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✍️ New post: Compressed Fluid Typography
#blogtober #css #web #typography
matthiasott.com/notes/compre...
#blogtober #css #web #typography
matthiasott.com/notes/compre...
Compressed Fluid Typography · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.
matthiasott.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
✍️ New post: Compressed Fluid Typography
#blogtober #css #web #typography
matthiasott.com/notes/compre...
#blogtober #css #web #typography
matthiasott.com/notes/compre...
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I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true.
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
The present and potential future of progressive image rendering
Exploring progressive image rendering across JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL.
jakearchibald.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true.
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
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Grainy Gradients
This is about reducing banding effects in gradients by introducing noise. A nice approach is a displacement map using SVG filters.
This is about reducing banding effects in gradients by introducing noise. A nice approach is a displacement map using SVG filters.
Grainy Gradients
This is about reducing banding effects in gradients by introducing noise. A nice approach is a displacement map using SVG filters.
frontendmasters.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Grainy Gradients
This is about reducing banding effects in gradients by introducing noise. A nice approach is a displacement map using SVG filters.
This is about reducing banding effects in gradients by introducing noise. A nice approach is a displacement map using SVG filters.
Reposted by Alexei Accio
New longform @inkandswitch.com essay! 📜
Malleable Software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
by me, @joshuahhh.com, @pvh.ca and @seaofclouds.com
inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...
It's about why people need agency over their software tools, and how to make that happen.
Malleable Software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
by me, @joshuahhh.com, @pvh.ca and @seaofclouds.com
inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...
It's about why people need agency over their software tools, and how to make that happen.
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can...
inkandswitch.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
New longform @inkandswitch.com essay! 📜
Malleable Software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
by me, @joshuahhh.com, @pvh.ca and @seaofclouds.com
inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...
It's about why people need agency over their software tools, and how to make that happen.
Malleable Software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
by me, @joshuahhh.com, @pvh.ca and @seaofclouds.com
inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...
It's about why people need agency over their software tools, and how to make that happen.
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March 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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🎉 Welcome to our new sister project: TinyTick!
Most intelligent and local-first web applications need background tasks like fetching, syncing, and cache eviction.
But managing them - with scheduling, failure handling, retries, and so on - can be a pain.
Most intelligent and local-first web applications need background tasks like fetching, syncing, and cache eviction.
But managing them - with scheduling, failure handling, retries, and so on - can be a pain.
March 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🎉 Welcome to our new sister project: TinyTick!
Most intelligent and local-first web applications need background tasks like fetching, syncing, and cache eviction.
But managing them - with scheduling, failure handling, retries, and so on - can be a pain.
Most intelligent and local-first web applications need background tasks like fetching, syncing, and cache eviction.
But managing them - with scheduling, failure handling, retries, and so on - can be a pain.
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I have a soft spot for visual formalisms. Some examples:
• neural circuit diagrams (Vincent Abbott)
• revision diagrams (Burckhardt et al)
Any other good examples?
• neural circuit diagrams (Vincent Abbott)
• revision diagrams (Burckhardt et al)
Any other good examples?
March 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I have a soft spot for visual formalisms. Some examples:
• neural circuit diagrams (Vincent Abbott)
• revision diagrams (Burckhardt et al)
Any other good examples?
• neural circuit diagrams (Vincent Abbott)
• revision diagrams (Burckhardt et al)
Any other good examples?
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The source code for Ghost House is *incredible*
February 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The source code for Ghost House is *incredible*
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What if a spreadsheet cell could hold multiple values at the same time?
That's the idea behind Ambsheets, a project I've been working on w/ @geoffreylitt.com at @inkandswitch.com. It's a new spreadsheet that makes it easier for you to explore many possibilities simultaneously.
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That's the idea behind Ambsheets, a project I've been working on w/ @geoffreylitt.com at @inkandswitch.com. It's a new spreadsheet that makes it easier for you to explore many possibilities simultaneously.
1/2
February 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
What if a spreadsheet cell could hold multiple values at the same time?
That's the idea behind Ambsheets, a project I've been working on w/ @geoffreylitt.com at @inkandswitch.com. It's a new spreadsheet that makes it easier for you to explore many possibilities simultaneously.
1/2
That's the idea behind Ambsheets, a project I've been working on w/ @geoffreylitt.com at @inkandswitch.com. It's a new spreadsheet that makes it easier for you to explore many possibilities simultaneously.
1/2
January 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
in case you were wondering what seva was up to
January 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
in case you were wondering what seva was up to
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Flexoki 2.0 introduces 88 new colors that feel like watercolor pigments on paper.
This is my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens. This version expands the palette to a full range of values for every color, without desaturating the pigment effect.
This is my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens. This version expands the palette to a full range of values for every color, without desaturating the pigment effect.
January 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Flexoki 2.0 introduces 88 new colors that feel like watercolor pigments on paper.
This is my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens. This version expands the palette to a full range of values for every color, without desaturating the pigment effect.
This is my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens. This version expands the palette to a full range of values for every color, without desaturating the pigment effect.
