I don’t want the details
Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.
Friday09/25
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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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Friday09/18
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For the Designless
On the value of cultural references, and the cost of losing them at scale.
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We are all Product Engineers now
Where, in fact, is the entire industry of software going in the next decade?
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Why your numbers look wrong
It’s the figures your font gives you by default, and the better ones it keeps a switch away.
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Designing with AI
How a career of building creative teams and design systems led to AI tools that increase speed without lowering the quality bar.
Thursday09/17
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Five eras of UX design and the lessons to keep in the AI era
Human factors has reinvented itself every decade since Bell Labs, the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward.
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WCAG Accessibility Guidelines Explorer
Learn and understand web accessibility standards with interactive demos showing violations vs. solutions.
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Maybe we shouldn’t be reviewing all this code
Or, perhaps the problem isn’t that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we’ve been using code review to solve the wrong problems
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The most important product decision is what you don’t build
Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.
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Seats and sunsets
Understanding agent orchestration economics, model capability thresholds, token burn rates, and structural failure modes.