Internet Finds

A gallery of things found online that I think are worth sharing.

Videovimeo.com

The Map

by Gary Hustwit

A short doc by Gary Hustwit on the NYC subway map — how do you design something millions of people use every day, and make it work for everyone? Sent me down a rabbit hole of Massimo Vignelli's 1972 original.

Articlefigma.com

Software is Culture

by Figma

A gallery of iconic interactions from the past century that shaped how we use digital products. The art alone is worth the visit.

Toolshademap.app

Shademap

Beautifully simple tool that lets you visualize shadows cast by any terrain or building anywhere on Earth at any time—weirdly satisfying to play with and actually useful for photography, architecture, or just understanding how light moves through your neighborhood.

Toolfiglet.org

FIGlet

The origin of ASCII art on the internet. Glenn Chappell built it in 1991, and by the 2000s it had 400+ community-made fonts. A little piece of internet history.

Articlex.com

Forget about light and dark mode, introducing Sunlight mode

by dany

Videoyoutu.be

DONKS

by FelixColgrave

A really fun musical animation by FelixColgrave about consumerism and greed.

Videoyoutube.com

The Thinking Game

by Greg Kohs

A fascinating five-year look inside DeepMind's quest for AGI, culminating in AlphaFold's Nobel Prize-winning protein folding breakthrough. Beautifully crafted documentary that makes cutting-edge AI feel genuinely human.

Person

Susan Kare

Known as "the woman who gave Macintosh a smile", she created "Happy Mac", the Command key symbol (⌘), and the "hello" text animation you see on every new Apple product.

4 items

Collection

Gary Hustwit

Four design documentaries — from typography to industrial design to urban planning.

Toolicograms.com

Icograms

An online tool with a vast library of isometric illustrations. Very useful for creating maps and diagrams.

Toolcobalt.tools

cobalt

A straightforward download tool that strips away all the garbage (ads, tracking, paywalls) when you want to save media from the internet. Just paste a link and go.

Articleclaude.com

Product Management on the AI Exponential

by Cat Wu

The role of PM is dissolving into a shared responsibility between PM, design, and dev. In the AI era, everyone prototypes, everyone ships, and the lines blur in the best way.

Toolradio.garden

Radio Garden

A beautifully interactive globe that lets you explore live radio stations from around the world by literally rotating the planet. It's like having the entire world's airwaves at your fingertips.

Videoyoutube.com

How AI Slop Will Spark the Next Human Renaissance

by After Skool

The idea that AI slop will eventually push people back toward real experiences and human craft. Not anti-AI, just pro-human.

Toolspacetypegenerator.com

Space Type Generator

A playful web tool that lets you turn text into cosmic letterforms—perfect for when you want your typography to feel a little more extraterrestrial.

Videoyoutu.be

Where Did These Weird 3D GIFs Come From?

by lugalan

An interesting and fun video essay about the origin of widely used 3D animations in the early 2000s era: AnimationFactory.com