Reposted by Alexei Accio
Before this year wraps, my favorite data visualization projects flowingdata.com/2024/12/30/b...
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2024
Many datasets were analyzed and many charts were made this year. These are my favorite data visualization projects from 2024.
flowingdata.com
December 30, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Before this year wraps, my favorite data visualization projects flowingdata.com/2024/12/30/b...
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i have been thinking about + building a local first super-app that works off an encrypted personal data store. some ideas:
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the data store represents "the digital you" – a .life file containing a structured data graph of contacts, events, notes, media, webpages, etc.
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the data store represents "the digital you" – a .life file containing a structured data graph of contacts, events, notes, media, webpages, etc.
January 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
i have been thinking about + building a local first super-app that works off an encrypted personal data store. some ideas:
1
the data store represents "the digital you" – a .life file containing a structured data graph of contacts, events, notes, media, webpages, etc.
1
the data store represents "the digital you" – a .life file containing a structured data graph of contacts, events, notes, media, webpages, etc.
i don’t know what it means
December 31, 2024 at 11:27 AM
i don’t know what it means
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tried writing this blog 3 times but it’s really boring, so here’s the short version:
React won. Every mainstream f/w now implements its ideas, and developed their own ecosystems. The ones that didn’t, lost and died.
This implies there’s no _strong_ reason to not pick one of the other winners.
React won. Every mainstream f/w now implements its ideas, and developed their own ecosystems. The ones that didn’t, lost and died.
This implies there’s no _strong_ reason to not pick one of the other winners.
December 27, 2024 at 3:35 PM
tried writing this blog 3 times but it’s really boring, so here’s the short version:
React won. Every mainstream f/w now implements its ideas, and developed their own ecosystems. The ones that didn’t, lost and died.
This implies there’s no _strong_ reason to not pick one of the other winners.
React won. Every mainstream f/w now implements its ideas, and developed their own ecosystems. The ones that didn’t, lost and died.
This implies there’s no _strong_ reason to not pick one of the other winners.
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And here it is again Cross-Browser with a fraction of the setup.
The first demo was primarily showing a hack for data being computed with several layers of dom then being lifted back to :root. I released an update including the mini version
CSS GETing your IP Address :)
codepen.io/propjockey/p...
The first demo was primarily showing a hack for data being computed with several layers of dom then being lifted back to :root. I released an update including the mini version
CSS GETing your IP Address :)
codepen.io/propjockey/p...
December 28, 2024 at 5:08 PM
And here it is again Cross-Browser with a fraction of the setup.
The first demo was primarily showing a hack for data being computed with several layers of dom then being lifted back to :root. I released an update including the mini version
CSS GETing your IP Address :)
codepen.io/propjockey/p...
The first demo was primarily showing a hack for data being computed with several layers of dom then being lifted back to :root. I released an update including the mini version
CSS GETing your IP Address :)
codepen.io/propjockey/p...
Reposted by Alexei Accio
Explanation of how @ariakit.org supports browser extensions in dialogs (good discussion in the thread):
December 28, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Explanation of how @ariakit.org supports browser extensions in dialogs (good discussion in the thread):
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Over December I’ll be posting 100 fun insights in this thread from working on @triplex.dev in my free time for two (!) years.
It’s the longest and largest side project I’ve worked on.
Keep an eye out, will be a fun one!
#threadapalooza #threadapalooza2024
It’s the longest and largest side project I’ve worked on.
Keep an eye out, will be a fun one!
#threadapalooza #threadapalooza2024
December 1, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Over December I’ll be posting 100 fun insights in this thread from working on @triplex.dev in my free time for two (!) years.
It’s the longest and largest side project I’ve worked on.
Keep an eye out, will be a fun one!
#threadapalooza #threadapalooza2024
It’s the longest and largest side project I’ve worked on.
Keep an eye out, will be a fun one!
#threadapalooza #threadapalooza2024
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I’m way too excited for the coming updates to @solidjs.com in 2025
- Fine grained async
- Mutable derivations
- Flush boundaries
- Derived signals
- Lazy memos
- Global batching
- Concurrent transitions? Maybe?
🧵
- Fine grained async
- Mutable derivations
- Flush boundaries
- Derived signals
- Lazy memos
- Global batching
- Concurrent transitions? Maybe?
🧵
December 28, 2024 at 11:27 PM
I’m way too excited for the coming updates to @solidjs.com in 2025
- Fine grained async
- Mutable derivations
- Flush boundaries
- Derived signals
- Lazy memos
- Global batching
- Concurrent transitions? Maybe?
🧵
- Fine grained async
- Mutable derivations
- Flush boundaries
- Derived signals
- Lazy memos
- Global batching
- Concurrent transitions? Maybe?
🧵
I've completed 🎅Santa Refuses To Use Threads - Advent of TypeScript 2024 adventofts.com/events/2024/6
December 6, 2024 at 9:25 AM
I've completed 🎅Santa Refuses To Use Threads - Advent of TypeScript 2024 adventofts.com/events/2024/6
I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2
December 4, 2024 at 4:03 PM
I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2