Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Progress comes from motion.  Momentum is the invisible engine of any significant work. A project feels daunting when you face it as a blank ...

It’s Friday at 4pm. I’ve just closed my 12th bug of the week. My brain is completely fried. And I’m staring at the bug leaderboard, genuinely sad that Monday means going back to regular work. Which is weird because I love regular work. But fixit weeks have a special place in my heart. What’s a fixit, you ask? Once a quarter, my org with ~45 software engineers stops all regular work for a week. That means no roadmap work, no design work, no meetings or standups. Instead, we fix the small things that have been annoying us and our users: an error message that’s been unclear for two years a weird glitch when the user scrolls and zooms at the same time a test which runs slower than it should, slowing down CI for everyone The rules are simple: 1) no bug should take over 2 days and 2) all work should focus on either small end-user bugs/features or developer productivity.

Parties are a public service; here's how to throw them.

You can make a DIY air purifier in 30s. To test if it works, I generated smoke, and measured how well it removes tiny particles.

Home of the ABS programming language: the joy of shell scripting.

I’ve been learning Persian (Farsi) for a while now, and I’m using a bunch of tools for it. The central one is certainly Anki, a spaced repetition app to train memory. I’m creating my own never-ending deck of cards, with different types of content, for different purposes. The most frequent type of cards is grammar focused phrases (very rarely single words) coming sometimes from my own daily life, but also very often directly from videos of the Persian Learning YouTube channel, created by Majid, a very talented and nice Persian teacher, in my opinion.

Explore how to recreate Apple's stunning Liquid Glass effect using CSS, SVG Displacement Maps, and refraction calculations.

and we knew this back in the 80s

The brilliant relationship tip you won't find anywhere else.

Rethinking DOM from first principles

Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin

Learn how to design awesome UIs by yourself using specific tactics explained from a developer's point-of-view.

Learn how to design awesome UIs by yourself using specific tactics explained from a developer's point-of-view.

How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.

Thunderbird got some really good improvements over the past couple of years; A full on redesign and I presume a refactor of some parts of...

I recently spent a few weeks running a conference for a community of researchers and writers in a historic chateau in the French countryside. During this time, I also examined the history of the…

Hyrum's Law, named after Hyrum Wright, a software engineer at Google, states that "with a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebo...

This manual explains how to assemble an electrically heated and insulated table that keeps you toasty warm in a cold space.