I’ve just realized how RADICAL it feels to open a Wikipedia app on my phone and look up a topic without anyone trying to sell me something, steal my data or hit me with random genAI nonsense. What have we done?

I wrote a program to lipsync the shipping forecast in a terminal window, and I have no regrets.

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.

I wrote about it: https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/

ONE MONTH LEFT!
ANRT call for applications 2025:
From 30 March to 23 June 2025.
Link in bio.

This year's ANRT Open Call poster is a collaborative project of the entire ANRT promo 2024–2026: @lothaire_arnx @lounabourdon @frncojonas @colinemln Nunzio Mazzaferro, @myrthevanrompaey during the workshop run by Studio Helmo.

Typeset in Milling by Tanguy Vanlaeys (ANRT 2017) @205tf with shapes after Prélettres by Eloisa Perez @poem_editions

@timesnewboman on font piracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=altfwRMXG4A

People who moan about Europe not having a Google or Meta. Because of regulation and shit and because (of course) we in Europe don't like success.

It's always funny, because to me, the system is working. I don't want an unregulatable, too-big-to-fail hot mess of a company in Europe.

This may not be 100% intentional and I am not saying that EU regulations are without fault.

I just become increasingly suspicious of people who advocate for slashing them.

when i was your age, AI was Adobe Illustrator.

📚➡️💻 So geht #Digitalisierung im öffentlichen Sektor: von 250 Seiten Papier zur modernen #Website.
Die Planungshilfen für die Bauleitplanung sind jetzt #barrierefrei als Kirby-Website verfügbar. 🆕: https://www.visionbites.de/blog/kirby-website-fuer-planungshilfen-fuer-die-bauleitplanung
#getkirby #accessibilty

@henningtillmann Hat schon jemand „Liquid Feedback auf Bundesebene“ gesagt?

That Stupid Apple Notes ‘a’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/05/12/that-stupid-apple-notes-a

Or you know, have some respect for your craft and take pride in doing the actual, boring, manual work. Create something of value for your users. Strive to make things better. Be human.

Time to vibe code my tax return…

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

Picard management tip: Don't try to go at maximum speed all the time. You'll burn out your engines.

@klim @mass_driver definitely a time to invest in quality… If computers are going to automate and take over the bottom 90% of the market, better make sure to be in the top 10%.

I guess I’d be more worried about AI-generated typefaces if their proponents appeared to show even the tiniest interest in making them better than typefaces made by humans.

Has anyone considered whether Adobe Optical Metrics may have had a role in f*ing this up?

#AdobeOpticalF_ingMetrics

Why the lettering on Pope Francis's tomb looks so bad

https://www.fastcompany.com/91324550/kerning-on-pope-francis-tomb-is-a-travesty

A horror story in two parts