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CSS Optical Illusions
A collection of 50+ optical illusions coded with CSS and HTML. :: Blog post at Alvaro Montoro's Personal Website.
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Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)
Tove Jansson illustrated books of other appreciated authors during her career. One of them was J. R. R. Tolkien's classic The Hobbit.
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Divide by depth for instant 3D
When I first started working on games, I used high level frameworks that would give you a Camera that just kind of worked. But as I learned more and wanted t...
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Good type against all odds
A blog about software craft and quality
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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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The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
A fabulously gay blind Romance author.
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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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Why most product tours get skipped
Most users dismiss the first step of a product tour within seconds. Here is why that happens, what users do instead, and the one pattern that actually drives activation.
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GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button
My little corner of the internet.
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1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis
After my first son arrived in 2018, I didn’t have much time to work on the time-intensive Mount Fuji pixel art series any more (again, I hope to get back to this somehow soon).
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An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to Photoshop Creative Cloud on day one. Today, I uninstalled it. I hope I never have to use Adobe software ever again.
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Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
Is it Cut 'n' Paste, like Fish 'n' Chips?
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How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023)
Let’s say you’re creating a CLI tool which has to display syntax highlighted source code. You begin by choosing some colors which look nice with your chosen terminal theme:
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Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields
How to make infinite design variations using Perlin noise fields, a simple generative algorithm.
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Making holograms with a pen plotter
I have a pen-plotter! It’s great. It’s like having a printer but slow and it breaks more often. I got it on eBay and it came sorta broken and I immediately spent the difference between what I paid and the price of new one fixing it. Now it’s fixed!
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Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum
36 mechanical keyboards. Click. Type. Listen. From IBM Model M (1985) to modern thocky customs.
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Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle
Another interesting way to graphically derive the Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle and the chord which passes through the midpoints of the sides of the equilateral triangle.
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Making difficulty curves in games
Making difficulty curves in games - Just Things Made By Dave
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Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used
In 1914 Hamburg built a park for people to use rather than admire, and more than a century later that is still what it is.
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What else do people draw on gradient.horse?
Since gradient.horse went online in January 2026, six months have passed, and more than 600 000 horses (and non-horses) were drawn. There are now more horses on gradient.horse than in the wild. The image model I trained to filter out vandalism works very well, but it also hides a lot of ingenious drawings. You could…
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Please do not A/B test my workflow
Anthropic is silently A/B testing Claude Code's plan mode on paying users. This isn't a consumer app. Stop treating it like one.
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Notes on Software Quality
“The absence of problems” is the best definition I can come up with for quality.
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The window chrome of our discontent
In a WWDC 2011 session, Dan Schimpf explained some of the goals of the refreshed design for Aqua in Mac OS X Lion were “meant to focus the user attention on the active window content”. This sentiment was echoed by John Siracusa in his review of Lion for Ars Technica: Apple says that its goal […]
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Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side
A blog about software craft and quality
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Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe
Improving on a timeless recipe
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The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped
Rebuilding Firefox.com with Mozilla and Lincoln Loop on modern, native CSS with no pre-processors, and what that means for design systems today.