A well informed rant against rutger bregman and his school for moral ambition, a powerwashing school for the elite, for them to feel good, but not to solve the issues they cause irl.

I don’t agree with this quote, as someone who uses code as a design tool, but …

But readable type, intuitive navigation, and smart color choices start in design, not in code. Developers build the product, but we set the foundation. It’s time to own that responsibility.

… but I really like the website and I think it is a great idea for a book.

Interessant, over een uitgestorven vorm van het Nederlands.

One of many people warning for a bubble

Vocabulary of any tech hype, really, not just AI.

Oof, depressing article about the collapse of education

Wow, an incredible "book" about how digital things work. Can’t wait to see more articles.

This is what the web is for.

Very interesting article about the idea that designer should make (hone) their own tools. Some quotes:

It is precisely the task of designers (graphic, industrial or whatever) to discover new possibilities.

Limitations and demands imposed by a client are easier to accept than the arbitrary limitations of your digital tools.

After all, programming graphic programs is much too important to leave to programmers.

Explorers, and that is what they are, do not want to do the same thing twice.

Interesting “brutalist” typefaces

Oof, what.

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.

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A few extra arguments against LLMs. Mostly a personal answer/rant to an earlier article, and mostly pointing out flaws in the argumentation. For instance, that something was bad 6 months ago doesn't mean it’s good now. The same argument was used 6 months ago by the same people. Comparing people to large organisations when it comes to copyright Anonymous examples The fact that something gets attention doesn’t mean it’s as good as stated: see apps, crypto, etc. The fact that CEOs want us to use it, same thing, and even worse, because CEOs etc

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

validation and error messages

The idea that product (design) teams need a vision to work towards. The examples are a bit outdated (a car and a cruise ship should not be the ultimate goal anymore), but this is something our students should probably learn. And something we, as a school, should do as well?

Sound effects of clocks, free to use

RIP sparkles emoji

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

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

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

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

All the details about ‘Coding Independent Code Points (CICP) for color space identification’