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Top storyTools·4 Sept
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.
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Stories from Friday, 4 September 2026
Design Tools
Sidebar.io
ToolsAI 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.
4 Sept
Design Tools
Sidebar.io
ToolsJudgmentKit
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
UX & Thinking
UX Collective
ThinkingWhat Minority Report got wrong about AI (so far)
Minority Report's depiction of AI, while influential, has not yet materialized in reality, prompting a reevaluation of its futuristic predictions.
3 Sept
Codrops
InspoBreaking the Frame: Building a Real-Time Datamosh Effect with Three.js
A real-time datamosh effect can be built using Three.js by employing shaders and techniques inspired by video codecs, transforming scene transitions into unpredictable visual distortions.
2 Sept9 min read
CSS-Tricks
ToolsLet’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
Lenny's Newsletter
Product🎙️ How I AI: How this PM uses Claude to handle 70% to 80% of his workday
A product manager at Melio developed a self-improving AI system using Claude and Cowork that manages 70-80% of his workday, handling tasks from Notion board updates to email scanning.
31 Aug4 min read
Editor's pick
More Three.js Speakers, More Ideas from Paris
Three.js Conference speakers will present on interactive storytelling, real-time 3D games, and using Three.js scenes and Gaussian splats as training data for generative video models.
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