Tool for better audio control on Mac

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

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

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.

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

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

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?”

Very handy, and cleverly opinionated read-later tool.

A beautifully illustrated visual essay about AI and art.

Interesting: programming is not about finishing a product, it is about making, understanding and working with the thing. So programming is not about the end result, it is about the experience. Reminds me of chronos vs kairos.

Wonderful, the old Japanese calendar was divided into 72 seasons, each of a few days. I wonder if something like this could be made for my backyard, for instance.

This is an incredible resource: many (really, many) words that letter-professionals use explained in quite a few languages. Wow!

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

Numbers about the idea that people do not want AI.

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.

Brrrr, date in javascript is even worse than I thought. Ridiculous.

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

Very nice font for writing code

A good alternative to wetransfer

A tool to create bright CSS gradients.

Nice and thorough. Footnotes are style and should be used, whenever you think you should use them. Design them, and do so with attention.

Hilariously detailed article about hacking a vacuum cleaner.

Some excellent nerdy and niche HTML knowledge about the href attribute value.

The other costs of LLMs. Or should we start calling them IPs? Internet Parasites?