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Web Based Qt Design Viewer
View and share Qt Design Studio projects in a web browser.
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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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Open Sans, how do we love thee?
If you’re sharp-eyed, you’ve noticed that we recently adopted Open Sans as our default typeface across WordPress.com. Type wonks know that Open Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface. I…
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Remote workstations for discerning artists
By Michelle Brenner
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CSS Web Components for marketing sites (2024)
The truly No JavaScript web component.
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Very impressive CSS3 demo: CSS3 Planetarium
O hai pixel lovers! Check out this gorgeous CSS3 demo: Planetarium, by the LittleWorkshop team (@glecollinet & @whatthefranck). Screencast: Youtube link. Gorgeous Animations The principal feature show-cased in ...
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At Dynamicland, the Building Is the Computer
Dynamicland is a non-profit that resides somewhere between an academic research lab and a Silicon Valley startup, between physical and digital, and between computing’s distant past and its future.
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CSS properties you should know for better text designs
Includes background-clip for masking backgrounds, vertical-align for aligning elements, box-decoration-mode for consistent edge styling, letter-spacing for spacing control, and text-combine-upright for vertical text layouts.
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Artists, shrug off that imposter syndrome – the tech world needs you
Artists looking for a change already have one foot in another career.
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InVision design collaboration services shutdown
Speed up product development from ideation to launch. Align teams, break tool silos, and ship what customers need in one AI-powered visual platform.
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Scrolling your website past the iPhone X’s notch
During the introduction of the iPhone X a hilarious gif made the Twitter rounds, showing a list scrolling past the new notch.
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Why Can't Gmail Search?
Hey! There is a followup post here! Google, the King of Search. Gmail, the darling of geeks everywhere for mail. Links: Gmail; Yahoo; Cyrus-IMAP; Squirrel Mail I am my family’s IT Director fo…
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Wysiwtfftwomg
I get the content in Word, copy into the various boxes in the CMS and then see how it looks. Normally I spot a few typos, or it doesn’t appear where I want it to, then I have to go back and find the article again – which isn’t so bad, it’s normally at the top. The real pain is when I have to add another link to that…
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Issues with color spaces and perceptual brightness
Unlike RGB, the CIELab color space And the more modern variants like CIECAM02 and Oklab. is designed to be perceptually uniform. This is a broad goal, which roughly means that we would like changes in the numbers to match same changes that we observe when performing various studies of human perce
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Figma makes 200 fixes and improvements to Dev Mode
After two months of open beta, we’ve shipped more than 200 of the most-wanted updates to our Dev Mode workspace.
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Paypal's logo designed to look like a recommendation?
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
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Why Frames Tilt Forward (2015)
There is a ten-foot long alcove in our lower-level hallway — we call it the gallery . This is the one place in our house I can hang whatever I want (i.e., my own art) and switch it out whenever I want. To facilitate this, I installed a hanging system — basically a slotted rail mounted near the ceiling, with sliding…
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A gentle introduction to anchor positioning
Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is.
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Just another awesome CSS3 buttons
Link-building services are indispensable for businesses aiming to enhance their SEO efforts and establish authority in their respective industries in a faster and more effective manner.
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How blind people use Instagram [video]
Tommy Edison shows how he uses Instagram on the iPhone. So we’ll just take a picture of the crew. Why I’m holding the thing up to my face like I can look throug
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Better Architecture Diagrams for Agile Teams: actionable tips and lessons
From the finding of the diagram’s goal and audience to review checklist
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How to Give Your Product Personality
There’s a really great post on Fred Wilson’s blog (AVC [https://web.archive.org/web/20160320050249/http://avc.com/]) about building a “ Minimum Viable Personality [https://web.archive.org/web/20160320050249/http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/09/minimum-viable-personality.html] “. Of course, this is a
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The Apple Voice
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Why Does the Sunlight Always Come from the North in Shaded Relief Maps?
If you've got a sharp eye and a knack for details, you might have noticed the sun coming from an unrealistic angle in most shaded relief maps: the north. In this article we explain why.
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A Light Box in Heavy Times
My son is nearing his second birthday, which makes him nearly two years old. When he was only four months old I decided that I would make him something with buttons. I didn’t have much more of an idea than that, but I ordered one hundred illuminated buttons and started mulling what to do with them. Nothing much…
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Getting a biometric security key right
"Discover the upcoming YubiKey Bio with biometric capabilities. Enhance your security with our cutting-edge, FIDO-enabled device. Sign up for updates!
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Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?
Used to be you could argue that Flash, whatever its merits, delivered content to the entire audience you cared about. That’s no longer true, and Adobe’s Flash penetration is shrinking with each iPhone OS device Apple sells.