Use the right tool for the job.

People who like the wild page styles from the Angelfire/​GeoCities era, I think this is the way to go.

Styling where it belongs: Client side!

Great essay on the evolution of home pages and the web

A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.

This 2004 phone had a screen that was a mirror when it was off and a rotary dial in lieu of touchpad or keypad.

It only worked on the now defunct 2G network.

Do we care about the best case or the worst case?

A clickable visual guide (tile map) to the Rust type system. Every type possible in Rust falls into one of the boxes shown.

“ちゃんと「𰻞」を表示できました（「たちばなフォント」のみ、別のフォントでレンダリング”

On inboxes as application-specific todo lists.

The hamburger button, so named for its unintentional resemblance to a hamburger, is a button typically placed in a top corner of a graphical user interface. Its function is to toggle a menu (sometimes referred to as a hamburger menu) or navigation bar between being collapsed behind the button or displayed on the screen. The icon which is associated with this widget, consisting of three horizontal bars, is also known as the collapsed menu icon.

One of our central beliefs at the lab is that premature formality is the root of all evil.

Computers are great at doing things formally with explicit structure. Programs are formal descriptions of what the computer should do. But while using formalisms can be great, forcing people to be explicit about everything often gets in the way.

Three years ago, I wrote a rant about the problems of our current UI paradigm. The complaints I voiced were hardly new or unique, neither was the text what I’d consider my best writing. It was, honestly, mostly a way to blow off steam. It seems I struck a nerve, though, because it’s proven to be one of the most popular texts I’ve published here. For some time, I’ve thought about writing a follow-up, and a recent resurgence in the text’s popularity prompted me to finally do so.

Despite being endlessly fawned over by an army of professionals, Usability, or as it used to be called, “User Friendliness”, is steadily declining. During the last ten years or so, adhering to basic standard concepts seems to have fallen out of fashion.

I’ve been tagged a number of times on Twitter from people are asking me to weigh in on the following comic by beloved Parisian comic artist Boulet. See the original tweet here. Since folks are asking (and it warms my robotic heart that you do), here’s my take on this issue. Boulet, this is for…

OKLCH is a newer color model that is