Uniwidth typefaces for interface design.
(…) if you’ve ever worked with precisely designed interfaces before, you know how frustrating it can be to find your painstakingly placed labels shoot around like flipper balls when you switch them from regular to bold.
“Why I'm losing faith in UX.”
UX is now "user exploitation."
Glamorous Toolkit is the moldable development environment.
It is a live notebook. It is a flexible search interface. It is a fancy code editor. It is a software analysis platform. It is a data visualization engine. All in one.
Relevant: Pharo, a dynamic, pure object-oriented programming language in the tradition of Smalltalk.
Amsterdam Is Embracing a New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment. Could It Replace Capitalism?
In April 2020, during the first wave of COVID-19, Amsterdam’s city government announced it would recover from the crisis, and avoid future ones, by embracing the theory of “doughnut economics”.
The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML.
The PSP’s web browser is – charitably – pathetic. It is slow, frequently runs out of memory, and can only open 3 tabs at a time.
But the GOV.UK pages are written in simple HTML. They are designed to be lightweight and will work even on rubbish browsers. They have to. This is for everyone.
Mütter werden aussortiert: Wie H&M Arbeitnehmer*innenrechte mit Füßen tritt.
Die Modekette H&M muss Mitarbeiter*innen entlassen. Sie macht das ohne Sozialplan, gehen sollen vor allem Mütter.
Massiel: “El Amor”.
El amor te hace burla, se ríe de ti,
mientras tu sigues quieto, sin saber que decir,
y deseas seguirle y decirle que no,
que se quede, que vuelva, que comete un error.
— Source: lyricstranslate.com
This is the quite uneasing soundtrack from the not less uneasing movie “Ventajas de viajar en tren”. In 1968 Massiel won the Eurovision Song Contest – with a less ambiguously, a cheerful song of course but also with an interesting story.
What the Hell Is Going On With GameStop’s Stock?
It’s not clear why Porsche’s boardroom should have any more authority to dictate what happens in the market than a group of internet users operating in public view.
The ongoing reversal of rebellion and empire in the USA.
Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace.
Through an obscure startup named Rebellion Defense, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempts to buy his way into the Biden White House.
Newsletters.
“RSS is far too complex!” you might say. Well, RSS-the-technology today is fantastically popular—it’s the machine that powers podcasts. So why isn’t RSS used for websites if we use it everyday for audio?
As important as its message and as gorgeous its design, unfortunately, I find this website really bad to navigate due to the mouse-only interface.