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AddA simple, understandable and affordable font licence
validation and error messages
RIP sparkles emoji
This is an incredible resource: many (really, many) words that letter-professionals use explained in quite a few languages. Wow!
Productivity did not go up
Interesting “brutalist” typefaces
Interesting way of teaching the complexity of typography. A similar approach could be used for other design topics as well.
A comment on the value of estimating the carbon footprint of websites.
A good alternative to wetransfer
Another super relevant set of guidelines to work with
Brilliant and wonderfully written article which says that everybody who doesn’t use a microwave for all their cooking is missing out.
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
About llm’s bazooka’s and accessibility.
AI is an everything machine, which fits perfectly in a frictionless dystopia. A plea for more friction. I agree fully.
Tool for better audio control on Mac
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 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.
Form labels and what they do
Interesting case where a new feature is added to software because chatgpt tells people it exists while it doesn’t
Very interesting article about the work that went into creating Words of Type.
Interessant stuk over het werk van Katja Mater, nu te zien in FOMU, en over de sculpturen van Brancusi, binnenkort in H'Art. Over tijd dus.
Very interesting article that points out that the EAA goes much further than the WCAG. We should focus on that as well.