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bit.ly

Rebuilding a web text editor doesn't have to be dauntingSponsored

Readymag's chief technology officer on rethinking past decisions to create a more reliable solution.

chriscoyier.net

AI & alignment

Raw coding speed isn’t the bottleneck. Alignment is the bottleneck. That seems to be a zeitgeist-y theme lately.

attentionworth.com

What’s your attention worth?

The advertising industry has spent thousands targeting you. Enter your age, location, and screen time to find out exactly how much.

worseonpurpose.com

Worse on purpose

Corporate autopsies on the brands you trust. Who bought them, who gutted them, and what's still worth buying.

newsletter.dancohen.org

The role of a new machine

An old book puts today’s new technology in perspective.

jonnyburch.com

I love AI, but it still can’t design for shit

Without a critical human eye, AI produces slop. The quality bar is yours to maintain.

grit.garden

Grit Garden

Each Wordle game becomes a bouquet of flowers and a story. The emotional arc of every game mapped onto prose.

sidjha.com

Why productivity needs to be redefined

We’ll need to redefine what productivity means in the context of humans. If we don’t, we’re all kind of screwed, and yes, AI will take our jobs away.

jobsdata.ai

Early signals of AI impact

462+ sources, one pattern: AI adoption is accelerating, productivity is climbing, and jobs are changing faster than they’re disappearing.

bradfrost.com

Mouth Coding

Talking websites into existence.

interconnected.org

Headless everything for personal AI

Headless services are quicker and more dependable for the personal AIs than having them click round a GUI with a bot-controlled mouse.

developers.openai.com

GPT image gen prompting guide

Prompting patterns, best practices, and example prompts drawn from real production use cases for gpt-image-2.

cssence.com

Six levels of dark mode

From HTML-only to JS-infused, and all the CSS in between.

tante.cc

AI as a fascist artifact

Our world is built around technological infrastructures that define what we see, who we can talk to and what information gets presented to us.

daverupert.com

I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation

The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life and it’s beginning to have an impact on my general mood.

samhenri.gold

Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

The beast is hairy enough that entire design roles now specialize in wrangling the system itself.

wiretext.app

Wiretext

A spatial design tool where everything renders as Unicode box-drawing characters. Create wireframes, diagrams, and mockups.

lesswrong.com

There are only four skills: design, technical, management and physical

What determines whether someone is capable of relatively quickly acquiring expert-level performance in other domains?

uicolors.app

Tailwind CSS colors

Generate, edit, save and share Tailwind CSS color shades based on a given hexcode or HSL color.

antmurphy.me

The AI chasm

Why most companies are still early in the AI journey—and what product leaders should focus on instead.