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fabiensanglard.net13 minJurassic Park computers in excruciating detailFabien Sanglard - WEBSITE Jul 13, 2026 Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail After I mentioned a Jurassic Park anecdote the other day, I watched the movie again. I must have seen it at least ten times now. This time, I researched every computer/software I spotted. EDIT: Just when I was putting the final touches on this article, I read the sad news that Sam Neill, who played paleontologist
blog.unitedheroes.net18 minLeaving Mozilla> On burn-out and bull-headedness
mikeindustries.com13 minThe Future Favors the CuriousIf you’re a designer in the market for a job right now, you probably feel behind the AI wave already, and you’re wondering if the skills you’ve honed in your career are even useful anymore. One of the benefits of …
sinja.io7 minFeatures of your font you had no idea aboutDifferent weights are cool, but the real question is whether your font can swash.
rauno.me6 minDesigning DepthOne of the most challenging fundamental pillars in visual media is composition. How do you distill a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional (still) frame, while conveying story and depth? A favorite technique of mine to do so and also create visual interest is to composite the scene with layered objects. In filmmaking, this is generally referred to as "dirtying the frame" with foreground e
benji.org17 minFamily ValuesWhat makes Family, Family.
dynomight.net9 minWhy doesn’t advice work?(or at least work better)
substack.com16 minDrunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior EngineerEverything your mentor wants to say but HR won't let them
designsystemscollective.com10 minThis Is What Magic Looks Like NowCarina B. Velasquez 10 min read· Apr 13, 2026 Claude Code, Figma MCP, and one Friday afternoon. Press enter or click to view image in full size I. The Constraint As a Design Systems Lead, my entire job is building the system that other designers build from. I think about token architecture the way some people think about city planning: where things live, how they reference each other, what breaks
better-simple.com3 minGive Django your time and money, not your tokensThe Django community wants to collaborate with you, not a facade of you.
blog.hofstede.it8 minShell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity)Watch someone backspace 40 characters instead of pressing CTRL+W, and you’ll understand why this list exists. A collection of shell tricks-grouped by what works everywhere and what’s Bash/Zsh-speci...
paulgraham.com18 minTaste for MakersFebruary 2002 "...Copernicus' aesthetic objections to [equants] provided one essential motive for his rejection of the Ptolemaic system...." - Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution "All of us had been trained by Kelly Johnson and believed fanatically in his insistence that an airplane that looked beautiful would fly the same way." - Ben Rich, Skunk Works "Beauty is the first test: there is no per
siddhantkhare.com17 minAI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant KhareYou're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.
boristane.com10 minHow I Use Claude CodeThe research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code until I've approved a written plan.
itsnicethat.com6 minElizabeth Goodspeed on the importance of taste – and how to acquire itAs templates, tutorials and tools become ubiquitous, technical skills are more accessible than ever. It’s no longer enough to be able to simply draw or design. Now, our US editor-at-large argues, you need to be able to select from the vast sea of possibilities.
mitchellh.com10 minMy AI Adoption JourneyTable of Contents My experience adopting any meaningful tool is that I've necessarily gone through three phases: (1) a period of inefficiency (2) a period of adequacy, then finally (3) a period of workflow and life-altering discovery. In most cases, I have to force myself through phase 1 and 2 because I usually have a workflow I'm already happy and comfortable with. Adopting a tool feels like work
fs.blog76 minMental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained)The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...
thomasunise.com9 minThe Uncomfortable Math of Working for Yourself - Thomas UniseRedditXHacker NewsFacebookEmailShare Nobody Tells You Freedom Has a Billing Rate This year in 2026, I turn 40. I’ve been self-employed since I was 25. That’s fifteen years of answering to no one, setting my own hours, and being my own boss, which, as it turns out, means answering to everyone, working all the hours, and reporting to the most unreasonable boss I’ve ever had. I mostly love what I do.
lalitm.com11 minWhy Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects FailWhen I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He would point out a project another team was working on and say, “I don’t believe that …
addyosmani.com10 min21 Lessons From 14 Years at GoogleLessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.
