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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 5 months 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 7 months ago
Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist
https://gizmodo.com/wall-streets-ai-bubble-is-worse-than-the-1999-dot-com-bubble-warns-a-top-economist-2000630487

One of many people warning for a bubble

 
Added 9 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 11 months ago
E.W.Dijkstra Archive: On IPW's (EWD 867)
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD867.html

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.

 
Added 9 months ago
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How to Become a Time Billionaire
https://archive.is/CBhrS

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.

 
Added 9 months ago
Taste at speed - by Carly Ayres and marc - Good Graf!
https://carly.substack.com/p/taste-at-speed

When anyone can produce something that looks good, the question becomes not “Can you make this?” but “Can you tell if it’s any good?” Or: “Can you make it better?”

 
Added 11 months ago
Fonts In Use is not active on Instagram - Fonts In Use
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/63903/fonts-in-use-is-not-active-on-instagram

When people say it’s hard to leave insta or whatever, this is a good link

 
Added 9 months ago
GitHub - kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic: Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.
https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

Tool for better audio control on Mac

 
Added 9 months ago
Berbice Nederlands: een taal in Zuid Amerika
https://neerlandistiek.nl/2025/06/berbice-nederlands-een-taal-in-zuid-amerika/

Interessant, over een uitgestorven vorm van het Nederlands.

 
Added 11 months ago
pkpass2png - Opengist
https://gist.manganiello.tech/fabio/pkpass2png

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

 
Added 5 months ago
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 11 months ago
Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories | drew's dev blog
https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/artisanal-git/

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

 
Added 9 months ago
Doctored Doom
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/drdoom/

Oof, depressing article about the collapse of education

 
Added 10 months ago
Where the Minutes Are Longer: The Weird Science of Telling Time on Mars - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/where-the-minutes-are-longer-the-weird-science-of-telling-time-on-mars/260967/

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

 
Added 11 months ago
Vasilis van Gemert | Time and Random Repetition | letterspace.amterdam 58 | June 11 2025 on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/1095857099

A talk I have about my clocks

 
Added 11 months ago
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

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

 
Added 5 months ago
Democracy Takes Time: Intersectional Temporalities in Participation and Deliberation
https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PaperDetails/79797

Time is not shared equally, just like wealth.

 
Added 9 months ago
Step Gradients with a Given Number of Steps – Frontend Masters Blog
https://frontendmasters.com/blog/step-gradients-with-a-given-number-of-steps/

Brilliant research into making stepped gradients with CSS. Looking forward to an easier implementation, one day,

 
Added 11 months ago
A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/href-value-possibilities/

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

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

Oof, what.

 
Added 9 months ago
You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/

A furious, very well written reply to an ableist and arrogant linux developer.

 
Added 11 months ago
Yes, let's teach LLMs accessibility, but also provide the companies using them with better strategies | hidde.blog
https://hidde.blog/teaching-llms-or-companies/

About llm’s bazooka’s and accessibility.

 
Added 7 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 9 months ago
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