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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.

A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming

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.

Every so often I come across a paper, blog post, or (occasionally) video that completely changes how I think about a topic in programming languages and compilers. For some of these posts, I can’t even remember how I thought about the idea before reading it—it was that impactful.

It's Not a Hypothetical, I've Already Lost My Job to AI For The Last Year