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operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app

Operating system in 1,000 lines

Write your first operating system from scratch, in 1K LoC.

figma.com

Six memos for the future of digital creation

Figma asked devs, designers, analysts, writers, PMs, card-carrying generalists to double click on some of their ideas. Here’s what they said.

bobatealee.itch.io

DOOM: the gallery experience

An artistic parody of the ultimate classic.

gitingest.com

Gitingest

Replace ‘hub’ with ‘ingest’ in any Github Url for a prompt-friendly text.

pdimagearchive.org

Public domain image archive

Out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.

wangzhiyaoo.github.io

Face restoration with AI

A unified framework for generalized video face restoration.

robinrendle.com

Design artifacts

Less dance, more design.

designweek.co.uk

Dignity by design

Dr Patricia (Pattie) Moore is renowned as one of the founders of inclusive design. But she now says it’s time to ditch those terms.

slack.engineering

Automated accessibility testing at Slack

Product teams follow certain standards to guarantee their features are compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

willwhitney.com

Computing inside an AI

What would it mean to treat AI as a tool instead of a person?

minds.md

Cognitive load is what matters

There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let’s focus on something more fundamental.

ciechanow.ski

Moon

Interactive article about the Moon.

surfingcomplexity.blog

Whither dashboard design?

The sorry state of dashboards It’s true: the dashboards we use today for doing operational diagnostic work are… let’s say suboptimal.

photo-manipulate.netlify.app

Photo-manipulate: experiment

Manipulate images with hover and ripple effects.

neal.fun

Stimulation clicker

Another lovely piece by Neal Agarwal.

maxwellito.github.io

Vivus.js - SVG animation

A lightweight JavaScript class (with no dependencies) that allows you to animate SVGs, giving them the appearance of being drawn.

allenpike.com

An unreasonable amount of time

A method for magic.

lea.verou.me

Context chips in survey design: “Okay, but how does it feel?”

How a weird little UI to collect sentiment alongside survey responses defied constraints and triumphed over skepticism through usability testing.

thejollyteapot.com

Are we at peak shittiness?

Finally an article for which I had to right-click on the word enshittification and click “learn spelling.”

samwho.dev

Turing machines

An interactive introduction to Turing machines, the theoretical foundation of modern computing.