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Button Stealer
Steals buttons from the websites you visit. Do your usual online stuff and watch the collection of stolen buttons grow.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,666 posts.
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The Making of Apple’s Emoji
When design leads to friendship, and that friendship leads back to design, magic happens. This is the story of how an intern and her…
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Visual Node Graph with ImGui
Using Dear ImGui for creating a visual node graph.
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So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?
A common source of confusion that I experience when posting my artwork on social media is: _why?_ Why use a plotter when you could use a printer? It's slower. Less exact. More expensive. It fails, far too often. Inkjet printers became ubiquitous in the 1980s because they solved nearly all of these problems. So why are…
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LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens
We often think of the same information at different levels or abstraction. Here's a simple example:
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Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS
(I did a Twitter thread on this a while back, against my better judgment, and now moving to a proper blog.) The hanging-punctuation property in CSS is almost a no-brainer. The classic example is a …
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Switch from Photoshop to Gimp: Tips From a Pro
Over six months ago, I stopped using Adobe Photoshop and switched to GIMP for all my personal photography projects. This wasn’t the impossible task that most people believe it is.
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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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Splash screens == sloth
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
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Firefox 89 Tab Appearance
Firefox 89 has a new appearance, removing features (ugh) and annoying some people while delighting others. It can be disabled by setting...
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Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code
Recently, I modified anthes.is to use my own subsetted versions of Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono. Following the principle of eating your own dog food , I also switched to Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono in my terminal. After a month of daily use, I can now assess this font’s practical advantages…
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Stop Brainstorming
Why brainstorming doesn't work - and why to do nothing instead
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Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch
Annoyed by the notch on the new MacBook Pro models? There's a built-in workaround! Adjust menu bar spacing with simple Terminal commands, no extra software needed. Say goodbye to hidden menu items behind the notch!
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Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)
2024 Nano Texture Macbook Pro on the left; 2021 Glossy Macbook Pro on the right TLDR: the Nano Texture performs wonderfully anywhere where light used to be a factor and used to force me to shade my screen or avoid the place entirely. I’m less concerned with where I sit indoors. Coffee shops / offices with skylights or…
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You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown
Design greatness is defined not by fame or recognition, but by how invisibly and effectively it serves human needs.
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Cool HTML elements nobody uses
Were you left in tears while searching for cool HTML elements? Don’t worry! This article contains 7 elements to up your Coolness…
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A beginner's guide to making beautiful slides for talks
I love designing slides for my talks, so here are some of my not-so-secret secrets and three beginner-friendly steps for how you can up your slides game.
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Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use?
I’ve been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year – almost 30 years ago – I was on an IBM PC…
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Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs
It might sound silly if you’re not a heavy user of browser tabs, but I am convinced that the lack of favicons is holding back Safari’s market share.
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A guide to rhythm in web typography
Web typography for web designers and web developers.
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Photography Composition
The most comprehensive free Photography Composition tutorial on the internet. "Rules" explained, tons of examples, charts and food thought. Time to step up!
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Dithering – Part 2: The Ordered Dithering
Understanding Threshold Map in Ordered Dithering.
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macOS Icon History
Documenting the evolution of macOS system icons over the past several decades.
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What color was “Apple Beige”?
I went looking for a defining color of the personal computer era. I found it in an old jar of paint.
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CSS is unnecessary given a layout language
CSS, a language for specifying visual appearance on the web, is … so complex that it has never been implemented correctly; yet, successive versions specify even more complexity. At the same time, it is so underpowered that many elementary graphic designs are impossible or prohibitively difficult, and…
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Escher-Like Spiral Tilings
The artist M.C. Escher drew many lovely tilings, which he called “regular divisions of the plane”. He worked hard to ensure that his tilings were of lifelike animal forms such as birds and fish. He filled notebooks with hand-drawn sketches of tilings, many of which later found their way into his woodcuts. If you’d…
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Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher
Ryanair are Europe’s most profitable airline and they are masters of this noble form.