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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
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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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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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Let’s fix font size
What happens when you set fontSize: 32 in your favorite editor
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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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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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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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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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Streams: Mail 3.0 concept
Introducing concept of Streams, aiming to fix most of email-as-a-medium flaws