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Glashütte Trash Clock

“Glashütte Trash Clock” is a fully functioning clockwork made from trash and other stuff that I found in Glashütte, Saxony.

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Design as a garden

A different way to think about creative work.

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Russian and East European Posters

Princeton has a large and expanding collections of Russian and East European posters. The collection documents poster art as used in advertising for performances and films and in and a variety of P...

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Design Systems Should Be Fast by Default

If a design system’s components are slow to interact with, so are any apps built with it. I timed large dropdowns and checkbox lists in some popular design systems, worked out how to make the slow ones faster, and wrote tests that fail when they’re too slow.

Topics: Design Systems

Entities: Design Systems

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Knowing How Is Not Knowing What

What an RL environment needs to supply: organizational context, domain rules and connected information.

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How Sad Is This Chapter?

Check a book chapter's emotional intensity and content warnings without plot spoilers.

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Decoy Font: A TTF font that hides what you type

Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.

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Who holds the off switch?

The same coffee, bought in five kinds of society in 2035, and who gets to know about it. What the 2026 numbers say about privacy and control, and my guesses for where the privacy business goes next.