George Francis on Voronoi tessellations in generative art. Enjoyed this. Seems like a decent alternative to circle packing at least some of the time.
Elise Hein on her experience with stackless dev. The minimalist in me is pretty much always interested in this angle on web development.
WebComponents.dev on all the ways to make a web component. Lots of charts. Prism and Svelte look intriguing.
Josh Comeau on designing beautiful shadows in CSS. The techniques definitely make a difference.
Fleta Selmani’s Escheresque impossible type (via
Kottke). Love this.
Katherine Rundell on giraffes. Unexpectedly fascinating.
Sokyokuban, a Sokoban game set on a hyperbolic plane. Mind-bending in a great way.
Shawn Wang on preemptive pluralization when developing software. This seems like a wise practice. (Not following it has bitten me more than once.)
Michael Mulet on how he made a video game in a font. Fascinating and horrifying.
Alan Jacobs on blog gardens. I’m particularly intrigued by the idea of writing about the same topic in depth over longer periods of time as a way of organically writing what effectively amounts to a book.
Iain Bean on system fonts. I didn’t realize Charter is now a system font. (In macOS, it was apparently added in High Sierra.) That’s great.
Thomas Dimson’s This Word Does Not Exist. Words generated and defined by machine learning. It’ll be interesting to see how machine-generated content affects culture going forward.
Samuel Arbesman on Newtonian anagrams. Fascinating historical tidbit, and I’m interested in reading that Newton bio, too.
Hannah Ritchie on the drop in land use if the world switched to a plant-based diet. I’m not a vegetarian (though I was for a time when I was younger), but if plant-based meat substitutes get tasting good enough, I’d have no problem dropping meat from my diet. (I am shallow.)
Hynek Schlawack on the limitations of semver. Good points with some good advice.