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Clever Technique to Make It Shine with HDR Video in Background
Using HDR's annoying brightness of videos rendering as a feature
Oct 05, 2024
The maintenance race
What leeking abstraction layer law has in common with solitary sailing around the globe
Dec 03, 2023
Here is a new design to my website - variable is the keyword
With new colors reacting responsively and a new variable font
Nov 11, 2022
Reduce the carbon footprint of this website 🌱
How this website was designed and coded with sustainability in mind
Apr 12, 2022
Transpostapocaliptic
we're "transapocalyptic". We're in the middle of an ongoing crisis, or really a linked series of crises, and we need to learn to be ‘native to now.' Our lives are going to become — or, really, they already are (the desire to keep talking about the present as the future is intense) — defined by ‘constant engagement with ecological realities,' floods, dry wells, fires. And there's no opting out.
🌍 https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/we-all-live-in-california-nowDo we have to work? Book review
Book review on The Big Idea edition about how we came to work and how it might be in the future
Jan 01, 2022
Driving Hokkaido's West Coast to Wakkanai
Souvenirs from a road trip along the beautiful coast from the sea of Japan to the sea of Okhotsk
May 22, 2020
The Web Can't Survive a Monoculture
About the current Chrome supremacy ... we need diversity!
🌍 http://mikepennisi.com/blog/2019/the-web-cant-survive-a-monoculture/The Modern Front-End Design System Stack
Collection of modern design in the browser tools.
🌍 https://jxnblk.com/blog/the-modern-front-end-design-system/Browser Fingerprinting - Master thesis
Since the IP address is basically a subset of the fingerprint, browser fingerprints can be considered personal data, and GDPR also applies to them. This means, in short, that websites have to ask for explicit user consent prior to collecting and storing their browser fingerprint.
🌍 http://virpo.sk/browser-fingerprinting-hraska-diploma-thesis.pdfWas the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?
For a century, we’ve loved our cars. They haven’t loved us back. Nice long read!
🌍 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/was-the-automotive-era-a-terrible- …Hos is it like to be a dev in Iran
Gaining some perspectives on our web dependencies
🌍 https://shahinsorkh.ir/2019/07/20/how-is-it-like-to-be-a-dev-in-iranSimple is the web, and why I love it so much.
Through my 20 years’ experience of designing and building web pages, I learned to unlearn, to take some distances, to fight and also accept to lose for the better.
Jul 08, 2019
Consistency in Design is the Wrong Approach by Jared M. Spool
When you think about consistency, you’re thinking about the product. When you’re thinking about current knowledge, you’re thinking about the user.
🌍 https://medium.com/@jmspool/consistency-in-design-is-the-wrong-approach-3cfbc87a …Designing For Users Across Cultures: An Interview With Jenny Shen
L10n and I18n related interview - how we can approach localizing and internationalizing our websites, over and above simply offering a translation of the material.
🌍 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/05/designing-users-across-cultures-intervi …the Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming
Jessica Kerr looking at collective problem solving in music, art, science, and software. How it happen over the years and especially from the sixteenth century
🌍 https://the-composition.com/the-origins-of-opera-and-the-future-of-programming-b …Taking PHP Seriously
Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you?
🌍 https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329I don’t care what Airbnb is doing. (And neither should you.)
A presentation at Refresh Conference in October 2018 in Groningen, Netherlands by Stephen Hay
🌍 https://noti.st/stephenhay/nLABePTutorial on dat://
Nice guide to learn dat API worth checking out
🌍 https://try-dat.com/01-install.htmlStart a localwiki.org page for Lausanne
Let's explore how we can document the world around us
Sep 23, 2018
Maintaining your working environment
We all have our weapons of choice to code and design.
Nov 04, 2012