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GitHub - kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic: Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.
https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic
Tool for better audio control on Mac
Added 3 months ago
Sceptical about website carbon emission figures - Fershad Irani
https://fershad.com/notes/sceptical-about-website-emissions/
A comment on the value of estimating the carbon footprint of websites.
Added 3 months ago
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen – Random Thoughts
https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/
Brilliant and wonderfully written article which says that everybody who doesn’t use a microwave for all their cooking is missing out.
Added 3 months ago
Hiut Denim | No Growth
https://hiutdenim.co.uk/pages/no-growth
I agree with the idea that businesses do not need to grow. Growth is the ideology of a tumor, of a parasite.
Added 3 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 3 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 3 months ago
How Sonic DNA Connects Generations of Music
https://pudding.cool/2025/04/music-dna/
Interesting tool to see how music is linked. Works the same with all kinds of creativity and art of course, we could use more of these visualising tools
Added 4 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 4 months ago
Doctored Doom
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/drdoom/
Oof, depressing article about the collapse of education
Added 4 months ago
Overcoming Challenges in Enterprise UX by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.
https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/overcoming-challenges-in-enterprise-ux/
Tips for enterprise UX. If we do this at CMD, this could be interesting
Added 4 months ago
Brutal Types | The home of Interwar Period fonts
https://www.brutaltypes.com/
Interesting “brutalist” typefaces
Added 4 months ago
GitHub - fullcalendar/temporal-polyfill: A lightweight polyfill for Temporal, successor to the JavaScript Date object
https://github.com/fullcalendar/temporal-polyfill
I want to start using the temporal API for my clocks.
Added 4 months ago
Send Big Files up to 5GB Securely. Tresorit Send: Secure, Fast & Free
https://send.tresorit.com/
A good alternative to wetransfer
Added 5 months ago
The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad
https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/
> [AI hype companies are] selling the idea that doing things is worthless.
Long, but very good read about hype, that the author calls Whatever.
Added 5 months ago
The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-force-feeding-of-ai-on-an-unwilling
Numbers about the idea that people do not want AI.
Added 5 months ago
Step Gradients with a Given Number of Steps – Frontend Masters Blog
https://frontendmasters.com/blog/step-gradients-with-a-given-number-of-steps/
Brilliant research into making stepped gradients with CSS. Looking forward to an easier implementation, one day,
Added 5 months ago
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations – Retraction Watch
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/
It's easier to do sloppy work nowadays.
Added 5 months ago
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG)
https://w3c.github.io/sustainableweb-wsg/
Another super relevant set of guidelines to work with
Added 5 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 5 months ago
Font Licensing Simplified — All Styles, All Media, One Flat Fee - Otherwhere Collective
https://otherwherecollective.com/font-licensing-simplified/
A simple, understandable and affordable font licence
Added 5 months ago
HTML Form inspector | Polypane
https://polypane.app/form-inspector/
A tool to see if your HTML form is well formed.
Added 5 months 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?”
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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/
Interesting case where a new feature is added to software because chatgpt tells people it exists while it doesn’t
Added 5 months ago
Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/23/magazine/ai-art-artists-illustrator.html
A beautifully illustrated visual essay about AI and art.
Added 5 months ago