It's easier to do sloppy work nowadays.

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

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

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

Excellent lecture about resisting AI.

I want to conclude by emphasising that the proposition that the role of the university is to resist AI is not simply a defence of pedagogy, but an affirmation of the social importance of imagination.

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

Zeer uitgebreid artikel over Malcolm X

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

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.

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.

Depressing stats about using ridiculous amounts of energy

Interessant, over een uitgestorven vorm van het Nederlands.

Pacifisme is de oplossing.

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

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

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

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.

Another super relevant set of guidelines to work with

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.

Fieldsets and what they do

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

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.

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.

RIP sparkles emoji

Very nice font for writing code