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crookedtimber.org

The text is not the product

Texts as products, or texts as means to something very different.

feel.ifsart.com

Emotion Explorer

Explore emotions on the valence-arousal space.

stillnight.joshua-garcia.com

Still Night: A painting you can play

Still Night turns Van Gogh’s Starry Night into a playable instrument. Brighter colors play higher notes.

daverupert.com

The duality of language models in the browser

AI in the browser reeks of a product manager trying to hit a KPI to shoehorn AI into everything.

uxdesign.cc

How to make Claude Code follow your design system in Figma

4 skills that bind every value to your design system, so you can actually iterate on what Claude builds.

rmoff.net

AI slop is killing online communities

How we risk destroying the very ecosystems we built to stay connected.

3dsvg.design

3Dsvg

Turn any SVG into interactive 3D objects. Animate and export as 4K image or video. 100% free, no account or subscription needed.

chriscoyier.net

When sites need to walk away

According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.

nudges.fyi

Nudges, biases & heuristics for the age of AI

43 interactive field cards covering nudges, biases, heuristics, and AI phenomena. A practical reference.

contralabs.com

Human creativity benchmark

Setting the benchmark for style, tone, and taste with next-gen creative tools.

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.