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I explore code as a design material. Co-founder of designsystems.international and author of programmingdesignsystems.com. Former New York Times, O'Reilly Media and NYU.

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designsystems.international 4y ago

Show HN: A design studio that uses code as their primary material

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processing.org 4y ago

Show HN: The new processing.org with an interactive logo program

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programmingdesignsystems.com 6y ago

Show HN: Geometric Composition in JavaScript (free book about design and code)

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runemadsen.com 9y ago

The UX of Design Systems: Material Design and Templatization of Digital Products

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programmingdesignsystems.com 9y ago

Show HN: Programming Design Systems – Custom Shapes

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programmingdesignsystems.com 9y ago

Show HN: Programming Design Systems

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runemadsen.github.io 10y ago

Show HN: Rune.js – Graphic design systems with SVG in the browser or Node.js

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beta.oreilly.com 11y ago

New O'Reilly Data Site

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runemadsen.com 11y ago

On meta-design and algorithmic design systems

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chrome.google.com 12y ago

Show HN: Chrome extension parses HTTP headers for recruitment messages

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runemadsen.com 12y ago

Generative web fonts with JavaScript

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chimera.labs.oreilly.com 13y ago

O'Reilly Media launches git-based authoring platform

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vimeo.com 13y ago

Heroku Waza: Programming and the Visual Arts [video]

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natureofcode.com 13y ago

Daniel Shiffman launches "The Nature of Code" online for free

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www.pagepope.com 14y ago

Show HN: Create printable guides to your favorite places (3-day Rails hack)

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I just spent 25 minutes trying to install a command-line tool called citus_dump that Cursor told me could help port data between Postgres citus clusters only to find out that the tool doesn't exist and that the language model just made it up. AI-assisted coding is definitely enticing, but we have so long to go until you can trust AI-generated code in production environments.

Nowhere did I say mental disorders are better or less harmful than physical disorders, and nowhere did I say that the experience is not the same from a patient's point of view. However, there's a great difference in how the medical profession treats people with physical and mental disorders, and these patients are being told repeatedly by the entire world that they are feeling what they are feeling because of anxiety, depression, etc, which is flat out wrong. As a person who has also battled with mental problems, I'll be the first to point out that that's a big, big problem.

There is lots and lots of research into the similarities of Long Covid and other post-viral illnesses despite the fact that people only recently started reporting these symptoms:

"This study supports prior findings that ME/CFS occurs with high prevalence among those who have persistent COVID-19 symptoms." - https://www.mdpi.com/2035-8377/15/1/1

Long Covid symptoms are not vague. If you argue this, you have not done enough research into what people are battling. A majority of Long Covid haulers suffer from PEM (Post Exertional Malaise) which is a primary symptom of ME/CFS, and even thought research on this subject has been performed for decades, We currently don't understand what causes it. There are many theories for ME/CFS which could fit well with Long Covid, including an activation of the Epstein-Barr virus which causes neuroinflammation, and if this neuroinflammation primarily centers on the brain, it explains all the symptoms that people are reporting.

FedNow FAQ 4 years ago

This is a horrible excuse for the terrible banking system in the US. We have both instant payments in Denmark and laws to require banks to cover fraud.

My experience with GitLab is that they accelerated very quickly in the beginning with a focus on new features. This made the whole ecosystem incredibly slow, and it's unbearable for me to run as a service on my own hardware / cloud accounts. I guess that's the problem with these open source services that also rely on paid platform income. I have tested out https://gogs.io/ and the difference in speed is just incredible.

You can't just throw out numbers like "25% sales tax" and think that it paints a clear picture of how it is to live and work in a country like Denmark. I'm Danish and have lived in the US for 13 years. I have owned companies in both countries. Denmark is without question superior in almost every aspect when it comes to running a business.

As a note, my personal tax rate in the US is not that much lower than my Danish tax, and in Denmark I get free health care, free education, free support if I'm struggling, and a unified, digital service for registering and running my company.

I'm 6 months into my COVID illness, and I'm still having fatigue and breathing difficulties on a daily basis. It started with severe breathing difficulties, but I was never in the hospital, and it has basically been going up and down in waves since then. X-rays shows that my lungs have recovered, but I don't feel good at all. I'm 37 and in great shape. I am so damn tired of the discussion being focused on deaths: If 2-5% of infected get long-term symptoms like me, it's going to be an absolute onslaught on the health care systems in the coming years.

Docbook 7 years ago

I built the Atlas system that O'Reilly uses to produce books, along with a Markdown and Asciidoc converter to HTMLBook. So even though you write in Asciidoc or Markdown, it gets converted to HTMLBook since that's what the entire toolchain understands. But those formats are great for the authors wanting to write in a plain-text alternative.

As much as I know about the Tour, the route is extremely challenging, not so much related to time-lag of the video, but to actually having a clear signal going through at all times. The production of this race is done by the most qualified outdoor video professionals in the world, it is highly scrutinized, and I doubt that this setup is a product of coincidence.

Author here! Thanks for the comment. Just for some background info: This book is written for people who want to begin using code as a creative tool, and many readers just learned the basics of JavaScript. Color theory quickly gets extremely hardcore, so the emphasis here is to present an alternative to the standard color spaces that is easy to use in JS. I think that HSLuv solves that problem, and it has been very helpful for my students when I introduced it in undergrad classes. There are many other relevant perceptually uniform color spaces, but none of them are as easy to understand as HSLuv for students who already know sRGB HSL.

I have to disagree with you on most of the above. You cannot expect students who want to learn how to code to also learn about the DOM and write things like path DOM nodes by hand. This library is made to abstract DOM-specific functionality into something that they know from known and tested tools like Processing. There is a world of difference between writing SVG's by hand (or generating them in pure JavaScript) and using Rune.js. Just try to write the following example in pure JS, and I'm sure you'll see what I mean:

http://printingcode.runemadsen.com/examples/form/path_to_pol...

I agree that CIELAB is a very useful color model, which is why I also teach the difference in my class. But HSV is a great way to move away from rgb(255, 255, 255), and I've had nothing but success using it over the last 5 years in my graduate classes.