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blog.vbuckenham.com

Some thoughts about tool design and AI

Asking questions and waiting for a response is not the most productive way of doing things.

infiniteballdrop.com

Infinite Ball Drop

Where would the Times Square Ball be if it started dropping now?

maggieappleton.com

Gas Town’s agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale

On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code.

tangiblemediacollection.com

Tangible Media

A historical collection of information storage technology—information you could hold in your hand.

agentation.dev

Agentation

A visual feedback tool for agents. The website homepage being the demo is such a nice detail.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

CTA hierarchy in the wild

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

bugsappleloves.com

Bugs Apple loves

Bugs Apple won’t fix. Why else would they keep them around for so long? We did the math.

stroke.abhii.space

Stroke: animate SVGs

Create hand-drawn SVG animations for logos, signatures, and illustrations.

last-child.com

Building the brain of your accessibility AI

How accessibility leaders can build trusted, scalable AI assistants by curating the right standards, documentation, and institutional knowledge.

dbushell.com

Death to scroll fade

Fade what? Everything! Make everything fade into view! It’s too static, you know? Make it pop!

bit.ly

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UX Pilot AI speeds your design process by turning text or sketches into UX/UI. Sync with Figma, upload guidelines, and start 100% for free.

blog.avas.space

Privacy is a value we can lose

We’re taking data protection and privacy rights for granted.

youtube.com

The persistence of decay

A funeral for a lighthouse, a sermon in fungus, our vanishing digital media, and the arrow of time.

visualrambling.space

Visualrambling.space

Just a place to ramble visually.

codegood.co

The context collapse problem

AI coding tools amplify whatever they can access. In codebases where institutional knowledge lives in engineers’ heads only, AI amplifies nothing.

overreacted.io

A social filesystem

Formats over apps.

mood.harrycresswell.com

Mood

A moodboard of graphic inspiration, curated by Harry Cresswell.

websafe2k16.com

Web safe 2k16

A literary/graphic project exploring our memories of the pre-broadband Internet and related technologies.

emilkowal.ski

Building a toast component

How I built Sonner, an opinionated toast library for React used by milions.

thoughtfuleng.substack.com

Junior developers in the Age of AI

Companies are ditching junior engineers en masse. They’ll tell you it’s because AI writes better code. They’re right...but also missing the point.