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Design systems are today’s cure and tomorrow’s cause of shitty software

Design systems are today’s cure and tomorrow’s cause of shitty software

Design systems have been propping up quality from collapsing. And in doing so, risk making the collapse even more spectacular.

gradient.horse

Draw a horse, watch it run.

The work moved: what the AI coding debate actually agrees on

The work moved: what the AI coding debate actually agrees on

AI agents generate 98% more PRs but reviews take 91% longer. The work didn’t disappear — it moved.

Figma plugin: CMYK Halftone

Simulate traditional CMYK halftone printing by generating and overlaying separate cyan, magenta, yellow, and black halftone dot screens.

A programmer’s loss of identity

That lost identity was "computer programmer" and it was arguably one of the biggest.

Designing A Streak System: The UX And Psychology Of Streaks

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Designing A Streak System: The UX And Psychology Of Streaks

What makes streaks so powerful and addictive? To design them well, you need to understand how they align with human psychology. Victor Ayomipo brea...

AI’s text-trap

AI assistants don’t have to communicate in paragraphs. They can communicate through interfaces.

Internet time capsule

An internet time capsule that will arrive once wifi reaches the moon.

People vs. Big Tech

A growing, global movement fighting for a better digital future.

On cognitive debt

AI-generated codebases are at risk of falling into a state where nobody knows how they work.

Launch it 3 times

Why your first launch might not be enough.

Ben's Bites

Dreaming up personal agents

OpenClaw's maker is joining OpenAI

A website to end all websites

How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

WTF happened in 2012?

A collection of long-term charts showing societal, economic, and behavioral trends aligned around 2011–2014.

AI Humanizer

The irony of this: Make content natural to bypass AI detection and feel truly human.

Life after Figma is coming (and it will be glorious)

Life after Figma is coming (and it will be glorious)

As code becomes source of truth, design tools become interfaces on code, not the other way round.

I guess I kinda get why people hate AI

Will I be able to acquire a job after this one, or if AI is going to completely take over my profession and ruin my career?

Design is dead, it’s all evolution now

There’s no design in digital products anymore. It’s been replaced by evolution.

Find Font

Preview and compare fonts side by side. Download free fonts and test local uploads.

Li Wang captures life, love and longing in color

Li Wang captures life, love and longing in color

From sunlit beaches to intimate interiors, the Beijing-born artist explores masculinity, queer diasporic experience and personal memory.

Agentic Engineering

Agentic Engineering is a disciplined approach to AI-assisted software development that emphasizes human oversight and engineering rigor.

How to make sure a designer never files a bug again

How to make sure a designer never files a bug again

The best places I’ve worked were filled with shared trust and treated bugs as a joined responsibility of everyone.

Dense Discovery

DD376 / Coding: from craft to commodity

Dense Discovery / Issue 376: Coding: from craft to commodity / A weekly dispatch of curated links covering culture, tech, design, art, sustainabili...