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Boring Screens, Good Screens & Face for Rent

It's issue #329 of DNT Weekly, and as per usual, the week has been eventful. Here's what we've been reading of late.

More than 70% of pull requests at Uber now come from local or cloud agents, and lines of code per engineer has doubled year over year. Uday Kiran Medisetty walks through the six pieces of the ADLC. Read all about it here.

We've got some good reads for you, so let's jump right in.

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Image Source: Design Week

The boring screens that run the world: a designer’s case study  

Publisher: Design Week

Chijindu Amadi explores why taking operational software seriously is perhaps the ultimate design challenge.


Image Source: Unsplash

On unfurling interfaces

Publisher: Karl Koch


Image Source: Design Better

The Roundup: Designing for a future that doesn’t exist yet

Publisher: Design Better


Image Source: It's Nice That

How can tech serve us better? Insights explores in new report, Good Screens 

Publisher: It's Nice That

We live in the age of bad screen time. But is there a world in which technology can feel balanced, fulfilling – good? In It's Nice That's latest report, they explore the growing appetite for devices that make a positive impact on our lives, and how brands can respond to this moment creatively.


Image Source: Unsplash

How to decide when an AI tool is worth keeping

Publisher: NN Group


Image Source: Every

The Healthcare Company that built the AI tool it couldn’t buy

Publisher: Every


Product find of the week

Image Source: Railway

Railway - All-in-one intelligent cloud provider

Railway is a full-stack cloud for deploying web apps, servers, databases, and more with automatic scaling, monitoring, and security. You link your repo, and it figures out how to run it. You don't have to stitch together five different tools. Think of it as a friendlier Heroku or Vercel, with easy previews and one-click undo if something breaks.


In other news

Now available to rent: Your face

How a solo founder used Codex and ChatGPT to launch a fashion brand without engineers

Agents that read the room

India’s Airbound bags $37M to take on trucks with rocket-like drones


Special Mentions

A curated shelf of beautifully designed macOS apps

Volcanoes that made history

This font looks perfectly normal to humans but wreaks havoc on AI

Broad brush strokes on a canvas

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