Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next.

Bots consume 20% of CPU capacity by rendering HTML commits instead of cloning repos.

From terrace flags to the humble bar glass, the illustrator draws the everyday life of Brazil he grew up in—and now Nike has come calling.

A remix of the 2011 Critical Engineering Manifesto for Design Engineers — guardrails for inhabiting the space between software design and eng.

Don’t build into dead ends: anticipate what happens next.

Treat a folder of markdown files as records in a database—the pattern behind Obsidian Bases, Notion-style workflows without lock-in, and more.

An open-source writing skill for AI agents and a private browser editor for clearer, more human prose without invented facts or flattened voice.

AI lets teams build faster than UX can evaluate. UX can adapt by building shared judgment, accelerating evaluation, and guiding AI-generated designs.

Online used to be a place you could leave.

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

Five principles for protecting a strong creative practice as AI increases what designers can do.

A free stock photography collection led by disabled creatives to help creative teams tell more authentic stories about disability.

Teddy Blanks, the Chips co-founder behind the title sequences for Barbie, Weapons and Robert Eggers’ upcoming Werwulf, unpacked.

Rigorous thinking about the future produces extreme outcomes.

Anthropic’s stage-by-stage playbook for the AI-native SDLC: how teams plan, design, build, test, deploy, and maintain software with Claude.

If the world takes the right steps, AI will be a force for good and leave everyone better off.

A complete interactive reference to every CSS measurement unit. From the basics of px and rem to the nuances of svh, dvh, and cqw.

A quick note about future of computing and indieweb.

Occasional works of short fiction.

How interfaces prevent input errors by resolving invalid states automatically rather than disabling options or displaying errors.

Animated handwriting from any font.

Personal skills turn years of writing into loadable judgement you can install instead of re-explaining, and one command that runs all of it.

A visual history of how humans learned to interact with AI.

Producing code is getting cheap. Trusting it is not. Why enterprises need a durable layer of context, verification, and governance around AI.

How we measure design system adoption and how the graph keeps going up anyway.

Score how ready a website is for AI agents, then get evidence and recommendations to improve it.

Balsa UI is an agent-native, open-code component system for Vue and React.

Stories behind the Happy Mac, Command key, Chicago font, and more, along with the design lessons Susan learned from Steve Jobs and others.