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shapes.gg

Renovate with Figma (and AI)

Can your interior project benefit from using Figma and a touch of AI? Of course it can.

andymatuschak.org

Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies

On coding agents, malleable software, and the future of interface invention.

science.nasa.gov

Your name in Landsat

Type your name and see it spelled out in stunning Landsat satellite imagery.

audio.raphaelsalaja.com

@web-kits/audio

Declarative audio synthesis for the web. Define sounds as plain objects and play them with a single function call.

piccalil.li

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.

lukew.com

Mockups were never the hard part

With AI, anyone on a team can generate mockups in minutes. That was never the hard part.

sinceyouarrived.world

Taken

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission.

larsfaye.com

Agentic coding is a trap

Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.

boat.horse

The accursèd alphabetical clock

A clock that displays the current time alphabetically.

terrygodier.com

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.

bit.ly

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.

oreilly.com

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?

thariqs.github.io

The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

Markdowns are in the past. Twenty self-contained .html files an agent produced instead of a wall of markdown.

bryanmanio.com

All aboard the voice to text train

One of the great things about LLMs is how prevalent voice-to-text apps have now become.

perthirtysix.com

How the heck does Shazam work?

Spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.

nooneshappy.com

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.

pentagram.com

Caligra c100 Developer Terminal

Industrial design of computer hardware for professional environments—a case study.

wordamour.com

Wordamour

Turn your cherished words into a beautiful, printed word search puzzle.

smashingmagazine.com

Designing stable interfaces for streaming content

Streaming UIs are an easy concept on the surface, but are quite complicated in practice.

thetypicalset.com

The bottleneck was never the code

The other month I finally ran an experiment we had been postponing for over a year at .txt.