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AddMaking a git repo, completely manually. A clever explanation about how git works, and what it does.
Liquid glass is bad.
Google AI feature in its search results is really bad.
About llm’s bazooka’s and accessibility.
Another super relevant set of guidelines to work with
Natural colours, coloured landscape in Amsterdam
Excellent advice for creative professionals about contracts. It’s written for people who make fonts, but it’s solid advice for more creatives.
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
Pacifisme is de oplossing.
Nice and thorough. Footnotes are style and should be used, whenever you think you should use them. Design them, and do so with attention.
Very handy, and cleverly opinionated read-later tool.
Nice docu. Interesting insights about how to run things, and how to do inclusion.
Very interesting article about the idea that designer should make (hone) their own tools. Some quotes:
It is precisely the task of designers (graphic, industrial or whatever) to discover new possibilities.
Limitations and demands imposed by a client are easier to accept than the arbitrary limitations of your digital tools.
After all, programming graphic programs is much too important to leave to programmers.
Explorers, and that is what they are, do not want to do the same thing twice.
The brilliant project by Jaap Meijers. An ereader that shows the time by showing quotes from books that show the time.
Oof, depressing article about the collapse of education
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
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.
For students who think they need react. Maybe a bit complex.
[AI hype companies are] selling the idea that doing things is worthless.
Long, but very good read about hype, that the author calls Whatever.
RIP sparkles emoji
A talk I have about my clocks