Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 202 posts.
In 1968, Douglas Engelbart demonstrated a computer system called the oN-Line System, or NLS. The NLS is the source of a lot of computer firsts. Among other things, Engelbart showed video conferencing, collaborative text editing, embedded graphics, copying and pasting, and hypertext - all of it accessible through a…
Just kidding. Of course, I have something to say about this. In the company, we look at the art of Homeworld from time to time and bow to the creators of this masterpiece. Once, we talked about how great the background look and how interesting this sketched style is. There is something…some details seem…special to us:
OH no Type Co. Retail and custom typefaces. Life’s a thrill, fonts are chill!
On the return of texture, depth, and expressiveness in UI.
I’ve been building Kidz Fun Art (web, iPad & Windows) since 2021, so 4 years at time of writing. It’s a tablet optimized application intended to be used by children of all ages R…
A rundown of seven common mistakes is system architecture diagrams and how to fix them
tl;dr Don’t try to shake-down a typography nerd with your dubious, automated claims about his employer using unlicensed fonts. How it started It started with a LinkedIn InMail message (sanitised to protect privacy): Subject: [Urgent] Font Software Licensing Review Hi Ameel I hope you
Around 97% of US households have internet access, but bandwidth and latency are likely worse than you expect.
Joe Gebbia has no business designing government services.
TeX and related systems are often associated with their default fonts, Donald Knuth’s Computer Modern (CM) typefaces. While these fonts are excellent, they have become so ubiquitous in the scientific community that many LaTeX users have sought alternative fonts for their documents. As a result, a plethora of font…
Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable. Of course there are alternatives, specifically bad ones...
Craft a mansion and uncover mysteries in this exceptional marriage of storytelling and roguelike mechanics.
Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on. About two months ago, I reread several series on military
💡 Author's note: This unpublished post was originally written in May 2012, and refreshed for publication in November 2022.
Pain never felt this good
The case for less rigor and more nuance.
TL;DR: I made a website for the original classic Mac patterns I was working on something and thought it would be fun to use one of the classic Mac black-and-white patterns in the project. I'm talking about the original 8×8-pixel ones that were in the...
I analysed 58,687 movie posters from the past century to see which colours dominate, how their use has shifted over time and what each hue signals to audiences.
In this article, I will describe a recent addition to CSS, the font-size-adjust property. I am also making a bold claim that everyone in the world misunderstands the usefulness of this property, including Google, MDN, and CSS Specification itself. (Just to clarify, no, I am not a web designer and I have no idea what I…
It's real and it's magnificent
Building an iOS fermentation tracker with HACCP-style decision trees for home charcuterie, salami curing, and fermented foods - food safety without internet strangers.
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
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.
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.
Programmers are known to not have a strong suit for art related disciplines, pixel art is no exception.
Inspired by multiple posts on dithering, I set out to create a correct implementation of Atkinson dithering with support for RGB colour palettes. The post also outlines implementing linearising the colour-space and correcting for human perception.
We have all been there. Your software keeps growing and you feel the need to make it customizable. It is too soon for a full-blown UI with all the bells and whistles, so your pragmatic instinct suggests a text-based configuration file. Yes, that’s exactly it! You rejoice knowing the software’s configuration will be…
An interview with Dinamo’s Johannes Breyer on the custom Arial “revival” typeface.
