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AddGood 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.
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.
Very detailed explanation about how to develop software using a screenreader.
A furious, very well written reply to an ableist and arrogant linux developer.
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.
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.
Excellent explanation of why box-sizing: content-box can be useful.
For students who think they need react. Maybe a bit complex.
Absolutely fantastic article that calculates the amount of photons that reach the eye from a single, printed letter.
PNG got an update with HDR as the most important update (I guess)
Natural colours, coloured landscape in Amsterdam
A simple, understandable and affordable font licence
When people say it’s hard to leave insta or whatever, this is a good link
A comment on the value of estimating the carbon footprint of websites.
Fieldsets and what they do
Excellent, excellent intelligent rant.
Fun exercise that compares internet speeds to nerve-speeds in animals.
I really should make a martian clock. It should somehow be political though.
Interessant, over een uitgestorven vorm van het Nederlands.
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.
Pacifisme is de oplossing.
The missing article on font size on websites, while also taking the user’s preference seriously.