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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 7 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 7 months ago
Unraveling the Disability Pride Flag • Buttondown
https://buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archive/unraveling-the-disability-pride-flag/

Very, very long piece about stuff around the disability pride flag, some sort of weird conflict it seems to have with an earlier disability flag. Some interesting observations about what it really means to design with a community as well.

 
Added 7 months ago
Yes, let's teach LLMs accessibility, but also provide the companies using them with better strategies | hidde.blog
https://hidde.blog/teaching-llms-or-companies/

About llm’s bazooka’s and accessibility.

 
Added 3 months ago
AI Images and Sketchy Realism — Silvio Lorusso
https://silviolorusso.com/publication/ai-images-and-sketchy-realism/

Interesting observation that the idea and the form of a quick sketch changes.

 
Added 7 months ago
About Contracts
https://letterror.com/articles/contracts.html

Excellent advice for creative professionals about contracts. It’s written for people who make fonts, but it’s solid advice for more creatives.

 
Added 7 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 7 months ago
The sound of inevitability | My place to put things
https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/

Some interesting ideas here, most notably that you should decide what the discussion is about. At the moment, silicon valley decides and that’s bad.

 
Added 5 months ago
Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories | drew's dev blog
https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/artisanal-git/

Making a git repo, completely manually. A clever explanation about how git works, and what it does.

 
Added 5 months ago
The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/

Hilariously detailed article about hacking a vacuum cleaner.

 
Added 3 months ago
Pakkenmaker Bonne Reijn (34) maakt zich zorgen om de monocultuur van de binnenstad: ‘Jongeren kunnen zich niet verhouden tot Amsterdam’ | Het Parool
https://www.parool.nl/ps/pakkenmaker-bonne-reijn-34-maakt-zich-zorgen-om-de-monocultuur-van-de-binnenstad-jongeren-kunnen-zich-niet-verhouden-tot-amsterdam~bee2b5ef/

Geweldig verhaal over een geweldige kerel. Onder andere over dat zaken doen niet per se alleen maar over zoveel mogelijk geld verdienen gaat. Wat een fantastische kerel, wauw.

 
Added 7 months ago
Search Results | BBC Sound Effects
https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?cat=Clocks

Sound effects of clocks, free to use

 
Added 7 months ago
How Sonic DNA Connects Generations of Music
https://pudding.cool/2025/04/music-dna/

Interesting tool to see how music is linked. Works the same with all kinds of creativity and art of course, we could use more of these visualising tools

 
Added 6 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 7 months ago
Doctored Doom
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/drdoom/

Oof, depressing article about the collapse of education

 
Added 6 months ago
Time moved 5 times more slowly in 1st billion years after Big Bang | Space
https://www.space.com/quasar-clocks-universe-time-dilation

The fascinating idea that time moved slower in right after the big bang

 
Added 7 months ago
Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face
https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html

The other costs of LLMs. Or should we start calling them IPs? Internet Parasites?

 
Added 5 months ago
A medium year
https://subject.space/projects-static/medium-year-bird-calendar/

Prachtige visualisaties van vogels in amsterdam

 
Added 5 months ago
Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ

Brilliant video showing the three shapes of stories.

 
Added 5 months ago
GitHub - fullcalendar/temporal-polyfill: A lightweight polyfill for Temporal, successor to the JavaScript Date object
https://github.com/fullcalendar/temporal-polyfill

I want to start using the temporal API for my clocks.

 
Added 6 months ago
HTML/SR Support lookup
https://tetralogical.github.io/screen-reader-HTML-support/lookup/lookup.html#article

Excellent resource about the UX of specific HTML elements in different screenreaders.

 
Added 1 month ago
Hiut Denim | No Growth
https://hiutdenim.co.uk/pages/no-growth

I agree with the idea that businesses do not need to grow. Growth is the ideology of a tumor, of a parasite.

 
Added 5 months ago
Do you speak typography? » Fontstand News
https://fontstand.com/news/essays/do-you-speak-typography/

Very interesting article about the work that went into creating Words of Type.

 
Added 7 months ago
Vasilis van Gemert | Time and Random Repetition | letterspace.amterdam 58 | June 11 2025 on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/1095857099

A talk I have about my clocks

 
Added 7 months ago
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