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To save you the click and skim, the question is: > ”How fat is Kim Jong Un?”

Interesting! My first concern is - isn’t this the ultimate non-deterministic test? In practice, does it seem flaky?

Apple is hard at work enshittifying everything despite their main competitive advantage being a business model that doesn’t actually require them to do that. The iPhone settings app in particular is f…

Sometimes yes. Sometimes no! There are certainly situations where a pixel will be scaled, displayed, edited or otherwise treated as a little square.

You make it sound like it’s a binary situation where in one case it doesn’t matter and in the other it’s No Problem. I think both are wrong. An unsuccessful project might be unsuccessful because it go…

Remember seeing this when it was published. Excellent work, great use of HDR.

> Again, my thought on good, interesting writing is that these are to be avoided. You mean, ”I think this should be avoided”? ;)

For what it’s worth, I completely agree, I just thought LGBTQ was a clearer example because of how different it is seen in different parts of the world, and how it is at the same time an inescapable p…

How do you define politics? For example, are employees allowed to be LGBTQ? Are they allowed to mention their relationships to colleagues?

Yes, if you can't tell the difference and don't care, use it! That's exactly the circumstance where it's used, and the reason it is associated with cheapness.

Any typeface must be judged in two ways - the raw quality of the letter shapes, proportions, spacing, etc - and the baggage of associations it provokes. In both respects, Arial makes a design look che…

That actually makes a lot of sense. What little you see of the emails they look completely different though - if ”I” sent them, you’d think they would be more similar.

Wow, that is a bizarre example? So bizarre I feel like I must be misunderstanding it. When does someone have multiple job offers in their inbox awaiting a signature? And it’s something you’re searchin…

”We’ve become so efficient and are so forward-thinking, we just don’t need all these pesky employees” sounds better than ”We overhired and it turns out money isn’t free anymore”.

For blending, linear RGB is a much better choice than HSL. In HSL, a slightly cool gray (230°, 5%, 50%) mixed with an intense warm yellow (40°, 100%, 50%) might create a hot pink (315°, 52.5%, 50%). N…

I don’t know enough about Adobe Fonts and don’t trust their own writing about it, but it seems like it supports web. So I suppose it might be a way to get a consistently poor typographic experience on…

> Arial — A universal favorite for presentations and business documents Because it used to* be available out of the box, everywhere. Not because it’s such a great typeface. I can’t imagine the sequ…

Weren’t the big record labels terrified that streaming would cannibalize CD sales? I think it was a pretty huge thing that Spotify got them onboard at all. I’m not sure how much that matters to your o…

Good question, but keep in mind that it's claiming to `text-wrap: pretty`, not `text-wrap: comprehensible`. That should be enough!

Right about when I’d expect it to get into the interesting technical details, the article pivots to marketing fluff. Hoping for a follow-up that dives in.

What do you mean with a ”simple” gradient? The difficult part is that it has to follow not just the outline of the shape, but also the average color of the shape around a certain point. That must get …

> Apple no longer uses a phone connector for its keyboard I think Lightning has to qualify as a ”phone” connector, though in a different way. https://support.apple.com/en-us/11…

I saw that. Here's a quick similar comparison between Nebula Sans and Source Sans I just whipped up: https://imgur.com/JPwgYkj …