Vasilis’ bookmarks

Halsema krijgt vanwege 750 jaar Amsterdam een speciaal jasje – en het wordt op de Nieuwmarkt en de NDSM gemaakt | Het Parool

https://www.parool.nl/ps/halsema-krijgt-vanwege-750-jaar-amsterdam-een-speciaal-jasje-en-het-wordt-op-de-nieuwmarkt-en-de-ndsm-gemaakt~b0b6e1e0/

Natural colours, coloured landscape in Amsterdam

Added 5 months ago

Don't Inherit the Box Model | OddBird

https://www.oddbird.net/2025/09/04/box-model/

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

Added 1 month ago

Don't believe ChatGPT - we do NOT offer a "phone lookup" service

https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/dont-believe-chatgpt

One of the sad stories where a lying bot affects a product.

Added 3 months ago

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.

Added 3 months ago

Unraveling the Disability Pride Flag • Buttondown

https://buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archive/unraveling-the-disability-pride-flag/

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.

Added 5 months ago

The sound of inevitability | My place to put things

https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/

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.

Added 3 months ago

as days pass by — A (limited) defence of footnotes

https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2025/07/03/a-limited-defence-of-footnotes/

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

Added 5 months ago

About Contracts

https://letterror.com/articles/contracts.html

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

Added 5 months ago

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com

https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/

Interesting case where a new feature is added to software because chatgpt tells people it exists while it doesn’t

Added 5 months ago

Typecooker

https://letterror.com/articles/typecooker.html

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

Added 5 months ago

Time moved 5 times more slowly in 1st billion years after Big Bang | Space

https://www.space.com/quasar-clocks-universe-time-dilation

The fascinating idea that time moved slower in right after the big bang

Added 5 months ago

Sunday CSS #14: Recursive square - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=rFPZM6tCT_o

Brilliant, clever recursive animations

Added 5 months ago

Friction and not being touched

https://tante.cc/2025/07/30/friction-and-not-being-touched/

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

Added 4 months ago

How Sonic DNA Connects Generations of Music

https://pudding.cool/2025/04/music-dna/

Interesting tool to see how music is linked. Works the same with all kinds of creativity and art of course, we could use more of these visualising tools

Added 4 months ago

Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019, nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made by Generation Z have come true.

https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/31/iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-in-2019-nearly-6-years-later-all-the-predictions-made-by-generation-z-have-come-true/

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

Added 5 months ago

WCAG vs EAA: Understanding where WCAG stops and where the EAA starts

https://www.getstark.co/blog/wcag-vs-eaa/

Very interesting article that points out that the EAA goes much further than the WCAG. We should focus on that as well.

Added 4 months ago

Mac VoiceOver Testing the Simple Way – Cloud Four

https://cloudfour.com/thinks/mac-voiceover-testing-the-simple-way/

A nice introduction to testing with voice over on a Mac.

Added 5 months ago

A Dictionary of "AI" — Sonja Drimmer

https://sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/8/20/a-dictionary-of-ai