Experimenting a bit in creating pictures using a combination of Wombo Dream, Daz3D, Geometrize, SVG scripting, and Affinity Photo.
‘”Open Source” is Broken - Xe’
Not wrong.
“How do you decide which browsers to support and which features to use? - Go Make Things”
Now that excessive SPAness is heading towards being somewhat disreputable, it feels a bit like CRDT is on the verge of becoming the next big buzzword. Expect managers to start bandying about “CRDT-based UIs” willy nilly any day now.
“Avoiding Internet Centralization”
By the ever-thoughtful Mark Nottingham.
“Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Component libraries, accessibility and transparency”
So, is Google Sheets the most absolutely horrible UX that Google makes (mystery meat buttons, shifting UI around you, widgets that fade in and out semi-randomly) or does that honour belong to one of the Google Cloud admin screens?
One thing I wonder about is why people who obsess about note-taking and research apps seem to care so little about output? Namely, if you’re going to pick a methodology wouldn’t you begin by investigating the quality of the work of the inventors?
“Understanding why our build got 15x slower with Webpack 5 - Tines Engineering”
“One weird trick to improve your website’s performance - Read the Tea Leaves”
Good commentary on this genre of web dev blogging.
‘Book Notes: “An Essay on Typography” by Eric Gill - Jim Nielsen’s Blog’
Eric Gill is the perfect example of a person’s actions completely changing how you read their works. The Woody Allen of design and typography.
I just published “HTML Sketches: Whither Cards?” on The Making of Colophon Cards site.
For better or for worse, a bit of insight into how my mind works when working on these sorts of projects 🙂
You know Christmas is approaching once your neighbour puts Christmas decorations on his tractor.
It’s impressive just how much worse word processing is today than it used to be even just a few years ago. Google Docs is consistently awful but the decline of MS Word over the past decade is awe-inspiring. Between the two of them, it’s amazing the written word is still a thing
micro.blog’s cross-posting seems to be misbehaving again.
D*h is racking up the logical fallacies in his blog posts of late, isn’t he? This time it’s the good old “we have a warning sign but nobody has fallen into the pit so it clearly isn’t necessary”. But people keep sharing his posts for some reason 🤷🏻♂️
I’m suddenly struck by the idea that all Microsoft’s ultra-modernistic Metro UI needed to be great was a bit of postmodernism: textures, drop shadows, visual cues and themes that reference older UI styles, the Windows 2000 style UIs presented with a bit of ironic sarcasm, etc.
“Firefox’s Optimized Zip Format: Reading Zip Files Really Quickly - Perf and other stuff”
This reminds me of the fact that most of the node streaming unzipping libraries don’t actually follow the Zip spec and can break fairly easily.
So, in case you missed it, I announced this on Monday:
It’s a prototyping project that should eventually turn into a bookmarking- and reading-oriented note-taking SaaS.