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Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate This blog post explores the historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games.

Great read, some useful examples of settlement patterns that could be useful for games such as Banished or Manor Lords

www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/why...

CSS-in-JS: The Great Betrayal of Frontend Sanity CSS-in-JS promised simplicity but delivered performance issues. Learn why ditching it for native CSS solutions leads to faster, more maintainable web apps.

Every paragraph of this article is a banger. “We don’t need to reinvent styling. We just need to respect the boundaries that made the web work in the first place. CSS is not broken; our discipline is. The answer isn’t more abstraction—it’s better understanding.” thenewstack.io/css-in-js-th...

ohhh... nice!

Stop Misrecruits: Add Foils to Your Screener Foils are fake (but plausible) options in screeners that catch inattentive or dishonest participants, protecting data quality and saving time.

Stop Misrecruits: Add Foils to Your Screener

www.nngroup.com/articles/scr... by @nngroupux.bsky.social

#ux #surveydesign

Legends of the games industry: Roger Dean - Spillhistorie.no We spoke with the man behind the Psygnosis logo – and so much more!

Legends of the games industry: Roger Dean

spillhistorie.no/2025/10/03/l...
#yes #psygnosis #gaming #shadowofthebeast

‘Liquid Glass’ text, but the play button obscures the text so it actually reads ‘Liquid ass’.

Unfortunate thumbnail / play button combo

Ugjkagk i love the Microsoft Design blog header.

The Enshittification of Dribbble is Complete While stumbling onto Dribbble, I saw a post (and its... expected comment section) that served as a microcosm of the current state of a once beloved service.

The Enshittification of Dribbble is Complete
avalonstar.com/blog/2025/th...
Great read by @bryanvelo.so via @piccalil.li

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

CSS Holographic Masks Experimenting with some CSS holographic effects, inspired by this guide from Robb Owen: https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/css-blend-mode-shaders/...

Crazy holographic masking in #CSS
codepen.io/HejChristian...

by @hejchristian.com

Form accessibility and usability beyond the basics - Pope Tech Blog Four form functionalities most websites don't consider.

Great tips on autofill and paste functionality, accessible error message patterns, usable and accessible date field and auto formatted fields, to improve your forms and make them more inclusive. 2023, but still relevant in 2025, trust me, most forms out there are a mess to use.

Truth, Lies and Progress Bars An early encounter with a fabricated progress indicator inspired several more honest alternatives.

“Oh, it’s complete nonsense,” they replied with a chuckle. Then they explained…

Progress bar #ux

by @cloudfour.com

cloudfour.com/thinks/truth...

Yay! Glad sidebar is back. Couldn't bring myself to remove the bookmark from my browser 🎉

Mercury's shadowy north pole revealed by M-CAM 1 (with labels) Mercury's shadowy north pole revealed by M-CAM 1 (with labels)

TIL that there's a crater on Mercury called Tolkien 😲
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

GitHub - Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility: How to approach accessible web interface design How to approach accessible web interface design. Contribute to Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility development by creating an account on GitHub.

I've drawn up a set of principles for approaching web accessibility. I hope they help to frame your work as we enter 2025. github.com/Heydon/princ...

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d&d is anti-medieval You can be forgiven for thinking that OD&D is a medieval European fantasy game. After all, Gary Gygax himself says so. He describes the original D&D books as “Rules for Fantastic Medi…

D&D is anti-medieval:
www.blogofholding.com?p=7182 #rpg #dnd

PSSR

Public Work: A Fast Search Engine for Public Domain Images Public Work is an image search engine that boasts 100,000 “copyright-free” images from institutions like the NYPL, the Met, etc. It’s fast with a relatively simple interface and uses AI to auto-categorize and s

Public Work is an image search engine that boasts 100,000 “copyright-free” images from institutions like the NYPL, the Met, etc. It’s fast with a relatively simple interface and uses AI to auto-categorize and suggest possibly related images. [kottke.org]

Dungeons & Dragons taught me how to write alt text Describe the most important thing first.

D&D taught me how to write alt text
ericwbailey.website/published/du... #ux #a11y #d&d

On se soigne bien en télétaf je vois 😋