economics Team models the effects of AI on the economy of 2030.
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Natural General Intelligence
The case for a nature model that learns the state and dynamics of the planet itself.
Monday09/21
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The AI notepad for back-to-back meetingsSponsored
Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot.
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How Rob Farmer turns half-baked sketches into New York Times covers
The motion designer discusses procedural software, editorial deadlines and why perfectionism is the enemy of good work getting seen.
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Walking Men
A series of public art installations of pedestrian traffic icons assembled from around the world, presented in humane scale.
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