Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 181 posts.
A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.
Appreciating typography is a study in paradox. The primary goal of well-designed typography is to help you read the words, not appreciate how the words are comp
The semantics you didn’t know you needed.
Ahh, the demo scene - a digital art subculture, a motley gang of creative nerds, and a favourite pastime of mine. So much amazing art, music and code has been produced by sceners, and anyone who comes into contact with the scene might start to wonder exactly how - apart from hours of dedicated grind, of course.
The first long-term support release in 5.x series. Supported until July 2028.
A blog about software craft and quality
The one where I crowdsource an argument winner.
I read a lot of printed papers these days. While I enjoy reading on a laptop as much as the next guy, marking up a printed document engages me better. Also, there's something about sitting with a whit…
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
Two decades ago I had a better Mac desktop experience than I have today. I only had a single low res (by todays standards) screen, yet I felt like Hugh Jackman in Swordfish - deftly navigating more than nine displays without thinking, muscle and spatial memory working seamlessly together. TLDR; I built an app to…
I want to speak to your manager.
I tried Claude Design yesterday and I have a theory for how this whole thing shakes out.
AI agents produce slop when not restricted. Here are 10 things to watch out for
Make QR codes with photos in them
Posts on software engineering – engineering culture, system legibility, and performance.
A technique for accurate text and numbers in AI-generated images: generate the layout deterministically, then ask the image model to paint on top.
I used to see that retro multi-stroke text effect quite often and tried to replicate it using the CSS text-stroke property, but the results never quite matched. Because text-stroke accepts a single value, stacking elements was the only workaround I could think of, though it didn't seem to work.
A look at the history of visual changes to example.com.
How I turned a single long desk into a digital side for work and an analog side for reading, writing, and building LEGO with the kids.
A dynamic ASCII art cloud generator that creates cloud patterns in real-time
One of nature's beautiful patterns captured in dancing lights
I have a thing for lamps. Especially designer lamps from the past. I occasionally share them on X and Instagram, and people always ask me about the brands and models. I love lamps so much that I designed one myself. So I decided to give a tour of the lamps
The best part of digital video disc isn't the video.
Sometimes the law is not the law
Interaction models move beyond turn-based AI interfaces by handling multimodal, real-time collaboration natively across audio, video, and text.
An attempt to detect AI design patterns in Show HN pages
For a long time I was skeptical of LLMs—whenever I reached for them I was disappointed by the results. Last year I tried Copilot and Cursor to tweak a game I...
iPads should be radically touch only, and MacBooks should be keyboard-first
This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team.
