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“But this era of yellow journalism did not last forever. It burned hot, warped incentives, did real damage, and then, over time, consumers began to prioritize credibility. In response, newspapers began focusing on building trusted brands.”
https://time.com/article/2026/05/07/how-to-fix-the-internet/
#web #slop #enshittification
“You might think it counterintuitive that a movement obsessed with software would spearhead a severe decline in the design quality of software. But software brain is an obsession with software as a medium in and of itself. A means with no consideration for the end.”
https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/software_as_the_product_of_obsession_times_voice
You might think it counterintuitive that a movement obsessed with software would be spearheading a severe decline in the design quality of software, but in Patel’s definition, there’s no concept of software as art, as a practice, as a craft. Software brain is purely an obsession with software as a medium in and of itself. A means with no consideration for the end.
📝 Been thinking about this question that used to make me so mad:
“If you don’t have time to do it right at first, how will you have time to fix it later?”
Email address obfuscation: What works in 2026?
„Some of the best techniques for keeping email addresses hidden from spammers—along with the statistics on how likely they are to be broken.“
https://spencermortensen.com/articles/email-obfuscation/
✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One
A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident.
https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one
We inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, most digital product teams are still running on that model. The gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident. It was designed in. And it can be designed out.
How I approach responsive images and using img srcset.
https://blocksedit.com/content-code/responsive-image-sizing/
#webdesign #responsive #mobile
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