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Taste at speed - by Carly Ayres and marc - Good Graf!
https://carly.substack.com/p/taste-at-speed

When anyone can produce something that looks good, the question becomes not “Can you make this?” but “Can you tell if it’s any good?” Or: “Can you make it better?”

 
Added 11 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 11 months ago
The Hovercar Framework for Deliberate Product Design • Lea Verou
https://lea.verou.me/blog/2025/hovercar/

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 The examples are a bit outdated (a car and a cruise ship should not be the ultimate goal anymore), but this is something our students should probably learn.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?

 
Added 11 months ago
National Design Studio offers a rebrand of government services
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/12/national-design-studio-rebrand/

A critique on the National Design Studio. Easy, of course, but interesting.

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

Prachtige visualisaties van vogels in amsterdam

 
Added 9 months 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 9 months ago
E.W.Dijkstra Archive: On IPW's (EWD 867)
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD867.html

The question is just as relevant and just as meaningful as the question whether submarines can swim.

In retrospect, this accident of history has been a disaster, since almost all the opinions pushed by the commercial propaganda were false, and, in addition, the propaganda has been so effective that for many those opinions have become dogmata that can no longer be challenged without committing heresy.

 
Added 9 months ago
Send Big Files up to 5GB Securely. Tresorit Send: Secure, Fast & Free
https://send.tresorit.com/

A good alternative to wetransfer

 
Added 11 months ago
Step Gradients with a Given Number of Steps – Frontend Masters Blog
https://frontendmasters.com/blog/step-gradients-with-a-given-number-of-steps/

Brilliant research into making stepped gradients with CSS. Looking forward to an easier implementation, one day,

 
Added 11 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 7 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
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 11 months ago
Granular Time — Silvio Lorusso
https://silviolorusso.com/publication/granular-time/

Observations about shrinking time, the idea that the computer didn’t give us more time, as promised, but instead filled our lives with micro tasks. We should leave the clock at the door in many situations, like the art/design classroom

 
Added 11 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
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
CSS HDR Gradients
https://gradient.style/

A tool to create bright CSS gradients.

 
Added 9 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
Overview ‹ Your Brain on ChatGPT — MIT Media Lab
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/your-brain-on-chatgpt/overview/

Your brain is less active when you use tools instead of just your brains. Not very shocking. Rather obvious.

 
Added 11 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
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keeping-the-internets-time

Fantastic article about NTP, the complex system that synchronises time on the internet.

 
Added 11 months ago
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG)
https://w3c.github.io/sustainableweb-wsg/

Another super relevant set of guidelines to work with

 
Added 11 months ago
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity - METR
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

Productivity did not go up

 
Added 9 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 11 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 9 months ago
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