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RAINBOW'S UNIQUE TOKEN MODEL

Rainbow is giving 20% of Rainbow Company's equity to the Rainbow Foundation so that RNBW token holders and employees can be better aligned.

PANTONE CROWNS 'CLOUD DANCER' AS ITS COLOUR OF THE YEAR 2026, INVITING CREATIVES TO BREATHE AGAIN

Cloud Dancer, Pantone's 2026 Colour of the Year, is a soft white meant to act as a calming pause in an overstimulated world, symbolising clarity, renewal, and a return to simplicity. Its launch comes with artist collaborations and wide adoption across tech, fashion, interiors, and lifestyle brands, positioning the shade as a versatile, grounding base for creativity in a year when many people are craving mental space and a fresh start.

SEVEN WAYS WE'RE MAKING ANDROID MORE ACCESSIBLE

Android is rolling out new accessibility features, including an expanded dark theme option that automatically darkens apps without native dark mode support, and emotion tags in Expressive Captions that detect feelings like joy or sadness in audio content. Voice Access can now be launched hands-free through Gemini. Additional updates include improved AutoClick mouse controls, easier TalkBack voice dictation, Gemini-powered Guided Frame for camera assistance, and Fast Pair support for hearing aids.

SKETCH HAS INTRODUCED A MAJOR COPENHAGEN UPDATE

Sketch's new Copenhagen update delivers the biggest interface overhaul in years. It replaces floating panels with a fixed sidebar, reorganizes navigation, and introduces a redesigned Layers panel with a helpful Focus mode for complex files. With an adaptive toolbar and improved Inspector panels, the update makes the app feel cleaner, more intuitive, and noticeably more efficient for everyday design work.

DESIGN DOGMA YOU MUST UNLEARN

Designers must abandon self-limiting dogmas, including the belief that complaints alone drive change, the expectation that others should automatically accommodate design perspectives, and the outrage over the prevalence of bad design. Bad design is common because good design requires more resources, and designers' minority status means they must guide non-designers rather than demand accommodation.

JAGUAR'S DESIGN CRISIS JUST WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE

Jaguar's deeply divisive 2024 rebrand is still echoing through the company. The turmoil has culminated in the sudden removal of chief creative officer Gerry McGovern. Following declining sales, the dismissal of the ad agency behind the rebrand, and harsh criticism of McGovern's Type 00 concept EV, his departure strongly suggests that Jaguar's new leadership is losing confidence in the bold design direction introduced last year and may be preparing to pivot away from it.

ELIZABETH GOODSPEED ON HOW MANY DESIGNERS IT TAKES TO MAKE A STUDIO

Many independent designers operate as formal “studios” even when solo, partly for legal and financial benefits, but also to signal professionalism, authority, and room for growth. However, naming a practice—after oneself or as a separate studio—carries nuanced implications for perception, gender dynamics, client expectations, and creative freedom. Some designers choose to be transparent about their small or solo status to maintain nimbleness, personal connection, and control over how their work is credited and experienced.

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CAN YOU MAKE TOAST MESSAGES ACCESSIBLE?

GitHub's design system banned toast messages because they create accessibility and usability problems that can't be fixed with technical solutions. Toast messages disappear automatically after a few seconds, obscure underlying content, and are difficult to spot at the edges of the screen. GitHub's usability testing with disabled users showed that fixing these core issues requires changing the pattern so fundamentally that it would no longer qualify as a toast message.

STOP DESIGNING ON AUTOPILOT

Designers plateau when unconscious habits and familiar solutions replace intentional problem-solving, leading them to design for their internal system rather than the project's actual needs. Growth requires pausing automatic responses, asking whether choices fit the project or merely feel comfortable, and exploring alternatives before committing. The gap between technical skill and world-class work closes when designers resist routine's gravitational pull and treat each project as an opportunity to stretch beyond established patterns.

THE BARCODE AS A DESIGN OBJECT

Strict systematic restrictions can enable unique aesthetic expression.

THESE TEN ALBUMS HAD THE BEST ARTWORK OF 2025

Ten albums from 2025 that showcased diverse approaches from classical painting techniques to modern X-ray photography.

SORRY MICROSOFT, THE COPILOT LOGO WILL NEVER BE AS ICONIC AS CLIPPY

Microsoft's 50th-anniversary “Artifact” sweater charmed fans with retro icons like Clippy and Paint, but the hidden Copilot logo has sparked backlash for disrupting the nostalgic theme.

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TANSTACK'S OPEN. AI. SDK

TanStack AI launched this week in alpha. It features a clean architecture, deep type safety, tight ecosystem integration, and few assumptions about user platforms. While it is less production-ready than Vercel's AI SDK, TanStack AI is the more interesting bet for the future due to its architectural decisions. This post looks at both TanStack AI and Vercel AI SDK and compares their current features.

MIGRATING 6000 REACT TESTS USING AI AGENTS AND ASTS

Elio used Claude Code to migrate 970 test files (6,000+ tests) from React Testing Library v13 to v14 in just one week. Its team had Claude build a detailed migration guide first. They created an AST codemod to handle mechanical changes, then let Claude iteratively migrate 10 tests at a time while automatically running tests and checking coverage.

21 LESSONS FROM 14 YEARS AT GOOGLE

Great engineering is less about perfect code and more about understanding users, working well with people, and avoiding common traps. It's better to ship messy prototypes instead of debating perfect architectures forever, write clear code instead of clever code, and remember that your work doesn't speak for itself. People advocate for you in rooms you're not in.

MY THOUGHTS ON CLAUDE OPUS 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5 is a generational "unlock" in AI. It is the best model for both code and agents. Users should treat Opus 4.5 as a trusted coworker, use Claude Code for programming, and build impactful agents using the SDK.

