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Tooling and feeling

2024-05-17 13:11:38

On our relationship to the tools that shape us, how machine intelligence understands, and the value in the human capacity for feeling.



DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb

2024-05-17 13:09:58

Once a vibrant platform for artists, DeviantArt is now buckling under the weight of bots and greed.



The Forged Apple Employee Badge

2024-05-17 13:09:19

Here’s a quick and cautionary tale. This eBay auction, spotted by Eric Vitiello, immediately caught my eye.



Time-based CSS Animations

2024-05-17 13:05:36

In my earlier post Time Uniform For CSS Animation, I took a note about a way to do CSS animations with time ticks instead of keyframes.



Triple stripes and trefoil

2024-05-17 13:01:00

The history of the Trefoil logo and Adolf Dassler’s logotype for German sports brand Adidas.



Apple announces new accessibility features, including Eye Tracking

2024-05-16 13:54:10

Apple today announced new accessibility features coming later this year, including Eye Tracking, Music Haptics, and Vocal Shortcuts.



The Classic Border Radius Advice, Plus an Unusual Trick

2024-05-16 13:52:27

When you nest elements with border-radius, the inner element needs less radius than the outer element.



Emoji history: the missing years

2024-05-16 13:50:33

During my research into vintage Japanese drawing software, I came across some devices that had built in sketch or handwritten memo functions.



Why is The World Losing Color?

2024-05-16 13:48:26

The age of productivity, minimalism, and monochromatic color schemes.



CSS Masonry

2024-05-16 13:43:43

I’m worried about the tabbing behaviour, rather than the syntax and name of CSS masonry.



Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down

2024-05-15 13:41:15

Out: 10 blue links. In: all AI everything.



AI Hallucination Examples and Why They Happen

2024-05-15 13:40:26

Easter Eggs of AI: Meme References, Duplicates, Biases, and Other AI Hallucinations



The Communal Plot

2024-05-15 10:38:42

Interactively respond to a daily poll and see how your responses compare to others in real-time!



Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It

2024-05-15 10:37:22

What I love, more than anything, is the quality that makes AI such a disaster: If it sees a space, it will fill it—with nonsense.



Onboarding for Active Users

2024-05-15 10:36:12

Onboarding should be designed with active users in mind, making guidance accessible throughout the product experience.



Headless UI v2.0 for React

2024-05-14 15:04:17

We just released Headless UI v2.0 for React which includes a ton of new stuff.



Shipping Ship: Behind the Particle Shader Effect for Vercel’s Conf

2024-05-14 14:59:18

See how this ethos came to life in the particle shader effect we created for Vercel Ship.



Superior Range Syntax

2024-05-14 14:58:15

One more thing about the improved viewport size media queries.



State of HTML 2023 Survey Results

2024-05-14 14:55:15

The latest edition of the annual survey about the latest trends in the HTML ecosystem is now available.



The Times You Need A Custom @property Instead Of A CSS Variable

2024-05-14 14:54:15

Preethi Sam walks through an example that demonstrates where custom properties are more suitable than variables.