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(optional.is) Latency and the Sea
https://optional.is/required/2025/07/03/latency-and-the-sea/

Fun exercise that compares internet speeds to nerve-speeds in animals.

 
Added 1 year ago
Software Development at 800 Words Per Minute | Dickson Tan's blog
https://neurrone.com/posts/software-development-at-800-wpm/

Very detailed explanation about how to develop software using a screenreader.

 
Added 1 year ago
Onderzoek gemeentelijke chatbots 2025 (details)
https://www.digimonitor.nl/gemeenten/gemeente-waar-sta-je/gemeenten-en-chatten/onderzoek-chatbot-2025/details/

Chatbots vond ik al treurig. Nu is daar ook bewijs voor.

 
Added 1 year ago
Sunday CSS #14: Recursive square - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=rFPZM6tCT_o

Brilliant, clever recursive animations

 
Added 1 year ago
A medium year
https://subject.space/projects-static/medium-year-bird-calendar/

Prachtige visualisaties van vogels in amsterdam

 
Added 1 year ago
Time moved 5 times more slowly in 1st billion years after Big Bang | Space
https://www.space.com/quasar-clocks-universe-time-dilation

The fascinating idea that time moved slower in right after the big bang

 
Added 1 year ago
Het zalige ogenblik – De Groene Amsterdammer
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/het-zalige-ogenblik

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.

 
Added 1 year ago
Being lazy with view-transition-old and -new | Blog Cyd Stumpel
https://cydstumpel.nl/being-lazy-with-view-transition-old-and-new/

Being lazy is a good idea, and I need to look into view transitions.

 
Added 1 year ago
The Mondrian introduction to functional optics
https://marcosh.github.io/post/2025/10/07/the-mondrian-introduction-to-functional-optics.html

An attempt to explain some programming paradigm visually.

 
Added 11 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 1 year ago
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. | MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

Depressing stats about using ridiculous amounts of energy

 
Added 1 year ago
Sceptical about website carbon emission figures - Fershad Irani
https://fershad.com/notes/sceptical-about-website-emissions/

A comment on the value of estimating the carbon footprint of websites.

 
Added 1 year ago
Don't believe ChatGPT - we do NOT offer a "phone lookup" service
https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/dont-believe-chatgpt

One of the sad stories where a lying bot affects a product.

 
Added 1 year ago
GitHub - fullcalendar/temporal-polyfill: A lightweight polyfill for Temporal, successor to the JavaScript Date object
https://github.com/fullcalendar/temporal-polyfill

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

 
Added 1 year 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 1 year ago
Hiut Denim | No Growth
https://hiutdenim.co.uk/pages/no-growth

I agree with the idea that businesses do not need to grow. Growth is the ideology of a tumor, of a parasite.

 
Added 1 year ago
Python: The Documentary | An origin story - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GfH4QL4VqJ0

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

 
Added 1 year 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 11 months ago
HTML/SR Support lookup
https://tetralogical.github.io/screen-reader-HTML-support/lookup/lookup.html#article

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

 
Added 9 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 1 year ago
How Sonic DNA Connects Generations of Music
https://pudding.cool/2025/04/music-dna/

Interesting tool to see how music is linked. Works the same with all kinds of creativity and art of course, we could use more of these visualising tools

 
Added 1 year ago
WCAG vs EAA: Understanding where WCAG stops and where the EAA starts
https://www.getstark.co/blog/wcag-vs-eaa/

Very interesting article that points out that the EAA goes much further than the WCAG. We should focus on that as well.

 
Added 1 year ago
The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-force-feeding-of-ai-on-an-unwilling

Numbers about the idea that people do not want AI.

 
Added 1 year ago
cICP in PNG, explained • Chris Lilley
https://svgees.us/blog/cICP.html

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

 
Added 1 year ago
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