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permissionless.krispuckett.com

Field notes from the in-between

What happens when a designer stops waiting.

photopalettes.com

Photo palettes

Find color inspiration in the everyday.

gbbns.co

The accessibility problem isn’t design. It’s engineering.

Full-stack hiring, AI-generated code with no context, and a compliance-first mentality have combined to create a crisis hiding in plain sight.

joshwcomeau.com

Scroll-driven animations

The new Animation Timeline API allows us to create dynamic scroll animations without any JavaScript.

warman.life

The moat or the commons

American capital financed AI on the assumption it would be the next great monopoly.

ky.fyi

Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

karlkoch.me

On the right tool for the job

Choose the right tool for each project based on its requirements, not past preferences.

github.com

A11Y.md

A context system for building accessible software by default—for developers and AI, with enforceable rules aligned to WCAG.

blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Tokenmaxxing as a weird new trend

Devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.

crixu.blog

AI reads my meetings. I take more notes than ever.

Discover why combining AI meeting tools with handwritten notes enhances your insights.

bit.ly

Rebuilding a web text editor doesn't have to be dauntingSponsored

Readymag's chief technology officer on rethinking past decisions to create a more reliable solution.

chriscoyier.net

AI & alignment

Raw coding speed isn’t the bottleneck. Alignment is the bottleneck. That seems to be a zeitgeist-y theme lately.

attentionworth.com

What’s your attention worth?

The advertising industry has spent thousands targeting you. Enter your age, location, and screen time to find out exactly how much.

worseonpurpose.com

Worse on purpose

Corporate autopsies on the brands you trust. Who bought them, who gutted them, and what's still worth buying.

newsletter.dancohen.org

The role of a new machine

An old book puts today’s new technology in perspective.

jonnyburch.com

I love AI, but it still can’t design for shit

Without a critical human eye, AI produces slop. The quality bar is yours to maintain.

grit.garden

Grit Garden

Each Wordle game becomes a bouquet of flowers and a story. The emotional arc of every game mapped onto prose.

sidjha.com

Why productivity needs to be redefined

We’ll need to redefine what productivity means in the context of humans. If we don’t, we’re all kind of screwed, and yes, AI will take our jobs away.

jobsdata.ai

Early signals of AI impact

462+ sources, one pattern: AI adoption is accelerating, productivity is climbing, and jobs are changing faster than they’re disappearing.

bradfrost.com

Mouth Coding

Talking websites into existence.