Sound effects of clocks, free to use

The brilliant project by Jaap Meijers. An ereader that shows the time by showing quotes from books that show the time.

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

A nice introduction to testing with voice over on a Mac.

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

I really should make a martian clock. It should somehow be political though.

Chatbots vond ik al treurig. Nu is daar ook bewijs voor.

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.

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

Very handy, and cleverly opinionated read-later tool.

Very nice font for writing code

Interessant, over een uitgestorven vorm van het Nederlands.

Brilliant, clever recursive animations

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

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

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.

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

Interesting way of teaching the complexity of typography. A similar approach could be used for other design topics as well.

A talk I have about my clocks

Mooie kritische benadering van een krankzinnige status quo. Wegen moeten weg!

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.

Absolutely fantastic article that calculates the amount of photons that reach the eye from a single, printed letter.

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.