It's easier to do sloppy work nowadays.

Brilliant research into making stepped gradients with CSS. Looking forward to an easier implementation, one day,

Liquid glass is bad.

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.

Productivity did not go up

Interesting “brutalist” typefaces

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

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

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

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

Time is not shared equally, just like wealth.

Excellent, excellent intelligent rant.

Some interesting ideas here, most notably that you should decide what the discussion is about. At the moment, silicon valley decides and that’s bad.

Tool for better audio control on Mac

Excellent article for discussions about privacy

Absolutely fantastic article that calculates the amount of photons that reach the eye from a single, printed letter.

Brilliant video showing the three shapes of stories.

Sound effects of clocks, free to use

Tegen zomertijd.

Not sure what the real source is, but work less.

A list of resources about minimal(ist) HTML. As with all minimalism, in a way it continues removing stuff until it is broken, and then it stops, which is one step too late. It should stop before it is broken. In this case: keep HTML readable for humans when viewing source.

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

Oof, what.

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

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.