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Mechanical Watch
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
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Sound
Interactive article explaining how sound works.
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GPS
Interactive article explaining how GPS works.
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I regret my website redesign
Mistakes I made working with my first design agency.
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4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything
In our world, we can do anything that we want to do here. Any old thing. - Bob Ross, The Joy Of Painting Season 29 Episode 1
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Draw SVG rope using JavaScript
Transforming a SVG path into a rope drawing turned out to be a surprisingly fun problem to solve. I'll walk you through the process and show you a few tricks that made it work.
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CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone”
Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients.
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AirPods don't “just work”
AirPods are a fantastic product. However, the small annoyances that occur when using them don't allow it to fall under the category of Apple products that "Just Work".
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A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar
I borrowed a friend’s Tesla 3 yesterday. About 5 minutes into the ride, the windshield started fogging up. I couldn’t find the defroster on the large control screen Teslas are so famous for. In desperation, I tapped the CAR icon but that took me to the settings screen which ended up being a dead end. Frustrated, I…
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The end of the nice GTK button
A look into my favorite Adwaita button and why I'm not happy it's going away
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Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on
Please. It’s an insult to my brain. Like, you put the button in one place, and then you’re like “nah, let’s move it somewhere else.” Here…
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An interactive guide to Flexbox
When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed interactive tutorial, we'll pop the hood on the Flexbox algorithm and learn how to do remarkable things with it. ✨
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Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”
Makuta Visual Effects shares the experience of using Blender in the creation of some of the VFX for the Indian blockbuster RRR:
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Webcams aren't good enough
There are no good webcams. Why? And what can we use instead? This article compares the most popular webcam options (such as the Brio, the Kiyo, and the C920) to better alternatives.
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Yep, I created the new Avatar font
Fonts designed by John Roshell in sunny Southern California
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Please stop disabling zoom
I’m a frontend developer, consultant, accessibility auditor, blogger, teacher, and book author from Austria.
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The most satisfying checkbox
The Art of Game Feel (a.k.a Juice) in Product Design
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How to design a house to last 1000 years
At last, we’re finally ready to put together the design for our house. A fully specified design, with every detail and system described, is well beyond the scope of this newsletter (not to mention the scope of my knowledge). But we can give a high-level schematic design, laying out the basic building systems and how…
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Write better error messages
When it comes to error handling, it truly is a team sport
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Noto emoji, a new black and white emoji font with less color
In 1999 — back when Snake 🐍 was the best thing about your phone 📱 — there were three phone carriers in Japan 🗾 . On these phones were tiny, beautiful pictures called emoji (meaning “picture” and “character” in Japanese 🥰 ). These 176 images were very simple — think 8-bit tech — and as a result were exquisitely…
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Bike: Innovative Rich Text Editing
Bike Outliner now supports rich text! Download Release notes Bike’s rich text editing should be familiar. There’s also innovation 1 . I’m trying to improve the fundamentals of how…
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Why do so many brands change their logos and look like everyone else?
Tech and fashion logos are becoming increasingly similar, all of them using sans serif fonts. Why do they do that? And why it doesn't make sense.
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The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8
Something to look at when all is lost.
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Blender 3.1
Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 3.1, a solid update to an already outstanding release.
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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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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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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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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…