Essential Links in May 2026

My posting discipline is always taking hits in summertime. This is my attempt to keep it up even if my schedule is broken.

Have a great June!

Inspiration

• Playing in unlikely places - a beautiful, inspiring gallery and collection of projects (/cc kottke.org)
• Stay a minute in the cursor.camp.
• James writes about Joyful Web Design. This is a beautiful idea.

Usability

• A Design Research Framework - in times of AI-supported engineering the ability to do great research becomes more important than ever.

The Open Web

• Stefan Bohacek collects publications, studies and tools around the fediverse.

A.I.

• https://vibegraveyard.ai
• Uwe Friedrichsen writes about the Essence of Architecture Work. Especially in these times with AI intruding and changing or even defining our codebase, this article series becomes important. There is a part 2 out as well.
• With AI, harness is the new word I needed to learn. Brigitta Böckler writes about harness engineering over at martinfowler.com.
• One more about harnesses. This time on the anthropic blog.
• Agent Skills are a lightweight open format for agents.

Tools

• On Ralf's mastodon feed I came across his beautiful project / strategy / roadmap visualization.