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An Internet Canvas
Wouldn’t you want a digital medium with the expressive ease of paper?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,346 posts.
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Rebuilding a featured news section with modern CSS: Vox news
Rebuilding Vox News featured section with modern CSS.
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I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter (2018)
When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably to abandon the page — there are technologies which can track this behavior and trigger a “mouse-out” alert. While this UX element (from companies such as Crazy Egg and Rooster) has great potential, I’ve found it far too…
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Manipulative Consent Requests
Achieve engineered efficiency, uncompromising quality, and long-term stability with our software solutions. We optimize your processes, ensure resilience, and support your growth—so you can focus on what matters most.
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Spinning Diagrams with CSS
This article discusses using CSS to make spinning 3D diagrams.
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When Interfaces Kill: What Happened to John Denver (1999)
How poor design killed John Denver dead.
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My Emacs eye candy
I get the occasional question about my Emacs theme, font, and other eye candy. I'm always tickled and happy to share. It's been a while since I've mad...
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Unpredictable black boxes are terrible interfaces
Why generative AI tools can be so difficult to use and how we might improve them
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Blender 3.5
Viewport compositor, VDM sculpting, built-in hair assets, many lights sampling on Cycles, and so much more!
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The age of average
In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each piece was intended to be a unique a colla
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Tailwind CSS v3.3
Tailwind CSS v3.3 is here — bringing a bunch of new features people have been asking for forever, and a bunch of new stuff you didn't even know you wanted.
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Trigonometric Functions in CSS
Calculate the sine, cosine, tangent, and more in CSS.
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CSS System Colors (2021)
In another episode of “I’ve been a web designer for how long and am only now learning about this?” let’s talk about CSS system colors. Background On my blog, I…
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Juice
Notes about creative coding on the Web.
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Designing Good Interfaces
Technician: Welcome to Custom Lube, how can I help you? Me: I need an oil change. Technician: OK, you can hop on out. Where is the oil you want to use? Me: I didn’t bring any oil. I expected you would supply that. Technician: That’s a common misunderstanding. At Custom Lube, we don’t supply oil or anything else. We…
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Why some GitHub labels are illegible
Mathematician and software engineer. Formalisation and AI
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An end to typographic widows on the web
Currently shipping in Chrome Canary, and thus soon to be in Blink-based browsers including Edge, is a relatively new CSS declaration which promises to virtually end typographic widows.
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SPA view transitions land in Chrome 111
The View Transition API allows page transitions within single-page apps, and will later include multi-page apps.
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Stylized Water Shader
💦 A huge, step-by-step tutorial on how to create a beautiful stylized water shader in Unity using Shader Graph. This works with Unity's Universal Render Pipeline (URP). Includes colors, foam, refraction, reflections, caustics and Gerstner waves.
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Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money
Learn how psychological biases are used to trick players into gambling money in the new Mario Kart Tour game, raising ethical questions.
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User interface design timeframes: from 0.1 seconds to 10 years (2009)
From 0.1 seconds to 10 years or more, user interface design has many different timeframes, and each has its own particular usability issues.
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Creating Isometric RPG Game Backgrounds
Using Stable Diffusion techniques to create 2D game environments
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Tether elements to each other with CSS anchor positioning
A new API is coming to the web platform to help you position elements in an adaptive way with no tricks.
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Recreating ANSI Art from a Screenshot
In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that time modding it. Initially, I wrote mods for myself, but eventually I started releasing them to other people. As a teenager, this was the first software that I wrote that…
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The Camera-Shy Hoodie
A DIY wearable for avoiding recognition on IR security cameras.