The five best design links, every weekday

Monday09/28

1

bit.ly

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?

2

flaviocopes.com

12 CSS features you can use today with no build step

Modern CSS features that replace Sass, PostCSS plugins and JavaScript hacks.

3

chriscoyier.net

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.

4

codewithbeto.dev

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.

5

davekiss.com

A eulogy for the software engineer

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to bury the software engineer.

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Friday09/25

1

michaelheap.com

I don’t want the details

Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.

2

realworth.io

Anatomy of a $100 bill

A 3D tour of the U.S. $100 bill, plus 15 design and security feature groups explained.

3

walzr.com

IMG_0001

A bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of raw, unedited videos.

4

lukew.com

Skip the tools, make the outcomes

The pervasiveness of tools may have implanted the wrong instinct in our heads in a world of AI.

5

cannoneyed.com

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

1

voiceinthemachine.com

The fear of AI

When numbers do not match the fear, and where fear should be aimed.

2

paulbakaus.com

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.

3

categorycolors.com

Category colors

A browser-based optimizer for categorical color palettes.

4

loading.dev

loading.dev

A lightweight library full of beautiful loading indicators for React.

5

tonyward.dev

Code as the source of truth

With AI tooling, code being the source of truth just makes sense.

Wednesday09/23

1

blog.exe.dev

Caring vs. knowing

Thoughts on how to DIY sustainably.

2

petdex.dev

Petdex

Open-source animated pets for coding agents. Browse pets, preview their animations, and install one with a single command.

3

nngroup.com

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).

4

imagetoascii.art

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.

5

addyosmani.com

Audit your agent files

A practical guide to auditing what your coding agent still needs.

Tuesday09/22

1

borischerny.com

I am often wrong

Six steps for pretty much every problem, and pretty much every product.

2

er-certification.statichost.page

The Enshittification Resistant Software

A self certification process with a somewhat official blessing.

3

anthropic.com

Scenarios for our economic future

The Anthropic Economics Team models the effects of AI on the economy of 2030.

4

twilson.net

Filling in the last row of a responsive grid

Filler cells for CSS grids with borders.

5

naturalgeneralintelligence.ai

Natural General Intelligence

The case for a nature model that learns the state and dynamics of the planet itself.

Monday09/21

1

bit.ly

The AI notepad for back-to-back meetingsSponsored

Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot.

2

notes.erlend.sh

Making software hurts now

And hurt people hurt people.

3

creativeboom.com

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.

4

walking-men.com

Walking Men

A series of public art installations of pedestrian traffic icons assembled from around the world, presented in humane scale.

5

buttondown.com

Email has never been free

The question is only who pays for it, and how.

Friday09/18

1

uxdesign.cc

For the Designless

On the value of cultural references, and the cost of losing them at scale.

2

craft.gustavofior.com

Craft

A collection of design engineering concepts.

3

seldo.com

We are all Product Engineers now

Where, in fact, is the entire industry of software going in the next decade?

4

carmenansio.com

Why your numbers look wrong

It’s the figures your font gives you by default, and the better ones it keeps a switch away.

5

buzzusborne.com

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.

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