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What Artists Notice
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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Browser in the Dark: flashlights with CSS and canvas
Note: this article will make more sense if you are using a mouse or other pointing device. Requires javascript.
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Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus)
A few thoughts you're free to ignore
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What Le Corbusier got right about office space
A century ago, the father of modern architecture, Le Corbusier, was commissioned by a French industrialist to design some homes for factory workers near Bordeaux. The resulting development, Cité Fr…
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λ-2D: An exploration of drawing as programming language
An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus
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Design of This Website (2021)
Meta page describing Gwern.net, the self-documenting website’s implementation and experiments for better ‘semantic zoom’ of hypertext; technical decisions using Markdown and static hosting.
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An elegant bamboo structure in Vietnam
Vo Trong Nghia Architects designed this resort welcome center on Phu Quoc Island in Vietnam out of approximately 42,000 pieces of bamboo, rope, and bamboo pins.
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Abstraction: Not what you think it is
What abstraction really means in programming, from PL theory, by Jimmy Koppel: why functions, interfaces, and indirection are not abstraction.
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An Apple Original on DVD: The Definitive Unboxing and UX Review
In front of me is something that feels impossible: This is a legal, officially sanctioned DVD of the movie CODA, an Apple Original (Apple Inc.’s name for their exclusive original movies on th…
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Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes
Instant NeRF is a neural rendering model that learns a high-res 3D scene in seconds — and can render images of it in a few milliseconds.
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How to Build a Minimum Lovable Product
Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.
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The end of the nice GTK button
A look into my favorite Adwaita button and why I'm not happy it's going away
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Christopher Alexander has died
Christopher Alexander, a towering figure in architecture and urbanism—one of the biggest influences on the New Urbanism movement—died on Thursday, March 17, after a long illness, it was reported by Michael Mehaffy, a long-time collaborator and protege. Alexander was the author or principal author of many books…
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Photography is not Objective, Art is a Set of Choices
Art is not perception
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Typography is impossible (2016)
The practical guide to why laying out type never quite does what you want
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Why dark and light is complicated in photographs
Choices in photographic tone reproduction
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AVIF has landed (2020)
AVIF is the first browser image format we've had in 10 years. Let's see how it performs…
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Blender 3.1
Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 3.1, a solid update to an already outstanding release.
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It's always been you, Canvas2D
The API-next-door gets a makeover.
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How does perspective work in pictures?
Why don’t photographs make distant objects big enough?
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MDN Redesign
If you’ve accessed the MDN website today, you probably noticed that it looks quite different.
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The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8
Something to look at when all is lost.