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Dit stuk is ook verschenen op Villamedia.nl In Jurassic Park weet men te ontsnappen aan de dinosaurussen, omdat het gezichtsvermogen van deze dieren gebaseerd zou zijn op beweging: Nou weet ik niet of dat waar is, maar wat ik wel weet is dat het gezichtsvermogen van de politiek, en specifiek de Tweede Kamer, totaal gebaseerd is op journalistieke aandacht. Bijna 100% van alle kamervragen begint met een verwijzing naar een nieuwsbericht, bijvoorbeeld.

When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of thumb is: links are for navigation, buttons are not. That can take you pretty far. However, like most things, there’s nuance and that mental model can fall apart ...

A sociotechnological trend

My process for starting new projects

humans and social punishment

This was the second COVID election.

I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React. I needed to persist some state to localStorage, and there’s some info on how to do it in Recoil’s docs. That works; however it doesn’t respond to state changes from other instances of your app in multipl...

How to watch the election without falling for conspiracy theories

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Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between them? Do you care? If not, we might not be a good fit. #designEngineering Reply via: Email :: Mastodon :: Twitter Tagged in: #designEngineer

Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News). I find out about it because my analytics digest will get a yuge uptick in page views. What’s interesting is all the referral sources that show up in my analytics. The Hacker New...

I'm not sure how I feel about webfonts. For now, I'm using IBM Plex serif, which looks pretty, sure. It loads pretty fast thanks to Cloudflare Fonts, which rewrites Google Fonts to be delivered from my own origin. But is it really necessary? Also, reading longer texts with a serif font is not everyone's cup of tea.

A standard sans-serif font stack looks kinda ugly on Windows. Verdana still feels great (for example, on Bearblog), so maybe I'll try it later.

Welkom! Goed inzicht in ons parlement is belangrijk, soms omdat er dingen in het nieuws zijn. En soms juist omdat dingen (nog) niet in het nieuws zijn, maar er binnenkort wel besluiten over genomen gaan worden. De Tweede Kamer publiceert alles wat ze doen via een technische API, en dat is echt geweldig. Hierdoor kunnen we op Internet eigen viewers maken om deze data zo goed mogelijk zichtbaar te maken.

We've all been there - staring at Google's search box, overwhelmed by the maze of complexity hiding behind that minimalist interface, thinking it's impossible to break in. The key to decoding Google? Converting the attack surface from a black box to a white box.

A design thought about how bug trackers could use a more accurate data representation to make queries easier.

I don't envy beginners trying to get into web development today. I haven't been doing any frontend web development for more than a decade. Today I was trying to do a simple thing: get a JS markdown editor to work in the browser. Found this beautiful looking library called Ti...

I just wanted to write again. My old blog at rakhim.org is built with Hugo, and after installing a new version of Hugo things broke. After 25 minutes of attempts to fix it I though "yeah, that's it", and decided (as you do) to just build a simple blogging platform. Static si...

You can have a wrong favorite animal

Here’s Ben Nadal quoting Dave Farley: I've come to the belief that the only definition of quality in code that makes any sense is our ability to change the code. If it's easy to change, it's high quality; if it's hard to change, it's not. Then Ben comments: I'm sure that ...

As a customer of an open core product, is the promise of longevity for you, or somebody else?