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.
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.
How not to use box shadows.
So you think you know box shadows huh? I bet you didn't know they could do this.
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.
Wall St. Cheat Sheet - Psychology of a market cycle.
I’ve never seen anybody use a GUI in a clever way. Ever. There’s no cleverness to it. No, like, “Oh my god, you should see the way Adam clicked that mouse. Oh my god. Guys, guys, guys, guys, come on! Check it out: Adam’s going to click the button! Oh my god! That’s amazing!” It just doesn’t happen.
In defense of an old pixel.