validation and error messages

One of many people warning for a bubble

Kritiek op westerse oorlogstaal wordt gezien als naïef, maar er is een blind vertrouwen op een industrie die geld verdient met het uiteenrijten van lichamen.

Laten we weigeren onze kinderen op te offeren in naam van een natiestaat

A good alternative to wetransfer

Shocking article about the ‘hysterical obedience’ in Germany:

very common in Germany, that to be law-abiding means not merely to obey the laws but to act as though one were the legislator of the laws that one obeys.

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

Fieldsets and what they do

Making a git repo, completely manually. A clever explanation about how git works, and what it does.

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.

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

The brilliant project by Jaap Meijers. An ereader that shows the time by showing quotes from books that show the time.

It's easier to do sloppy work nowadays.

So there is no scientific proof that hsl is easier to use. But it does resemble the way human describe colours, much more than rgb.

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

Depressing stats about using ridiculous amounts of energy

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.

Mooi artikel over tijd, over The Clock, over de expo in Breda, over verschillende soorten tijd.

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

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

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.

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

Turn a so called passport file into a png, as it should be.

Productivity did not go up

The missing article on font size on websites, while also taking the user’s preference seriously.