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• "Save for Later" Has No Later - YouTube
• A practical guide to frontend System Design - DEV Community
• A Social Filesystem — overreacted
  • atproto
• AI-Generated UI Is Inaccessible by Default – Master.dev Blog
  • a11y
• Atomic Design by Brad Frost
  • dev
  • web-design
• Belonging Is a Right, Not a Reward  – Grace Dow Writes:
• Clues By Sam
  • games
• cmus - C* Music Player
• Coming up with blog topics

  I think it’s so important to write. Even if you feel like you have nothing to say. You do have things to say!

• CSS dot pattern/grid background
• Dead Forest Theory - by Venkatesh Rao - Contraptions
• Designing with Mustard — Anna E. Cook

  Gen AI can be used as a sketch, as long as you know what you're using it as and you understand its limits, costs, and impacts. The risk is letting it convince you the work is accurate, complete, or unbiased. Models only know averages. And no human is average. Design is the edges. It's the human reasoning, strategy, empathy, and collaboration required to think within and beyond our own lived experiences. AI cannot replace that.

• Designing with Mustard — Anna E. Cook

  Friction is the work One thing about designing that I didn't fully appreciate earlier in my career: the act of making something is how you figure out what it is. It’s the process of taking role, look and feel, and implementation questions and finding answers until you integrate it together into one cohesive solution.

• Designing with Mustard — Anna E. Cook

  Many of us don't have the luxury of experimenting freely. Shipping low-quality or unstable outputs doesn't just affect the product — it affects our credibility, our teams, and sometimes our jobs. Using AI without verification isn't just a design or engineering risk. It's a professional one. When the screen reader test fails on the AI-generated component, AI isn't in the meeting. When laws are broken, AI isn't named as defendant. When a user gets harmed by AI making up sources, AI isn't the one who apologizes. When AI fails, we pay the price. That's the part of the "use AI or else" equation that doesn't make it into the pitch: the accountability has to land somewhere. It lands with us.

• Designing with Mustard — Anna E. Cook

  It’s the accessibility step you don't skip because the deadline is tight. The AI output you stop and verify instead of waving through. The conversation with leadership where you say "this isn't ready" and mean it. The harm you reduce. It looks like documenting what you see, internally and externally, so the work has receipts. Writing the case study, the blog post, the talk. Putting language to the practice so others can defend it too. We are the practitioners. The judgment is ours. The choices are ours.

• Do We Still Need Build Tools?
  • dev
• Frontend Minimalism in Action: Do More with Less JavaScript | Peter Kröner | Webinale Berlin 2026 - YouTube
  • dev
  • dev-talks
• Frontend System Design: The Complete Guide 2026
• How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

  A lot of hype and noise is pressing us to extend the cowboy, wild-west phase of the software industry’s expansion. We should set that aside, and take ourselves seriously as a mature industry. Build a web application that works on a playstation portable on a 3G connection - if you do, it will work for all your users, and it will still work 30 years from now.

  • a11y
• How to (Anti) AI Better - YouTube
• How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots - Ars Technica
• I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did — Adrian Roselli
  • dev
  • a11y
• Learn | Frontend Hire
  • job-hunting
• Live code with Tidal Cycles | Tidal Cycles
  • creative
  • creative--music
• My 30-Day Caffeine Detox Experience - YouTube
• Parachord
  • music
• Personal website redesign - Piccalilli
  • dev-fun
• Playwright Accessibility Testing: What axe and Lighthouse Miss | David Mello
  • dev
  • a11y
  • software-testing
• Playwright on GitHub Actions
  • dev
  • cicd
• Publishing on the Atmosphere with Standard.site - Piccalilli
  • atproto
• recommended techniques for accessibility champions - A11y Toolkit
  • dev
  • a11y
  • software-testing
• Stairjoke.Ninja
  • bookmarks
• The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us
• The AI strategy trap - craigabbott.co.uk

  Uber did not give you low prices because they are generous. They gave you low prices to collect your data, improve their product, and ultimately to clear the field of any competition. The cheap fare was the bait, and we all fell for it. The AI business model looks suspiciously Uber shaped

• The Lost Discipline of the Alarm: What Notification Design Forgot - YouTube
• Use cases for aria-expanded - Piccalilli
  • a11y
• View transitions | Docs
• Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
  • web-design
• Web Components Interoperability | Unpacked
  • dev
  • webcomponents
• Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex & All-Clad Now