Hey friends,

How do you find Will Smith in a snowstorm?

Look for the fresh prints.

Thinking Too Hard 🤔

Lots of folks are also thinking about how to keep your skills sharp in this new age of AI. Addy Osmani argues we still need to get our mental reps in.

His suggestion goes:

1. Come up with a hypothesis of the answer (or direction) BEFORE you prompt an agent.
2. Investigate why the outcome conforms to or disproves your mental model.
3. Use every task as a learning opportunity to improve your mental model.
4. Actively grow your imagination through this verification process.
5. Record your lessons in a way that improves both you and your agent (And not just in Markdown files. Use linters, tests, and other artifacts as well).

I think the last step is particularly interesting because it involves condensing an abstract concept into something concrete — something that takes a lot of thought. This type of writing, taking a concept and reiterating it with that thought cage you keep on your shoulders, is hugely beneficial to our overall thinking. We've known this since at least the 80s — that writing sharpens and refines your thinking.

So what does your writing look like day to day? Are you getting your mental reps in?

Interesting Web Bits 🍜

Web Stuff

• Maggie Appleton is thinking on how we can plan with agents more effectively.
• Kilian Valkhof writes on how not to lose the root scroller. Now I just need to learn not to lose the TV remote...
• Zach Leatherman roasts the front-end loads of popular AI services.
• CSS scroll-triggered animations are here, and I completely missed them too! 😅
• Alёna Batitskaia has made an periodic table of HTML elements.

Other Stuff

• Ah, so I'm not the only one who spends way too much time wandering on Google Maps.
• I love reading about other people's setups...

👽 Weird, 📺 Watch, and 🎮 Play

• 👽 Truly a cursed font: Bastardica.
• 📺 A 🐭little mice choir🐭.
• 📺 Watch this 6-year-old break the women's Rubik cube record. 🤯
• 🎮 Play Windows 98 solitaire alone but together.e
• 🎮 Gather a little, but not too much in Thorbs.