Top Web Design Styles of 1993(contemporary-home-computing.org)

52 points by luu 1 month ago | 9 comments

Introduction to Rdist (2012)(benedikt-stockebrand.de)

17 points by networked 3 years ago | 0 comments

Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)(cs.virginia.edu)

60 points by rodrigosetti 2 years ago | 7 comments

The Ternary Computing Manifesto(homepage.divms.uiowa.edu)

5 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 1 comments

History of T (2001)(paulgraham.com)

64 points by swatson741 3 years ago | 19 comments

Greybeard's tomb: the lost treasure of language design (2019)(michael.orlitzky.com)

19 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 4 comments

Hidden interface controls that affect usability(interactions.acm.org)

538 points by cxr 1 year ago | 382 comments

ACM Interactions feature by Philip Kortum arguing that hidden interface controls harm usability, drawing on Engelbart and Norman's knowledge-in-the-world concept.

The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop(nngroup.com)

680 points by skadamat 3 years ago | 414 comments

Nielsen Norman Group article arguing that mobile-first web designs cause usability problems on desktop through 'content dispersion': oversized images, text, and white space.

A third way of using Linux(hisvirusness.com)

24 points by speckx 21 days ago | 35 comments

Blog post arguing that text user interfaces (TUIs) are an underappreciated third way of using Linux, between the command line and graphical desktops.

Game design is simple(raphkoster.com)

481 points by vrnvu 11 months ago | 142 comments

Blog post by game designer Raph Koster arguing that game design is simple, actually, laying out his view of its fundamentals.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)(cs.stanford.edu)

603 points by peterkshultz 1 year ago | 181 comments

Andrej Karpathy's 2013 guide offering advice to undergraduate students on doing well in courses, covering sleep, studying habits, and exam preparation.