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Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?
A while back I attended a Cloudflare board meeting and carried my laptop in a brown paper bag from a grocery store. This elicited a few com...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,346 posts.
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GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism
It looks like Google has finally pulled the plug on the old GMail UI. There’s no more “revert to the old look temporarily” button, so I guess they’re finally forcing us lagg…
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Sky lapse in two tone
Using Sentinel-1 radar imagery to make out the shapes of our changing seaborne energy system
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Triptych Proposals
These relatively small changes make HTML significantly more expressive, enabling far more web applications to be built with pure hypertext.
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How My Images Are Dithered
Hello there! This is my personal website and it is allergic to SEO.
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Blender 3.6 LTS Released
Blender Foundation and the online developers community proudly present Blender 3.6 LTS!
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Noise in Creative Coding
Noise is an indispensable tool for creative coding. We use it to generate all kinds of organic effects like clouds, landscapes and contours. Or to move and distort objects with a more lifelike behaviour.
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Signifier – a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces
Signifier is a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces. Acknowledging the processes and tools of digital form-making, Signifier’s digital immateriality draws on a deeply material past.
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More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams
A rundown of seven more common mistakes is system architecture diagrams and how to fix them
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Cracking the code behind Apple’s App Store promo card design
Promo codes - create your own scannable promo codes. equinux uncovers the secret behind Apple's App Store scan codes.
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How to pick the least wrong colors
An algorithm for creating color palettes for data visualization
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System Preferences Reimagined on macOS
After decades without a redesign, System Preferences on macOS gets a bold & beautiful new look.
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GUIs are built at least 2.5 times
Or Why I Think Lean Software Development is Wrong
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Why CSS should not be used for layout
Seeing as how the CSS wars seem to have flared up again, I thought I would weigh in. I have finally had a chance to really dive in to the details, and I have come to the following conclusion:
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If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe
A concrete example of why using native HTML as much as possible is better than slapping ARIA on top of things.
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3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
3D-knitting makes a whole sweater in one piece on a four-bed machine: no seams, no cutting, and 99% of the material ends up in the finished garment.
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Why Love Generative Art?
Over the last 50 years, our world has turned digital at breakneck speed. No art form has captured this transitional time period - our time period - better than generative art. Generative art takes full advantage of everything that computing has to offer, producing elegant and compelling artworks tha
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Domain-Driven Design
A definition of DDD as a software design discipline
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Design Books Every Hacker Should Read
Maybe you're an engineer, or maybe you work with a designer. Maybe you think that design is what you do in Photoshop. Or maybe you just care about design. If any of these are true, then there's a lot you can learn by reading and understanding these books. They'll help you understand how to
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Triangle Grids
Grids are great for tactical gameplay of turn-based games because they allow discrete movement steps. That means that you can bind positioning to other resources such as movement points, action points, food, etc. Grids divide the infinite variety of movement options into a few specific ones, which can be considered…
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The Panic Status Board
This is good. But a lot of things happening means a high chance that I, the man who lives and breathes Panic and has a giant status board in my head, might not properly explain everything to everyone. Steve and I realized it was high time we made this Cabel Status Board public… using technology!
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Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams
Materials from our SIGGRAPH '20 paper.
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Why do new cars look like wet putty?
"Wet Putty" whips are everywhere. What’s behind it? ... a BBSP investigation
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Edge detection doesn’t explain line drawing
Reasons to be skeptical of the conventional wisdom about line drawing perception
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We Need A Standard Layered Image Format
Last summer, Adobe killed their image exchange format "FXG". The idea was to have a publicly defined XML based image format which could handle vectors, bitmaps, and layers, and could be read and written by any app that wanted to support it (as Acorn did for a while).
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