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cannoneyed.com

The software industrial revolution

Just like the first Industrial Revolution, this will change the world in profound and unexpected ways.

remixicon.com

Remix Icon

A set of open source neutral style system symbols elaborately crafted for designers and developers.

keyviz.org

Keyviz

A free and open-source tool to visualize your keystrokes and mouse actions.

order.design

Case study: Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy

An identity that captures the legacy of Wright’s designs, the community built through the organization, and the immediate necessity of their work.

blog.fallible.net

Why we hate AI

Intellectual property theft on an obscene scale; but law is something that is carved and grown as needed by forces of power.

pjonori.blog

Design systems are today’s cure and tomorrow’s cause of shitty software

Design systems have been propping up quality from collapsing. And in doing so, risk making the collapse even more spectacular.

gradient.horse

gradient.horse

Draw a horse, watch it run.

leadership.garden

The work moved: what the AI coding debate actually agrees on

AI agents generate 98% more PRs but reviews take 91% longer. The work didn’t disappear — it moved.

figma.com

Figma plugin: CMYK Halftone

Simulate traditional CMYK halftone printing by generating and overlaying separate cyan, magenta, yellow, and black halftone dot screens.

ratfactor.com

A programmer’s loss of identity

That lost identity was "computer programmer" and it was arguably one of the biggest.

uxdesign.cc

AI’s text-trap

AI assistants don’t have to communicate in paragraphs. They can communicate through interfaces.

oooooooooooo.xyz

Internet time capsule

An internet time capsule that will arrive once wifi reaches the moon.

peoplevsbig.tech

People vs. Big Tech

A growing, global movement fighting for a better digital future.

natemeyvis.com

On cognitive debt

AI-generated codebases are at risk of falling into a state where nobody knows how they work.

anildash.com

Launch it 3 times

Why your first launch might not be enough.

henry.codes

A website to end all websites

How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

wtfhappened2012.com

WTF happened in 2012?

A collection of long-term charts showing societal, economic, and behavioral trends aligned around 2011–2014.

rehumanize.io

AI Humanizer

The irony of this: Make content natural to bypass AI detection and feel truly human.

jonnyburch.com

Life after Figma is coming (and it will be glorious)

As code becomes source of truth, design tools become interfaces on code, not the other way round.

anthony.noided.media

I guess I kinda get why people hate AI

Will I be able to acquire a job after this one, or if AI is going to completely take over my profession and ruin my career?