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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,346 posts.
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Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack
Writing and work from Darrin Henein — a designer, game developer, and photographer from Toronto.
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Battle of the Business Cards
Solutions d'impression haute qualité, écologiques et sur mesure pour les entreprises et particuliers.
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Bad Apple Font
It is possible to embed a animation into a font, with only a small amount of hacking
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Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue
Why we need to revisit the origin of blue hyperlink While musing over my recently published article, Why are hyperlinks blue, I was left feeling a bit blue
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HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
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Designing software for things that rot
Building an iOS fermentation tracker with HACCP-style decision trees for home charcuterie, salami curing, and fermented foods - food safety without internet strangers.
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Body Margin 8px
All browsers add an 8px margin on the body element – it’s part of the w3c-recommended default stylesheet which browsers generally use as a starting point for their own ‘user agent’ styles. But why 8px ? Where does that come from?
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Collection of Human Interface and Software Design Guides
I'm thinking about a few things.
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X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.
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Generation UX – How to make websites age-friendly
UserZoom empowers your team with sophisticated UX insights to create digital experiences that delight customers and drive business growth.
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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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Photon Micro GUI
Update: Renamed the library to avoid the name Clash with QNX Photon.Let me tell you a bit about Elements... From my previous post about Ascend, some folks noticed its existence and actually found the github repository. The repository is rather underwhelming, I thought to myself, devoid of any do
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The New Web Typography
How should we go about making typographic laws, rules and guidelines for the web?
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Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)
Frank Lloyd Wright was an outspoken advocate for low-density cities without skyscrapers. With this in mind, it’s hard to believe the tower design pictured above came from Wright. It’s called The Illinois , and it was planned to be a mile (1,609 meters, or 5,280 feet) in height. That’s more than fou
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Redesigning the Windows Logo
Get to know Windows 11, the Windows that brings you closer to what you love.News and features for people who use and are interested in Windows, including announcements from Microsoft and its partners.Guidance to help developers create products and se
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Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows
The Edge team added support for respecting the Windows ClearType Tuner values in Chromium directly, resulting in better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows.
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Affinity Designer: A Love Story
As I found out, Affinity Designer is a worthy rival to Adobe's sacred trinity for designers: Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
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Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle
Another interesting way to graphically derive the Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle and the chord which passes through the midpoints of the sides of the equilateral triangle.
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Leap Motion: Amazing, Revolutionary, Useless
I desperately want it to work, don't you? Just like Minority Report. You wave ...
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SPA view transitions land in Chrome 111
The View Transition API allows page transitions within single-page apps, and will later include multi-page apps.
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Cross Views
Your camera has the ability to take three dimensional photos. Your screen has the ability to display three dimensional photos. You’ve probably never used either.
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Rebuilding a simplified Firefox logo
Sean Martell Creative Lead at Mozilla, Transmogrifier of vectors, animator of GIFs, CSS eyebrow waggler, ketchup chip expert, lover of thick cut bacon.
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Making difficulty curves in games
David Strachan’s website for games, game development,…2026173 points91 commentsGames & Graphics details
Making difficulty curves in games - Just Things Made By Dave
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Steve Jobs "never had any designs. He has not designed a single project"
Back when I reviewed Peter Siebel’s fascinating book of programmer interviews, Coders at Work, Erik Anderson suggested in a comment that I might also enjoy its precursor Programmers at Work […
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Shooting photos with an IMAX projector lens
What the heck is that huge lens? That Crazy Huge Lens is an IMAX Lens. You will be surprised at the cool street portraits we got with this thing. Take a look at how Jay P rigged this with his Canon EOS R camera and the amazing results. This is Jay P Morgan. Today on