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Tailscale's new macOS home
Tailscale now has a full windowed UI. Before that, our app had to tell you it was hidden by The Notch.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 680 posts.
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GitHub Monaspace Case Study
Custom Fonts for Github
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More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams
A rundown of seven more common mistakes is system architecture diagrams and how to fix them
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Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)
Tove Jansson illustrated books of other appreciated authors during her career. One of them was J. R. R. Tolkien's classic The Hobbit.
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An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop
Thinking of using AI for your Shopify 3D models? Read this first. We compare AI-generated 3D 'slop' vs. handcrafted models to show why the human touch is very much required to attain positive ROI.
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Typography on Pencils (2023)
It wouldn't be Pencil Day without a round up of our pencil typography photos. Check out our current stock of new & vintage pencils here. Please do credit us if you use these images anywhere. Thank you.
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Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?
In people with normal vision (or corrected-to-normal vision), visual performance tends to be better with light mode, whereas some people with cataract and related disorders may perform better with dark mode. On the flip side, long-term reading in light mode may be associated with myopia.
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CSS Grid Lanes
It’s here, the future of masonry layouts on the web!
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Making Google Sans Flex
Discover the inside story of Google Sans, Google’s iconic brand typeface. From product lockups to code, learn how the Google Sans font family has evolved to solve specific UX design problems.
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1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023)
「君たちはどう生きるか」の場面写真を提供致します。 現在、劇場公開中の「君たちはどう生きるか」の場面写真 14枚を、本日から提供いたします。 これまでの分と同様に、常識の範囲でご自由にお使いください。 君たちはどう生きるか14枚 2023.08.04 提供開始 2020.12.18 提供開
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GitHub no longer uses Toasts
How to ensure updates and messages are communicated in an inclusive way.
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No ARIA is better than bad ARIA
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
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Blender 5.0
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Blender Lab
Introducing an innovation space within the Blender project.
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How to create accessible PDFs from the start
Accessibility does not need to be hard. Learn how to create accessible PDFs with Typst without any additional software while reaching new audiences and meeting...
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Why JPEG XL ignoring bit depth is genius (and why AVIF can't pull it off)
JPEG and AVIF are locked to 8, 10 or 12 bits. JPEG XL works in float32 with the XYB color space, so bit depth stops mattering. Here’s why that helps HDR.
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The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish
When Mr Lewin began explaining how cartographers addressed the challenge of portraying what is essentially a three dimensional object - the world - on a two dimensional plane - a piece of paper - my eyes lit up!
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Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions.
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The Flummoxagon
We’re excited to announce Flummoxagon, a new geometric puzzle game that might just leave you flummoxed. Imagine a mash-up of Pentominoes and Sudoku. Your goal is to fit all the pieces into the hexa…
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Ohno Type School: A (2020)
OH no Type Co. Retail and custom typefaces. Life’s a thrill, fonts are chill!
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macOS becomes iOS: Safari video controls
At WWDC 2018, Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi asked, “Are you merging iOS and macOS?” This rhetorical question was presumably in response to widespread criticism. Federighi's rhetorical answer was, “No. Of course not.”
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AI tools are making the world look weird
LLMs think WEIRD - Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic. STRAT7 explores what AI cultural bias means for researchers working across global markets.
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Why our website looks like an operating system
I have a problem with many large, technical websites. Often times, I’ll want to refer to different pages at the same time. So I’ll CMD + click “a…
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Areal, Are.na's new typeface
An interview with Dinamo’s Johannes Breyer on the custom Arial “revival” typeface.
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Elegant mathematics bending the future of design
EPFL researchers have developed a new way to design complex, curved three-dimensional shapes using flat materials such as paper, aluminum sheets or plastic, combining creative thinking with a new computational algorithm.
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A gentle introduction to anchor positioning
Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is.
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Animated Cursors
Tattoy is a text-based terminal compositor
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Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard
Get ready for blending on-the-go.
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Don't animate height
Our app was mysteriously using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook. It turned out this was due to a tiny CSS animation! In this post, I show how to find expensive animations, why some are so expensive, and how to make many animations much cheaper. Along the way, we'll learn how the browser renders CSS animations and…
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Blender 4.5 LTS
With 2 years of updates, full Vulkan support, and quality-of-life improvements, Blender 4.5 LTS is every Blenderhead’s best friend.