Hey folks,
I’ve been looking at a lot of design resources for the manual recently. Interface Craft by Josh is one of the best places I’ve found for learning how to actually feel and notice taste.
joshpuckett@joshpuckett
Means & Methods is now live on interfacecraft.dev. A collection of practical techniques to achieve excellence in interface design, covering 100+ topics across 11 chapters, with plenty of interactive examples and code. New members welcome; enjoy!
12:37 PM · Jun 18, 2026 · 582K Views
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Let’s get into what happened over the weekend.
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Codex Record & Replay - show Codex a recurring workflow once, like filing an expense report or submitting time off, and it turns the demo into an inspectable, editable skill you can reuse.
Claude Code has Artifacts now - HTML pages with some functionality that you can share with others (like a PR walkthrough or living project dashboard). Available in beta for Team and Enterprise plans.
OpenAI is expanding Daybreak, its cybersecurity program, with a new version of GPT-5.5-Cyber (trusted partners only) that can reproduce even more bugs than Mythos and Patch the Planet, a push to help maintainers fix vulnerable open-source software faster.
Sakana AI released Fugu - An API that picks and coordinates several models for hard tasks. Fugu Ultra claims 73.7 on SWE-bench Pro and 82.1 on TerminalBench 2.1, roughly Fable-class, but you will feel gaps in real usage.
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The coming loop - this is the clearest explanation/writing I’ve read on the loop discourse.
Cursor /automate - describe an automation; Cursor sets triggers, tools and instructions.
Claude Code steering guide - where to put instructions, skills, hooks and subagents.
Gemini’s Interactions API is now generally available. It combines their API for models and agents.
GPT-5.5 Instant got better at health questions - now on par with OpenAI’s best Thinking models, per OpenAI.
birdclaw.sh - local Twitter archive with search, inbox and ranked triage. (see more)
Lettera - native file-based Markdown editor for Mac.
Perplexity Computer has a new memory system - Brain.
You’re spending too much on AI. You’re also using it too little.
Stripe Directory - agents can search and pay Stripe businesses from the CLI.
Clips - open-source Loom alternative agents can inspect from a URL.
Can Claude get a robot to play ball? Not fully, but Opus 4.7 was about 20x faster than last year’s Opus 4.1 team.
Ports - Mac menu app for local dev servers, ports and kill/open buttons.
Slackbot can now connect to 20+ apps like Linear, Replit, Canva, DocuSign, Zoom and more.
ElevenLabs Ads Engine - localise ads into 50+ languages and publish to ad accounts.
15 copy-paste loops people are actually running.
Joining a Software Factory - how Factory builds repos for agent PRs.
Post-Agent Companies - agents make labour cheap; context and trust stay scarce.
Ethan Mollick@emollick
A fundamental problem with extending Codex/Cowork/Code to all knowledge work is that they remain very "software-brained" where the end result (the software) is what is important & that code serves as a source of truth. For a lot of other knowledge work, the process is at least
4:14 PM · Jun 21, 2026 · 104K Views
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Peter Yang@petergyang
5 steps to create amazing videos like the one below from HTML for free: Install @HyperFrames_ in your favorite coding harness (e.g., Codex or Claude Code). Then... 1. Gather your assets Create a project folder and add screenshots, logos, website captures, reference clips, and
3:05 PM · Jun 22, 2026 · 18K Views
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shadcn@shadcn
Writing the post vs rebuilding the blog to write the post. Doing the task vs creating a todo list to do the task. Shipping the feature vs refactoring so you can ship the feature. We never learn.
Tony Dinh @tdinh_me
It's an art to balance between shipping real work and improving the harness that lets you ship real work.
12:42 PM · Jun 20, 2026 · 129K Views
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