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The Window With No Buttons

Why the terminal feels so unfamiliar to designers, and how to read it anyway

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Paper Mono

Paper Mono is a beautiful monospace font family with 8 variable weights and coding ligatures, free and open source.

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Fingerprints are the new cookies

You're protected from the methods I use here. You disabled JavaScript, so this fingerprinting trick can't run at all. You're still vulnerable to network-based methods. Read on to see what it does to everyone else.

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A proposal: how to hire junior engineers in the age of AI | Seldo.com

Junior developer hiring has collapsed because nobody knows how to interview for the new AI-assisted job. Coding interviews are dead. The replacement: give candidates an LLM roleplaying as a customer, another LLM to build with, and see who figures out what...

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Who Owns the Doubt?

Every designer with enough years of experience in our industry carries a private catalog of paths not taken. I still think about the ideas I killed. Not because it was wrong, but because I was tired, the deadline was the next morning, and the other option...

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A select should tell you something

Customizable select isn’t just a prettier dropdown. Five before/after demos show how options can carry what people need to decide.