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Ice clings to the window of my car after an ice storm.
Source: John Williams

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Is CSS a programming language?

And why does it seem to matter to so many people?

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AI, computers, and looms

We seem to be very selective about whose jobs deserve to be automated.

“Keeping up” should not be an extracurricular activity.

Businesses that don’t strive for perfect efficiency are more creative and have happier employees.

Using modern font stacks

Goodbye Google Fonts, hello (again) system fonts

Maybe sometimes you should use pixels

The conventional wisdom is that you should not use pixel units, but maybe sometimes you should?

Thudfactor has gone super retro

An explanation and apology of sorts for things looking like 1992 around here.

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Real punctuation for programmers

How to give your UI a more polished look just by using the correct punctuation.

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The underappreciated reason Google is useless

Search Engines have been overwhelmed by SEO spam, but is the struggling open web part of the problem?