Fun exercise that compares internet speeds to nerve-speeds in animals.

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.

Vocabulary of any tech hype, really, not just AI.

Some excellent nerdy and niche HTML knowledge about the href attribute value.

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.

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

Prachtige visualisaties van vogels in amsterdam

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

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

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

Very nice font for writing code

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

Being lazy is a good idea, and I need to look into view transitions.

Interessant, over een uitgestorven vorm van het Nederlands.

Google AI feature in its search results is really bad.

Very interesting research into the effect of the common tools used in type design. Pretty much focused on type design, but should be translatable to web design as well.

Interesting “brutalist” typefaces

A tool to create bright CSS gradients.

A few extra arguments against LLMs. Mostly a personal answer/rant to an earlier article, and mostly pointing out flaws in the argumentation. For instance, that something was bad 6 months ago doesn't mean it’s good now. The same argument was used 6 months ago by the same people. Comparing people to large organisations when it comes to copyright Anonymous examples The fact that something gets attention doesn’t mean it’s as good as stated: see apps, crypto, etc. The fact that CEOs want us to use it, same thing, and even worse, because CEOs etc

Absolutely fantastic article that calculates the amount of photons that reach the eye from a single, printed letter.

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

Zeer uitgebreid artikel over Malcolm X

Time is not shared equally, just like wealth.

I don’t agree with this quote, as someone who uses code as a design tool, but …

But readable type, intuitive navigation, and smart color choices start in design, not in code. Developers build the product, but we set the foundation. It’s time to own that responsibility.

… but I really like the website and I think it is a great idea for a book.