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HARDWARE

Apple and Lenovo have the least repairable laptops, analysis finds

PIRG report finds Apple and Lenovo laptops score lowest on repairability, with Apple earning C-minus for laptops and D-minus for phones.

Ars Technica11h ago
DESIGN

Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)

Design patterns for building trust in agentic AI systems through strategic transparency, balancing black boxes with data dumps.

Smashing Magazine23h ago
AI

GitHub Copilot CLI combines model families for a second opinion

GitHub Copilot CLI introduces Rubber Duck, an experimental feature using a second AI model to review coding agent decisions and catch errors the primary model might miss.

GitHub Blog1d ago
DESIGN

The UX ground is shaking, synthetic users, building perspective

UX Collective curated resources exploring how AI is reshaping design practice, with focus on designer agency, perspective, and rethinking design in an AI-driven world.

UX Collective1d ago
AI

What if AI just makes us work harder?

Explores how AI adoption in workplaces increases multitasking demands, forcing workers to manage multiple concurrent threads rather than reducing workload.

Sidebar2d ago
AI

Data models: the shared language your AI and team are both missing

Explores how teams can use data models as a shared language to get better results from AI tools, building on transformer architecture fundamentals.

UX Collective2d ago
DESIGN

We didn’t mean to build this- engagement at any cost

How designers became complicit in building exploitative engagement systems and the risks of automating these decisions with AI.

UX Collective2d ago
DESIGN

Who are we really designing for?

Explores the tension between designing for individual users versus collective customers, examining conflicting needs in product design.

UX Collective2d ago
SOFTWARE

scan-for-secrets 0.3

scan-for-secrets 0.3 adds a redact option to identify and replace sensitive data in files with automatic confirmation prompts.

Simon Willison's Weblog2d ago
SOFTWARE

Cleanup Claude Code Paste

A web tool that cleans up Claude Code terminal output by removing prompts and fixing whitespace issues for easier text processing.

Simon Willison's Weblog2d ago
SOFTWARE

datasette-ports 0.1

datasette-ports 0.1 released - a plugin that helps developers track and manage multiple running Datasette instances across different terminal windows.

Simon Willison's Weblog2d ago
AI

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

Developer shares lessons from building SQLite devtools with AI assistance, exploring both benefits and pitfalls of agentic engineering over an 8-year project journey.

Simon Willison's Weblog2d ago