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  • The layers of AI experience by Andrew Campbell

    We cannot control for every outcome directly through the interface, but we can design the conditions that shape a model's generation.

  • Less is more, more or less by Jakub Krehel

    In the age of AI, knowing what not to build might be the most important skill of all.

  • What does Figma do next? by Robin Cannon

    Figma won against Sketch because it realized the center of gravity could change. Now that center of gravity is changing again. And Figma is on the other side of the innovator's dilemma.

  • The non-work by Tim Van Damme

    This is a collection of non-work projects I've done over the past couple of years. Things done on the side for fun.

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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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