💎 Design Meets Code #3

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 - 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 - 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.

💠 DHH'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:

1. Output/end result: Define what done looks like

2. Purpose: Explain the why behind the task

3. Inputs: Provide necessary resources

4. Constraints: Set clear parameters

5. Next steps: Establish check-in points

Quote of the week

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.

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Stay curious,
Edgaras