Sanding UI: Sand it, feel the grain, get a splinter, sand again, and repeat until smooth.
Sanding UI
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Mario Adventure is a ROM hack of Super Mario Bros. 3. It was developed back in 2001 and released roughly in January of 2002. At the time, Mario Adventure was one of the most extensive hacks of not just Super Mario Bros. 3, but any NES hack. It's been highly regarded as one of the best ROM hacks of all time.
Official Mario Adventure 3 Strategy Guide
Official Strategy Guide for Mario Adventure 3
Open Source Icon Sets - Iconify
Open source vector icons from all popular icon sets
A legible monospace font… the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood.
Comic Mono
A legible monospace font… the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood
Patterns.dev
Learn JavaScript design and performance patterns for building more powerful web applications.
CSS @property and the New Style
An exploration of the newly supported at-rule for explicitly defining and animating custom properties in CSS.
Quick guide to web typography for developers · OlegWock
80/20 guide on how to make your blog posts look pretty, for free.
Your boundary is at hue 174, just like the population median. You're a true neutral.
Is my blue your blue?
Test your color perception with this interactive test.
The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types
The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types
Exploring the web's clipboard APIs, their limitations, and their history.
⁂ is a typographical character, not an icon that needs to be inserted as an image. Unique-looking, but standardised.
A symbol for the fediverse ⁂
We propose the symbol ⁂ to represent the fediverse.
Being on The Semantic Web is easy, and, frankly, well worth the bother
Being on The Semantic Web is easy, and, frankly, well worth the bother
Web 3.0 was not about the blockchain, thank god
This is a pretty spectacular overview and explanation of how CSS named grid areas work and can be used effectively
CSS Grid Areas
A fresh look at the CSS grid template areas and how to take advantage of its full potential today.
I've a lot of nostalgia for these books. It's great reading about others' collections and experience too!
Fighting Fantasy Collection
Read my article about the ups and downs regarding my Fighting Fantasy collection, original series, by Puffin Books, and beyond.
The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art
On Cathode Ray Tubes, nostalgia and anachronisms.
[...] there's a lot more going on with both pixel art and old gaming hardware than mere CRT fuzziness
This repository contains the instructions for building a Faux TRS-80. The model is meant to evoke the feel of a TRS-80 Model 3 or Model 4 computer, but is not an exact replica of either. It has mounting spots for a Raspberry Pi, display, and associated hardware that allow you to run a TRS-80 emulator and get the true Tandy experience.
GitHub - jpasqua/FauxTRS: Emulate a TRS-80 in a scale replica case
Emulate a TRS-80 in a scale replica case. Contribute to jpasqua/FauxTRS development by creating an account on GitHub.
Copying is the way design works
What exists in the space between riffing and ripping
The history of Alt+number sequences, and why Alt+9731 sometimes gives you a heart and sometimes a snowman - The Old New Thing
Code pages and custom keyboard handling.
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Finding the Design Engineer within the Full-Stack Developer | Programming | mary.codes
I just learned about design engineering, and it sounds like a small part of what I already do.
You might be good at TypeScript, but if you don’t know what this project does, what it needs to do next, how to build & run & test, and so much more–you can’t move it forward.
Working with others is different from working.
Today, I’m working on our new deck. It’s a little uncomfortable, because there’s no furniture. I’m sitting on a blanket. The furniture is in the yard, being spray-painted. B…
The Apple ][ is one of the most iconic vintage computers of all time. But since Wozniak’s monster lasted all the way until 1993 (1995 if you could the IIe card, which I won’t count until I get one), it can be easy to forget that in 1977, it was a video extravaganza. The competitors– even much bigger and established companies like Commodore and Tandy– generally only had text modes, let alone pixel-addressable graphics, and they certainly didn’t have sixteen colors. (Gray and grey are different colors, right?)
Apple II graphics: More than you wanted to know
The Apple ][ is one of the most iconic vintage computers of all time. But since Wozniak’s monster lasted all the way until 1993 (1995 if you could the IIe ca...
Building Slack
Stories of building Slack — the company, the product, the business, and the culture — told by two employees who were around for the entire journey.