Rants / posts
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You are not the End User — 15·02·25
A call to remind people who will take your production, your work, your tools in their hands, that they will never be the end.
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Link Dump 05 - January 2025 — 15·01·25
A list of links on CSS, typefaces, and the personal web
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The Web is dead. — 15·12·24
The individual, independent web is only rolling down a steeper and steeper hill towards oblivion from the general public. Aside from technical users or those looking for very specialized information, few today brave the winds of the barren land outside the fortified walls of internet landlords.
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Link Dump 04 - December 2024 — 10·12·24
A list of links on the topic of typeface design.
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Link Dump 03 - November 2024 — 05·11·24
A list of links focusing on designing with restrictions.
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Link Dump 02 - October 2024 — 25·10·24
A list of links on Technology, the open web, the beautiful web, capitalism, and fonts.
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What the fediverse might be to the web — 21·10·24
As expressed above, the fediverse, because of its principles, might be a safe haven for a freer and more open and honest web. And that means letting its quirks be - there's a time when it's quiet, or when you need to purposefully search a bit more to find something worth reading or interacting with.
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Link Dump 01 - June 2024 — 20·06·24
A list of links on different topics.
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Finding the indie web is hard — 12·06·24
While I can't possibly speak for everyone, I'm fairly confident at least part of the rest of us have renounced to complete web oblivion, seen the internet as something that can be great, and constructed from scrap parts or with very powerful tools our own little place, a website just for us. One that reclaims the space we've lost by making the web more personal, people to people.
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On... books? — 06·06·24
Taking a step back and enjoying being an observer instead of the forever action hero.
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Towards a tool-agnostic education — 20·05·24
Why we must stop teaching tools instead of practices, and how those tools influence and lock us in.
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Extract from "Using Simple Tools As A Radical Act Of Independence" — 15·05·24
Complex and opaque tools won't let you learn much. Compared to that, raw HTML editing is a radical act of creation.
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CSS playground screendump from today — 16·03·24
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Quirks of positioning background images — 02·03·24
Positioning background images in web-to-print is a sore mess, but solutions always exist.
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Le Design graphique doit-il toujours être visuel? — 17·02·24
(French) Parfois, dessiner les yeux bandés devient plus intéressant.
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Questions and the lack thereof — 07·02·24
So you always need questions. I always need questions. I need questions because I don't HAVE questions.
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The Everything-Hub — 14·01·24
Every app has its cloud space, quite literally misty and cloudy, where a handful of particles, call them files, hang suspended, sorted by Most Recent and by nothing else. Every app now incorporates chat AND transfer AND streaming AND creation AND games.
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L'image c'est la mort — 25·10·23
Comme les murs-hôtes de graffiti, où un geste efface la représentation d'un autre qui a eu lieu auparavant, le sauvant ainsi de sa mort figée. Il ne faut pas laisser l'image échapper au mouvement, si l'on souhaite toute autre chose que la mort.
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Too Good To Give For Free — 24·10·23
Too Good To Go and other food waste apps are merely an attempt for corporations to wash their dirty polluting hands.
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Extract from "Using computers more freely and safely" — 02·10·23
It took me a while to realize the underlying issue: I was using tools that themselves are catering to non-situated software. They assume that it's worth someone's time to keep up with updates every month or two. But situated software doesn't have those kinds of surpluses. It requires programs to just work once built, with little maintenance.
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I'm out of Facebook (again) — 28·09·23
In the last few years I marketed a zine there, talked about my graphic design works, sold posters, and created a careful public repertoire of the music I listen to. It's been my internet go-to page for 15 years.
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Coopting prix libre in image-realism — 20·09·23
Prix libre becomes a marketing model instead of a careful position in favour of a solidary economy and life.
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On "non-"productivity — 03·06·23
You shouldn't kill yourself trying to live more "productively". Take the time to do nothing, whether with friends or alone. Sleep in on Sundays. Binge that show. Play a couple of games. There's a few comments to make here however.
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Collective Conditions For Requestioning — 01·06·23
Why you should always ask many more questions than you answer.
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Knowing what you use - and why — 24·03·23
Know what you use, and use it according to the properties of your ends. Let the ends justify the means not in retrospection, but in action.
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Radically Boring Looks — 03·12·22
This isn’t a call from a self-appointed patron saint of radical graphic design. It’s merely an observation from someone tired of seeing a punk anarchism revival in the visuals, even though those are two things I adore. I don’t pretend to know what tomorrow’s pamphlet should look like, but I know I can see some mistakes in today’s.