Making a git repo, completely manually. A clever explanation about how git works, and what it does.

Wow, an incredible "book" about how digital things work. Can’t wait to see more articles.

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

Brilliant, clever recursive animations

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.

Very, very nice article about the independent web. For my students.

Brilliant and wonderfully written article which says that everybody who doesn’t use a microwave for all their cooking is missing out.

Tool for better audio control on Mac

A beautifully illustrated visual essay about AI and art.

Oef, wat zijn digitale directeuren toch belachelijk voorzichtig.

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

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

an independently researched and operated endeavor which primarily focuses on active, independent type designers and foundries.

Shocking article about the ‘hysterical obedience’ in Germany:

very common in Germany, that to be law-abiding means not merely to obey the laws but to act as though one were the legislator of the laws that one obeys.

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

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.

Pacifisme is de oplossing.

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.

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.

A simple, understandable and affordable font licence

This is what the web is for.

Turn a so called passport file into a png, as it should be.

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

Interessant, over een uitgestorven vorm van het Nederlands.