Vasilis’ bookmarks

PNG is back!

https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/

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

Added 5 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

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

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 5 months ago

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.

Added 5 months ago

Beware of the Google AI salesman and its cronies

https://housefresh.com/beware-of-the-google-ai-salesman/

Google AI feature in its search results is really bad.

Added 4 months ago

HTML Form inspector | Polypane

https://polypane.app/form-inspector/

A tool to see if your HTML form is well formed.

Added 5 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 5 months ago

Search Results | BBC Sound Effects

https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?cat=Clocks

Sound effects of clocks, free to use

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

GitHub - fullcalendar/temporal-polyfill: A lightweight polyfill for Temporal, successor to the JavaScript Date object

https://github.com/fullcalendar/temporal-polyfill

I want to start using the temporal API for my clocks.

Added 4 months ago

Van brommernozems tot scooterjongens – De Groene Amsterdammer

https://www.groene.nl/artikel/van-brommernozems-tot-scooterjongens

Erg mooi artikel over hangjongeren.

Added 3 months ago

The role of the University is to resist AI

https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.html

Excellent lecture about resisting AI. > I want to conclude by emphasising that the proposition that the role of the university is to resist AI is not simply a defence of pedagogy, but an affirmation of the social importance of imagination.

Added 3 months ago

HTML/SR Support lookup

https://tetralogical.github.io/screen-reader-HTML-support/lookup/lookup.html#article

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

Added 2 hours ago

Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders

https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/

Oof, what.

Added 3 months ago

Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face

https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html

The other costs of LLMs. Or should we start calling them IPs? Internet Parasites?