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The Server Doesn't Render Anything
https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/the-server-doesnt-render/

Good article that explains that server side rendering does not exist.

If you love React and love using it—by all means. Just don’t mistake the complexity of React Server Components for complexity that is inherent to the web platform.

 
Added 11 months ago
Beyond Bézier
https://beyondbezier.ch/

Very interesting research into the effect of the common tools used in type design. Pretty much focused on type design, but should be translatable to web design as well.

 
Added 11 months ago
Software Development at 800 Words Per Minute | Dickson Tan's blog
https://neurrone.com/posts/software-development-at-800-wpm/

Very detailed explanation about how to develop software using a screenreader.

 
Added 9 months ago
You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/

A furious, very well written reply to an ableist and arrogant linux developer.

 
Added 11 months ago
James Bridle: ‘The Denial of Genocide Is on the March Everywhere’ - ArtReview
https://artreview.com/james-bridle-schelling-architecture-award-the-denial-of-genocide-is-on-the-march-everywhere/

Shocking article about the ‘hysterical obedience’ in Germany:

very common in Germany, that to be law-abiding means not merely to obey the laws but to act as though one were the legislator of the laws that one obeys.

 
Added 9 months ago
A Useful Guide to Bad Type
https://letterror.com/articles/bad-type.html

Very useful, extensive guide. Many points apply to other fields of design as well.

Creating a tool to execute the idea means innovation. Compromising the idea to the tool leads to stagnation.

I should sit down one day with some colleagues and write a similar useful guide to bad web design.

 
Added 11 months ago
Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders
https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/

Oof, what.

 
Added 9 months ago
Don't Inherit the Box Model | OddBird
https://www.oddbird.net/2025/09/04/box-model/

Excellent explanation of why box-sizing: content-box can be useful.

 
Added 7 months ago
How Functional Programming Shaped (and Twisted) Frontend Development
https://alfy.blog/2025/10/04/how-functional-programming-shaped-modern-frontend.html

For students who think they need react. Maybe a bit complex.

 
Added 7 months ago
Counting Photons
https://letterror.com/articles/counting-photons.html

Absolutely fantastic article that calculates the amount of photons that reach the eye from a single, printed letter.

 
Added 11 months ago
PNG is back!
https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/

PNG got an update with HDR as the most important update (I guess)

 
Added 11 months ago
Halsema krijgt vanwege 750 jaar Amsterdam een speciaal jasje – en het wordt op de Nieuwmarkt en de NDSM gemaakt | Het Parool
https://www.parool.nl/ps/halsema-krijgt-vanwege-750-jaar-amsterdam-een-speciaal-jasje-en-het-wordt-op-de-nieuwmarkt-en-de-ndsm-gemaakt~b0b6e1e0/

Natural colours, coloured landscape in Amsterdam

 
Added 11 months ago
Font Licensing Simplified — All Styles, All Media, One Flat Fee - Otherwhere Collective
https://otherwherecollective.com/font-licensing-simplified/

A simple, understandable and affordable font licence

 
Added 11 months ago
Fonts In Use is not active on Instagram - Fonts In Use
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/63903/fonts-in-use-is-not-active-on-instagram

When people say it’s hard to leave insta or whatever, this is a good link

 
Added 9 months ago
Sceptical about website carbon emission figures - Fershad Irani
https://fershad.com/notes/sceptical-about-website-emissions/

A comment on the value of estimating the carbon footprint of websites.

 
Added 9 months ago
Foundations: grouping forms with `<fieldset>` and `<legend>` - TetraLogical
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/01/31/foundations-fieldset-and-legend/

Fieldsets and what they do

 
Added 4 months ago
Welcome to Medieval Murder Maps
https://medievalmurdermap.co.uk/

This is what the web is for.

 
Added 9 months ago
I Am An AI Hater | moser’s frame shop
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

Excellent, excellent intelligent rant.

 
Added 9 months ago
(optional.is) Latency and the Sea
https://optional.is/required/2025/07/03/latency-and-the-sea/

Fun exercise that compares internet speeds to nerve-speeds in animals.

 
Added 9 months ago
Where the Minutes Are Longer: The Weird Science of Telling Time on Mars - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/where-the-minutes-are-longer-the-weird-science-of-telling-time-on-mars/260967/

I really should make a martian clock. It should somehow be political though.

 
Added 11 months ago
Berbice Nederlands: een taal in Zuid Amerika
https://neerlandistiek.nl/2025/06/berbice-nederlands-een-taal-in-zuid-amerika/

Interessant, over een uitgestorven vorm van het Nederlands.

 
Added 11 months ago
Programming as Theory Building - Peter Naur · GitHub
https://gist.github.com/onlurking/fc5c81d18cfce9ff81bc968a7f342fb1

Interesting: programming is not about finishing a product, it is about making, understanding and working with the thing. So programming is not about the end result, it is about the experience. Reminds me of chronos vs kairos.

 
Added 9 months ago
Hoe meer wapens Europa koopt, hoe onveiliger het wordt, stelt deze onderzoeker - De Correspondent
https://decorrespondent.nl/16200/hoe-meer-wapens-europa-koopt-hoe-onveiliger-het-wordt-stelt-deze-onderzoeker/4ea38a6d-8d80-030d-0142-70bcbc94e852

Pacifisme is de oplossing.

 
Added 9 months ago
Designing for User Font-size and Zoom | OddBird
https://www.oddbird.net/2025/07/22/size-preferences/

The missing article on font size on websites, while also taking the user’s preference seriously.

 
Added 9 months ago
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