Tools & Resources

VOLUME 5

Stuff I use, like, and save for later

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This page is my go-to when I need a link to send someone or when I want to revisit something useful. I keep it for myself and for the folks I mentor (and anyone else who finds it helpful). I’ll update it as I find new favorites.

Tools

StackShare — A cool tool I found for seeing what tech stacks companies use and what developers are picking. Great for exploring tools before you commit, comparing alternatives, and getting ideas for your own stack.

AI Tools

Gamma — For making the most amazing presentations. Beyond incredible. You can share as a link, export to PowerPoint or Google slides—I love it. It has other features too but that’s all I’ve used it for so far.

Granola — My AI notepad. Takes meeting minutes for me and summarizes them; I can ask it questions and it answers from the full transcription. Never miss anything again. I also like the recipes bit.

AI Learning

Agent Skills with Anthropic — Free short course from DeepLearning.AI (in partnership with Anthropic). Learn how to create reusable skills so your agent can do code generation, review, data analysis, and research on-demand. Covers skills with Claude.ai, Claude Code, the API, and the Agent SDK, plus how to combine them with MCP and subagents. ~2 hours, beginner-friendly. Saved for later.

Newsletters I Actually Read

  • Lenny’s Newsletter — Product, growth, and career insights. I like it and use it. Consistently good.
  • One Tip a Week (Nick Taylor) — One developer tip per email. Short and valuable; I look forward to it.
  • Aaron’s newsletter — His thoughts and favorite tweets of the week. Interesting stuff and eliminates any need to go on X.

Sites & Blogs I Come Back To For Inspo

  • Mobbin — App design inspiration and thinking. I use this a lot for design reference and to see what’s possible in product UI.
  • UI Skills — A collection of UI skill challenges to sharpen your frontend craft.

Articles & Guides I Loved

  • Publishing your work increases your luck (GitHub ReadME Project, by Aaron Francis) — A blog I really enjoyed about doing great work and then publishing it. Covers the “Luck Surface Area” idea (doing things × telling people), why sharing what you build isn’t bragging, and how putting your work out there invites more good luck. Great one to revisit and to share with mentees.
  • Scroll-Driven Animations (Josh Comeau) — Deep dive into the CSS animation-timeline API that lets you drive animations with scroll position instead of time — no JavaScript required.
  • Harness as Black Box (AgentField) — Makes the case that AI agent harnesses are a fundamentally new kind of computational object, and why that changes how we should think about building and evaluating AI systems.
  • What is an agent harness? (@aparnadhinak) — What Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex actually share under the hood.

If you’re someone I’m mentoring or you just want to dig into the same stuff I do, feel free to use this as a starting point. And if you have a tool or resource you love, I’d be happy to add it here.