Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 137 posts.
You might remember him from such roles as Troy McClure or Lionel Hutz, but in the years before legendary comic Phil Hartman shaved the second ‘n’ from his name, he was designing album art for some West Coast rock bands.
The story of why and how I developed a tool for designing MDF furniture by writing my own little language that transpiles into a CSS grid layout.
After a long alpha period, we're excited to release the first public beta of Tailwind CSS v4.0.
Try setting the root font-size to `calc(1rem + 0.25vw)` instead of using media queries with fixed breakpoints.
CSS Color 4 brings wide gamut color tools and capabilities to the web.
Posted on Thursday 5 Sep 2024. 1,133 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.
Learn how to use CSS Anchor Positioning to create flow charts and diagram with just CSS.
A month ago, I flew from London to NYC, paid $3500 for a Vision Pro headset at Apple Fifth Avenue, and flew back home. I’ve been using it every day since — here’s what I think. My background, for context: I’ve been working in AR for many years. I built...
I recently decided to make an app for the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) during a two-week break between jobs. I wanted to explore its potential and learn some new skills. My day job primarily involves low-level firmware; I hadn’t built a user-facing app in a while–my last iOS app experience was back in high school in 2011!…
Designer News is dead. Designer News was an online community for product designers. For years it was the best forum to discuss designing software.
Just intonation (JI) today falls under the umbrella of microtonal music, because it involves playing "between the notes" of the 12-tone scale we're used to. As I type microtonal , my spellchecker decorates it with a sad squiggle, confirming I've drifted (again) into a topic that's not even in its dictionary. But JI is…
Map UI (User Interface) for the film “Ghost in the Shell” Copyright Shirow Masamune / Kodansha • Bandai Visual • Manga Entertainment •
Randomness, rules and natural systems. Some non-restrictive definitions and an exploration of the form.
We believe that charts with two different y-axes make it hard for most people to intuitively make right statements about two data series.
Pros and cons for different typesetting engines from engineering perspective and why PPReseume chose LaTeX.
A friendly new font family that's open source and free for both personal and commercial use. Discover a detailed breakdown of our design process and download links.
trainwreck design 2024-08-14 the year is 2024, and i want to know my disk space usage. i recall a simple command i've used probably tens of thousands of times. df -h the year is 2024. instead of sensible output, i get... this: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on dev 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev run 7.8G 1.5M 7.8G 1%…
I spent past three weeks working on refactoring and fixing legacy code…
To me, a classic JRPG is pure mechanism, a kind of puzzle. Was there some way of getting the fun out of building such a mechanism—of solving that puzzle—, wrapping it with the minimal amount of functionality, the simplest thing that could possibly pass as a video game?
Link to: https://www.codingfont.com/
Combining finest craftsmanship with elegant design to ship innovative digital experiences.
Jakob Nielsen has worked in user experience since 1983. Much changed, including moving from academia to practice but the mission remains!
The Nuberodesign Blog
Successful design systems can and should move more slowly than the products they support—but a deliberate pace doesn’t have to create bottlenecks. Josh Clark shows how to reconcile the needs and speeds of product versus design system.
Speed up product development from ideation to launch. Align teams, break tool silos, and ship what customers need in one AI-powered visual platform.
Todd Klein's online book exploring little-known aspects of comics: lettering, letterers, logo design and more.
Just like CAD didn't make everyone an industrial designer, visual programming isn't going to make everyone a programmer. Whether textual or visual, there'd still be a lot of underlying concepts (and how they are composed) to learn. But still, I think it's underexplored. Most visual programming paradigms focus on…
