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Grids are great for tactical gameplay of turn-based games because they allow discrete movement steps. That means that you can bind positioning to other resources such as movement points, action points, food, etc. Grids divide the infinite variety of movement options into a few specific ones, which can be considered…
Tech and fashion logos are becoming increasingly similar, all of them using sans serif fonts. Why do they do that? And why it doesn't make sense.
Get a shiny WebGL look without actually using WebGL. In this article we take a look at how CSS blend modes unleash the potential of cool compositing effects without the need for JavaScript
All browsers add an 8px margin on the body element – it’s part of the w3c-recommended default stylesheet which browsers generally use as a starting point for their own ‘user agent’ styles. But why 8px ? Where does that come from?
When I first saw React.js , I had a quick glance and thought that it was cool, they finally figured out how to do a Cocoa-like MVC UI framew...
Typography for Lawyers
This is a post about why I'm making knotend , a flowchart editor designed for speed, and why we need to get away from mouse-based flowchart editors.
The Art of Game Feel (a.k.a Juice) in Product Design
Did you know Clarus the Dogcow is hiding in the macOS Ventura beta?
After decades without a redesign, System Preferences on macOS gets a bold & beautiful new look.
An algorithm for creating color palettes for data visualization
We've all been there: you learn a few things and it all seems so simple, but when it comes time to make something yourself, it doesn't look right! In this tutorial, we'll start with some "beginner's pixel art" and we'll make edits to it in order to show off some common mistakes and their solutions. One of the hardest…
Announcing Felt's public launch and $15M Series A. Maps are fun now! Margins is back!
When Elden Ring got released, I knew that i wanna sneak peak behind the curtains and look what is lying in there. i won’t claim that i’m the die-hard fan of solus genre, but i’m a die-hard gamer for the 3rd person genere and i like to try them even if they’re not in the sub-genere i love. I’m probably more biased…
For over 1000 years black text on white paper has been the best practice for printed texts worldwide. Since the advent of the web and WCAG…
A few programming languages use a “defer” pattern for resource cleanup. This is a construct such as a defer keyword which schedules cleanup code to run at the end of the enclosing block (or function). This is available in Zig, Go and even in GCC C.
Fonts designed by John Roshell in sunny Southern California
I’m a frontend developer, consultant, accessibility auditor, blogger, teacher, and book author from Austria.
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
Painters at work notice details we’d ignore. From those details they develop delightful insights into reality. What do I mean? Let’s look at Van Eyck’s “Arnolfini Portrait” and find out:
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