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5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
All characters fit within a 5 pixel square, and are safe to draw on a 6x6 grid. The design is based off of lcamtuf's 5x6 font-inline.h, which is itself inspired by the ZX Spectrum's 8x8 font.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,666 posts.
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Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
I tried Claude Design yesterday and I have a theory for how this whole thing shakes out.
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Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum
36 mechanical keyboards. Click. Type. Listen. From IBM Model M (1985) to modern thocky customs.
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Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
I’m part of the desktop software generation. From Windows 95 to Windows 7, I grew using mostly-offline software on computers operated via mouse and keyboard, well before tablets and smartphones. Recently, I’ve been missing one particular part of that era: its consistency in design. I want to tell you about
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A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it
An enticing social media preview summary.
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Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again
On why bitmap fonts still carry more life than most default tech type.
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Generative art over the years
I’ve been making generative art on and off since 2016. It started as a programming exercise and slowly turned into something more personal as I discovered…
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I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
TL;DR I use an Excalidraw, wrap the elements of interest with a frame, name it with export_ prefix, my forked excalidraw extension automatically generates SVGs for light and dark mode.
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Death to Scroll Fade
The one where I crowdsource an argument winner.
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Too Much Color
I spent too much time looking at too many colo(u)rs to try and optimise them for csskit. Here are some interesting findings.
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The pleasures of poor product design
A brilliant project cleverly sabotages everyday objects to reveal how much we take for granted about them — and about the design process.
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Please do not A/B test my workflow
Anthropic is silently A/B testing Claude Code's plan mode on paying users. This isn't a consumer app. Stop treating it like one.
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3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
3D-knitting makes a whole sweater in one piece on a four-bed machine: no seams, no cutting, and 99% of the material ends up in the finished garment.
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Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
I've been obsessed with procedural maps since I was a kid rolling dice on the random dungeon tables in the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide. There was something magical about it — you didn't design the dungeon, you discovered it, one room at a time, and the dice decided whether you got a treasure chamber or a dead end full…
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Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image
You have an image but you want a colour
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Lil Finder Guy
Who is it? What is it? Is it friend or foe? Has it arrived in peace, or is it plotting to corrupt our SSDs and fray our USB-C cables?
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Some Words on WigglyPaint
In early December 2023, I wrote a drawing program called WigglyPaint and published it on Itch.io.
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The window chrome of our discontent
In a WWDC 2011 session, Dan Schimpf explained some of the goals of the refreshed design for Aqua in Mac OS X Lion were “meant to focus the user attention on the active window content”. This sentiment was echoed by John Siracusa in his review of Lion for Ars Technica: Apple says that its goal […]
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this css proves me human
Posts on software engineering – engineering culture, system legibility, and performance.
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Stop using grey text (2025)
Dear web designers:
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Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts
(TL;DR: this is a blog post about the process of writing my guide to SDF fonts .)
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H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright typographic mystery
The famed architect made a surprising error on one of his most notable buildings — or did he? A deep dive to uncover the truth.
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I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye
confusable-vision renders every TR39 confusable pair across 230 macOS system fonts and measures visual similarity with SSIM. 96.5% of confusables.txt is not high-risk, but 82 pairs are pixel-identical in at least one font.
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Sprites on the Web
In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web these days. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this post, we’ll share the niche CSS function you can use to leverage this technique, and explore some of the…
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"Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything"
A blog about software craft and quality
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Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty
Something truly monumental happened in the world of software development in 2025. Safari shipped a reasonable implementation of text-wrap: pretty: https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/. We are getting closer and closer to the cutting-edge XV-century technology. Beautiful paragraphs!
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A Pokémon of a Different Color
Do you notice a difference? The image on the right appears “yellower” than the image on the left, which looks more goldenrod by comparison.
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Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
In the release notes for macOS 26.3 RC, Apple stated that the window-resizing issue I demonstrated in my recent blog post had been resolved.
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Flood Fill vs. The Magic Circle
AI automation and the Four Horsemen of the paper jam.