Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 172 posts.
Motorcycle drivers are 27 times more likely to die in an accident than those in regular passenger vehicles. Night driving is especially dangerous, accounting for nearly half of all fatal crashes.
A century ago, the father of modern architecture, Le Corbusier, was commissioned by a French industrialist to design some homes for factory workers near Bordeaux. The resulting development, Cité Fr…
A look at some interesting use-cases for CSS flexbox and grid in Figma app.
One day I saw a few pictures shared by my friend Fish. I was attracted by their slight blur and the subtle glowing effects, and wondered what kind of filter function was used. But then she told me it's just because the camera lens wasn't wiped clean.
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Week 53 of Founding Typogram
Create And Share Mathematical Tiling Patterns
Just a couple of ideas! They came to me while I was poking around thinking of something to say for Alex Trost’s Holiday Mega-Stream (my segment starts here). Styleable Resizers Ya know how a …
Monodraw v1.6 is now available for public testing. It features a visual refresh and the ability to simultaneously edit multiple shapes of the same type.
Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.
I spent the last years making technology calm and pleasant to use. This is roughly how I did it.
AVIF is the first browser image format we've had in 10 years. Let's see how it performs…
An engineering deep-dive into skateboard truck design flaws
Bill Tavis designed this lovely vintage-style map of the familiar fractal shape, the Mandelbrot set. He is selling a poster version of the map, starting at the
Extending elements beyond the content area with CSS Grid and named grid lines.
How to compress JPEG even more without losing in visual quality
When I first saw React.js , I had a quick glance and thought that it was cool, they finally figured out how to do a Cocoa-like MVC UI framew...
So you want to shoot lasers from your eyes, hmm?
Using CSS grid to render complex webpages responsively.
When plotting overlapping elements with a defined alpha (opacity), I had always thought about it as an additive process with results clamped to not exceed 1.
New interaction ideas for chat UI in mobile devices.
What are the principles underlying the ideal desk setup? How do we balance great design with modern technology? Let’s plunge into my desk setup and my philosophy behind it.
Fighting a pandemic in the world of software
If an SVG is imported into a design tool, then immediately exported as another SVG, how much precision is kept? What’s added, removed, or altered?
macOS has a wonderful input mechanism where you press and hold a key on your keyboard to display the accent menu. It's easy to internalize: *long pres...
