The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2026/07/06

geoffreylitt.com

Understanding is the new bottleneck

Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here are some techniques for doing that efficiently.

greyscala.xyz

Greyscaler

Generate premium grayscale design tokens in OKLCH.

lesswrong.com

When should you know the point?

Are activities motivated by an array of reasons much less useful than ones done with a distinct purpose?

swizec.com

Code is the easy part

Or how we refactored half the business to fix a janky script.

mandy.dev

Design systems are no longer optional

Codebases deteriorate quickly when automated agents generate user interfaces without canonical constraints.