Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 25 posts.
Khan Academy recently launched an online environment for learning to program. It offers a set of tutorials based on the JavaScript and Processing languages, and features a "live coding" environment, where the program's output updates as the programmer types.
One of the most important color tricks I’ve ever learned was to avoid using the color black in my work. Mrs. Zamula, my childhood art teacher, first warned me about black when I was in middle school. And I heard the same again multiple times at RISD. It sounds weird at first, but it’s good advice.
Bill Buxton Microsoft Research Original: Jan. 12, 2007 Version: December 10th, 2025
Why can’t we just use vector-based icons in our application? This question, in a variety of reinterpretations, keeps on resurfacing in various forums, blogs and articles. It is asked in the context of desktop applications where the same icon is used in different ways, starting from very small 16*16 icons in file…
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Update March 2012 See my expanded critique of Colin Wheildon’s legibility research .
When doing the new website for the Sublime Text 2.0 launch, instead of just screenshots, I wanted to have animations to demonstrate some of its features. One of the criteria was that the animations should work everywhere, from IE6 to an iPad. This ruled out two common video options, Flash and the <video> element…
The “px” unit in CSS doesn't really have anything to do with screen pixels, despite the poorly chosen name. It's actually an non-linear angular measurement. The formulæ to convert between radians and px are as follows:
Object-oriented CSS is awesome. But littering your markup with non-semantic classes is not awesome. Those classes sprinkled all over your HTML are going to change, and that’s not gonna be fun. But if you combine OOCSS and Sass you get the best of both worlds: modular CSS without bloated, hard-to-maintain HTML.
Hidden features, reduced discoverability, cognitive overhead from dual environments, and reduced power from a single-window UI and low information density. Too bad.
Edit: Since this post, I've created an interactive tool for binary visualisation - see it at binvis.io
The Floppy Disk Icon means 'save' for a whole generation of people who have ...
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