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Atlas: a world model for spatial intelligence

World Labs introduces Atlas, a next-generation omni world model pretrained from scratch to natively operate on text, images, video, and 3D, enabling diverse tasks like world generation and spatial reconstruction.

3 days ago13 min read

Opensource UI

Opensource UI offers a free, MIT-licensed library of over 200 production-ready React and Next.js components, built with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS v4, for designers and developers.

3 days ago26 min read

The designer who drew Cursor’s icons

Marek Minor, designer of Cursor's 600+ icons, explains his process for creating new icons, emphasizing the search for a concept's "attractor" and the iterative exploration required for novel ideas.

Four questions about AGI

The author argues that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a distracting "red herring" term, proposing four questions to better understand the concept and its implications.

3 days ago21 min read

Your product didn’t get worse

Customers' expectations for product usability are changing due to the rise of AI agents, making previously acceptable workflows feel tedious, even if product quality remains constant.

The singular viable product

The declining cost of software development, driven by LLMs and agentic coding, is ending the era of "mean viable products" designed for broad markets. This shift enables developers to create highly personalized "singular viable products" for an audience of one, which can then organically scale.

AI is making development faster. But where did the work go?

AI accelerates specific development stages, but the article questions where the displaced work goes within the broader product development ecosystem.

Unwinding the great tech power grab

Movements like Neo-Luddism and Permacomputing are emerging to reclaim power over technology, addressing how it has atrophied civic engagement and democratic accountability.

JudgmentKit

JudgmentKit is a new layer for AI-generated user interfaces, guiding AI to build the correct interface for a user's work by defining necessary activities and decisions before component composition.

4 Sept2 min read

Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers

The emergent CSS `random()` function, currently supported only in Safari, allows for controlled presentational randomness in web designs, reducing the need for JavaScript.

31 Aug16 min read

What’s !important #18: , Syntax ::highlight()ing, named-feature(), and More

This article compiles recent CSS developments, including delayed-then-instant tooltips, the Custom Highlight API, retrieving CSS grid information into custom properties, and new selectors like named-feature().

31 Aug3 min read

Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API

The Document Picture-in-Picture API, recently shipped in Firefox 151, allows developers to place any HTML, CSS, and JavaScript content into a resizable, always-on-top window, effectively creating web widgets.

27 Aug6 min read

WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration

WordPress 7.0 introduces PHP-only block registration, simplifying custom block creation by eliminating the need for React, build pipelines, or NPM packages, requiring only PHP.

24 Aug18 min read

CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days

A new CSS proposal introduces declarative navigation matching, allowing developers to apply styles and manage cross-document view transitions directly in CSS, rather than with JavaScript.

19 Aug5 min read

Dark mode toggles: two states are enough

Designers should implement dark mode toggles with only two states, light and dark, because a third "system" option is often unnecessary and can distract users.

17 Aug3 min read

What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More

This article presents a collection of CSS techniques, including using the Custom Highlight API, enabling images to overflow themselves, fixing text-stroke with paint-order, and styling skeleton UIs.

14 Aug3 min read