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This article is really about IT support, not "tech" workers. What tech workers need, if they need anything, is a professional organization like lawyers, doctors, and architects hav…

You think this blog post is advocating for good UI?

This reads more like a portfolio case study than a blog post for a company. Who is the audience of this post? Isn't one of the main value props of Vercel that you don't need to kno…

Physical objects get added to our body schema in a way that digital documents do not. When we hold a book in our hands, our brains incorporate it into the subconscious of our bodie…

The moralizing that always accompanies (not) upside down maps is so tedious. It's a genuinely interesting example of how something can look so wrong and yet not be wrong at all. To…

It seems to me

1. Amazon announces new IC to Manager ratio target. Meeting this target would mean an overall reduction in the number of managers. 2. Someone at Morgan Stanley assumes that lay off…

Essentially the plot of The Inverted World.

I am not a composer but I do have a similar memory for sound. I can "listen" to music in my head very vividly. It can go on for quite awhile almost subconsciously and when it ends …

Learn page layout and graphic design principles. A lot of CSS is spec'd to support these disciplines and it will make a lot more sense if you are familiar with them. The main reaso…

Remarkably ignorant comment, and bitter too. You might as well blame MS Word for all the poorly written books out there.

It's cheaper. Many fonts require ongoing licensing fees based on views or some other metric. Creating your own font means you own it — no more fees.

The contrast ratio for the body text is 7.57:1 (or 7.25:1 if the text is on the light grey background), which meets AAA accessibility standards (which is 7:1).

Is it possible that running a blog is not as easy as you think?

Pointlessly reworking software is the hallmark of a poor (or green) contributor. Designers can redesign features that work fine, engineers can refactor code that doesn't need optim…