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Magic Paper
Working notes by Michael Nielsen , November 2017. Followup to (but doesn't require) my notes on Chalktalk .
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Knowing CSS is mastery to front end development
There are countless articles why developers should not focus on Frameworks too much and instead learn to understand the underlying languages. But I think rarely we can find good reasons except that Frameworks come and go. To me, the main reason is different: You won’t be a master at frontend development if you don’t…
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CSS findings from the Threads app
A few interesting CSS findings from the threads app by Meta.
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Good type against all odds
A blog about software craft and quality
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Allow disabling of motion or animation
Users that are prone to seizures or motion sickness may need to disable animation or motion. Add an option for users to disable this. This…
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Why you should not be displaying relative dates.
Every time I see a web app display a date as "30 minutes ago" I cringe a little. This was cute 10 years ago when rapid publishing on the web was new, but there are a number of problems with this.
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Great, Another Bootstrap Site
Download Free PNGs & Free PNG images to use for your creative needs. ✓ Millions of high quality free png images ✓ Transparent pngs ✓ New Free PNGs added everyday.
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Stylized Water Shader
💦 A huge, step-by-step tutorial on how to create a beautiful stylized water shader in Unity using Shader Graph. This works with Unity's Universal Render Pipeline (URP). Includes colors, foam, refraction, reflections, caustics and Gerstner waves.
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Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design
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…
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Revising MailChimp's logo
When Ron from Mail Chimp contacted me about helping them out on a logo revise I was totally tickled pink. Mail Chimp has been a wonderful supporter of the...
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One Chart, Twelve Charting Libraries
I recreated the same chart with twelve frameworks & libraries, like d3.js, Vega, ggplot 2, matplotlip and Processing.
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Technicalities of Homeworld 2 Backgrounds
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:
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LinkedIn dark patterns, or why your friends keep spamming you to sign up for it
or: Why Your Friends Keep Spamming You to Sign Up for LinkedIn
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Experiments in Constraint-Based Graphic Design
Basalt is system for graphic design that allows a designer to think in terms of relationships between objects, and it makes it easy to build and reuse abstractions.
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Font Rendering from First Principles
Learn what it takes to build a font renderer from scratch in C.
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A PRISM-inspired Google Doodle
Google is watching you...
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The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
A fabulously gay blind Romance author.
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UX Issues with Notion
I am an unfortunate user of Notion. I have to use it in my day to day job because it is the tool of my company choice. I suffer every time I'm doing anything in it. Maybe it's just me. But I honestly don't think so. It's been a year since my company migrated to Notion from Confluence. And I'm quite confident now that…
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On Rendering Diffs
A technical deep dive into how we built the @pierre/diffs package and CodeView component for zero-blanking diff rendering.
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Game of Thrones CGI
This is a very interesting little video showing off how the Game of Thrones locations are built up using Computer Graphics, substituting effectively for matte painting in traditional film. In my ex…
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TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales
Transport for London (TfL) has seen a drop in the sale of paper tickets after it made a small change to the ticket machines in London Underground stations.
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