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“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” · STEVE JOBS

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  • Measuring SVG rendering time Stoyan Stefanov

    The questions Is rendering large SVGs significantly slower than smaller ones? Is there a cut-off size above which things are terrible? And what if these SVGs were PNGs, just for giggles. To answer thi…

    Today · 00:32
  • The CIA has deleted the CIA World Factbook (a popular... Jason Kottke

    The CIA has deleted the CIA World Factbook (a popular almanac about the countries of the world) from the web. Fuck this. All these assholes do is pillage & destroy.…

    Yesterday · 19:36
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    • Measles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South...
    • Michelangelo’s First Painting, Made at Age 12
    • The Tour Down Under’s winner won despite being...
    • “Virginia Oliver, a feisty, salty-tongued lobster...
    • Shared Claude is a website anyone can change via LLM...
    • Wow, these paper flowers from 11th-century China are...
    • How Do They…?
    • An almost 2-hour mashup mix by dk darkly of music from...
    • A Lovely 3500-Year-Old Drawing of a Sparrow
    • The Evolutionary Brilliance of the Baby Giggle ....
    • Only 7 gasoline cars were sold in Norway last month ....
    • Roxane Gay : “Humanity is, always, enough. We have...
    • Good god, this story: Mother Says Asking 13-Year-Old Son...
    • Minimalistic City Map Posters
    • The full trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2 . The pitch...
    • Been thinking a lot about this Ted Chiang quote...
    • Vibe-coding gone wild . “Stories of family...
    • A collection of thousands of photographs of NYC...
    • Claude’s Constitution
    • The Case of the Green Covers is a risograph-printed...
    • Podcast interview with two photojournalists who have...
    • Haven’t watched this 90-minute video yet, but...
    • A group of 50 Chileans recently spent several hours...
    • Killing In The Name, The Minnesota Edition
    • The Border Patrol Is the Problem. It Always Has Been....
    • Elon Musk and other internet racists started an internet...
    • Early this month, a wily coyote swam across San Francisco...
    • Seu Jorge’s Lovely Tribute to David Bowie
    • The Accidental Winners of the War on Higher Ed ....
    • Significant Find of Cambrian Explosion Fossils
    • Culinary Students Given Live Baby To Learn How To Care...
    • Volleyball Player Does Sliding Dogeza Apology
    • As part of their coursework, students at UC Berkeley are...
    • The Schoolchildren of Minneapolis . “As thousands...
    • Autocratic backfire : when dictators construct echo...
    • Darren Aronofsky’s AI Studio Used Artificial...
    • Do you know about the original vampire ending for Marty...
    • Tim Burton on Catherine O’Hara :...
    • ProPublica : “The two federal immigration agents...
    • Another brutal Melania pan : “First Lady is a...
    • When horrible people make bad art, the reviews are fun to...
    • “The end of Temporary Protected Status has...
    • Illustrator Chris Piascik has made several of his...
    • Stamps: Graphic Art in Miniature
    • I learned two important pieces of news in this post: 1)...
  • What Happens When Agents Meet? Josh Clark

    This essay is part of a series about Sentient Design, the practice of creating intelligent interfaces with AI. The book Sentient Design by Josh Clark with Veronika Kindred will be published by Ro…

    Yesterday · 15:23
  • “A streamlined newspaper for a streamlined era” Jeffrey Zeldman

    Posted today for no particular reason. The post “A streamlined newspaper for a streamlined era” appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Yesterday · 08:56
  • Write about the future you want Dave Rupert

    There’s a lot that’s not going well; politics, tech bubbles, the economy, and so on. I spend most of my day reading angry tweets and blog posts. There’s a lot to be upset about, so that’s unde…

    Yesterday · 08:45
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Cattivo John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts Slab serifs, which are frequently featured in old wood type catalogs as among the most functional types, exude vintage qualities – even the new and revival faces re…

    Two Days Ago · 23:02
  • Designing a Life That Excites You with Christine Vallaure | Wake Up Excited! Brad Frost

    On the latest episode of Wake Up Excited!, I talk with my friend Christine Vallaure. Christine is a designer, speaker, and the founder of moonlearning, an online learning platform for UI and product d…

    Three Days Ago · 11:42
  • People Photographed With Their Vehicles Tina Roth Eisenberg

    People photographed with their vehicles. Made me smile.…

    Three Days Ago · 08:08
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    • Thinking Is The Enemy of Creatvity
    • Painted Rocks
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 1/31 Rob Weychert

    Added to the film diary:Carlito’s WayBrian De Palma, 1993, ★★Ricky Jay and His 52 AssistantsDavid Mamet, 1996, ★★★★Side EffectsSteven Soderbergh, 2013, ★★★Added to the music lib…

    The Other Day · 22:00
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    • Forever, I’ve Been Being Born
  • Improving my newsletter's open rate the hard(er) way Cassidy Williams

    Turns out just asking for help gets you help? Who knew? Here's how I increased my newsletter open rate.…

    The Other Day · 17:00

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