Friday, 9. August 12024
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U+237C RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW.

Known as right angle with downwards zigzag arrow, angle with down zig-zag arrow, \rangledownzigzagarrow, and ⍼, no one knows what ⍼ is meant to represent or where it originated from.

Source: pm1.narvii.com

And they call me pessimistic…

Der Deutschen Bahn helfen weder mehr Geld, noch mehr Wettbewerb. (Via concord.antville.org).

There goes the backwards-compatibility…

Something must have happened with tables and browsers (at least the WebKit ones) in the last ~10 (15?) years: Formerly pixel-perfect table layouts *cough* turned into monstrosities with overly long lines overflowing not only the table but even the window.

This archived ORF.at story shows the same symptoms as older Antville.org sites did until I applied a CSS fix… 🧐

De l’inconvénient d’être né is a 1973 philosophy book by Romanian author Emil Cioran.

Relevant: Simone Weil.

Well played, Greenpeace! 💪

Wo wird Österreich zubetoniert? Das sind Österreichs 9 Betonschätze!

Parkplätze, Einkaufszentren & Industriegebiete: Wir suchen Österreichs schlimmste Bodenversiegelung.

Source: greenpeace.at

Code Praise Roast.

Friday, 26. July 12024
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Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why. (Via reddit.com).

Relevant: Why Japanese Websites Look So Different.
Or: Why western websites look so different #ftfy

Relevant 2: The peculiar case of japanese web design.

Tuesday, 23. July 12024
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How not to use box shadows.

So you think you know box shadows huh? I bet you didn't know they could do this.

Source: dgerrells.com

Social Computing, before the Internet.

Today, of course, security is absolutely essential. But the luxury of working without it back then resulted in a huge productivity gain, enabling us to do early experimentation with ideas that otherwise were destined to seem impossible for another few decades.

Recreating the THX “Deep Note” in JavaScript (via bytes.dev).

I recreated the iconic THX "Deep Note" using JavaScript and the Tone.js library. Here's how I did it.