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

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?”

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

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.

Oof, what.

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.

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

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

Fieldsets and what they do

Prachtige visualisaties van vogels in amsterdam

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

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

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

Pacifisme is de oplossing.

Depressing stats about using ridiculous amounts of energy

Tegen zomertijd.

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

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

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.

Form labels and what they do

AI is an everything machine, which fits perfectly in a frictionless dystopia. A plea for more friction. I agree fully.

Productivity did not go up

Google AI feature in its search results is really bad.

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.