Reverse Shoplifting
Now I’ve gotten to enjoy reverse shoplifting. I make sure no-one’s looking when I fish it out of my bag, and put it back on the shelf at exactly the right spot.
I like tight pants and mathematics
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We meet again
Could we conceive of technological objects that aren’t afraid to take up space, to wear colour, to be hacked — that are not smooth, clean, and straight?
Hybrid Publishing Back To The Future Publishing Theses at the KABK
Writing websites like it’s 1999, printing like it’s 2018.
Finding Red Letterboxes In Belgium
Luc Rocher and Eric Schrijver hack Belgium and make it easier for Belgians to post letters.
The Underwater Screen Or Lessons From Wordperfect
If you happen to share a studio, an office or a live with someone who used personal computers in the 1990ies, and you are at their side when this happens, there is a significant chance this person will express a desire for a certain feature of a previous generation of word processors: I am talking about WordPerfect, and its ‘reveal codes’ option.
Hacker Culture and the Fear of WYSIWYG
Flash forward to 2014, and most Content Management Systems still offer us the same inhospitable form fields that look nothing like the page they will produce. The programmers are to blame, and here’s why.
Graphic Design Is A Nostalgic Field
Graphic design is a nostalgic field. Even in the art schools, the students want to make books and posters.
Who gets to write the web: the power struggles around the standards
In this text we try to introduce in more detail what are some of the power struggles that underlie the continued development of HTML. We will look at HTML’s latest iteration, HTML5. We will see the way in which companies like Google try to further their own agenda’s, sometimes under the guise of following the bottom up inventions of web authors.
ufo2otf Makes OTF’s, Webfonts and CSS From UFO’s
ufo2otf is a command line utility that takes UFO font sources and generates OTF’s and webfonts.
No-one Starts From Scratch: Type Design and the Logic of the Fork
But when it comes to type design, one need not look to software development. To see how building upon existing creations makes typographic sense, one can look at type design history itself.
I Need My Generic Font Medicine
If you were formed in the 1990ies, these are the fonts you will feel all Oedipal about. Like medication for which the patents have expired, popular typefaces sprout generic sisters and brothers. Find ways to abuse them for your own end.
48 Hours of Writing Stylesheets with Etherpad and a Gong
The screenshots are from a period of 48 hours where we work on the site together. To write CSS, we keep a shared Etherpad. One person is in charge of the gong: when she rings, she copies the contents of the pad into the site’s CSS file, and uploads it—after which everyone can refresh their browser and see the updated styles.
Release Early Release Often Version Numbers For Typefaces
I love the way version numbers are used in Open Source. Version 1.0 is not the first version released. Projects are well underway before they reach 1.00—if they even reach it. An open source maxim (by Linus Torvalds of Linux fame) is ‘release early, release often’. Get your code out there before it is perfect, because it can benefit from collaboration from the community. That is why we see version…
The Story of Nokia, Microsoft and a 1000 Hearts Breaking
In the upper part of the screen you see a smartphone. A landscape format screen with a keyboard slid out underneath. The screen is scratched and there are stains of white paint all over the device. The phone appears to be floating. A tale of Nokia, Microsoft, and a 1000 hearts breaking.
It Might Be a Unix Sin But I Would Like You to Add .txt As the Extension of Your README file
Who are these people in Boston? Why do they ask me to write them letters in the day and age where I download their software from the internet? And why didn’t they add .txt to the end of their filenames?