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Spatial languages: Writing code in 2D
Writing code in 2D: a spatial programming language with vertical operands, quantum uncomputation puzzles, and a 3-bit adder in a single 2D expression.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 181 posts.
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Making Software: How to make a font
Everything that goes into making a digital font, from vector outlines to hinting.
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The new Firefox design is here
What comes to mind when you think of Firefox? Is it our best-in-class privacy features and ad blocking capabilities? Our partnerships with Wrexham, NVIDIA
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Orbs
Everything has changed for us with orbs. How do I make you believe me?
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Cosmology with Geometry Nodes
Learn about the real-life scientific applications of GeoNodes in Cosmology research.
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Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)
From HTML-only to JS-infused, and all the CSS in between.
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Dithering with CSS
The website of Ike Saunders
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What makes a good smartphone camera?
There are lots of things that affect the quality of photographs. The biggest one is the skill of the photographer behind the camera.
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Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo
Innovative Housewares This page : SMART IRON | FRISPER | FLAT CHAIR PROJECT | FIRST AID WITH A FACE OLISO is a small design firm focused on delivering inventive solutions to "change your home and lifestyle." As the sole industrial designer at the time, Sara worked with engineering, marketing
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I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye
confusable-vision renders every TR39 confusable pair across 230 macOS system fonts and measures visual similarity with SSIM. 96.5% of confusables.txt is not high-risk, but 82 pairs are pixel-identical in at least one font.
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Anatomy of a Texture
A step-by-step guide to modern texture memory layout
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We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes
The letters we write with are not abstract shapes. They are the result of a millennia-long process of evolution. A baton, passed down through a hundred generations, and carrying with it the influence of every one of them.
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Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again
On why bitmap fonts still carry more life than most default tech type.
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Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side
A blog about software craft and quality
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Sprites on the Web
In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web these days. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this post, we’ll share the niche CSS function you can use to leverage this technique, and explore some of the…
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Typography on Pencils (2023)
It wouldn't be Pencil Day without a round up of our pencil typography photos. Check out our current stock of new & vintage pencils here. Please do credit us if you use these images anywhere. Thank you.
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Quantifying Colour
A visual description of the CIE 1931 colour spaces.
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Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty
Something truly monumental happened in the world of software development in 2025. Safari shipped a reasonable implementation of text-wrap: pretty: https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/. We are getting closer and closer to the cutting-edge XV-century technology. Beautiful paragraphs!
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The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27
I wrote the chapter on app icon history for The iOS App Icon Book . The other day I found an old note stashed away where I had started researching the macOS…
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Lil Finder Guy
Who is it? What is it? Is it friend or foe? Has it arrived in peace, or is it plotting to corrupt our SSDs and fray our USB-C cables?
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What is a product?
It is far too easy to create software these days, but what is the difference between a side project and a real product?
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Claude Opus 5.5 Can Draw Permit-Level Architectural Drawings
I tested thirteen models and found that their drafting is approaching professional levels.
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Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2
A blog about software craft and quality
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Tw-fade: pure CSS scroll-driven edge masking
A Tailwind CSS v4 plugin for CSS mask fades on scroll containers. Add one class and content edges dissolve into any surface.
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Stop using grey text (2025)
Dear web designers:
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Video Games as Art
Video games are art, but a strange art: their essence is transformation of the player, not description to the player. This makes meaningful criticism nearly impossible—you can point at the moon, but it’s not the moon, and once someone sees it, they no longer need the pointing.
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Experiments with Plotter Art
Drawing procedural art with Inkscape and an Ender 3 printer
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Flood Fill vs. The Magic Circle
AI automation and the Four Horsemen of the paper jam.
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Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?
In people with normal vision (or corrected-to-normal vision), visual performance tends to be better with light mode, whereas some people with cataract and related disorders may perform better with dark mode. On the flip side, long-term reading in light mode may be associated with myopia.