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.

The question is just as relevant and just as meaningful as the question whether submarines can swim.

In retrospect, this accident of history has been a disaster, since almost all the opinions pushed by the commercial propaganda were false, and, in addition, the propaganda has been so effective that for many those opinions have become dogmata that can no longer be challenged without committing heresy.

Mooie kritische benadering van een krankzinnige status quo. Wegen moeten weg!

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.

Very handy, and cleverly opinionated read-later tool.

PNG got an update with HDR as the most important update (I guess)

Oof, what.

Excellent, excellent intelligent rant.

A simple, understandable and affordable font licence

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

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

Excellent resource about the UX of specific HTML elements in different screenreaders.

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

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.

Google AI feature in its search results is really bad.

I really should make a martian clock. It should somehow be political though.

AI is an everything machine, which fits perfectly in a frictionless dystopia. A plea for more friction. I agree fully.

Interesting “brutalist” typefaces

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.

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.

Productivity did not go up

Bovendien is het moeilijk voor te stellen hoe radicale gelijkwaardigheid eruitziet, het is onbekend terrein. Ik weet ook niet hoe een wereld zonder uitbuiting eruit zou zien, maar de huidige wereldorde leidt tot oorlog en geweld, dus het is het onderzoeken waard.

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

Interessant stuk over het werk van Katja Mater, nu te zien in FOMU, en over de sculpturen van Brancusi, binnenkort in H'Art. Over tijd dus.