Excellent lecture about resisting AI.

I want to conclude by emphasising that the proposition that the role of the university is to resist AI is not simply a defence of pedagogy, but an affirmation of the social importance of imagination.

RIP sparkles emoji

Some interesting ideas here, most notably that you should decide what the discussion is about. At the moment, silicon valley decides and that’s bad.

Liquid glass is bad.

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

Very interesting article about the idea that designer should make (hone) their own tools. Some quotes:

It is precisely the task of designers (graphic, industrial or whatever) to discover new possibilities.

Limitations and demands imposed by a client are easier to accept than the arbitrary limitations of your digital tools.

After all, programming graphic programs is much too important to leave to programmers.

Explorers, and that is what they are, do not want to do the same thing twice.

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

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

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.

Erg mooi artikel over hangjongeren.

A talk I have about my clocks

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

One of many people warning for a bubble

Depressing stats about using ridiculous amounts of energy

Another super relevant set of guidelines to work with

This is what the web is for.

I really should make a martian clock. It should somehow be political though.

A list of resources about minimal(ist) HTML. As with all minimalism, in a way it continues removing stuff until it is broken, and then it stops, which is one step too late. It should stop before it is broken. In this case: keep HTML readable for humans when viewing source.

This is an incredible resource: many (really, many) words that letter-professionals use explained in quite a few languages. Wow!

About llm’s bazooka’s and accessibility.

A furious, very well written reply to an ableist and arrogant linux developer.

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

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

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