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  1. The fear of AI

    · voiceinthemachine.com

    When numbers do not match the fear, and where fear should be aimed.

  2. I gave my website a boss fight

    · paulbakaus.com

    Building a little piece of it involved Claude, 4,096 colors, and a surprisingly difficult pair of legs.

  3. Category colors

    · categorycolors.com

    A browser-based optimizer for categorical color palettes.

  4. loading.dev

    · loading.dev

    A lightweight library full of beautiful loading indicators for React.

  5. Code as the source of truth

    · tonyward.dev

    With AI tooling, code being the source of truth just makes sense.

  6. Caring vs. knowing

    · blog.exe.dev

    Thoughts on how to DIY sustainably.

  7. Petdex

    · petdex.dev

    Open-source animated pets for coding agents. Browse pets, preview their animations, and install one with a single command.

  8. The 3 roles of context for AI agents

    · nngroup.com

    AI-agent power users curate 3 kinds of context: global (across tasks), local (task-specific), and ambient (raw streams like email).

  9. Image to ASCII converter

    · imagetoascii.art

    Convert images to ASCII art locally in your browser. No upload, no signup. Copy ASCII or export TXT, PNG, SVG, and Markdown.

  10. Audit your agent files

    · addyosmani.com

    A practical guide to auditing what your coding agent still needs.

  11. I am often wrong

    · borischerny.com

    Six steps for pretty much every problem, and pretty much every product.

  12. The Enshittification Resistant Software

    · er-certification.statichost.page

    A self certification process with a somewhat official blessing.

  13. Scenarios for our economic future

    · anthropic.com

    The Anthropic Economics Team models the effects of AI on the economy of 2030.

  14. Filling in the last row of a responsive grid

    · twilson.net

    Filler cells for CSS grids with borders.

  15. Natural General Intelligence

    · naturalgeneralintelligence.ai

    The case for a nature model that learns the state and dynamics of the planet itself.

  16. The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings

    · bit.ly

    Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot.

  17. Making software hurts now

    · notes.erlend.sh

    And hurt people hurt people.

  18. How Rob Farmer turns half-baked sketches into New York Times covers

    · creativeboom.com

    The motion designer discusses procedural software, editorial deadlines and why perfectionism is the enemy of good work getting seen.

  19. Walking Men

    · walking-men.com

    A series of public art installations of pedestrian traffic icons assembled from around the world, presented in humane scale.

  20. Email has never been free

    · buttondown.com

    The question is only who pays for it, and how.

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