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AddExcellent advice for creative professionals about contracts. It’s written for people who make fonts, but it’s solid advice for more creatives.
Interesting “brutalist” typefaces
Hilariously detailed article about hacking a vacuum cleaner.
Vocabulary of any tech hype, really, not just AI.
AI is an everything machine, which fits perfectly in a frictionless dystopia. A plea for more friction. I agree fully.
Chatbots vond ik al treurig. Nu is daar ook bewijs voor.
A tool to see if your HTML form is well formed.
Kritiek op westerse oorlogstaal wordt gezien als naïef, maar er is een blind vertrouwen op een industrie die geld verdient met het uiteenrijten van lichamen.
Laten we weigeren onze kinderen op te offeren in naam van een natiestaat
The other costs of LLMs. Or should we start calling them IPs? Internet Parasites?
Wow, an incredible "book" about how digital things work. Can’t wait to see more articles.
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.
A furious, very well written reply to an ableist and arrogant linux developer.
When people say it’s hard to leave insta or whatever, this is a good link
Sound effects of clocks, free to use
Mooie kritische benadering van een krankzinnige status quo. Wegen moeten weg!
The missing article on font size on websites, while also taking the user’s preference seriously.
Fieldsets and what they do
Being lazy is a good idea, and I need to look into view transitions.
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.
Interesting observation that the idea and the form of a quick sketch changes.
RIP sparkles emoji
validation and error messages