Dan Hollick (@DanHollick)

Before we all mute the word 'dithering' I thought I'd explain a little bit about why we needed to dither digital images in the first place.

Ever wondered how a blur filter works?

I know everyone is pissed about that iPad ad but I was too busy being excited about those new tandem OLED displays.

How does a Large Language Model like ChatGPT actually work?

Why are some typefaces harder to read than others at the same font-size?

Why is making a dark mode greyscale so hard to get right?

Ever heard of a shader but too afraid to ask what it even means at this point?

If you are used to Figma, there's a quirk of Framer components that might catch you out.

Did you know these are called Boolean Operations?

Do you just click different blending modes until it sort of looks right?

I've always wanted to know why some colours "vibrate" next to each other.

Why can't you just draw a few black lines on a barcode and spoof the scanner?

Ever wondered how a QR code works?

Whenever I hit a problem with React its because I don't have a solid understanding of how it really works.

SVG viewbox is surprisingly unintuitive but if you visualise it like this it starts to make sense: Once you realise that changing the width/height of the viewbox actually changes the scale of the viewbox units, it starts to click.

Niche tweet, but have you ever been messing around with an icon and wondered how SVG path data works?

How big is 1px?

Color in digital images is almost always completely made up.

Gradients are the best way to explain perceptually uniform color spaces @runemadsen has a good primer on them here: https://programmingdesignsystems.com/color/perceptually-uniform-color-spaces/ And you can read more about @bjornornorn 's OKlab here: https…

Why do people use Spacer components?