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The role of the University is to resist AI
https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.html

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.

 
Added 5 months ago
The sad funeral of the sparkles emoji ✨ – Goed Maken ❤️
https://goedmaken.org/index.php/2025/09/04/the-sad-funeral-of-the-sparkles-emoji/

RIP sparkles emoji

 
Added 3 months ago
The sound of inevitability | My place to put things
https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/

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.

 
Added 5 months ago
The web behind glass · Medienbäcker Thomas Günther
https://medienbaecker.com/articles/the-web-behind-glass

Liquid glass is bad.

 
Added 3 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 7 months ago
Broken
Toolspace
https://letterror.com/articles/toolspace.html

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.

 
Added 7 months ago
Type Foundry Directory
https://typefoundry.directory/

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

 
Added 5 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 7 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 7 months ago
Van brommernozems tot scooterjongens – De Groene Amsterdammer
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/van-brommernozems-tot-scooterjongens

Erg mooi artikel over hangjongeren.

 
Added 5 months ago
Vasilis van Gemert | Time and Random Repetition | letterspace.amterdam 58 | June 11 2025 on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/1095857099

A talk I have about my clocks

 
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 5 months ago
Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist
https://gizmodo.com/wall-streets-ai-bubble-is-worse-than-the-1999-dot-com-bubble-warns-a-top-economist-2000630487

One of many people warning for a bubble

 
Added 5 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 6 months ago
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG)
https://w3c.github.io/sustainableweb-wsg/

Another super relevant set of guidelines to work with

 
Added 6 months ago
Welcome to Medieval Murder Maps
https://medievalmurdermap.co.uk/

This is what the web is for.

 
Added 5 months ago
Where the Minutes Are Longer: The Weird Science of Telling Time on Mars - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/where-the-minutes-are-longer-the-weird-science-of-telling-time-on-mars/260967/

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

 
Added 7 months ago
Why and How to Write Minimal and Valid HTML, a Link Guide · Jens Oliver Meiert
https://meiert.com/blog/minimal-and-valid-html/

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.

 
Added 5 months ago
Words of Type | Encyclopedia
https://wiki.wordsoftype.com/?view=grid

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

 
Added 7 months ago
Yes, let's teach LLMs accessibility, but also provide the companies using them with better strategies | hidde.blog
https://hidde.blog/teaching-llms-or-companies/

About llm’s bazooka’s and accessibility.

 
Added 3 months 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 7 months ago
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 6 months ago
cICP in PNG, explained • Chris Lilley
https://svgees.us/blog/cICP.html

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

 
Added 7 months ago
pkpass2png - Opengist
https://gist.manganiello.tech/fabio/pkpass2png

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

 
Added 1 month ago
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