[AI hype companies are] selling the idea that doing things is worthless.

Long, but very good read about hype, that the author calls Whatever.

Numbers about the idea that people do not want AI.

Brilliant research into making stepped gradients with CSS. Looking forward to an easier implementation, one day,

It's easier to do sloppy work nowadays.

Another super relevant set of guidelines to work with

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

A simple, understandable and affordable font licence

A tool to see if your HTML form is well formed.

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?”

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

A beautifully illustrated visual essay about AI and art.

Not sure what the real source is, but work less.

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

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

The idea that product (design) teams need a vision to work towards. The examples are a bit outdated (a car and a cruise ship should not be the ultimate goal anymore), but this is something our students should probably learn. And something we, as a school, should do as well?

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.

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.

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.

PNG got an update with HDR as the most important update (I guess)

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

Very interesting article about the work that went into creating Words of Type.

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.

Natural colours, coloured landscape in Amsterdam

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.