Hey folks,

I’ve been looking at a lot of design resources for the manual recently. Interface Craft by Josh is one of the best places I’ve found for learning how to actually feel and notice taste.

Means & Methods is now live on interfacecraft.dev. A collection of practical techniques to achieve excellence in interface design, covering 100+ topics across 11 chapters, with plenty of interactive examples and code. New members welcome; enjoy!

@joshpuckett⁶⁶²

Let’s get into what happened over the weekend.

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Headlines

• Codex Record & Replay⁶¹⁰ - show Codex a recurring workflow once, like filing an expense report or submitting time off, and it turns the demo into an inspectable, editable skill you can reuse.

• Claude Code has Artifacts now³⁷⁶ - HTML pages with some functionality that you can share with others (like a PR walkthrough or living project dashboard). Available in beta for Team and Enterprise plans.

• OpenAI is expanding Daybreak¹³⁴, its cybersecurity program, with a new version of GPT-5.5-Cyber (trusted partners only) that can reproduce even more bugs than Mythos and Patch the Planet¹⁰⁵, a push to help maintainers fix vulnerable open-source software faster.

• Sakana AI released Fugu¹³⁴ - An API that picks and coordinates several models for hard tasks. Fugu Ultra claims 73.7 on SWE-bench Pro and 82.1 on TerminalBench 2.1, roughly Fable-class, but you will feel gaps in real usage.

• Build & ship at the Runpod Flash Hack Day! Join Runpod on June 30 at the SF Builder’s Collective for an in-person hackathon. Remote-friendly. Learn how to use Runpod Flash⁷⁷ to turn Python functions into auto-scaling, serverless GPU endpoints without Docker. Demos, prizes & mentorship. Register here⁷⁰.*

My feed

• The coming loop^1,167 - this is the clearest explanation/writing I’ve read on the loop discourse.

• Cursor /automate²¹⁰ - describe an automation; Cursor sets triggers, tools and instructions.

• Claude Code steering guide⁶⁴⁶ - where to put instructions, skills, hooks and subagents.

• Gemini’s Interactions API¹⁵⁶ is now generally available. It combines their API for models and agents.

• GPT-5.5 Instant got better at health questions¹⁰⁰ - now on par with OpenAI’s best Thinking models, per OpenAI.

• birdclaw.sh¹⁸⁹ - local Twitter archive with search, inbox and ranked triage. (see more⁷⁵)

• Lettera³⁰⁰ - native file-based Markdown editor for Mac.

• Perplexity Computer has a new memory system¹⁹² - Brain.

• You’re spending too much⁴⁶⁵ on AI. You’re also using it too little.

• Stripe Directory¹¹¹ - agents can search and pay Stripe businesses from the CLI.

• Clips²²³ - open-source Loom alternative agents can inspect from a URL.

• Can Claude get a robot to play ball?¹⁰⁰ Not fully, but Opus 4.7 was about 20x faster than last year’s Opus 4.1 team.

• Ports¹⁷³ - Mac menu app for local dev servers, ports and kill/open buttons.

• Slackbot can now connect¹¹⁸ to 20+ apps like Linear, Replit, Canva, DocuSign, Zoom and more.

• ElevenLabs Ads Engine¹⁸⁵ - localise ads into 50+ languages and publish to ad accounts.

• 15 copy-paste loops⁶⁶⁹ people are actually running.

• Joining a Software Factory¹³⁸ - how Factory builds repos for agent PRs.

• Post-Agent Companies¹⁸¹ - agents make labour cheap; context and trust stay scarce.

Afters

A fundamental problem with extending Codex/Cowork/Code to all knowledge work is that they remain very "software-brained" where the end result (the software) is what is important & that code serves as a source of truth. For a lot of other knowledge work, the process is at least

@emollick²⁵⁰

5 steps to create amazing videos like the one below from HTML for free: Install @HyperFrames_ in your favorite coding harness (e.g., Codex or Claude Code). Then... 1. Gather your assets Create a project folder and add screenshots, logos, website captures, reference clips, and

@petergyang³⁸²

Writing the post vs rebuilding the blog to write the post. Doing the task vs creating a todo list to do the task. Shipping the feature vs refactoring so you can ship the feature. We never learn.

@shadcn¹²⁴

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