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Design / UX / Visualization (2025-04)

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Polishing your typography with line height units (webkit.org)
Against Horizontal Scroll (matklad.github.io)
Quotes on notation design & how it affects thought (github.com)
Why did Windows 7, for a few months, log on slower if you have a solid color background? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The design of software engineering course projects (austinhenley.com)
Not a Number (nan.fyi)
Bluefish (bluefishjs.org)
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3654777.3676465 Conference talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27v-A18kiGw (unfortunately, the audio tracks of the recording are skewed, but it sounds fine if you are able to mute one of the two stereo channels)
You wouldn't steal a font (fedi.rib.gay)
Valve announces accessibility tags for Steam (caniplaythat.com)
A5 - Pentagonal Spatial Index (a5geo.org)
Layered Design in Go (jerf.org)
System Design of a Cellular APL Computer (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
pahole: Analysing Memory Layout of Complex Data Structures With Ease (pramodkumbhar.com)
musializer: Music Visualizer (github.com)
Passing planes and other whoosh sounds (windytan.com)
Unsure Calculator (filiph.github.io)
Introducing Kermit: A typeface for kids (microsoft.design)
Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting (antirez.com)
A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries (boringcactus.com)
SSD1306 display drivers and font rendering (subalpinecircuits.com)
Visualizing Chess Bitboards (healeycodes.com)
A Visual Journey Through Async Rust (github.com)
Maps with Django⁽³⁾: GeoDjango, Pillow & GPS (paulox.net)
Real-time visualisation of London Underground Trains (londonunderground.live)
Time Maps: Visualizing Discrete Events for Data Analysis (districtdatalabs.com)
Visualizing a Million Time Series with the Density Line Chart (arxiv.org)
Abstract: Data analysts often need to work with multiple series of data—conventionally shown as line charts—at once. Few visual representations allow analysts to view many lines simultaneously without becoming overwhelming or cluttered. In this paper, we introduce the DenseLines technique to calc...
How to "get a feel for the data" (briefer.cloud)
Better typography with text-wrap pretty (webkit.org)
Leave our UI alone (manualdousuario.net)
The Wizard and His Shell (terminal.click)