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sunilpai.dev

The task isn’t the job

A new role, and some questions I want to build my way through.

doc.cc

Syntax

This series examines core concepts shaping our designed world, tracing their origins and dissecting their practical significance.

academy.claude.com

Claude Academy

Free courses, tutorials, and use cases from Anthropic — whether you’re exploring AI, getting started with Claude, or rolling it out to your team.

rip.so

RIP.so: the digital graveyard

A memorial to the messengers, social networks, browsers and websites the internet forgot.

uxdesign.cc

How to become an AI Designer

A realistic guide to shipping your own designs.

adobe.design

Is design dead in the age of AI?

No, but it’s undergoing a revision. Written by Jessica Walsh.

pi.fyi

Do you miss the old internet?

Before vibeless algo curation, psychopath CEOs, tech bros, and influencers took over? You came to the right place.

yeptype.com

How to choose a UI font (and 10 Inter alternatives)

Tired of Inter being everywhere? Two real criteria—cap-centered vertical metrics and a tall x-height—for choosing a UI font.

meodai.github.io

Poline: esoteric color palette generation

Poline is a lightweight, dependency free and fast JavaScript function written in TypeScript.

blog.maximeheckel.com

Shading motion

Detecting, extracting, and stylizing motion with WebGPU and TSL, covering motion masking, blob tracking, optical flow, and velocity-based motion blur.

uxdesign.cc

Rethinking design leadership with swarms and flocks

How structured emergence solves manager burnout, team bottlenecks, and systemic design debt.

agentbehavior.dev

Agent behavior

A standard format for describing expected agent behavior for trace review and evaluation.

figma.com

Try these 10 skills—and show off your own

Now you can author skills for our agent, directly in Figma, to put your point of view to work. Here are 10 of our favorites to get you started.

play.ertdfgcvb.xyz

Play

A browser-based live-code environment with text-only output.

blog.ronbronson.com

Agent experience needs failure affordances

A system that operates with some autonomy needs a way to tell the rest of the system when ordinary control is no longer adequate.

brentfitzgerald.com

The human is the loop

After a few weeks away from AI, I see my usage wasn’t always productive or healthy.

morphicons.com

Morphicons

Morph any SVG icon into any other with spring physics. Animate in React, Vue, Svelte, React Native, Astro or vanilla JS. Zero dependencies.

medium.com

How to make your design system agent-ready

If you don’t want your AI agent to choke on your design.md, stop putting your entire design system into one file.

azgaar.github.io

Azgaar’s fantasy map generator

A web app that helps fantasy writers, game masters, and cartographers create and edit fantasy maps.

patronview.com

99% of my website traffic is bots

A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what’s working now.