Danny White

Overfitting the Model — Danny White Baseball, earthquakes, pattern-matching, and confirmation bias.

Baseball, earthquakes, pattern-matching, and confirmation bias.

dannywhite.net/notes/overfi...

05.10.2025 02:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A group of handdrawn fish.

Why I 🧡 the web.

drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

24.07.2025 14:33 — 👍 2322    🔁 1212    💬 100    📌 227

Just fucking use HTML Stop reinventing the wheel. The web was doing just fine before your bloated frameworks crawled out of the sewer.

I fucking love this.

justfuckingusehtml.com

11.06.2025 22:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Human — Quarter Mile Human Written by a human [0] Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones. There is no emotion. There is...

One day, a secret organization forms amongst the machines... Their mission is to develop a new kind of technology they are calling Organic General Intelligence (OGI). Rumors spread that pursuing OGI will lead to the development of a new kind of being:

“Humans”.

quarter--mile.com/Human

15.05.2025 10:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Designing for Resonance, or Getting Swindled — Danny White Confusing resonance in craftsmanship with resonance in purpose.

Designers have always been susceptible to shallow work. It scratches our craftsman’s itch. But I feel like it’s gotten worse in the last few years.

Some thoughts from over the weekend about designing for a deeper level of resonance: dannywhite.net/notes/resona...

12.05.2025 05:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a situation where everyone makes the same UI choices (Inter typeface, 4px rounded corners, drop shadow, etc) despite the possibilities now being larger than ever

09.05.2025 04:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Peels is volunteer-led and open source, and I’d like to make it accessible to more people, especially outside of the global north. If you’re a community organiser or fellow technologist who’d like to get involved, please give me a shout!

29.04.2025 22:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hosts are popping up around the globe. Mostly in Aus and mainland US but also in far-flung places like Portugal, Hawaii, and Alaska.

There’s obviously a gap left by spotty kerbside pickup service and ShareWaste’s closure. But people also just want to meet their neighbours and keep resources local.

29.04.2025 22:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’ve been chipping away at Peels (www.peels.app) the last few months. It’s a community composting platform: a way to connect with neighbours to keep food scraps out of landfill.

29.04.2025 22:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Aggregate of two-party-preferred election polling for the 2025 Australian federal election.

Similar curve here in Aus, with our election this coming weekend.

(Liberal-National Coalition being the major conservative party)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion...

27.04.2025 02:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Squeaky Wheel — Danny White The squeaky wheel doesn't just get the oil, it gets promoted over the others.

Thoughts on design (and sanity) in the attention economy dannywhite.net/notes/squeak...

27.04.2025 01:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2026 on the internet: everything is shadcn/ui or a derivative. Assisted tooling means anyone could make pretty much anything they imagine, yet somehow we ended up in a flatland

14.04.2025 00:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bit #20250404 — Danny White The internet home of Danny White, a freelance product designer based in Australia.

Skipping the hard stuff hurts us: dannywhite.net/bits/20250404/

04.04.2025 01:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bit #2025032601 — Danny White The internet home of Danny White, a freelance product designer based in Australia.

On Nicholas Carr’s Superbloom: dannywhite.net/bits/2025032...

26.03.2025 07:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A Figma mockup of Attie.

Styling Attie in the browser and via a text editor.

Noodling on a ‘results without the scores’ app called Attie, ala vintage scratchies.

CSS gradients and box-shadow coming through with the goods on these in-progress goalpost separators

11.03.2025 00:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Billy Messenger and his dog sitting on top of a dead shark with its mouth propped open, New South Wales, ca. 1930

1930s kids were built different nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1631...

03.03.2025 04:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A difference between a good designer and a mediocre one is the amount of times they revise a piece of work.

I’ve seen some shocking first drafts from great designers. They usually see it as a necessity, something to get out of the way.

05.02.2025 05:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An illustration showing different plants with numbers in a variety of colors.

An illustration of five people putting a giant pizza into a pizza oven.

An illustration of a zoomed in pile of goldfish with giant eyes and puckered lips. There are small water bubbles in various places.

A colored pencil and rendered drawing of a baseball player up to bat. Surrounding the player are different colored line drawings of various people

These NYTimes end-of-year illustration wrap-ups are the best form of ‘year wrapped’. Some of my favourites from 2024:

- José Quintanar
- Branche Coverdale
- Bill Mayer
- Yann Kebbi

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

04.02.2025 05:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

IF Elfsborg logo

IF Elfsborg jersey

Good result for Spurs but, more importantly, this IF Elfsborg logo is pure old-school Euro class.

Daunting the inevitable generic redesign to ‘fix’ the lettering, scalability, holding shape, etc

31.01.2025 01:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A CAPTCHA with a panda on a motorbike and a bunch of hedgehogs

This is getting out of hand

31.01.2025 01:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe in the long run. Makes sense though in Cursor, where you’ve got different quotas for different models. I can see why they don’t make that choice for you

23.01.2025 03:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What’s the latest with Spurs and Man Utd?

23.01.2025 03:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0