Reading list

• Threads, perhaps aided by the perpetual demise of Twitter, was downloaded 100 million times on launch week. Here's the Pragmatic Engineer telling the real life story of the app development effort it took to make it happen.
• But what did the death of Twitter actually mean, and what is X now? In a series of articles, The Verge summarise and reflect on what we actually lost, and what we might have gained.
• Back in the early 2000's, Yahoo Pipes was defining the shape of things to come. Dive in the the early days of metaphorical plumbing and visual skeuomorphism in this Retool piece.

Design of the day

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Mozilla, the good guys of the internet, is out with an annual report, which also hints at things in the making. Some design cues were keenly following.

Tech of the week

Wait, what. StyleX promises to provide the developer experience of CSS-in-JS libraries and bridge it with the performance and scalability of static CSS. Just like that. There's no mention of AI anywhere

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