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PNG is back!
https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/
PNG got an update with HDR as the most important update (I guess)
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. | MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/
Depressing stats about using ridiculous amounts of energy
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The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keeping-the-internets-time
Fantastic article about NTP, the complex system that synchronises time on the internet.
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How Functional Programming Shaped (and Twisted) Frontend Development
https://alfy.blog/2025/10/04/how-functional-programming-shaped-modern-frontend.html
For students who think they need react. Maybe a bit complex.
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E.W.Dijkstra Archive: On IPW's (EWD 867)
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD867.html
> 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.
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The sad funeral of the sparkles emoji ✨ – Goed Maken ❤️
https://goedmaken.org/index.php/2025/09/04/the-sad-funeral-of-the-sparkles-emoji/
RIP sparkles emoji
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Van brommernozems tot scooterjongens – De Groene Amsterdammer
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/van-brommernozems-tot-scooterjongens
Erg mooi artikel over hangjongeren.
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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.
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Toolspace
https://letterror.com/articles/toolspace.html
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.
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Sunday CSS #14: Recursive square - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=rFPZM6tCT_o
Brilliant, clever recursive animations
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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.
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Beyond Bézier
https://beyondbezier.ch/
Very interesting research into the effect of the common tools used in type design. Pretty much focused on type design, but should be translatable to web design as well.
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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?”
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The web behind glass · Medienbäcker Thomas Günther
https://medienbaecker.com/articles/the-web-behind-glass
Liquid glass is bad.
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You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
A furious, very well written reply to an ableist and arrogant linux developer.
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De klok tikt door, maar we hebben de tijd - NRC
https://archive.is/tYmpb
Mooi artikel over tijd, over The Clock, over de expo in Breda, over verschillende soorten tijd.
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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.
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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.
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Brutal Types | The home of Interwar Period fonts
https://www.brutaltypes.com/
Interesting “brutalist” typefaces
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Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories | drew's dev blog
https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/artisanal-git/
Making a git repo, completely manually. A clever explanation about how git works, and what it does.
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A Useful Guide to Bad Type
https://letterror.com/articles/bad-type.html
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.
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Step Gradients with a Given Number of Steps – Frontend Masters Blog
https://frontendmasters.com/blog/step-gradients-with-a-given-number-of-steps/
Brilliant research into making stepped gradients with CSS. Looking forward to an easier implementation, one day,
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