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.

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.

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.

A talk I have about my clocks

Very, very nice article about the independent web. For my students.

All the details about ‘Coding Independent Code Points (CICP) for color space identification’

Oef, wat zijn digitale directeuren toch belachelijk voorzichtig.

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

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

A simple, understandable and affordable font licence

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

Nice docu. Interesting insights about how to run things, and how to do inclusion.

I really should make a martian clock. It should somehow be political though.

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.

Excellent, excellent intelligent rant.

Hilariously detailed article about hacking a vacuum cleaner.

Sound effects of clocks, free to use

This is an incredible resource: many (really, many) words that letter-professionals use explained in quite a few languages. Wow!

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

Numbers about the idea that people do not want AI.

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

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

It's easier to do sloppy work nowadays.

Some excellent nerdy and niche HTML knowledge about the href attribute value.