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Open-sourcing our progress on Tailwind CSS v4.0
We just tagged the first public v4.0.0-alpha so you can start experimenting with it and help us get to a stable release later this year.
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New UI Pattern: Website Loading Bars
Here’s an emerging UI pattern: a web page loading bar. Unsatisfied with progress indicators provided by the browser, some sites are implementing their own ones to show the load status of the next page. The progress bar appears as a thin line overlaying the content, sitting right underneath the browser toolbar, growing…
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The Finder’s GUI tax can be very expensive
Once a month, I download roughly 25 gzipped (.gz) files from Apple—these are our Mac App Store sales reports, with one file for each App Store region. I could have Safari expand these files (via the "Open 'safe' files after downloading' item in its preferences), but I prefer to leave that option unchecked. (Why? I…
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Animated GIFs the Hard Way
When doing the new website for the Sublime Text 2.0 launch, instead of just screenshots, I wanted to have animations to demonstrate some of its features. One of the criteria was that the animations should work everywhere, from IE6 to an iPad. This ruled out two common video options, Flash and the <video> element…
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Designing Stereographic Lampshades
I saw an article on the Guardian website here on the 3D-printing of shapes which project interesting patterns of light. Ignoring the strangely forced Halloween reference, I thought this would be an interesting project to attempt for an arbitrary pattern, perhaps as a personalised lampshade. Buoyed by the continuing…
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Responsive Design Patterns
Through fluid grids and media query adjustments, responsive design enables Web page layouts to adapt to a variety of screen sizes. As more designers embrace thi...
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Notes on rarely-seen game mechanics
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Jony Ive is Not a Graphic Designer
Jony Ive, at a talk I was fortunate to attend a few years ago (sorry, no linkable write-up exists): One of the things that’s interesting about design [is that] there’s a danger, particu…
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How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail
You’re in the iPhone mail app, and you’re looking at your inbox, when a new email arrives. What happens?
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Blue Prince is a roguelike puzzle masterpiece
Craft a mansion and uncover mysteries in this exceptional marriage of storytelling and roguelike mechanics.
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Animated SVG vs. GIF
— The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive Web UI engineer
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Cataphract: Medieval-fantasy roleplaying wargame, in the Black-Sea C. 1300
Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on. About two months ago, I reread several series on military
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Teaching a Semester of D3.js
I spent last semester frantically putting together a course on D3.js for journalism students at the University of Miami at the same time as ...
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The Zen of Just Writing CSS
I would say this is the future, but we’re already doing it.
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Rebuilding a featured news section with modern CSS: Vox news
Rebuilding Vox News featured section with modern CSS.
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Straightened Trees
Using custom code, the natural curvature of each tree is "corrected." Manufactured objects, i.e. buildings and power lines, twist and contort around the artificially plumbed tree. Each photo is shot on large format film, the only medium that captures enough detail to straighten the tree without pixelly artifacts…
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The Making Of Dust (2003)
For a long while Dust was the world's most-played Counter-Strike map and it's still the one for which I am best known. Yet few players realise it was the product of thievery and luck...
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Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure
My job involves a lot of staring at large numbers, mostly latencies in nanoseconds, and picking out magnitudes like microseconds. I noticed myself constantly...
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Why Are There So Many 17th Century Paintings of Monkeys Getting Drunk?
One cold Friday in 1660, Samuel Pepys encountered two unpleasant surprises. "At home found all well," he wrote in his diary, "but the m...
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JavaScript libraries to draw your own diagrams
Discover the power of JavaScript for your diagramming needs! Our comprehensive guide features over 20 top JavaScript libraries to create dynamic UML, ER, BPMN diagrams (or even your own types of models), and more, right in your browser.