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  • Makers Manifesto: Principles for making great products by Faith Forster

    We offer these principles not as a fixed doctrine but as a working position — one we hope will drive better decision making and optimisation at every level: organisation, team and individual, for both humans and agents.

  • Scale your superpowers, not your job titles by Luke Wroblewski

    AI doesn't mean you should go be everyone. It means you can scale the thing you're uniquely wired for.

  • Who sets the quality bar? by Marie-Claire Dean

    You write it down before anyone starts building. The quality bar has to exist in a format that can be applied, not just understood in the head of the most experienced person on the team.

  • Designed vs. declared: how to document a design system for AI by TJ Pitre

    The semantic intent is declared, not inferred. That's an API response. You asked the system a question and it gave you structured data back.

  • The new software lifecycle by Addy Osmani

    AI amplifies whatever engineering culture it lands in, the good parts and the bad parts both.

  • Storied Colors by Vinu

    Every pigment in this catalogue has a paper trail: where it was first ground, in whose workshop, on whose canvas it dried, when it was banned, what replaced it.

  • Every frame perfect by Nikita Prokopov

    If I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, you should be able to explain what I see.

  • Ending responsive images by Jason Grigsby

    In the beginning of our search for a responsive images solution, the challenge seemed simple: the img element only supported one source file, and we needed multiple sources to support responsive designs.

  • The golden rule of Customizable Select by Saron Yitbarek, Tim Nguyen

    Always provide text content or accessible text attributes for your option elements.

  • Introducing the MDN MCP server by The MDN Team

    The MDN MCP gives your coding agent access to accurate, up-to-date web platform information.

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