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petermerholz.com

Design owns coherence

There exists an actual business problem that the C-suite now acknowledges, but no function has stepped up to address it.

mattrothenberg.com

Pure UI in the Agentic Era

I stopped thinking of UI as event handlers that change the DOM and started thinking of it as a snapshot of data at a point in time.

text-effects.colorion.co

117 CSS text effects & animations

Glitch, neon, gradient, typewriter, 3D and more. Pure CSS, no JavaScript. Copy & paste the code.

prompt-motion.com

Prompt Motion

A collection of motion videos made with Claude Opus 5.5, with the prompts and skills behind them.

sightlessscribbles.com

The “disability dongle”: Why Silicon Valley hates me and you

Mood: Wanting to throw a $30,000 prototype into a lake.

uxdesign.cc

What the AI era owes you

No one is going to save your career from AI.

giannirosato.com

The case against JPEG XL

Investigating JPEG XL’s place as a Web image codec.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

The dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27

Researching the different docks in macOS through the years and compiling them all into a single graphic.

scandiary.com

We read 102 EU shop accessibility statements

What EU online shops actually write in their accessibility statements, counted.

mamuso.dev

Imperfection

If you're reading this, I regret to inform you that I finally published an update to my personal site. I guess I made it.

purplesyringa.moe

Grieving the loss of details

Over the course of a year, I went from having a planned future to worrying about applying for disability.

carmenansio.com

A flame needs three sine waves

How a few pencil sketches turned into a matchstick you can strike, and why the flicker needed three sine waves instead of one.

energyicons.com

Energy icons

Open-source icon library for the renewable energy and energy-transition sector. Two optical masters, scaled — never redrawn.

designerfund.com

Inside Anthropic’s design team

How Anthropic’s design team is adapting to a widening velocity gap between eng and design.

skills.wheresryan.sh

Anatomy

A Claude skill that draws an idea as the real machine that does it: a live isometric figure you can turn, press and read.

lukew.com

The convergence of design

You don't have to squint to see the pattern... but why?

microsoft.design

Designing Michelangelus

Inside the making of Michelangelus, a contemporary serif shaped by handwriting, architecture, and stone.

quantamagazine.org

Is AI the end of math as we know it?

Mathematicians are facing the sudden shift with grief, anger, and a desperate search for fresh ideas.

ssgoi.dev

Native page transitions on the web

Router-agnostic page transitions for React, Svelte, Vue, Solid, Angular, and Qwik.

sheets.works

The people holding up the internet

Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.