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AddLiquid glass is bad.
Very handy, and cleverly opinionated read-later tool.
A furious, very well written reply to an ableist and arrogant linux developer.
RIP sparkles emoji
Geweldig verhaal over een geweldige kerel. Onder andere over dat zaken doen niet per se alleen maar over zoveel mogelijk geld verdienen gaat. Wat een fantastische kerel, wauw.
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 agree with the idea that businesses do not need to grow. Growth is the ideology of a tumor, of a parasite.
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.
validation and error messages
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
About llm’s bazooka’s and accessibility.
A well informed rant against rutger bregman and his school for moral ambition, a powerwashing school for the elite, for them to feel good, but not to solve the issues they cause irl.
A simple, understandable and affordable font licence
Interesting observation that the idea and the form of a quick sketch changes.
A critique on the National Design Studio. Easy, of course, but interesting.
A comment on the value of estimating the carbon footprint of websites.
Another super relevant set of guidelines to work with
Fun exercise that compares internet speeds to nerve-speeds in animals.
Natural colours, coloured landscape in Amsterdam
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.
Oof, depressing article about the collapse of education
Mooi artikel over tijd, over The Clock, over de expo in Breda, over verschillende soorten tijd.
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.