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Why I don't like Tailwind CSS
On paper, Tailwind CSS sounds like a great idea. In reality, it suffers from the same problems that it tries to solve.
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The World of CSS Transforms
The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.
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Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
My grandmother approves of Atkinson Hyperlegible free font for her phone book printout
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User power, not power users: htop and its design philosophy
This short story is not really about htop, or about the feature request that I’ll use as an illustration, but about what are the core principles that drive the development of a bit of software, down to every last detail. And by “core principles” I really mean it.
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Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
How Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe—and winning In 2010, Photoshop was ubiquitous. Whether you were editing a photo, making a poster, or designing a website, it happened in Photoshop. Today, Adobe looks incredibly strong. They’ve had spectacular stock performance, thanks to clear-eyed management who’ve made bold…
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Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window 9x (2019)
For a while I’ve been wanting to update my website, but I’m really not a designer and I knew any attempts to improve on what I already had would be a haphazard mess.
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AI movie posters
Guess the movie based on an AI’s visual interpretation of the plot.
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Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics of Magic Windows
I recently made a physical object that defies all intuition. It’s a square of acrylic, smooth on both sides, totally transparent. A tiny window.
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Ethical anti-design, or designing products that people can't get addicted to
In the photo above, a Wii Remote is sitting on a table next to an open window. People who grew up playing the Wii might remember it; while playing Wii Sports, the game would give you a pop up window of it with a message politely reminding you that you can always take a break. While it might seem a bit…
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Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Firefox 89 Tab Appearance
Firefox 89 has a new appearance, removing features (ugh) and annoying some people while delighting others. It can be disabled by setting...
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What color was “Apple Beige”?
I went looking for a defining color of the personal computer era. I found it in an old jar of paint.
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My Custom CSS Reset
I have a set of baseline CSS styles that come with me from project to project. In the past, I'd use a typical CSS reset, but times have changed, and I believe I have a better set of global styles!
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Noise in Creative Coding
Noise is an indispensable tool for creative coding. We use it to generate all kinds of organic effects like clouds, landscapes and contours. Or to move and distort objects with a more lifelike behaviour.
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Domain-Driven Design
A definition of DDD as a software design discipline
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Software should convey a sense of calm
Software should convey a sense of calm. How do you get there?
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Apple doesn't care about album cover art
Album covers have never been smaller.
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Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the generative art
I spent 24 days digging into the code of {Shan, Shui}* Chinese painting generator and lived to tell the story.
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SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
SVG, short for <em>“scalable vector graphics”</em> is a format for, well, scalable vector graphics. In this article I summarize my opinion of the format, what its problems are and suggest what could be done to improve things.
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Glitch effect on text in pure CSS
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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New Kind of Paper
Paper & pencil are the best tools for thinking. Let's enhance them!
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How I make graphics for retro systems and retro-styled games
Game consoles, especially older ones, are defined more than anything by their graphics capability. The unique graphical limitations of a system can often mak...
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The New York Times uses the dark patterns it derides
New York Times op-ed recently decried tricks websites use to manipulate users… but have you ever tried to cancel your NY Times subscription?
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SVG favicons have some cool benefits
This article explores the world of SVG favicons. We cover adding them to HTML, using emojis, inlining them as data URIs, supporting dark mode, and animations.
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Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020)
Gmail's loading progress bar doesn't *actually* measure the progress of loading.
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Tips for Better Signup / Login UX
Mobile patterns · Form field validation · Autofocus · Microcopy · Error messages · Error prevention
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