The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2026/07/14

theatlantic.com

The people who will thrive in the AI age

What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.

dotmatrix.zzzzshawn.cloud

Dot Matrix

A React component library of dot matrix loaders—expressive loading primitives you install via the shadcn registry and own as local code.

stevekrouse.com

Learning to code is still worthwhile

Code is possibly the best medium to learn mathematics, and meta-skills for learning in general.

neal.fun

Wiki Spy

A site that turns Wikipedia's image library into a sprawling searchable visual mosaic.

thinkingmachines.ai

The future worth building is human

AI built for autonomy crowds people out, making us passive observers of what’s coming. We’re building toward a different future.