Digest #59 — Community links, new jobs, top posts!
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On the Side
A weekly recap of interesting links we've hand-picked from community profiles. Want to see more? Check out our Front Page!
Relatle
Time to play it by ear. Zade Kaylani and Karim Kaylani have fine tuned Wikiracing with a musical twist - choose related artists to complete the artist path of the day!
Pocket
Home is where the art is? Housed in Emma Vescio’s studio apartment, this tiny delightful show curated by Fred Blauth highlights the ways small things can define, reveal, shape and connect us.
CityHop
Get away from (almost) all the noise - Tyler Nickerson’s online lofi music station lets you virtually tour cities around the world by foot/car with the click of a button!
Write On
No longer keeping it in the drafts - discover all kinds of page-turning reads shared by the CV community (and publish your own using our new writing tab!)
Generating Unique Avatars
Randomly generating hundreds of thousands of unique patterns + colour combinations.. All the components of the process are explained in this quick walkthrough by Nathan Dorney!
The accidental art of backtick quotes
Why do some older quotes use backtick symbols as opening marks? Jens Lind explores a tiny bit of computer history that has since been ``rendered’’ obsolete by modern font standards.
Can we prevent decay?
Tale as old as time - David Mendes tackles the idea of ageing and how we might better set up standards, regular monitoring, and corrective measures in the field of design.
Post Office
Delivering the latest in recent Posts activity straight to your inbox. If you like what you see, stop by the feed for more!
Sidebar time? Nicolas Bichon, Chris Lee, Yihui Hu, Francisco Roca, Masha Shaposhnikova, Elizabeth Lin, Tahreem Saood, and Bethany Armstrong have a few things to talk about.
Adam Whitcroft, Justin Graham, Mehdi Mulani, Andy Wilbourn, Hannah Mrakovčić, Roby Saavedra, and View Kuphirun can bring just about any idea to life!
Muharrem Şenyıl, Danilo Ra, Daniel Feodoroff, Joel Tankard, Adam Kozel, and Julien Thibeaut may not sweat the small stuff, but they sure do pay attention to detail.
These shots by Nicole Kwan, Jonah Foss, Seungmee Lee, Rosalee Moschioni, Ana Malai, and Spencer Marsh are just a snapshot of what they’ve been up to!
Adam Eastburn, Caroline Luu, Javier Arce, and Arthur Lambillotte could draw a crowd with these illustrations.
Who’s Hiring
Psst.. are you hiring? Reach over 100k designers, engineers, and product people by posting a job listing on read.cv!
Decipad
Revolutionize the way people engage with numbers and join this team in their journey to bring data insights to everyday life in a simple, effective way!
2 open roles - Growth and GTM (first hire) based in London, onsite/remote
Paradigm
Design, prototype, and build end-to-end experiences for the internal products that help Paradigm operate as a premier investment firm (and help fundamentally transform the financial system of the future!)
1 open role - Product Designer (Internal Product) based in SF, onsite
Applied Intuition
Accelerate the world’s adoption of safe and intelligent machines and work on technology to fundamentally change the vehicles that all of us interact with every day!
3 open roles based in Mountain View, onsite
Magic
Magic’s mission is to build aligned and more complete AI to accelerate humanity’s progress on the world’s most important problems!
1 open role - Principal Product Designer based in SF/London/Vienna, onsite/remote
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