The five best design links, every weekday

Tuesday04/28

1

ky.fyi

Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

2

karlkoch.me

On the right tool for the job

Choose the right tool for each project based on its requirements, not past preferences.

3

github.com

A11Y.md

A context system for building accessible software by default—for developers and AI, with enforceable rules aligned to WCAG.

4

blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Tokenmaxxing as a weird new trend

Devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.

5

crixu.blog

AI reads my meetings. I take more notes than ever.

Discover why combining AI meeting tools with handwritten notes enhances your insights.

The Sidebar Newsletter

5 Design Links in Your Inbox Every Weekday

Monday04/27

1

bit.ly

Rebuilding a web text editor doesn't have to be dauntingSponsored

Readymag's chief technology officer on rethinking past decisions to create a more reliable solution.

2

chriscoyier.net

AI & alignment

Raw coding speed isn’t the bottleneck. Alignment is the bottleneck. That seems to be a zeitgeist-y theme lately.

3

attentionworth.com

What’s your attention worth?

The advertising industry has spent thousands targeting you. Enter your age, location, and screen time to find out exactly how much.

4

worseonpurpose.com

Worse on purpose

Corporate autopsies on the brands you trust. Who bought them, who gutted them, and what's still worth buying.

5

newsletter.dancohen.org

The role of a new machine

An old book puts today’s new technology in perspective.

Friday04/24

1

jonnyburch.com

I love AI, but it still can’t design for shit

Without a critical human eye, AI produces slop. The quality bar is yours to maintain.

2

grit.garden

Grit Garden

Each Wordle game becomes a bouquet of flowers and a story. The emotional arc of every game mapped onto prose.

3

sidjha.com

Why productivity needs to be redefined

We’ll need to redefine what productivity means in the context of humans. If we don’t, we’re all kind of screwed, and yes, AI will take our jobs away.

4

jobsdata.ai

Early signals of AI impact

462+ sources, one pattern: AI adoption is accelerating, productivity is climbing, and jobs are changing faster than they’re disappearing.

5

bradfrost.com

Mouth Coding

Talking websites into existence.

Thursday04/23

1

interconnected.org

Headless everything for personal AI

Headless services are quicker and more dependable for the personal AIs than having them click round a GUI with a bot-controlled mouse.

2

developers.openai.com

GPT image gen prompting guide

Prompting patterns, best practices, and example prompts drawn from real production use cases for gpt-image-2.

3

cssence.com

Six levels of dark mode

From HTML-only to JS-infused, and all the CSS in between.

4

tante.cc

AI as a fascist artifact

Our world is built around technological infrastructures that define what we see, who we can talk to and what information gets presented to us.

5

daverupert.com

I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation

The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life and it’s beginning to have an impact on my general mood.

Wednesday04/22

1

samhenri.gold

Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

The beast is hairy enough that entire design roles now specialize in wrangling the system itself.

2

wiretext.app

Wiretext

A spatial design tool where everything renders as Unicode box-drawing characters. Create wireframes, diagrams, and mockups.

3

lesswrong.com

There are only four skills: design, technical, management and physical

What determines whether someone is capable of relatively quickly acquiring expert-level performance in other domains?

4

uicolors.app

Tailwind CSS colors

Generate, edit, save and share Tailwind CSS color shades based on a given hexcode or HSL color.

5

antmurphy.me

The AI chasm

Why most companies are still early in the AI journey—and what product leaders should focus on instead.

Tuesday04/21

1

mattstromawn.com

Expansion artifacts

AI output gets inflated into blog posts and LinkedIn thoughtspam, software platforms, omnichannel advertising campaigns, and more.

2

asc11.com

ASCII art generator

Create ASCII art for websites and marketing from images, video, live cam, and templates.

3

andrewmurphy.io

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem, you have a problem

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it.

4

thoughtshrapnel.com

The AI adoption spiral

The journey that people go on with any new tool.

5

microsoft.design

Design isn’t dying. It’s shifting left.

When the model is the new medium, shaping how it behaves in humanistic ways is design.

Monday04/20

1

bit.ly

We built a banking app prototype with zero codeSponsored

Login, balance transfers, camera scanning—all built in ProtoPie. Explore the live demo, then see the 4-part breakdown.

2

medium.com

What Claude Design actually changes for designers

The handoff problem is finally getting solved—and it’s happening faster than most of us expected.

3

charcuterie.elastiq.ch

Charcuteria

A visual explorer for Unicode. Browse characters, discover related glyphs, and explore scripts, symbols, and shapes across the standard.

4

rajnandan.com

Good taste the only real moat left

The real edge comes from pairing judgment with context, stakes, and the willingness to build.

5

chrbutler.com

Red-lining AI

Blanket AI bans mistake the tool for the problem, Thoughtful integration of automation, ethics, and creative work offers a better path forward.

Browse Archives