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Beware of the Google AI salesman and its cronies
https://housefresh.com/beware-of-the-google-ai-salesman/

Google AI feature in its search results is really bad.

 
Added 11 months ago
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keeping-the-internets-time

Fantastic article about NTP, the complex system that synchronises time on the internet.

 
Added 1 year 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
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
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 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders
https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/

Oof, what.

 
Added 11 months ago
Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019, nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made by Generation Z have come true.
https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/31/iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-in-2019-nearly-6-years-later-all-the-predictions-made-by-generation-z-have-come-true/

Not sure what the real source is, but work less.

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

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

 
Added 7 months ago
Brutal Types | The home of Interwar Period fonts
https://www.brutaltypes.com/

Interesting “brutalist” typefaces

 
Added 1 year ago
Taste at speed - by Carly Ayres and marc - Good Graf!
https://carly.substack.com/p/taste-at-speed

When anyone can produce something that looks good, the question becomes not “Can you make this?” but “Can you tell if it’s any good?” Or: “Can you make it better?”

 
Added 1 year ago
About Contracts
https://letterror.com/articles/contracts.html

Excellent advice for creative professionals about contracts. It’s written for people who make fonts, but it’s solid advice for more creatives.

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

This is what the web is for.

 
Added 11 months ago
Unraveling the Disability Pride Flag • Buttondown
https://buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archive/unraveling-the-disability-pride-flag/

Very, very long piece about stuff around the disability pride flag, some sort of weird conflict it seems to have with an earlier disability flag. Some interesting observations about what it really means to design with a community as well.

 
Added 1 year 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 1 year ago
James Bridle: ‘The Denial of Genocide Is on the March Everywhere’ - ArtReview
https://artreview.com/james-bridle-schelling-architecture-award-the-denial-of-genocide-is-on-the-march-everywhere/

Shocking article about the ‘hysterical obedience’ in Germany:

very common in Germany, that to be law-abiding means not merely to obey the laws but to act as though one were the legislator of the laws that one obeys.

 
Added 11 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 11 months 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
Foundations: labelling text fields with input and label - TetraLogical
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2024/08/21/labelling-text-fields-with-input-and-label/

Form labels and what they do

 
Added 6 months ago
Van brommernozems tot scooterjongens – De Groene Amsterdammer
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/van-brommernozems-tot-scooterjongens

Erg mooi artikel over hangjongeren.

 
Added 11 months 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
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