Notes
Musings
Things I've been reading, watching and learning along the way. Newest first. The images I save live in Finds.
01Scrapbook
- Listening to
- Reading
How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models ↗
Felix, 13 Oct 2026The bit about altitude. I just love learning from people.
- Stealing
The "deeper, not bigger" prompt ↗
From the same post - Watching
Felix's podcast interview, from 29:41 ↗
“From this point onwards, exactly what I'm talking about with my business.”
- Obsessed with
- Want to do
- Reading
How I’d build a design system if I started over in 2026 ↗
Romina KavcicComponents are cheap to make now. What a design system is really worth is its context, its judgement and the nerve to delete things.
- ReadingRomina Kavcic
- Reading
Brownfield agentic engineering ↗
Addy OsmaniAgents can’t see what isn’t written down, so they go wrong when two versions of something still exist.
- Reading
02Who I read
- swyxAI News and Latent Space
- Ethan MollickOne Useful Thing
- Simon Willison ↗His blog
- Allie ↗AI with Allie
- Romina Kavcic ↗The Design System Guide
- Addy Osmani ↗His blog
- Modern RetailWhat retail buyers are seeing
- The people I follow on X ↗Who I'm learning from right now
03In my inbox
- The Prohuman AINew tech, AI models and industry news
- AI Inner CircleWeekly AI updates and tool roundups
- AI For WorkAI at work, coding agents and productivity
- AI ValleyAI company news, funding and new tools
- TechTiffPractical guides to automating work with agents
- ByteByteGoSystem design and AI terms, explained
- The Pragmatic EngineerEngineering teams, AI spend and what it returns
- Helena Di BiaseReal-world ways to use agents day to day
- TLDR AI ↗A fast daily scan of AI research and tools
- The Batch ↗Andrew Ng's weekly explainers on machine learning
- Import AI ↗Jack Clark on AI research, safety and policy
- The Rundown AI ↗Daily AI news, launches and tool tutorials
- Ben's Bites ↗What people are building and shipping with AI
- Smashing MagazineDesign systems, accessibility and UI patterns
- Design System UniversityCourses and guides on building and scaling design systems
- Medium Daily DigestDesign systems, UX lessons and design leadership
- Nguyen Le / VerseModern design practice and AI in design
- UX Power ToolsWeb design systems and tooling
04Links I keep
Design
- Fontshare ↗Quality fonts, free · saved 2023
- Velvetyne ↗Libre fonts with character · saved 2022
- Displaay ↗Type foundry · saved 2023
- Future Fonts ↗Typefaces you buy while they're still being made · saved 2022
- Lost Type Co-op ↗Pay-what-you-want fonts · saved 2022
- Fonts in Use, Blaze Type ↗Type seen out in the world · saved 2022
- Gradient ↗Type design agency · saved 2023
- enFont Terrible ↗A terrible type foundry. Brilliant. · saved 2023
- Space Type Generator ↗Play with moving type · saved 2023
- Eyecandy ↗A library of visual techniques · saved 2023
- True Grit Texture Supply ↗Textures and brushes · saved 2023
- Spline ↗3D for the web · saved 2023
- Readymag ↗Websites without code · saved 2022
- SearchSystem ↗An archive of design systems and identities · saved 2023
UX
- Type Scale ↗A visual type scale calculator · saved 2021
- The good line-height ↗Line heights that sit on a grid · saved 2022
- Data Viz Colour Picker ↗Palettes for charts and dashboards · saved 2021
- WebAIM Contrast Checker ↗Does the colour pass? · saved 2023
- Design Tokens Format ↗The shared spec for design tokens · saved 2023
- Design Systems for Figma ↗Open design systems to learn from · saved 2022
- Godly ↗Web design inspiration · saved 2021
- Minimal Gallery ↗Quiet web design inspiration · saved 2021
- One Page Love ↗One-page sites · saved 2021
- Landingfolio ↗Landing page inspiration · saved 2021
- Animate.css ↗Ready-made CSS animations · saved 2022
- Lordicon ↗Animated icons · saved 2022
- Feather ↗Simple open-source icons · saved 2023
AI
- Open Interpreter ↗Lets a model run code on your computer
- Ideogram ↗Image generation that can spell
- Midlibrary ↗Midjourney styles by photographer
- Recraft ↗AI vector illustration · saved 2023
- Vectorizer.AI ↗Pixels to clean vectors · saved 2023
- Gigapixel AI ↗Upscales images · saved 2023
- Adobe Enhance Speech ↗Cleans up spoken audio · saved 2023
- TextFX ↗AI tools for writers and rappers · saved 2023
05Podcasts
- Coming soonThe shows I listen to while I work