Drawing With Light: An Exploration of Lit GPU Tubes with TSL and WebGPU

A developer created a GPU tube rendering system using TSL and WebGPU that computes positions and normals in shaders, avoiding CPU-side geometry rebuilding for animated lines.

Codrops

14 min read

In this edition

Stories from Tuesday, 8 September 2026

UX & Thinking

UX Collective

Thinking

The sycophancy trap: what happens when feelings become the metric

Emotional design frameworks often fail when confronted with engagement metrics, creating a "sycophancy trap" where designers prioritize pleasing users over effective solutions.

The singular viable product

The declining cost of software development, driven by LLMs and agentic coding, is ending the era of "mean viable products" designed for broad markets. This shift enables developers to create highly personalized "singular viable products" for an audience of one, which can then organically scale.

AI canvas, Synthetic self, The prompt is the product

The prompt becomes the product in an AI canvas, creating a synthetic self through generative design.

2 days ago

Codrops

Inspo

Building a Real-Time 3D Face Mask with MediaPipe, Threlte and Three.js

MediaPipe's face landmarks, Google's canonical face model, and Three.js combine to create a real-time textured 3D face mask, with specific attention to topology and UV mapping.

2 days ago10 min read

Codrops

Inspo

Building an Infinite Loom: Unravelling Images into Threads with Three.js

An experimental Three.js demo transforms images into flowing ribbons, weaving them together and unraveling them as they move across the screen, using separate geometry for each thread.

Reading and writing are interfaces. And AI can reduce their friction.

Reading and writing function as interfaces, and artificial intelligence offers the potential to decrease friction within these fundamental human interactions.

4 days ago

Curator's picks

Must read today

The pieces worth pausing on, hand-selected from today's edition.

AI & Tools

Hugging Face

Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic

Large language models' safety alignment should refuse specific harmful subsets of a topic, not the entire topic, to allow for nuanced deployment policies, according to new research.

9 hours ago7 min read

Design Tools

Your product didn’t get worse

Customers' expectations for product usability are changing due to the rise of AI agents, making previously acceptable workflows feel tedious, even if product quality remains constant.

Sidebar.io

6 min read