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Font Licensing Simplified — All Styles, All Media, One Flat Fee - Otherwhere Collective
https://otherwherecollective.com/font-licensing-simplified/

A simple, understandable and affordable font licence

 
Added 6 months ago
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG)
https://w3c.github.io/sustainableweb-wsg/

Another super relevant set of guidelines to work with

 
Added 6 months 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 5 months ago
De stekeligste zwarte stem – De Groene Amsterdammer
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-stekeligste-zwarte-stem

Zeer uitgebreid artikel over Malcolm X

 
Added 5 months ago
Het zalige ogenblik – De Groene Amsterdammer
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/het-zalige-ogenblik

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.

 
Added 5 months ago
AI Images and Sketchy Realism — Silvio Lorusso
https://silviolorusso.com/publication/ai-images-and-sketchy-realism/

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

 
Added 7 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 7 months ago
The Terror of Total Dasein | Hito Steyerl - DIS MagazineDIS Magazine
https://dismagazine.com/discussion/78352/the-terror-of-total-dasein-hito-steyerl/

The author writes about junktime, which I think is an even higher step from kairos -> chronos -> junktime. Who was it again who said that Kairos is village life, Chronos is city life, controlled by the clock, and then Junktime might be online life, controlled by ever presence.

 
Added 7 months ago
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.

 
Added 7 months ago
Why and How to Write Minimal and Valid HTML, a Link Guide · Jens Oliver Meiert
https://meiert.com/blog/minimal-and-valid-html/

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.

 
Added 5 months ago
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

 
Added 6 months ago
Granular Time — Silvio Lorusso
https://silviolorusso.com/publication/granular-time/

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

 
Added 7 months ago
National Design Studio offers a rebrand of government services
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/12/national-design-studio-rebrand/

A critique on the National Design Studio. Easy, of course, but interesting.

 
Added 4 weeks ago
Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI — Ludicity
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/?1

A few extra arguments against LLMs. Mostly a personal answer/rant to an earlier article, and mostly pointing out flaws in the argumentation. For instance, that something was bad 6 months ago doesn't mean it’s good now. The same argument was used 6 months ago by the same people. Comparing people to large organisations when it comes to copyright Anonymous examples The fact that something gets attention doesn’t mean it’s as good as stated: see apps, crypto, etc. The fact that CEOs want us to use it, same thing, and even worse, because CEOs etc

 
Added 7 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 5 months ago
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Making Software
https://www.makingsoftware.com/

Wow, an incredible "book" about how digital things work. Can’t wait to see more articles.

 
Added 5 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 7 months ago
Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders
https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/

Oof, what.

 
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 7 months ago
Do you speak typography? » Fontstand News
https://fontstand.com/news/essays/do-you-speak-typography/

Very interesting article about the work that went into creating Words of Type.

 
Added 7 months ago
Software Development at 800 Words Per Minute | Dickson Tan's blog
https://neurrone.com/posts/software-development-at-800-wpm/

Very detailed explanation about how to develop software using a screenreader.

 
Added 5 months ago
ServerlessHorrors | Home
https://serverlesshorrors.com/

Get hosting

 
Added 1 month ago
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.

 
Added 3 months ago
Design Beyond Barriers
https://designbeyondbarriers.com/

I don’t agree with this quote, as someone who uses code as a design tool, but …

But readable type, intuitive navigation, and smart color choices start in design, not in code. Developers build the product, but we set the foundation. It’s time to own that responsibility.

… but I really like the website and I think it is a great idea for a book.

 
Added 7 months ago
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