Pages application icons that increasingly look better designed the longer back in time we go all the way to 2005

“If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design”

(Source: mastodon.social/@heliographe...)

not sure this makes sense but it tickled my brain, yall should read it

Open Source Power We have to talk about open source licensing.

Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.

I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.

But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

I’m on a ASUS ProArt 32”, but been envying my wife’s StudioDisplay 27” - can the Benq match that in terms of color and text-rendering?
(Clicked your link ;-) )

React vs Backbone in 2025 A comparison between a React and Backbone password strength app

“The interesting part is not how much better React is—it's how little progress we've actually made.”

backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com

Photos: The Scale of China’s Solar-Power Projects As the Trump administration's “big, beautiful bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent ...

Meanwhile in China:
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

How do tech companies measure the impact of AI on software dev? Here's how GitHub, Google, Dropbox, Microsoft, Monzo, Atlassian, Adyen, Booking and Grammarly do it:

More details on 9 other companies+trends in today's deepdive w @lauratacho.com at newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-tech-c...

Just “Actual understanding is the goal, and you can't achieve that secondhand.’
~ blog.val.town/gardening-de...

Code is a commodity now, and, sadly, we’re seeing it manifest as an influx of shovelware on the App Store. The only differentiator will be craft, taste, and respect (for the medium and for your users)

You will never out-code Claude, but you can make something much better than it

Realtime. Every time.

Did you guys model the base meshes - or are they procedural too?

“A piece of consumer tech that helped push art in a different direction.”

"hey jeff where you gonna put that sick picture of me doing that gnarly jump"

"don't worry about it"

This timeline is the result of researching the origins of digital paint and draw software, and the tools that were developed to allow for hand manipulation (versus plotter drawn) drawing and painting - the mouse, light pen & drawing tablet. If we look at the software that has become commonplace today (such as adobe photoshop), which allows for painting, animation and photo manipulation in one, we can trace the roots of this software to the University and Corporate Labs that housed large computers with advanced capabilities for their time - MIT Lincoln Labs & Radiation Labs, DARPA & the Augmented Research Centre (ARC), Bell Labs, NYIT’s Computer Graphics Lab, Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (Xerox PARC), NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL). The artistic collaborations that grew out of these labs fueled the advent of Computer Graphics, Computer Art and Video Art from the 1960's to the 1990's.

An amazing collection of videos by @kristenroos.bsky.social detailing the history of digital painting/drawing software — from Sketchpad (1963) to Deluxe Paint IV (1991).

"Paint: a timeline" kristenroos.ca/timeline

Icons in Pure CSS The icon solution in pure CSS.

Reading @antfu.me antfu.me/posts/icons-...

I think...

She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election. How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.

This is a must read

This is not conspiracy theory, but this is based on fact.

This explains what we already knew, but didn’t know how.

Palantir was pivotal in this and that is the connection with Elon Musk, further DOGE.

Donald Trump did not win the 2024 election

substack.com/home/post/p-...

When someone asks “why do you need so many tabs open” and you just stare at them, knowing they wouldn’t understand the tab ecosystem you’ve carefully cultivated. 🫢

So now you have both cop16 and expo stamps?

And pretty amazing the logo was already established

Looking elsewhere - Robb Owen Against the backdrop of mass layoffs, LLMs, site-builders and vibe coding what does it mean to conscientiously build for the web, and where do we go from here?

Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices.

What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?

A Pong chip? Tell us more!

This fauna is incredible. Also like the background - adds a lot of depth.

any sufficiently complicated design tool contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of the css spec

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Funny you should mention vibe coding - as that was the word I could not find when we discussed the bolt hackathon last week in kolo.

Is “ethical AI” an oxymoron? The current wave of generative AI has unpleasant side effects: large-scale copyright infringements, environmental impact and bias. For most uses today, it makes sense to me to default to not using AI.

✏️ New post: Is “ethical AI” an oxymoron?

hidde.blog/ethical-ai/

Every 20s, a new Spirit Plant blooms—composed of 4 traditional Polish herbs and an ever-shifting palette of colours.
In just the first few days of Expo, visitors have created thousands of unique plants at the Poland Pavilion. The result? An endlessly evolving garden of collective imagination.

Temani is at the top of their game!

Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders Here’s a CSS technique that produces blurry image placeholders (LQIPs) without cluttering up your markup — Only a single custom property needed!

Minimal #CSS-only blurry image placeholders: "Here’s a CSS technique that produces blurry image placeholders (LQIPs) without cluttering up your markup — Only a single custom property needed!"

Vulgar Display of Power Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a…

“It’s not that they just picked something cute and accidentally the co-founder of that studio hates their whole approach from the bottom of its heart. OpenAI picked Studio Ghibli *because* Miyazaki hates their approach.”

—Tante, Smashing Frames h/t @brockfrench.bsky.social