substack.com8 minHow to be more agenticOn a supposedly difficult thing
jsomers.net5 minSpeed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the jsomers.net blogThe obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you'll be inclined to do more. The converse is true, too. If every time you write a blog post it takes you six months, and you're sitting around your apartment on a Sunday afternoon thinking of
artmann.co44 min30 Years of <br> TagsThree decades of making things on the internet
jeffhuang.com7 minMy productivity app is a never-ending .txt fileMy productivity app is a never-ending .txt file By Jeff Huang, updated on 2022-03-21 The biggest transition for me when I started college was learning to get organized. There was a point when I couldn't just remember everything in my head. And having to constantly keep track of things was distracting me from whatever task I was doing at the moment. So I tried various forms of todo lists, task trac
wiki.csswg.org4 minIncomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS [CSS Working Group Wiki]That should be corrected if anyone invents a time machine. :P white-space: nowrap should be white-space: no-wrap and line wrapping behavior should not have been added to white-space animation-iteration-count should just have been animation-count (like column-count!) vertical-align should not apply to table cells. Instead the CSS3 alignment properties should exist in Level 1. vertical-align: middle
andyljones.com3 minHorsesAI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden.
blog.joeschrag.com4 minMost Technical Problems Are Really People ProblemsI once worked at a company which had an enormous amount of technical debt - millions of lines of code, no unit tests, and products using l...
vercel.com8 minWeb Interface GuidelinesGuidelines for building great interfaces on the web. Covers interactions, animations, layout, content, forms, performance & design.
thecut.com52 minThe New RulesHow to text, tip, ghost, host, and generally exist with others in society today.
andrej.sh7 minWhat They Don't Tell You About Maintaining an Open Source Projectthe beginning building kaneo was fun. a clean, minimal kanban board. self-hosted. open source. no tracking, no subscriptions, no bullshit. i shipped v1, posted it on reddit, got some stars on github. people actually used it. that feeling when someone tells you they're using something you built? incredible. then i learned that shipping is just the beginning. the documentation challenge i spent hour
scienceclock.com5 minWriting Builds Resilience in Everyday Challenges by Changing Your BrainOrdinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it. Writing can shift your mental state from overwhelm and despair to grounded clarity — a shift that reflects resilience. Psychology, the media and the wellness industry shape public perceptions of resil
chaoticgood.management6 minHow to Be a Leader When the Vibes Are Off...and the vibes are definitely off It feels different in tech right now. We’re coming off a long era where optimism carried the industry. Something has curdled. AI hype, return-to-office mandates, and continued layoffs have shifted the mood. Managers are quicker to fire, existential dread has replaced
substack.com7 minMaybe you’re not Actually TryingOn selective agency in capable people
myticker.com39 minTicker: Don’t Die of Heart Diseaseby Jared Hecht (blog, linkedin, twitter)
substack.com3 minIf You're Not Active, You're Sick — You Just Don't Know It YetWe're discussing a paper that demands attention...
andreacanton.dev5 minAlways Be Ready to Leave (Even If You Never Do) ~ Andrea CantonAfter 7 years at the same company, I'm moving on. But the practices that made my exit smooth aren't exit strategies—they're professional habits everyone should build, whether they're staying or leaving.
joincolossus.com27 minInside CursorSixty days with the AI coding decacorn
web.archive.org9 min99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited AdviceI have another birthday, and another bunch of unsolicited advice.   • That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult — if you don’t lose it. • If you have any doubt at all
learnui.design13 minWhere’s the AI design renaissance?AI design is currently overhyped · Will AI take design jobs? · What should designers focus on in light of rapidly changing AI tools?
steipete.me19 minJust Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering | Peter SteinbergerA practical guide to working with AI coding agents without the hype.
blog.samaltman.com6 minThe days are long but the decades are shortI turned 30 last week and a friend asked me if I'd figured out any life advice in the past decade worth passing on. I'm somewhat hesitant to publish this because I think these lists usually seem...
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shkspr.mobi5 minMost people don't care about qualityMy friend, the photographer Paul Clarke has an uncanny eye for detail. Every single shot he publishes is beautiful - they capture life in a way that I don't have the language to describe. I'm quite content to point my phone at someone, use the default settings, and grab a snap. My photos lack composition, clarity, focus, mise-en-scène, proper lighting and a thousand-and-one details that I've …