The Rules of Type Design

Here are my proposed rules for Type Design:

You can use lines or strokes.

You can use icons.

You can use typography.

You can change the color of the background.

You can use images.

Relatedly, the explanation may have to do with a tension between two kinds of thinking: what computer scientists call exploration and exploitation. When we face a new problem, we adults usually exploit the knowledge about the world we have acquired so far. We try to quickly find a pretty good solution that is close to the solutions we already have. On the other hand, exploration — trying something new — may lead us to a more unusual idea, a less obvious solution, a new piece of knowledge. But it may also mean that we waste time considering crazy possibilities that will never work, something both preschoolers and teenagers have been known to do.

During the last 18 months, working on my Web site became a daunting task—be that for developing, redesigning it, writing a blog post, or making updates to my speaking and workshop pages. My then static site generator, Jekyll, is why. And a change has long been overdue...

Each year we learn something new about design and 2016 was no different.
After last year’s article had such a success we decided to make some predictions for 2017, so let's get started!

Design trends are influenced by media, technology, the fashion industry and, lately usability. A trend emerges slowly, gradually, making its way into all design branches, and then disappears in exactly the same way. Basically a design trend's life is no longer than one or two years. Design in 2017 will continue the trends that materialized in 2016 while adding some new influences, but the feeling is well known and familiar and you may have seen it in the past couple of years. The main influencer remains Google's Material Design, that suffers a few changes.

There’s a person I want to work with. I can’t find this person. I’ve literally searched the world, and I can hardly find a trace.

I’m not talking about someone specific. In fact, that’s the problem. I’m talking about a set of traits and an attitude which is more scarce than I realized until recently. I know a small handful of people who fit what I’m looking for, but they’re busy and unavailable right now.

Web Audio API lets us make sound right in the browser. It makes your sites, apps, and games more fun and engaging. You can even build music-specific applications like drum machines and synthesizers. In this article, we'll learn about working with the Web Audio API by building some fun and simple projects.

Someone Finally Explains What That Extra Set of Shoelace Holes Is For

We all have them, and most of us just ignore them. I'm talking about that extra pair of holes on the top of our sneakers. Nope, they're not just for decoration! Try this shoelace tying trick called the "heel lock" to prevent the back of your foot from sliding up and down, which will prevent heel blisters. If you're a runner, this just may be the best thing you hear all day!

Newest uploads! Auto-78-twitter. Through the Great 78 Project the Internet Archive has begun to digitize 78rpm discs for preservation, research, and discovery with the help of George Blood, L.P..

For more than a year, I've been following an intermittent fasting eating regimen. I use the word regimen because intermittent fasting is not a diet, at least in a "consume less calories" way. Intermittent fasting is all about when you eat, not what you eat.

The Web Framework Is Dead

The main problem with Web Frameworks is the "Web"-part.

You either have a good web framework (Catalyst, Dancer) which makes it hard to reuse your code in non-web-contexts (and there are a lot of those: cronjobs, tests, fixup scripts, daemons, importer & exporter, ...); or you have a "closed system" like Mojolicous or Ruby on Rails, which tend to include everything (i.e. they come with their own email-system, cron-replacement, event loop, ...) but sort of drift away from the main language and generate their own ecosystem / walled garden.

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I realize there are a lot of poker players skeptical about the value of poker tells. But I guarantee you that you can make or save a good amount of chips just by keeping an eye on the player directly to your left.

When I read this, I immediately began a ritual that I have practiced for many years–and that others have done for centuries before me–I marked down the passage and later transferred it to my “commonplace book.