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Literary Clock Made From E-reader : 6 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables
https://www.instructables.com/Literary-Clock-Made-From-E-reader/#

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

 
Added 7 months ago
Python: The Documentary | An origin story - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GfH4QL4VqJ0

Nice docu. Interesting insights about how to run things, and how to do inclusion.

 
Added 5 months ago
Send Big Files up to 5GB Securely. Tresorit Send: Secure, Fast & Free
https://send.tresorit.com/

A good alternative to wetransfer

 
Added 6 months ago
How Elites Rebrand Power as Virtue - CounterPunch.org
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/how-elites-rebrand-power-as-virtue/

A well informed rant against rutger bregman and his school for moral ambition, a powerwashing school for the elite, for them to feel good, but not to solve the issues they cause irl.

 
Added 5 months ago
Beware of the Google AI salesman and its cronies
https://housefresh.com/beware-of-the-google-ai-salesman/

Google AI feature in its search results is really bad.

 
Added 5 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 7 months ago
Brutal Types | The home of Interwar Period fonts
https://www.brutaltypes.com/

Interesting “brutalist” typefaces

 
Added 6 months ago
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How to Become a Time Billionaire
https://archive.is/CBhrS

While the idea is nice: own your time, don’t let notifications and managers own it. There is one important flaw though: the word billionaire. Becoming a billionaire is not a good idea, it is a ridiculous american dream.

 
Added 5 months ago
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Opinie | De geesten worden klaargemaakt voor een permanente mobilisatie - NRC
https://archive.ph/LVZm3

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

 
Added 5 months ago
Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders
https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/

Oof, what.

 
Added 5 months ago
Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI — Ludicity
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/?1

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

 
Added 7 months ago
Sunday CSS #14: Recursive square - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=rFPZM6tCT_o

Brilliant, clever recursive animations

 
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
CSS HDR Gradients
https://gradient.style/

A tool to create bright CSS gradients.

 
Added 5 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 7 months ago
Overcoming Challenges in Enterprise UX by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.
https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/overcoming-challenges-in-enterprise-ux/

Tips for enterprise UX. If we do this at CMD, this could be interesting

 
Added 6 months ago
Sceptical about website carbon emission figures - Fershad Irani
https://fershad.com/notes/sceptical-about-website-emissions/

A comment on the value of estimating the carbon footprint of websites.

 
Added 5 months ago
National Design Studio offers a rebrand of government services
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/12/national-design-studio-rebrand/

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

 
Added 4 weeks ago
Berbice Nederlands: een taal in Zuid Amerika
https://neerlandistiek.nl/2025/06/berbice-nederlands-een-taal-in-zuid-amerika/

Interessant, over een uitgestorven vorm van het Nederlands.

 
Added 7 months ago
A medium year
https://subject.space/projects-static/medium-year-bird-calendar/

Prachtige visualisaties van vogels in amsterdam

 
Added 5 months ago
Software Development at 800 Words Per Minute | Dickson Tan's blog
https://neurrone.com/posts/software-development-at-800-wpm/

Very detailed explanation about how to develop software using a screenreader.

 
Added 5 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
Don't Inherit the Box Model | OddBird
https://www.oddbird.net/2025/09/04/box-model/

Excellent explanation of why box-sizing: content-box can be useful.

 
Added 3 months ago
Time moved 5 times more slowly in 1st billion years after Big Bang | Space
https://www.space.com/quasar-clocks-universe-time-dilation

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

 
Added 7 months ago
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