“If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design” (Source: mastodon.social/@heliographe...)
@jorgenskogmo.bsky.social
not sure this makes sense but it tickled my brain, yall should read it
Chad Fowler@chadfowler.com · 7mo ago
Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing. I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink. But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
blog.muni.town
“The interesting part is not how much better React is—it's how little progress we've actually made.” backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com
React vs Backbone in 2025
A comparison between a React and Backbone password strength app
backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com
Meanwhile in China: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
Photos: The Scale of China’s Solar-Power Projects
As the Trump administration's “big, beautiful bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent ...
theatlantic.com
How do tech companies measure the impact of AI on software dev? Here's how GitHub, Google, Dropbox, Microsoft, Monzo, Atlassian, Adyen, Booking and Grammarly do it: More details on 9 other companies+trends in today's deepdive w @lauratacho.com at newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-tech-c...
Code is a commodity now, and, sadly, we’re seeing it manifest as an influx of shovelware on the App Store. The only differentiator will be craft, taste, and respect (for the medium and for your users) You will never out-code Claude, but you can make something much better than it
“A piece of consumer tech that helped push art in a different direction.”
Obsolete Sony@obsoletesony.com · last yr.The PS2 ad that unlocked Lynch’s digital era Full story’s up. Go read it and subscribe 👇
"hey jeff where you gonna put that sick picture of me doing that gnarly jump" "don't worry about it"
An amazing collection of videos by @kristenroos.bsky.social detailing the history of digital painting/drawing software — from Sketchpad (1963) to Deluxe Paint IV (1991). "Paint: a timeline" kristenroos.ca/timeline
This is a must read This is not conspiracy theory, but this is based on fact. This explains what we already knew, but didn’t know how. Palantir was pivotal in this and that is the connection with Elon Musk, further DOGE. Donald Trump did not win the 2024 election substack.com/home/post/p-...
She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.
How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.
substack.com
When someone asks “why do you need so many tabs open” and you just stare at them, knowing they wouldn’t understand the tab ecosystem you’ve carefully cultivated. 🫢
Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices. What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?
Looking elsewhere - Robb Owen
Against the backdrop of mass layoffs, LLMs, site-builders and vibe coding what does it mean to conscientiously build for the web, and where do we go from here?
robbowen.digital
any sufficiently complicated design tool contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of the css spec
✏️ New post: Is “ethical AI” an oxymoron? hidde.blog/ethical-ai/
Is “ethical AI” an oxymoron?
The current wave of generative AI has unpleasant side effects: large-scale copyright infringements, environmental impact and bias. For most uses today, it makes sense to me to default to not using AI.
hidde.blog
Every 20s, a new Spirit Plant blooms—composed of 4 traditional Polish herbs and an ever-shifting palette of colours. In just the first few days of Expo, visitors have created thousands of unique plants at the Poland Pavilion. The result? An endlessly evolving garden of collective imagination.
Temani is at the top of their game!
CSS by T. Afif@css-only.dev · last yr.📝 New CSS Article! Excited about the new attr() function? Learn how I am using it to style the native progress element with a few lines of CSS. It's the article where I using if() as well 😁 frontendmasters.com/blog/custom-... via @frontendmasters.com
Minimal #CSS-only blurry image placeholders: "Here’s a CSS technique that produces blurry image placeholders (LQIPs) without cluttering up your markup — Only a single custom property needed!"
Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders
Here’s a CSS technique that produces blurry image placeholders (LQIPs) without cluttering up your markup — Only a single custom property needed!
leanrada.com
“It’s not that they just picked something cute and accidentally the co-founder of that studio hates their whole approach from the bottom of its heart. OpenAI picked Studio Ghibli *because* Miyazaki hates their approach.” —Tante, Smashing Frames h/t @brockfrench.bsky.social
Vulgar Display of Power
Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a…
tante.cc
In March 1945, the United States War Department created an 8-page fact sheet about fascism for the Army to distribute to soldiers. Wow. This should be mandatory reading now: archive.org/details/Army...
Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism! : Army Orientation Branch: Information and Education Division : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
March 24, 1945. Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 Fascism! A sheet printed and distributed by the United States War Department as an educational tool for...
archive.org