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Sunday, March 19th, 2023

Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session 🎶🎻 map

Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session 🎶🎻

Thursday, March 16th, 2023

Modern Font Stacks

This is handy—a collection of font stacks using system fonts. You can see which ones are currently installed on your machine too.

The most performant web font is no web font.

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023

Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎻🎶 — with Jessica map

Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎻🎶 — with Jessica

Tuesday, March 14th, 2023

Craft vs Industry: Separating Concerns by Thomas Michael Semmler: CSS Developer, Designer & Developer from Vienna, Austria

Call me Cassandra:

The way that industry incorporates design systems is basically a misappropriation, or abuse at worst. It is not just me who is seeing the problem with ongoing industrialization in design. Even Brad Frost, the inventor of atomic design, is expressing similar concerns. In the words of Jeremy Keith:

[…] Design systems take their place in a long history of dehumanising approaches to manufacturing like Taylorism. The priorities of “scientific management” are the same as those of design systems—increasing efficiency and enforcing consistency.

So no. It is not just you. We all feel it. This quote is from 2020, by the way. What was then a prediction has since become a reality.

This grim assessment is well worth a read. It rings very true.

What could have become Design Systemics, in which we applied systems theory, cybernetics, and constructivism to the process and practice of design, is now instead being reduced to component libraries. As a designer, I find this utter nonsense. Everyone who has even just witnessed a design process in action knows that the deliverable is merely a documenting artifact of the process and does not constitute it at all. But for companies, the “output” is all that matters, because it can be measured; it appeals to the industrialized process because it scales. Once a component is designed, it can be reused, configured, and composed to produce “free” iterations without having to consult a designer. The cost was reduced while the output was maximized. Goal achieved!

Sunday, March 12th, 2023

Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session 🎻🎻 map

Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session 🎻🎻

Saturday, March 11th, 2023

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Checked in at Pulpeira de Melide. Clams, mackerel, tomatoes and tortilla — with Jessica

Checked in at Mercado Muncipal de San Agustín. Exploring the market — with Jessica map

Checked in at Mercado Muncipal de San Agustín. Exploring the market — with Jessica

Friday, March 10th, 2023

Checked in at Vermutería Martinez. Vermut — with Jessica map

Checked in at Vermutería Martinez. Vermut — with Jessica

Checked in at O Viñedo de Tito. Scallops and razor clams — with Jessica map

Checked in at O Viñedo de Tito. Scallops and razor clams — with Jessica

Checked in at O Merendeiro. Pulpo! 🐙 — with Jessica map

Checked in at O Merendeiro. Pulpo! 🐙 — with Jessica

Checked in at Jamón Jamón. Jamón! — with Jessica map

Checked in at Jamón Jamón. Jamón! — with Jessica

Checked in at La Bombilla. Croqueta y cerveza 🍺 — with Jessica map

Checked in at La Bombilla. Croqueta y cerveza 🍺 — with Jessica

Checked in at Vita K Galera 13. Pimentos de padron y Albariño — with Jessica map

Checked in at Vita K Galera 13. Pimentos de padron y Albariño — with Jessica

Thursday, March 9th, 2023

Some simple ways to make content look good - Set Studio

This is a terrific walkthrough from Andy showing how smart fundamentals in your CSS can give you a beautiful readable document without much work.

Wednesday, March 8th, 2023

Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎻🎻🎶 map

Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎻🎻🎶

An end to typographic widows on the web | Clagnut by Richard Rutter

Rich explains what text-wrap:balance does …and what it doesn’t.

Monday, March 6th, 2023

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We use metaphors all the time. To quote George Lakoff, we live by them.

We use analogies some of the time. They’re particularly useful when we’re wrapping our heads around something new. By comparing something novel to something familiar, we can make a shortcut to comprehension, or at least, categorisation.

But we need a certain amount of vigilance when it comes to analogies. Just because something is like something else doesn’t mean it’s the same.

With that in mind, here are some ways that people are describing generative machine learning tools. Large language models are like…

Sunday, March 5th, 2023

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Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Fiddletastic Sunday session 🎻🎻🎶

Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer - YouTube

This video was in my “Watch Later” queue for ages but I finally got ‘round to watching it this weekend. It’s ace! Great content, great narrative, great delivery—would’ve made a good dConstruct talk.

Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023

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Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica