Old matchboxes are igniting new ideas for these Indian creatives
Inspired by the visual language, cultural history, and format of matchboxes, three contemporary Indian projects are reimagining this object in strikingly different ways.
Coding Adventure: Solving the Rubik's Cube
Ik zie Sebastian Lague, ik zet alles opzij en ik kijk.
The Water Dictionary
Simple mixing recipes for brewing, coffee, baking, and aquariums using waters from your local supermarket.
It's time to talk about my writerdeck
Ik bedenk alle keren bij zo'n posts dat ikd at ook eens ozu moeten doen, om dan te bedenken dat ik gewoon een laptop zou kunnen meenemen waar ik vanalles op kan doen, om dan te bedenken dat ik ook gewoon een telefoon en een draagbaard keyboard kan meenemen om *ook* alles op te doen.
writerDeck.org | writerDeck
A writerDeck is a device dedicated specifically and solely to writing. Technically, a typewriter is an analog writerDeck. But usually we mean some sort of computerized word processor, such as the Astrohaus Freewrite or the Alphasmart Neo, to name two of the most popular mass-produced versions. But these tend to be either too expensive or too limited for many writers, so many of us build our own.
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia | by Jake Orlowitz | May, 2026 | Medium
Every crisis taught a lesson. The lesson was never that secrecy and top-down decision-making were wrong on principle. The lesson was always that secrecy was operationally expensive and should be handled more carefully next time.
An Obsessive Focus on UX: Pilot's Pressure-Regulating Kire-Na Highlighter – Core77
Japanese overdesign is alternately hilarious and inspiring. ID students should be forced to study it. Because Japanese overdesign is about seeking out even the slightest inconvenience experienced while using an everyday object, then designing a solution for it.
The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Twelve trillion locusts once blotted out the American sky — then they vanished (Also: wat een fijne leeservaring, met degelijke typografie, notities, sidenotes, voetnoten, animatie, en allerlei)
Is AI causing a repeat of Frontend’s Lost Decade? | Mastro Blog
What AI is doing to the jobs of programmers feels very familiar to a lot of us frontend developers – because it has happened to us before. Let’s first look at the transformation of the frontend and agentic coding through the lens of deskilling, and then look at both changes through the lens of a higher level of abstraction. Finally, we’ll look at previous changes, like the advent of copy-pasta from Stack Overflow, and how the Bauhaus movement reacted to rising industrialization.
RSS Is Back. AI Agents Are Reading It. — Julien Reszka
Google Reader died in 2013 and everyone called it. But RSS never stopped powering podcasting, and now AI agents need exactly what RSS does.