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Code Life Technology Design

July 2026

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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering

Mastery for generalists

www.davidhoang.com/writing/mastery-for-generalists

June 2026

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Impact, agency, and taste

www.benkuhn.net/impact/

How I turned World Cup data into posters

zehfernandes.com/posts/how-i-turned-world-cup-data-into-posters

Option Rot

www.terrain.com/option-rot

$favicon$

May 2026

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Database

www.nan.fyi/database

Point and Talk

diana.lu/point-n-talk

A Technical Deep Dive Into The New Raycast

www.raycast.com/blog/a-technical-deep-dive-into-the-new-raycast

April 2026

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Skills

skills.sh/

March 2026

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Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-25-thoughts-on-slowing-the-fuck-down/

Efecto

efecto.app/

The logo soup problem

www.sanity.io/blog/the-logo-soup-problem

February 2026

9

Perspective

willphan.com/components/perspective

Sound

ciechanow.ski/sound/

detail.design

detail.design/

The role of design software

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

sketches of chat as an interface for thinking

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/

components.build

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

www.daybreak.studio/writing/adaline-typography

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

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

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

Don’t trust the (design) process

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

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

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

A conversation with Jony Ive

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

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

The surprising math and physics behind the 2026 World Cup soccer ball

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-surprising-math-and-physics-behind-the-2026-trionda-world-cup-soccer-ball/

Reality has a surprising amount of detail

johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail

Say precisely what you mean.

index.how/to/articulate

Building Glass for the Web

aave.com/design/building-glass-for-the-web

The HTML Brand: The Rise of Input-Based Outcomes

x.com/emmettshine/status/2054539694097015171

Last Mile Agentic Image Editing

x.com/emmettshine/status/2047012859108851845

On Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/

Goods

goods.so/

Notes on software quality

anthonyhobday.com/blog/20260410

AI and the Rosetta Stone

yannglt.com/writing/ai-and-the-rosetta-stone

Impeccable

impeccable.style/

daniloleal.co/my-world/thinking/the-role-of-design-software

Novelty

rauno.me/craft/novelty

Building Bulletproof React Components

shud.in/thoughts/build-bulletproof-react-components

Agentation

benji.org/agentation

Why should type be fluid, anyway?

elisehe.in/2021/03/13/fluid-type

A Clock That Doesn’t Snap

ethanniser.dev/blog/a-clock-that-doesnt-snap

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/

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

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

Advice on Upskilling

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

Web Interface Guidelines

vercel.com/design/guidelines

Cognitive Multiculturalism

nesslabs.com/cognitive-multiculturalism

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

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

Devouring Details

devouringdetails.com/

I Deleted My Second Brain

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

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

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/