Why designing in code makes you a better designer
The web is a material. Like wood, it has a grain. You can work with it or fight against it.
Tuesday03/17
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The Anthropic Institute
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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The two worlds of programming
Why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions.
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Monday03/16
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Details that make interfaces feel better
A collection of details that make your interfaces feel better.
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What do coders do after AI?
It's not so simple as "bosses are firing coders now that AI can write code".
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Sizing chaos
The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women.
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Every company is a startup now
Large companies spent years rewarding the representation of work over the work itself. In the AI era, that has led to a crisis.
Friday03/13
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Why AI-generated UX still feels off
Human skills in anticipatory design and user flows are crucial to combat the ‘uncanny valley’ of AI UX.
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Cache Monet
An exploration into the serendipitous collisions that occur between two randomly generated arrays.
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Statistical significance isn’t the same as practical significance
Determining whether something is worth acting on.
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European Tech Map
Find European tech, software, and service alternatives that respect your data sovereignty, are built with GDPR in mind, and store data in Europe.
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New habits for tech writers in the age of LLMs
Any LLM can put together plausible docs with some context and a simple prompt.
Thursday03/12
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Designing AI experiences people actually use
AI doesn’t just add intelligence — it redistributes it. Here’s how that shift can make or break a product.
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Terminal Trove
A comprehensive collection of terminal tools with advanced search and filters.
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The evolution of Mac app window corners
Is “a softer feel and elegant concentricity” a nonsense?
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Anatomy of a CSS phone mockup
A step-by-step walkthrough of how a realistic iPhone frame is built from scratch.
Wednesday03/11
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Do AI-enabled companies need fewer people?
AI-native startups are doing more with less — 40% smaller teams, 6x higher revenue per employee — and the data confirms it’s not just hype.
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FUNES – 3D Cultural Heritage Archive
FUNES digitizes monuments and cultural heritage into high-quality 3D models, panoramas, and guided stories.
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Cognitive debt
The growing gap between the code your team ships and the code your team understands. It’s not technical debt. It’s worse.
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All SVG Icons
Browse and download 250,000+ free SVG icons for your projects that are free to use and customizable.
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Services: the new software
The next $1T company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm.
Tuesday03/10
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I don’t know if my job will still exist in ten years
When the work you love goes away.
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Accessibility and AI agents
Accessibility was designed for humans, but the surface it exposes in your apps can benefit your agents and save you money — if you populate it.
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Design engineering 101: Typeahead
Implementing a text input field with typeahead suggestions, step by step.
Monday03/09
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ai.to.design: Prompt → Editable FigmaSponsored
Generate editable Figma designs from AI — GPT, Claude, Gemini, you name it — without leaving Figma. Real layers. Real auto-layout. Not a screenshot.
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Software isn’t dying, but it is becoming more honest
A giant leap towards outcomes-based billing.
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Labor market impacts of AI
Report by Anthropic reveals how AI has been narrowing the "front door" for new talent.
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Agentic workflows are not conversations
The chat interface is fine for users. The flat message model behind it is a bad fit for agentic systems. Here’s what it erases.