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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks.
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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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Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect
A breakdown of how to build a custom Three.js shader that recreates the iridescent, sparkling look of foil stickers using vertex deformation, angle-based color shifts, and procedural flakes.
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Super Tiny Website Logos in SVG
You may not realise it, but bandwidth is expensive. It costs you time, money, and battery power whenever you download a file larger than it needs to be. That's why I've become a little bit obsessed with SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics. They're the closest thing to magic that the web has when it comes to image…
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Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer
With a few rolls of of duct tape and a craft knife, security guard Shuetsu Sato elevates the humble worksite sign to an art form.
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The <select> element can now be customized with CSS
All the same interfaces, sweet new looks.
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The design philosophy of Great Tables
We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about tables. Tables—like plots—are crucial as a last step toward presenting information. There is surprising…
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Christopher Alexander has died
Christopher Alexander, a towering figure in architecture and urbanism—one of the biggest influences on the New Urbanism movement—died on Thursday, March 17, after a long illness, it was reported by Michael Mehaffy, a long-time collaborator and protege. Alexander was the author or principal author of many books…
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State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?
We’ve all heard this riddle: if you dig down deep enough in Windows 10, you’ll find elements that date from Windows 3.x days. But is it actually true? In this article we’ll discov…
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The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken
How does this work? I launched the project on 12 September 2022. The YouTube video was just created with results of 10 days. I will publish new results on my socials. Press:
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Making noisy SVGs
Adding noise texture with only code
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Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators
Precision colors for machines and people
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Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
Explore how to recreate Apple's stunning Liquid Glass effect using CSS, SVG Displacement Maps, and refraction calculations.
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Yamaha MOTOROiD
the Next Phase of Jin-Ki Kanno: Like a Living Creature
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Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes
Instant NeRF is a neural rendering model that learns a high-res 3D scene in seconds — and can render images of it in a few milliseconds.
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Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
Posted by Anton Mikhailov, Senior Software Engineer, Daydream False color maps show up in many applications in computer vision and machine learni...
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Blender 2.79 released
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Dark mode in a website with CSS
This page has a dark mode. Try it! Supporting prefers-color-scheme was easy, though there were a couple surprising details to address.
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Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
Hi! I'm Natalya! I'm a classically trained fine artist who spent 6 years teaching people how to paint, draw, and grow their creativity. I am now a front end developer, and I love writing code as much as I love painting. I have a degree in Studio Art, a bachelor's in Developmental Psychology, and a master's degree in…
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Objects should shut up
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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Settings are not a design failure
The systematic thinking in our industry is that settings are the result of design failure. As designers, our goal is to create product experiences that don’t require any adjustment by the user. So offering customization options is often seen as a failure to make firm product decisions. I think there is a…
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How Doom 2016 Renders a Frame
DOOM pioneered fundamental changes in game design and mechanics back in 1993, it was a world-wide phenomenon which propelled to fame iconic figures …
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We need a flowchart editor that doesn't give you carpal tunnel
This is a post about why I'm making knotend , a flowchart editor designed for speed, and why we need to get away from mouse-based flowchart editors.
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The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenl...