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It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
Nikita Prokopov (tonsky)
I consult on all things Clojure: web, backend, Datomic, DataScript, performance, etc. Check out my Github and get in touch niki@tonsky.me
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In loving memory of square checkbox
History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces
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Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back
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Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
A non-comprehensive and opinionated guide to best monitor for programming
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Chrome breaks the Web
Chrome team breaks existing web to make Chrome perform better
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What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023
Modern extension to classic 2003 article by Joel Spolsky
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Software Disenchantment (2018)
Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care
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Let’s fix font size
What happens when you set fontSize: 32 in your favorite editor
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Every Frame Perfect
How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product
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Computers as I used to love them
File synchronization can be fun and painless if you don’t have to deal with corporate bullshit.
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Local First, Forever
We explore how to build local-first sync on top of simple file storage
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Redesigning GitHub Repository Page
Better design for Github repository page
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Graphics for JVM
Introducing Skija, Java bindings for Google graphics library, Skia
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People expect technology to suck because it sucks
I get at least 27 tech annoyances on a single day
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Emoji Under the Hood
Detailed look into all the machinery involved in rendering Emoji
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JavaScript Bloat in 2024
What is the average size of JavaScript code downloaded per website? Fuck around and find out!
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How not to hire a software engineer
A collection of anti-patterns seen in big IT companies regarding hiring practices
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Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast
Good performance practices are still needed when developing fast web experience.
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Thoughts on Clojure UI framework
Ideas and inspirations for new Clojure framework for desktop apps
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Zig, Skia, Clojure, Geometry and the Japanese TV Show: ICFP Contest 2021
4-day coding marathon
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Readable Clojure
Some advices to writing Clojure code
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Getting syntax highlighting wrong
Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting
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It is fast or it is wrong
Fast programs are always fast, slow programs are slow even on a most powerful computers. Knowing that fast solution exists makes slow one plain wrong.
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Managing State with Signals
An experiment of using incremental computations for managing state in Humble UI
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Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native
Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs can’t do it, but because there are no advantages left for native
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SwiftUI Defaults Considered Harmful
A few notes on SwiftUI and why UI frameworks should not try to be “smart”
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Sublime Clojure
New Sublime Text plugin for working with Clojure
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We shouldn't have needed lockfiles
Lockfiles are an absolutely unnecessary concept that complicates things without a good reason. Dependency managers can and are working without it just the same.
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Unofficial Guide to Datomic Internals (2014)
This post is a compilation of publicly available information, Datomic docs and google group answers about Datomic internals. Intention is to help others understand implementation model and use Datomic more efficiently.
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Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
How I build a website for choosing movies