🤝 Design Meets Code #3
A weekly newsletter about designing, building and selling products online
Hi! Welcome to the third issue of the Design Meets Code newsletter! I usually send these on Sundays, but this one's running a bit late.
Now, here's what caught my eye this week:
My top picks of the week:
🥇 Claude can now edit content in place and interact with devices - from adding UFC events to calendars to analyzing construction site safety videos. AI assistants are becoming more capable of real-world interactions.
🥈 Better Auth is approaching v1 release - promising to become the most comprehensive, framework-agnostic authentication library for TypeScript. Perfect for developers who want to focus on building their application rather than reinventing wheel.
🥉 Shopify's mobile app, used by millions of merchants worldwide, just completed a massive migration to React Native. The successful transition of such a large-scale app proves React Native's maturity and reliability for enterprise applications. As Steven Tey puts it - Never bet against React!
Development picks
💠 Ilya Sutskever shares his "30 Essential Reads for Mastering AI" - a curated list promising "90% of what matters today" in AI understanding.
💠 Point-in-time recovery feature in PostgreSQL proves its worth - as demonstrated by Marc Köhlbrugge's production database save. A reminder of why proper database management is crucial.
💠 Cursor Directory - by Pontus Abrahamsson - add a .cursorrules file to your project for enhanced Cursor Chat and Ctrl/⌘ K features. Make your project's AI assistance more specific and effective.
💠 Extro by Bartosz Zagrodzki - an open-source browser extension starter kit making Chrome extension development even easier.
💠 NVIDIA and Vercel are organizing "the world's shortest hackathon" - a 2-hour coding challenge with the chance to win a GPU signed by Jensen Huang.
💠 Beautifully crafted animated icons - a new open-source (MIT License) collection built with Framer Motion and Lucide Icons.
Design picks
💠 Image to Mesh Gradient - a new tool that creates beautiful gradients from uploaded photos.
💠 A practical guide to Design System components - an in-depth free guide for building better design systems.
💠 David Heinemeier Hansson's perspective on v1: "V1 should be for you, not an MVP. Because you're not just building blind for some imaginary user, you're building for yourself first."
Business picks
💠 Hunter Hammonds shares the "master plan" for sustainable business growth: Start with services, maintain high margins, accumulate cash, and experiment incrementally.
💠 The 5 Steps to Effective Delegation:
Output/end result: Define what done looks like
Purpose: Explain the why behind the task
Inputs: Provide necessary resources
Constraints: Set clear parameters
Next steps: Establish check-in points]
Quote of the week
"Be fucking impossible to ignore.
Stand so tall that they can't look
past you. Intoxicate with your
presence. Be notorious. Remain
on people's minds. Flow so freely
that they'll be scared of drowning
in your thoughts. Don't be taken
lightly. Be sure of yourself.
Be irreplaceable. Move so fast that
no one can see where you're going.
Give them something to chase,
but never let them catch up with you.
Be more than what they bargained for.
Make them hate you for being so
fucking good. Burn so brightly that
you catch the whole world on fire."
— GFDA
That's it for this week!
Found something useful? Got cool stuff to share? I'd love to hear about it. Drop me a line – your finds might make it into next week's issue.
If you know someone who'd like this too, feel free to pass it along!
Stay curious,
Edgaras
Mesh gradient tool! 🔥