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The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
A lot has already been said about the absurdly large corner radius of windows on macOS Tahoe. People are calling the way it looks comical, like a child’s toy, or downright insane.
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It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
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AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Why AI-generated event posters all look alike — and how naming a design style and era, from Bauhaus to punk fanzine, gets far better results.
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Claude Design
Claude Design lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, and one-pagers.
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GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
GUI applications should be fully driven by the keyboard using shortcuts
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HTML Can Do That
HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.
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Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
In the release notes for macOS 26.3 RC, Apple stated that the window-resizing issue I demonstrated in my recent blog post had been resolved.
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5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
All characters fit within a 5 pixel square, and are safe to draw on a 6x6 grid. The design is based off of lcamtuf's 5x6 font-inline.h, which is itself inspired by the ZX Spectrum's 8x8 font.
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A website to destroy all websites
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
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GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
GPT‑6 is rolling out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, delivering faster responses with visuals and interactive experiences you can explore and use directly.
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Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
I’m part of the desktop software generation. From Windows 95 to Windows 7, I grew using mostly-offline software on computers operated via mouse and keyboard, well before tablets and smartphones. Recently, I’ve been missing one particular part of that era: its consistency in design. I want to tell you about
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Free the Icons
Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons
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Stolen Buttons
Every website I visit, I steal a button from it. Check out my stash!
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Transformers Explained Visually
An interactive visualization tool showing you how transformer models work in large language models (LLM) like GPT.
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The Future of CSS
Every year, browser vendors collaborate via the Interop project to synchronize their efforts on new HTML/CSS/JS features. This year, there’s a ton of super exciting features being considered! In this blog post, we’ll explore the CSS of the future, to get a glimpse of what we’ll soon be able to do.
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2D Vehicles
Explore my 1996 vehicle physics prototype, recreated for the web as Motion Lab.
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Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
Pedestrians wearing headphones are exposed to an increased risk of accidents. In an effort to reduce collisions with cyclists, Škoda Auto, in collaboration with scientists, introduces an innovative bicycle bell whose sound can penetrate even active noise cancellation systems. In doing so, it helps prevent injuries to…
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If you're a button, you have one job
A blog about software craft and quality
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CarPlay Is Additive
I don't understand why these EV manufacturers… don't understand.
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Help I accidentally a wigglegram
It is a kind of stereo image you make by looping frames together, like as a GIF.
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Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
I've been obsessed with procedural maps since I was a kid rolling dice on the random dungeon tables in the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide. There was something magical about it — you didn't design the dungeon, you discovered it, one room at a time, and the dice decided whether you got a treasure chamber or a dead end full…
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Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
JPEG XL offers better compression than JPEG, built-in HDR support, lossless JPEG transcoding, and more.
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Tailscale's new macOS home
Tailscale now has a full windowed UI. Before that, our app had to tell you it was hidden by The Notch.
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Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets
This article explores how to render realistic skies and atmospheres in real time in the browser with shaders, from simple sky domes, to entire planets using shaders, raymarching, Rayleigh and Mie scattering, and ozone absorption.
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Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3
We’re excited to announce Adaptive Dark Mode in Safari 27.3 beta.
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No more icons in every menu by default
Have you heard the good news? I bemoaned the approach of putting an icon in every menu item by default which shipped with macOS Tahoe — but now it’s gone in…
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How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
Sweden - The product names of IKEA may sound strange even to us Swedish speakers. In other parts of the world, they are basically incomprehensible, but fun! He
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Six years perfecting maps on watchOS
I love going on wilderness adventures. I am rarely happier than when I am far off into the mountains without a soul in sight. As a result, I have spent a lot of time learning how to safely explore and navigate when I’m away from civilization. The most important habit I’ve found for not getting lost is to be very…