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Once upon a time, a frontend ticket landed on my queue which was not properly mine, but the only other Arabic reader on the team was on leave. It went roughly as follows; a block of mixed-content Arabic prose on the …
Friends, this post has been in the making for maybe, 20 years.
Ryanair are Europe’s most profitable airline and they are masters of this noble form.
This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team.
An ersatz CSS tutorial for people who need to style a web page, but aren't web developers. I am a wrong person to write this kind of thing, as I have neither the time, nor experience. I'd much rather read a book about this. Alas, I had to learn all this stuff from trawling MDN, so perhaps it is valuable to document…
A parallax effect built entirely in CSS with scroll-driven animations, no scroll listeners required.
Two decades ago I had a better Mac desktop experience than I have today. I only had a single low res (by todays standards) screen, yet I felt like Hugh Jackman in Swordfish - deftly navigating more than nine displays without thinking, muscle and spatial memory working seamlessly together. TLDR; I built an app to…
A technical deep dive into how we built the @pierre/diffs package and CodeView component for zero-blanking diff rendering.
In this article, I try to understand why coding agents can be infuriating to use. I think the problem is their conversational UX: they behave enough like helpful colleagues to trigger our social instincts, but they don't learn, adapt, or take responsibility the way people do, which makes their repeated mistakes feel…
A blog about software craft and quality
A deep dive into the font of the “Dead Test” diagnostic cartridge of the C64, including an Easter egg, a look into the implementation, and, finally, some Commodore 8-bit character ROMs for download.
The semantics you didn’t know you needed.
How I turned a single long desk into a digital side for work and an analog side for reading, writing, and building LEGO with the kids.
If vibecoding is what people say it is, the world should be drowning in vibecoded artifacts right now. Two years of access. Millions of people with the tools. The barrier supposedly fell, right? RIGHT? So where is everything?
This article explores how to render realistic skies and atmospheres in real time in the browser with shaders, from simple sky domes, to entire planets using shaders, raymarching, Rayleigh and Mie scattering, and ozone absorption.
I used to see that retro multi-stroke text effect quite often and tried to replicate it using the CSS text-stroke property, but the results never quite matched. Because text-stroke accepts a single value, stacking elements was the only workaround I could think of, though it didn't seem to work.
There are lots of things that affect the quality of photographs. The biggest one is the skill of the photographer behind the camera.
A blog about software craft and quality
The website of Ike Saunders
The mythical, it's text, so it's accessible There is a persistent misconception among sighted developers: if an application runs in a te...
In the world of computing, we tend to abstract away complexity. Doing so seems liberating. It enables us to focus on the bigger picture. Unfortunately, in doing so, the fidelity of our understanding often decreases. We sometimes end up blinding ourselves.
I love going on wilderness adventures. I am rarely happier than when I am far off into the mountains without a soul in sight. As a result, I have spent a lot of time learning how to safely explore and navigate when I’m away from civilization. The most important habit I’ve found for not getting lost is to be very…
A technique for accurate text and numbers in AI-generated images: generate the layout deterministically, then ask the image model to paint on top.
This Spectrimage palette extractor started as a sidecar to image color analysis, but grew into its own feature.
Fragmented systems are brittle. Coherent systems are special-purpose. We need a new, general-purpose model so we can build coherent, multi-domain applications.
iPads should be radically touch only, and MacBooks should be keyboard-first
An attempt to detect AI design patterns in Show HN pages
We trained an MLP that predicts 58 body shape parameters from 8 questionnaire inputs. The trick: a differentiable physics loss. Mass accuracy: 0.3 kg mean vs 3.9 kg for Ridge. No GPU at inference.
From HTML-only to JS-infused, and all the CSS in between.
