The text is not the product
Texts as products, or texts as means to something very different.
Friday05/15
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Still Night: A painting you can play
Still Night turns Van Gogh’s Starry Night into a playable instrument. Brighter colors play higher notes.
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The duality of language models in the browser
AI in the browser reeks of a product manager trying to hit a KPI to shoehorn AI into everything.
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How to make Claude Code follow your design system in Figma
4 skills that bind every value to your design system, so you can actually iterate on what Claude builds.
Thursday05/14
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AI slop is killing online communities
How we risk destroying the very ecosystems we built to stay connected.
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3Dsvg
Turn any SVG into interactive 3D objects. Animate and export as 4K image or video. 100% free, no account or subscription needed.
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When sites need to walk away
According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.
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Nudges, biases & heuristics for the age of AI
43 interactive field cards covering nudges, biases, heuristics, and AI phenomena. A practical reference.
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Human creativity benchmark
Setting the benchmark for style, tone, and taste with next-gen creative tools.
Wednesday05/13
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Renovate with Figma (and AI)
Can your interior project benefit from using Figma and a touch of AI? Of course it can.
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Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies
On coding agents, malleable software, and the future of interface invention.
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Your name in Landsat
Type your name and see it spelled out in stunning Landsat satellite imagery.
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@web-kits/audio
Declarative audio synthesis for the web. Define sounds as plain objects and play them with a single function call.
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Three stoic principles for better web accessibility
Some simple principles here from Steve Frenzel that you can apply whether you’re highly experienced in web accessibility or a beginner.
Tuesday05/12
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Mockups were never the hard part
With AI, anyone on a team can generate mockups in minutes. That was never the hard part.
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Taken
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission.
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The boring internet
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.
Monday05/11
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ProtoPie User Testing is here. Track every action, one workflow.Sponsored
Run moderated tests on high-fidelity prototypes. Capture gestures, logic paths, and goal-path scores without leaving ProtoPie.
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The organization is the bottleneck
Everyone is adopting AI coding tools. Engineers are writing code faster than ever. But are organizations actually delivering value faster?
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The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
Markdowns are in the past. Twenty self-contained .html files an agent produced instead of a wall of markdown.
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All aboard the voice to text train
One of the great things about LLMs is how prevalent voice-to-text apps have now become.
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How the heck does Shazam work?
Spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.
Friday05/08
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Appearing productive in the workplace
AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.
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Caligra c100 Developer Terminal
Industrial design of computer hardware for professional environments—a case study.
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Designing stable interfaces for streaming content
Streaming UIs are an easy concept on the surface, but are quite complicated in practice.
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The bottleneck was never the code
The other month I finally ran an experiment we had been postponing for over a year at .txt.
Thursday05/07
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The “passive income” trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
How chasing passive income destroys the focus needed to build meaningful products.
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Design.md supply
Search a curated design.md library for AI agents: colors, typography, spacing, and component patterns from top websites.
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You are not immune to mode collapse
How to keep digital experiences feeling authentic and genuinely useful.