The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2026/08/04

uxdesign.cc

Designing for the proxy

Why AI is changing who reads first.

anthropeum.com

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Guess where and when each artifact was made.

spectrum.ieee.org

The computer that helped win World War II

How Colossus cracked Germany’s encrypted communications.

misery.co

ShaderPad

A lightweight, dependency-free library that reduces boilerplate when working with fragment shaders.

dylancastillo.co

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?

Generating 1,000+ SVGs across 7 frontier models to test whether AI labs are training on Simon Willison’s pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark.