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AddInteresting way of teaching the complexity of typography. A similar approach could be used for other design topics as well.
One of many people warning for a bubble
A talk I have about my clocks
Form labels and what they do
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.
For students who think they need react. Maybe a bit complex.
Very detailed explanation about how to develop software using a screenreader.
Your brain is less active when you use tools instead of just your brains. Not very shocking. Rather obvious.
Fun exercise that compares internet speeds to nerve-speeds in animals.
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
Brilliant research into making stepped gradients with CSS. Looking forward to an easier implementation, one day,
A beautifully illustrated visual essay about AI and art.
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
The missing article on font size on websites, while also taking the user’s preference seriously.
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?”
Making a git repo, completely manually. A clever explanation about how git works, and what it does.
Natural colours, coloured landscape in Amsterdam
The author writes about junktime, which I think is an even higher step from kairos -> chronos -> junktime. Who was it again who said that Kairos is village life, Chronos is city life, controlled by the clock, and then Junktime might be online life, controlled by ever presence.
Wonderful, the old Japanese calendar was divided into 72 seasons, each of a few days. I wonder if something like this could be made for my backyard, for instance.
Google AI feature in its search results is really bad.
Excellent resource about the UX of specific HTML elements in different screenreaders.
Some excellent nerdy and niche HTML knowledge about the href attribute value.