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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,346 posts.
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The Decline of Usability
If you find this text interesting, please consider also reading The Decline of Usability: Revisited or some of my other many ramblings on modern user interfaces.
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Sleeve cap ease is bogus (2005)
I have no illusions; I know that today’s post will upset quite a few people. Why, might you ask? Well, it’s because there has been a long standing myth -myth- in construction that the p…
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The most expensive typefaces (2019)
The most expensive typeface I encountered is JHA Bodoni Ritalic, at €4,401.99 (almost $5,000) for a single font.
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Updates to form controls and focus
HTML form controls provide the backbone for much of the web's interactivity. They're easy for developers to use, have built-in accessibilit...
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Affinity Designer: A Love Story
As I found out, Affinity Designer is a worthy rival to Adobe's sacred trinity for designers: Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
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Bokehlicious Selfies
I signed up for the excellent fastai MOOC recently, and one of the project ideas I had was the idea of adding bokehs to selfies using Deep learning. Most phones have a not so great selfie (front-side) camera and therefore this idea has some merits.
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A Light Box in Heavy Times
My son is nearing his second birthday, which makes him nearly two years old. When he was only four months old I decided that I would make him something with buttons. I didn’t have much more of an idea than that, but I ordered one hundred illuminated buttons and started mulling what to do with them. Nothing much…
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Creating a Pencil Effect in SVG
Dragons Abound produces maps in SVG, which is a vector graphics format. Vector graphics have a lot of features (such as lossless zoom) tha...
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GTA V – The Wormy Fountain
This article was updated. Jump to Update 1 . Update 2 . Update 3 . Update 4 . Update 5 .
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Design like it’s 1999
In which Simon Dogger and I wonder why it’s so hard to use the website with all Dutch national television documentaries.
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HSLuv, a developer friendly perceptual color space
Programmer chronicles.
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Stop using Material Design text fields
Why you shouldn't use or imitate the text fields from Google's Material Design UI library.
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Planetary – a music sequencer that looks like a simple landscape
In short: it's a sequencer that is deliberately designed to work a bit like Michel Gondry's video for Star Guitar :
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Undiscoverable UI Madness
We have a couple Mac users in the office so I went around and asked them how to do some things on macOS, which as we all know, is much better than iPadOS at making important, useful UI elements easily discoverable. I talked to 3 people who have been using
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Developer Experience: Fundamentally harder than normal UX
Many (maybe most) of us Software Engineers are deeply involved in projects where UI and UX are very important concerns (or at least they should be). Throughout the short history of our profession, we
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Blender 2.82
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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The web as a GUI toolkit
The web is kinda weird because it was originally created as a typesetting system, rather than a GUI toolkit. While this definitely has its drawbacks 1 and isn’t suitable for everything , I personally rather like the “web as a GUI toolkit” exactly because of its typesetting roots; it provides some features that few…
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Gears
Interactive article explaining how mechanical gears work.
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Single div Sierpinski triangle
Today I found another way to draw the Sierpinski triangle using pure CSS.
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Old CSS, New CSS
I first got into web design/development in the late 90s, and only as I type this sentence do I realize how long ago that was. And boy, it was horrendous. I mean, being able to make stuff and put it online where other people could see it was pretty slick, but we did not have very much to work with. I’ve been taking for…
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Apple’s New Map, Expansion #7: Final Parts of the Continental U.S.
On January 30th, 2020, Apple’s new map expanded to the remaining parts of the Continental U.S. , including Alaska and the Central and Southeastern U.S.:
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State of SaaS Product Onboarding
Read our State of SaaS Onboarding annual industry report to see how your product's onboarding compares to SaaS industry benchmarks & what best practices you could implement.
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iOS 13's Music App Sucks
iOS 13’s Music App gets worse as iOS gets better.