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INTRODUCING VERCEL FOR PLATFORMS

Vercel for Platforms makes it easy to create and run customer projects on behalf of users. It features two platforms, Multi-Tenant and Multi-Project, that allow developers to deploy with a single codebase or many across any number of domains. Multi-Tenant Platforms allow developers to run a single codebase that serves many customers. Multi-Project Platforms allow developers to create a separate Vercel project per customer.

APPTRON

Apptron is a local-first development platform. It creates a full Linux environment inside the browser with a VS Code-based editor that developers can do whatever they want with. Apptron can be used as a development environment and editor, a sandbox for AI and experiments, an editor to publish static sites, an embeddable software playground, or as a way to run and share Linux software on the web. It is fully extendable, customizable, and self-hosted.

YOU GOTTA PUSH IF YOU WANNA PULL

Data management systems have historically been built around the notion of pull queries. This approach of pulling data works well, and it matches how people think and operate. However, there are some challenges with the approach: performance, data formats, data shape, and data location. These problems can be overcome with the help of materialized views. By materializing views incrementally and efficiently, you make your data available for pull-based querying in the right format and shape, at the right location.

I FAILED TO RECREATE THE 1996 SPACE JAM WEBSITE WITH CLAUDE

This dev tried to use Claude to precisely recreate the 1996 Space Jam website from a screenshot and assets, but found that it consistently failed to achieve pixel-perfect accuracy. Claude struggled with exact spatial positioning, admitting it couldn't measure pixel coordinates precisely. Claude's vision system likely processes images too coarsely to capture fine-grained spatial relationships.

THE ANATOMY OF A MACOS APP

This post goes over the historical evolution of macOS application anatomy.

USING LLMS AT OXIDE

Oxide encourages the use of LLMs but emphasizes that employees must always retain full human responsibility for all outputs.

WHY THE SANITIZER API IS JUST SETHTML()

Sanitizing HTML is the practice of taking a piece of HTML and removing some unwanted elements and attributes.

LESSONS FROM A SWIFT INTERVIEW

This post contains advice on Swift algorithm design and how to approach technical interviews.

ALFRED LIN ON DECISION QUALITY

Long-term relevance in an AI-dominated world comes from learning to make strong decisions under uncertainty rather than mastering any single technical field. Being right, which centers on ego and rigid beliefs, is different from getting it right, which requires curiosity, updating views, and detaching identity from ideas. Leaders who prioritize getting it right foster open debate, psychological safety, and faster progress. Ego-driven cultures slow teams and limit contribution.

NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO SELL YOUR COMPANY

Valuations have grown faster than fundamentals, and corporate balance sheets are unusually strong. Antitrust risk is about to rise, so selling before this shift is rational. Acquirers are overlooking unhealthy financials because they fear missing out on AI or automation. IPO markets may reopen, but most major private companies are still staying away from going public.

YOUR EXPERTS WON'T TRAIN YOUR AI. YOU HAVE TO INTERVIEW THEM

The most valuable asset in every organization is the hard-won, implicit knowledge inside the heads of its best people. Chatbots fail because they produce generic AI that averages out expertise into blandness. The only way to capture true expertise is to build an AI interviewer that earns the trust to be seen as a peer. This article discusses how 99ravens cleared this technical hurdle.

NOTES ON BUILDING IN THE AI ERA

a16z General Partner Anish Acharya recently appeared on a podcast to discuss the speed/emergent properties of this product cycle, founder psychology in a period of intense competition, unbundling tasks from jobs, and AI native networks. a16z's core thesis is that founders make the best long-term CEOs. They have unique knowledge and networks - a16z builds its structure to provide these resources to founders indefinitely. A link to the full podcast, along with notes from the discussion, is available in the post.

FROM 10 TO 31 TASKS DAILY: THE AGENT INFLECTION POINT

The velocity of work changes instantly when we give agents the right tools. Businesses can now use agents to complete tasks, just like software engineers have been doing for the last several months. It is now possible to spin up multiple parallel workstreams, multiplying daily output without working longer hours. The agent inflection point is already here.

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PROTAIGÉ

Protaigé is an AI platform that creates complete, on-brand marketing campaigns using coordinated agent workflows.

CONVO

Convo is a drop-in SDK for logging, debugging, and personalizing LLM apps with memory and observability built in.

TRICKLE

Trickle is an all-in-one AI app builder for creating agents, websites, and forms with built-in models, database, and analytics.

THEY HAVE TO BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT US WITHOUT US

You have to tell a story so clear, so concise, and memorable, and so evocative, that people repeat it for you even after you've left the room. This means that the people who hear it need to be able to do this the first time they hear the story. You have to explain your idea and make your case while teaching the listener how to do the same thing themselves. Delivering this kind of story requires actual substance - fakery is immediately obvious.

USING LLMS AT OXIDE

LLM use is encouraged at Oxide, but its use must be responsible to the product and to its customers. This article discusses Oxide's approach to using LLMs. It covers the company's values in LLM usage, the different use cases for LLMs, and more. A document that details specific tips is linked in the article.

YOU CAN HIDE FROM A LOT OF THINGS AS A FOUNDER. CASH BURN ISN'T ONE OF THEM

Founders can't ignore cash burn - it's a relentless reality that dictates survival.

THE 10 PRINCIPLES OF SLACK MAXIMALISM

Consider moving everything to Slack if you are doing high-intensity operations.

A SF VC IN NYC

A San Francisco-based VC reflects on NYC's influence over the past 15 years, highlighting key investments like Artsy, Hinge, and Brigit, which collectively represent over $2.5B in annual revenue

THINK FIRST, AI SECOND

Learn how to think with AI rather than letting it think for you.