Gonçalo Dias

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Life Design Technology Code

January 2026

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Hats, haircuts, and tattoos

jamesclear.com/quotes/i-think-about-decisions-in-three-ways-hats-haircuts-and-tattoos

A Living Manual for Better Interfaces

www.userinterface.wiki/

A website to destroy all websites

henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

December 2025

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How I use Obsidian

stephango.com/vault

How does image compression work?

leerob.com/compression

You can’t design software you don’t work on

www.seangoedecke.com/you-cant-design-software-you-dont-work-on/

November 2025

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Making Software: Shaders.

www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/shaders

Anatomy of AI Input

ibelick.com/anatomy-ai-input

Design Credits Counter

www.robinn.io/posts/design-credits

October 2025

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Tips for good UI implementation

jasonlbeggs.com/blog/tips-for-good-ui-implementation

Curated Supply

www.curated.supply/

Photo Gradient

photogradient.com/

September 2025

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Narrative Is All You Need

piyushgupta.xyz/narrative-is-all-you-need/

Craft in Product Design: A Framework for Evaluation

open.substack.com/pub/rongoldin/p/craft-in-product-design-a-framework

A new (or rather, old) approach to typography on the web

August 2025

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What are OKLCH colors?

jakub.kr/components/oklch-colors

what grug know

www.grug.design/know

Hacking Image Interpolation for Fun and Profit

July 2025

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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

Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds

x.com/ivanhzhao/status/2003192654545539400

Design is more than code

linear.app/now/design-is-more-than-code

Size of Life

neal.fun/size-of-life/

World in Dots

www.worldindots.com/

sketches of chat as an interface for thinking

lelezhang.design/chat-explorations

Animating Path Length

jakub.kr/work/path-length

Ten Principles for Good Design

tenprinciples.design/

AI Glossary

ibelick.com/ai-glossary

Style is consistent constraint

stephango.com/style

On Principles

bukinoshita.com/thoughts/on-principles

The Web Animation Performance Tier List

motion.dev/blog/web-animation-performance-tier-list

components.build

www.components.build/

Optical Alignment

jakub.kr/components/optical-alignment

Idea Browser

www.ideabrowser.com/

7 Practical Animation Tips

emilkowal.ski/ui/7-practical-animation-tips

www.daybreak.studio/writing/adaline-typography

Advice on Upskilling

justinmath.com/books/#advice-on-upskilling

Web Interface Guidelines

vercel.com/design/guidelines

Cognitive Multiculturalism

nesslabs.com/cognitive-multiculturalism

peterhrynkow.com/performance/2019/01/13/blowing-up-images-to-make-them-small.html

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

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/

Design spacing tokens semantically

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