Five Links #74
1. Busy Simulator “Feign importance with repeating app sounds!” 2. Peascod Relief Panels Full disclosure: I worked with Peascod to redesign their site in...
Five Links #73
1. Ratio Buddy A little tool to help when calculating aspect ratios. 2. Retcon Rewriting Git history is something I generally avoid at all costs, but it...
Five Links #72
1. Why are we talking about superintelligence? In one of the more head-turning moments of their interview, when Klein asked Yudkowsky about critics– such as...
Five Links #71
1. The Majority AI View People worry that not being seen as mindless, uncritical AI cheerleaders will be a career-limiting move in the current environment of...
Five Links #70
1. Is Sora the Beginning of the End for OpenAI? To me, these are the acts of a company that poured tens of billions of investment dollars into creating what...
Five Links #69
1. Typo.town Lovely new project from Nick Simson, putting together typeface collections from the overwhelming selection on places like Adobe Fonts and Google...
Five Links #68
1. Why I hate the MVP car My first real issue is that the wheel → chassis → convertible → car is way closer to the way you actually build a car from an...
Five Links #67
1. This is where I write my Journal on my iPhone I love this idea of storing a little note in a photo’s caption. 2. Where’s the AI design renaissance? Don’t...
Five Links #66
1. Palette generator This useful tool from Erik Kennedy lets you generate a colour palette using colour stops that are visually equidistant. Creating...
Five Links #65
1. Are your links not malicious looking enough? TinyURL, but not. This makes long, dodgy-looking URLs and you can even choose the phishy flavour. 2. WCAG in...
Five Links #64
1. A social media ethos I’ve been social-media free for a few years, but still engage in Discords/Slack communities where these rules are still useful. In...
Five Links #63
1. Exploring grid-aware websites A great write up from Nic Chan on the world of grid-aware websites: what they are, ways to approach it and some of the...
Five Links #62
1. Refusing to choose is a choice You can say “all are welcome,” but if wolves and sheep are both welcome then you’re only going to get wolves. The smart...
Five Links #61
Five links for your inbox from this week. 1. Type Foundry Direction Last week, I shared a post on typeface licenses. This site is a useful resource as it...
Five Links #60
Five links for your inbox from this week. 1. The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap Among the handful of oft-discussed problems with Substack: Their...
Five Links #59
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Five Links #58
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