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Posts
95 from 10 Sep 2013 to 27 Oct 2026
Posting
monthly (23 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog
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2026 20

  1. You are the best artist
  2. How to migrate passwords from Proton Pass to Apple Passwords
  3. Software Drives People Insane
  4. APIs are cool
  5. How I publish bookmarks on this website
  6. The Proper Art of Writing
  7. Free Vectors, PNGs, Mockups & Backgrounds | rawpixel
  8. OKLCH Color Picker & Converter
  9. Site of Sites | The Best Web Design Inspiration 2026
  10. Fluid type scale calculator
  11. VFD Displays
  12. Recent — Design Inspiration
  13. The Scrambled Eggs My Dad's Made 100,000 Times
  14. How I repaired our oven with a piece of Lego
  15. New euro banknotes
  16. How dirty is your AI use?
  17. What I learned from my second Astro-Jekyll migration
  18. How to make a video archive
  19. I do care
  20. Will I regret buying a new Mac?

2025 5

  1. How I do web design
  2. Blend video with your website’s background
  3. Responsive video is (almost) easy now
  4. What if AI were good?
  5. Adding notes to my website

2024 7

  1. developing creative skills
  2. Your lifestyle won’t save the world
  3. Beautiful shadows have beautiful colors
  4. Your app is not a product
  5. Jekyll vs Astro
  6. Learnings from years of technological progress wasted
  7. I like watercolor painting

2023 8

  1. doesn’t mean being responsible
  2. are design ethics of any use at all?
  3. who’s gonna pay me?
  4. don’t hire designers
  5. your job defines who you are
  6. can we even understand enough
  7. how to make digital business cards
  8. You're making me buy a new phone

2022 7

  1. make these projects more successful?
  2. Why is FOSS so badly designed?
  3. The future of blogging
  4. Blogging or posting on social media—what's better?
  5. Design and art
  6. selling a project
  7. The new heroes of design

2021 9

  1. A not so gentle intro to web3
  2. New Year's resolutions are silly
  3. I designed a Christmas gift
  4. Do you really need to set a theme color to color Safari's UI?
  5. pen-and-paper/digital
  6. no individual contributors in design
  7. How I replaced doom scrolling with productive media routines
  8. Here's how I maintain healthy media routines (most of the time)
  9. Breaking unhealthy media habits in six simple steps

2020 7

  1. 10 Reasons why bicycles can’t replace cars
  2. making sidenotes for the web
  3. Design better by avoiding your cognitive biases
  4. adding internationalization to Jekyll websites
  5. Getting to know utility-first CSS
  6. The pandemic, racism and climate change: Let's fix everything
  7. Mass surveillance won't stop corona. What can tech do though?

2019 16

  1. Semantic sidenotes for the web
  2. garbage and pollution
  3. A guide to implementing dark modes on websites
  4. This website is now monetized
  5. Adding comments to my static website
  6. Can we improve products by making them less efficient?
  7. Picking up longboarding as a grown-up
  8. Recommender system basics: Part 2
  9. Recommender system basics
  10. User-centered vs user-centric design
  11. What is design?
  12. Six questions all experienced designers should be able to answer
  13. Dark mode design considerations
  14. Do I have to add a dark mode now?
  15. Why color discussions can be so frustrating
  16. How we all see colors differently

2018 10

  1. Multidimensional responsive design: 5 tips
  2. making custom fonts
  3. Replace social media with blogs and RSS?
  4. Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, UXPin or InVision Studio: which one?
  5. Four ways screen design tools can be improved
  6. Interoperability between UI design tools
  7. Brutalism is not great for looking relatable
  8. Broken or brutalism: personal websites in 2018
  9. Hey Koos, do you still recommend WordPress?
  10. a few times

2017 3

  1. how these projects go wrong
  2. Vue is a great JavaScript framework for designers
  3. What is color

2014 1

  1. How I design ‘mobile first’

2013 1

  1. New design pattern: Drag To Tag

Undated 1

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