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Weekend Reading — Universe closed, use Rainbow
Natasha In "Albuquerque, NM, Rainbow road runs parallel to Universe blvd."
Tech Stuff
Pencil The demo looks amazing, basically an MCP server that can design your product with pixel-perfect precision. Let Claude Code be your canvas. (via Vinicius)
Then, in 1999, Adobe InDesign was released, and the creative people cheered. Everyone loved Adobe. InDesign was great! It was fast. Adobe were a great company. And I have never seen an industry switch so fast. A few years, and Quark’s hold on the market crumbled.
worktrunk Doesn't do a lot which is the point — makes it easier to work with Git worktrees.
The leaderboard of skills Install any skill with npx skills add <owner/repo> (I think that for most use cases a skill is better than MCP)
LLM Council Get multiple LLMs to answer your questions and argue between themselves. It's vibe coded if that makes a difference to you, but I like the overall idea.
I didn’t realize ChatGPT could do this — 10 features hiding in plain sight I learned a few cool tricks from this list.
The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button Mind you, in 2026 you should be upgrading from Radix to base-ui. I don't think it makes a huge improvement, but base-ui does get you some nice tweaks:
Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple dependencies and several kilobytes of JavaScript? How did we make a built-in browser control so complicated?
error "For the bus enthusiasts 🚌"
Eye for Design
Chequered Ink "We've made a family of fonts we call Backgroundese for creating nonsense text in your games and other projects! 100% Free for commercial use."
Never use a cheap designer
WORK, it says work
Peoples
I have a particular thing I've been thinking about which is how go/no go tasks are exhausting to our executive control.
It is common in tech to make disparaging remarks about how software isn't factory work, implying factory work isn't "thinking." But factory work actually demands a lot of our cognition.
Studies on factory workers have suggested the need to constantly exert executive control is one reason that people working in factories face a lot of burnout. Not just physical exhaustion.
The entire tech market is hosed. Between floods of AI job apps drowning out real candidates, and businesses resorting to AI to sort thru them, it's difficult to match up job to viable candidate. To make things worse, the AI providers are pitching AI as a replacement to hiring devs rather than as a tool to make devs more productive, so businesses are spending on AI subs rather than people.
Business Side
Worst of Breed For your enjoyment, a collection of worst of breed design patterns. There's also — how would you call this? not Eisenhower Matrix, which optimizes for outcome, but more of a "what happens when management gets a say?" (h/t Tammo)
Japanese toilet-maker is an AI company now Even Toto can't resist the AI pull:
Goldman Sachs analysts expect its e-chunk haul to keep growing amid the AI data center frenzy that’s squeezing the supply of chipmaking equipment.
Leading through uncertainty in the age of AI To quote Apple: "You're Holding It Wrong"
Most CEOs say their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI. Although close to a third (30%) report increased revenue from AI in the last 12 months and a quarter (26%) are seeing lower costs, more than half (56%) say they’ve realised neither revenue nor cost benefits.
Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scam TL;DR
You might think making up new words for existing things is what a cult does.
Machine Intelligence
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage The money quote:
In a creative market dominated by five publishers, four studios, three labels, two mobile app stores, and a single company that controls all the ebooks and audiobooks, giving a creative worker extra rights to bargain with is like giving your bullied kid more lunch money.
It doesn’t matter how much lunch money you give the kid, the bullies will take it all. Give that kid enough money and the bullies will hire an agency to run a global campaign proclaiming: “Think of the hungry kids! Give them more lunch money!”
Creative workers who cheer on lawsuits by the big studios and labels need to remember the first rule of class warfare: things that are good for your boss are rarely what’s good for you.
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
“You can just do things” was what was on my mind all the time but it took quite a bit longer to realize that just because you can, you might not want to. It became so easy to build something and in comparison it became much harder to actually use it or polish it. Quite a few of the tools I built I felt really great about, just to realize that I did not actually use them or they did not end up working as I thought they would.
Caleb Hailey "Thinking harder 🧠"
Insecurity
There are good things in the world:
Security training on the topic of "do not click links or open attachments" is obsolete now.
The AI in your inbox will open all attachments and click on all links. Problem solved.💁🏻♂️
cool, so there's a whole new github dork people can do: claude chatlogs.
they live in
.claude/logs/and are full text records of peoples entire conversations with claudeand they're ending up in public on github because i guess people arent adding them to.gitignorehappy monday! ai is going great!
It seems inevitable that if everyone is out of work, threat actors will figure out how to pwn the unemployed. That take-home test? It’s a Trojan Horse.
Everything Else
Dan Ports "error: unresolved merge conflict in basket (fluff overflow)"
My new Canadian well-wish is "may your shovel be light"
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions”
Me: well that was nice of them
Listening Post macOS app that identifies music playing around you. Scrobble to Last.fm or ListenBrainz, supports Apple Music and Deezer, local first. (h/t Carlo Zottmann)
Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
the opposite of godspeed is devilocity
Haha!
It's so cute Godzilla Junior😍
This car made by T.R.A Kyoto a.k.a "Rocket Bunny."
What the abandoned glossary page on your entreprise wiki says about your org
its weird how in the end “a penny for your thoughts” was actually more than AI companies were willing to pay
Do Cows Use Tools? This One Does. (via globalmuseum)
A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say.
There's now a site to search for hotels that have bathroom doors, because hotels have been moving to glass enclosures or no doors at all as a cost-cutting measure.
Nick "Yeah sure, Lego Crocs, why not, nothing matters."
