Gonçalo Dias

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Life Design Code Technology

August 2025

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How Social Media Shortens Your Life

www.gurwinder.blog/p/how-social-media-shortens-your-life

Calligrapher.ai: Realistic computer-generated handwriting

www.calligrapher.ai/

12 Principles of Animation

www.raphaelsalaja.com/library/12-principles-of-animation

Consistency

www.doc.cc/syntax/consistency

July 2025

7

Exploring Figma’s Dev Mode MCP Server

youtu.be/blBdVedwyO4?si=Sp93fLJjx7-fGQvk

Understanding AI

leerob.com/ai

Writes and Write-Nots

paulgraham.com/writes.html

June 2025

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Is chat a good UI for AI? A Socratic dialogue

www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/06/29/chat-ai-dialogue

Designing in Rive with Vector Feathering

youtu.be/kVcbnEIRxV0

AI-assisted coding for teams that can't get away with vibes

May 2025

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Honkish

benji.org/honkish

Building color palettes for the modern web

youtu.be/05vQ8HlU43Q

CSS Transforms

emilkowal.ski/ui/css-transforms

April 2025

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Good vs Great Animations

emilkowal.ski/ui/good-vs-great-animations

Craft in the Age of Code

maeda.pm/2025/04/24/craft-in-the-age-of-code/

Breadcrumbs

March 2025

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Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Thinking

fs.blog/chestertons-fence/

Feed prompting

www.jon-kyle.com/log/feed-prompting

Making Software

www.makingsoftware.com/

February 2025

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Developing Taste

emilkowal.ski/ui/developing-taste

The Study of Shaders with React Three Fiber

blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/the-study-of-shaders-with-react-three-fiber/

A short lesson in perspective

January 2025

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Nobody Cares

grantslatton.com/nobody-cares

How We Made MuseScore 4 - Music App Design is Challenging!

youtu.be/Qct6LKbneKQ

Progressive Reduction

newsletter.robhaisfield.com/p/progressive-reduction

December 2024

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A simple theory for why social media wrecks your memory

article.app/ajsharp/a-simple-theory-for-why-social-media-wrecks-your-memory

A case for primitive semantics

read.cv/disco_lu/primitive-semantics

Aim for iteration, not perfection

November 2024

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If You Want to Make the Wrong Decision, Ask Everyone

timdenning.substack.com/p/if-you-want-to-make-the-wrong-decision

Methods for random gradients

justinjay.wang/methods-for-random-gradients/

Prompt Engineering Guide

October 2024

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Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

youtu.be/PUv66718DII

Do literally anything

aaronfrancis.com/2024/do-literally-anything-6953f859

Machines of Loving Grace

Don’t trust the (design) process

jennywen.ca/notes/dont-trust-the-design-process

MAKING SOFTWARE

www.makingsoftware.com/

Devouring Details

devouringdetails.com/

I Deleted My Second Brain

www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain

blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/05/29/ai-assisted-coding/

Complementary Space

complementary.space

Historical Trails

maggieappleton.com/historical-trails

I don’t like anything

charliedeets.com/writings/like.html

Malleable Software

www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/

Nominative determinism

wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

Notes on Managing ADHD

borretti.me/article/notes-on-managing-adhd

Departure Mono

departuremono.com/

That thing that you loved (before you googled it)

vanschneider.com/blog/edition-266/

Meet Liquid Glass

developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/219

Planting the Seeds of Innovation

vbento.com/manuals/planting-the-seeds-of-innovation

A conversation with Jony Ive

youtu.be/wLb9g_8r-mE

The Post-Developer Era

www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/the-post-developer-era/

Expanding on sycophancy

openai.com/index/expanding-on-sycophancy/

open.substack.com/pub/simonsarris/p/breadcrumbs

The Art of Making Useless Things Feel Priceless

youtu.be/63oErn-gKfU

The case against conversational interfaces

julian.digital/2025/03/27/the-case-against-conversational-interfaces/

User education

charliedeets.com/writings/usereducation.html

The timeless appeal of classic car design

www.thomasmoes.com/52obsessions/cars

Digital hygiene

karpathy.bearblog.dev/digital-hygiene/

Too much therapy at work

world.hey.com/dhh/too-much-therapy-at-work-f79ac95c

My LLM codegen workflow atm

harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/

Sudowrite

sudowrite.com/

How to make something great

ryolu.notion.site/how-to-make-something-great

www.davidairey.com/linds-redding-perspective

Visualizing Complex Numbers Using GLSL

hturan.com/writing/complex-numbers-glsl

Family Values

benji.org/family-values

I made maps that show time instead of space

youtu.be/rC2VQ-oyDG0

An app can be a home-cooked meal

www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

The days are long but the decades are short

blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-are-short

keningzhu.com/journal/aim-for-iteration-not-perfection

yume - never forget your dreams again

yumejournal.com

The emergence of the growth designer

adobe.design/stories/leading-design/the-emergence-of-the-growth-designer

Building in the Era of Autonomous Software Development

backchannel.org/blog/autonomous-software

Invisible Details of Interaction Design

rauno.me/craft/interaction-design

OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL

evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rgb-hsl

Typing fast is a high-leverage skill

brianlovin.com/writing/type-faster

Iridescent crystal with raymarching and signed distance fields

varun.ca/ray-march-sdf

fabric

github.com/danielmiessler/fabric

I (still) don’t know what “craft” means

read.cv/disco_lu/craft

www.promptingguide.ai/

darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace

Advice to Young People, The Lies I Tell Myself

jxnl.co/writing/2024/06/01/advice-to-young-people/

The Tyranny of the Marginal User

nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-marginal-user

AI is the new plastic

www.notion.so/blog/ai-is-the-new-plastic

WWDC18: The Qualities of Great Design | Apple

youtu.be/RsbS5JWxFyk

Climbing the wrong hill

cdixon.org/2009/09/19/climbing-the-wrong-hill

Shaders

typefully.com/DanHollick/shaders-gpnhhud

Christopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture

youtu.be/98LdFA-_zfA

The Magic of Clip Path

emilkowal.ski/ui/the-magic-of-clip-path

Animating Figma's SVG Exports

courses.nan.fyi/blog/svg/animating-figma-exports

Productivity

blog.samaltman.com/productivity

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born

henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas

A beginner’s guide to exploration

thesephist.com/posts/explore/

Designing Depth

rauno.me/craft/depth

OLLOS

alexanderobenauer.com/ollos/

Transformers (how LLMs work) explained visually | DL5

youtu.be/wjZofJX0v4M

Deskless Ergonomic Work-From-Home Setups

mgsloan.com/posts/deskless-ergo-wfh/

Creating web optimized video with ffmpeg using VP9 and H265 codecs

pixelpoint.io/blog/web-optimized-video-ffmpeg/

Refraction, dispersion, and other shader light effects

blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/refraction-dispersion-and-other-shader-light-effects/

A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

maggieappleton.com/garden-history

Color in UI Design: A (Practical) Framework

www.learnui.design/blog/color-in-ui-design-a-practical-framework.html

Multi-layered calendars

julian.digital/2023/07/06/multi-layered-calendars

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud

www.inkandswitch.com/local-first