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as days pass by — A (limited) defence of footnotes
https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2025/07/03/a-limited-defence-of-footnotes/

Nice and thorough. Footnotes are style and should be used, whenever you think you should use them. Design them, and do so with attention.

 
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
Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories | drew's dev blog
https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/artisanal-git/

Making a git repo, completely manually. A clever explanation about how git works, and what it does.

 
Added 11 months ago
Is HSL really easier to use? • Chris Lilley
https://svgees.us/blog/hsl-bad.html

So there is no scientific proof that hsl is easier to use. But it does resemble the way human describe colours, much more than rgb.

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

Oof, what.

 
Added 11 months ago
Programming as Theory Building - Peter Naur · GitHub
https://gist.github.com/onlurking/fc5c81d18cfce9ff81bc968a7f342fb1

Interesting: programming is not about finishing a product, it is about making, understanding and working with the thing. So programming is not about the end result, it is about the experience. Reminds me of chronos vs kairos.

 
Added 11 months ago
Mac VoiceOver Testing the Simple Way – Cloud Four
https://cloudfour.com/thinks/mac-voiceover-testing-the-simple-way/

A nice introduction to testing with voice over on a Mac.

 
Added 1 year ago
National Design Studio offers a rebrand of government services
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/12/national-design-studio-rebrand/

A critique on the National Design Studio. Easy, of course, but interesting.

 
Added 6 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 6 months ago
A medium year
https://subject.space/projects-static/medium-year-bird-calendar/

Prachtige visualisaties van vogels in amsterdam

 
Added 10 months ago
The JavaScript Date Quiz
https://jsdate.wtf/

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

 
Added 11 months ago
Broken
Making Software
https://www.makingsoftware.com/

Wow, an incredible "book" about how digital things work. Can’t wait to see more articles.

 
Added 11 months ago
Typecooker
https://letterror.com/articles/typecooker.html

Interesting way of teaching the complexity of typography. A similar approach could be used for other design topics as well.

 
Added 1 year ago
Hoe meer wapens Europa koopt, hoe onveiliger het wordt, stelt deze onderzoeker - De Correspondent
https://decorrespondent.nl/16200/hoe-meer-wapens-europa-koopt-hoe-onveiliger-het-wordt-stelt-deze-onderzoeker/4ea38a6d-8d80-030d-0142-70bcbc94e852

Pacifisme is de oplossing.

 
Added 10 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
Stop het verzetten van de klok - BioClock Position Statement
https://bioclockconsortium.org/nieuws/bioclock-consortium-presenteert-position-statement-stop-het-verzetten-van-de-klok/

Tegen zomertijd.

 
Added 8 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
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

Very, very nice article about the independent web. For my students.

 
Added 7 months ago
Pakkenmaker Bonne Reijn (34) maakt zich zorgen om de monocultuur van de binnenstad: ‘Jongeren kunnen zich niet verhouden tot Amsterdam’ | Het Parool
https://www.parool.nl/ps/pakkenmaker-bonne-reijn-34-maakt-zich-zorgen-om-de-monocultuur-van-de-binnenstad-jongeren-kunnen-zich-niet-verhouden-tot-amsterdam~bee2b5ef/

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.

 
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
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
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity - METR
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

Productivity did not go up

 
Added 11 months ago
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
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
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