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The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad
https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

[AI hype companies are] selling the idea that doing things is worthless.

Long, but very good read about hype, that the author calls Whatever.

 
Added 6 months ago
The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-force-feeding-of-ai-on-an-unwilling

Numbers about the idea that people do not want AI.

 
Added 6 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 6 months ago
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations – Retraction Watch
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/

It's easier to do sloppy work nowadays.

 
Added 6 months ago
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG)
https://w3c.github.io/sustainableweb-wsg/

Another super relevant set of guidelines to work with

 
Added 6 months ago
as days pass by — A (limited) defence of footnotes
https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2025/07/03/a-limited-defence-of-footnotes/

Nice and thorough. Footnotes are style and should be used, whenever you think you should use them. Design them, and do so with attention.

 
Added 6 months ago
Font Licensing Simplified — All Styles, All Media, One Flat Fee - Otherwhere Collective
https://otherwherecollective.com/font-licensing-simplified/

A simple, understandable and affordable font licence

 
Added 6 months ago
HTML Form inspector | Polypane
https://polypane.app/form-inspector/

A tool to see if your HTML form is well formed.

 
Added 7 months ago
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 7 months ago
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/

Interesting case where a new feature is added to software because chatgpt tells people it exists while it doesn’t

 
Added 7 months ago
Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/23/magazine/ai-art-artists-illustrator.html

A beautifully illustrated visual essay about AI and art.

 
Added 7 months ago
Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019, nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made by Generation Z have come true.
https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/31/iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-in-2019-nearly-6-years-later-all-the-predictions-made-by-generation-z-have-come-true/

Not sure what the real source is, but work less.

 
Added 7 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
cICP in PNG, explained • Chris Lilley
https://svgees.us/blog/cICP.html

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

 
Added 7 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 7 months ago
Design Beyond Barriers
https://designbeyondbarriers.com/

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.

 
Added 7 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
Is HSL really easier to use? • Chris Lilley
https://svgees.us/blog/hsl-bad.html

So there is no scientific proof that hsl is easier to use. But it does resemble the way human describe colours, much more than rgb.

 
Added 7 months ago
PNG is back!
https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/

PNG got an update with HDR as the most important update (I guess)

 
Added 7 months ago
Words of Type | Encyclopedia
https://wiki.wordsoftype.com/?view=grid

This is an incredible resource: many (really, many) words that letter-professionals use explained in quite a few languages. Wow!

 
Added 7 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
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
Halsema krijgt vanwege 750 jaar Amsterdam een speciaal jasje – en het wordt op de Nieuwmarkt en de NDSM gemaakt | Het Parool
https://www.parool.nl/ps/halsema-krijgt-vanwege-750-jaar-amsterdam-een-speciaal-jasje-en-het-wordt-op-de-nieuwmarkt-en-de-ndsm-gemaakt~b0b6e1e0/

Natural colours, coloured landscape in Amsterdam

 
Added 7 months ago
72 Seasons
https://veryinteractive.net/pages/72seasons.html

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.

 
Added 7 months ago
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