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

Oof, what.

 
Added 5 months ago
A Useful Guide to Bad Type
https://letterror.com/articles/bad-type.html

Very useful, extensive guide. Many points apply to other fields of design as well.

Creating a tool to execute the idea means innovation. Compromising the idea to the tool leads to stagnation.

I should sit down one day with some colleagues and write a similar useful guide to bad web design.

 
Added 7 months 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 5 months ago
The Server Doesn't Render Anything
https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/the-server-doesnt-render/

Good article that explains that server side rendering does not exist.

If you love React and love using it—by all means. Just don’t mistake the complexity of React Server Components for complexity that is inherent to the web platform.

 
Added 7 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 6 months ago
The JavaScript Date Quiz
https://jsdate.wtf/

Brrrr, date in javascript is even worse than I thought. Ridiculous.

 
Added 5 months ago
72 Seasons
https://veryinteractive.net/pages/72seasons.html

Wonderful, the old Japanese calendar was divided into 72 seasons, each of a few days. I wonder if something like this could be made for my backyard, for instance.

 
Added 7 months ago
Welcome to Medieval Murder Maps
https://medievalmurdermap.co.uk/

This is what the web is for.

 
Added 5 months ago
A medium year
https://subject.space/projects-static/medium-year-bird-calendar/

Prachtige visualisaties van vogels in amsterdam

 
Added 5 months ago
(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 5 months ago
Don't Inherit the Box Model | OddBird
https://www.oddbird.net/2025/09/04/box-model/

Excellent explanation of why box-sizing: content-box can be useful.

 
Added 3 months ago
pkpass2png - Opengist
https://gist.manganiello.tech/fabio/pkpass2png

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

 
Added 1 month 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 5 months ago
Halsema krijgt vanwege 750 jaar Amsterdam een speciaal jasje – en het wordt op de Nieuwmarkt en de NDSM gemaakt | Het Parool
https://www.parool.nl/ps/halsema-krijgt-vanwege-750-jaar-amsterdam-een-speciaal-jasje-en-het-wordt-op-de-nieuwmarkt-en-de-ndsm-gemaakt~b0b6e1e0/

Natural colours, coloured landscape in Amsterdam

 
Added 7 months ago
De stekeligste zwarte stem – De Groene Amsterdammer
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-stekeligste-zwarte-stem

Zeer uitgebreid artikel over Malcolm X

 
Added 5 months ago
Broken
De klok tikt door, maar we hebben de tijd - NRC
https://archive.is/tYmpb

Mooi artikel over tijd, over The Clock, over de expo in Breda, over verschillende soorten tijd.

 
Added 5 months ago
Type Foundry Directory
https://typefoundry.directory/

an independently researched and operated endeavor which primarily focuses on active, independent type designers and foundries.

 
Added 5 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 5 months ago
AI Images and Sketchy Realism — Silvio Lorusso
https://silviolorusso.com/publication/ai-images-and-sketchy-realism/

Interesting observation that the idea and the form of a quick sketch changes.

 
Added 7 months ago
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/

Interesting case where a new feature is added to software because chatgpt tells people it exists while it doesn’t

 
Added 7 months 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 5 months ago
Van brommernozems tot scooterjongens – De Groene Amsterdammer
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/van-brommernozems-tot-scooterjongens

Erg mooi artikel over hangjongeren.

 
Added 5 months ago
Granular Time — Silvio Lorusso
https://silviolorusso.com/publication/granular-time/

Observations about shrinking time, the idea that the computer didn’t give us more time, as promised, but instead filled our lives with micro tasks. We should leave the clock at the door in many situations, like the art/design classroom

 
Added 7 months ago
Foundations: grouping forms with `<fieldset>` and `<legend>` - TetraLogical
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/01/31/foundations-fieldset-and-legend/

Fieldsets and what they do

 
Added 4 weeks ago
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