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- BaskerviIle24
Bumping my newsletter if anyone's interested. It's a weekly mishmash of design links: UX, tech, privacy, design, typography etc. I started writing it at the beginning of the pandemic...now 72 weeks in and building up readers.
- I only follow this and Cargo'sgrafician
- Excellent taste. What's Cargo's one?BaskerviIle
- i can vouch for this. great selection of articles every week. have been a subscriber since #22scruffics
- Thanks scruffics, glad you're enjoying itBaskerviIle
- https://cargo.site/2…grafician
- I forgot where I subscribed to this, must've been here. I can attest to the quality of this newsletterletterhead
- Thanks Baskerville, keep it up!letterhead
- Just signed up to Cargo's.
Thanks letterhead, feel free to share it with people you think might enjoy!BaskerviIle - Great work Baskerville, really like it!pedromendez
- Thanks Baskerville, subbed from #1 and it's excellent. Passed it on to a few peeps, pretending I have friends. Please keep it up.MrT
- Done and subscribed, looks great. How did I miss this originally.sab
- I subscribed as well. Very curious!SimonFFM
- I missed this too - you should plug it more. Nice work.Fax_Benson
- oooOOoOoo quality stuff nice! Don't ever stop :DArchitectofFate
- Just signed up for it, looks great!Chimp
- been following this for a while.Brabo_Brabo
- signed up.. thanksdee-dubs
- Very nice, thanks!zarkonite
- total fucking vibessinjun
- I think I joined when it started. I still enjoy it.CyBrainX
- Picked a release at random, it was an excellent read. Subscribed!BuddhaHat
- just signed up and thanks!oey_oey
- utopian22
- Very cool!grafician
- good day frameworksapi
- Sweet! Did you make these?MondoMorphic
- ❤️SigDesign
- This is exactly what I was looking for!!!!! +1cherub
- As a non-designer, this answers alot of the questions that had been bugging me, but of course raises some new questions bcuz now I'm starting to get it.cherub
- The breakpoints thing is blowing my mind. So is nested... How does this relate to having a static background vs a parallax background?cherub
- If your background moves, you have to be nested right? https://siteorigin.c…cherub
- now explain overflow, float and position - when nested inside div boxes inside div boxes inside div boxes...shapesalad
- +1garbage
- Best everoey_oey
- Fax_Benson18
- doesn't always work but it's awesome. you can make it an iOS shortcut too.mapleT
- This is great, thanks!dbloc
- magnifiqueSalarrue
- fantastiquested
- Paywalls hate it.ideaist
- Such a handy bookmarklet, but should add that NYT has already started breaking 12ft for mobile so it's probably not going to last long..garbage
- ..but in the end paywalls are fighting a Hydra. https://acctsss.ml/ is probably next up to the plate.garbage
- works perfectly, thanks.fadein11
- eh https://12ft.io/the-… see what happens when u get linked on qbn :Dsted
- i_monk13
- nicesinjun
- cheersGnash
- DopeHijoDMaite
- yooooobklyndroobeki
- Does he live in one of these?
http://www.imposemag…set - cheershelloeatbreathedrive
- I need to spend more time Just Dicking Around with Illy, like I did in the old days..detritus
- Thats an interesting way to use it. I've used it in other ways, but definitely one of the most used tools in AIsofakingback
- i can giggle at this right? corel was doing this a decade agoimbecile
- ^ so has illy. i imagine most people are only commenting because they haven't used it this way. like me.Gnash
- Dope AF_niko
- I use this tool often like this...but it WILL own your resources quickly depending on how many duplicates you assign the blend tool...great for quick 3D lettersPonyBoy
- set8
How many of you know that you can add a '+' at the end of your gmail address (before the @ obviously) and then anything after it and still receive it?
Handy for signing up for specific things. For example you can use and redirect them, keeping them out of your main inbox. You can also add a very specific word to each thing you sign up for, so when you get spam you can see who's selling your details.
- wtf... we can't post email addresses?
**for example you can use name+newsletters @ gmail.comset - I did not know thissinjun
- https://www.youtube.…Fax_Benson
- You can do the same with period marks too, anywhere before the domain.detritus
- Yeah, I use it to separate out my different accounts - Squarespace etc. Incredibly handy.face_melter
- Interesting -- I'm surprise Gmail doesn't advertise this more.yuekit
- You do this when signing up, essentially (or after, obviously)?monospaced
- *insert mind-blown gifGnash
- damn. that's handyGnash
- Been doing this for years with my @mac.com (icloud) account. Although as of late haven't bothered so much.HAYZ1LLLA
- Not sure I understand the question mono my darlingset
- fuck, it works with @mac, too?! damnGnash
- yeah those are aliases, useful to sign up on websites and stuff like that to later create rules based on the email address to archiveernexbcn
- I think mono is asking if one needs to register the 'alias' before using itGnash
- Ah... nein... anything after the + goes to youset
- I'm trying to ask if you enter this + version into an email field form from a 3rd party site, not if you have to register it. I'm not asking this right ...monospaced
- For example, if I decide to shop at a new online retailer today, would I give them the + version of the email when I sign up with them and place the order?monospaced
- I guess you explained it. Happy 4/20.monospaced
- Mono. No. It's a free for all. So when starbucks asks for your email address give them address+starbucks@gm... . com.HAYZ1LLLA
- So when you get Viagra spam months later to that address you know who is leaking/sharing your data.HAYZ1LLLA
- And you can do absolutely nothing about it except write a strongly worded complaint. hahaHAYZ1LLLA
- Also, if you add in "lovesthecock", Google ignores it, so "monospaced.lovesthe... is the same as "mo.++nosp.ace.d@". Go on, try it.detritus
- that's pretty radmonospaced
- the plus signs or cock loving?drgs
- wouldn't you like to know ...monospaced
- you guise are geniussureshot
- wow the more you know...
this is awesome, many thanks!sted - Guys... welcome to the internet in 2017... its a wild place. Stand in amazement.Al_dizzle
- i'm in constant amazement since 1996sted
- I did know this.MrT
- knew thatpango
- wtf... we can't post email addresses?
- utopian14
Vector Halftone Pattern Generator
https://halftonepro.com- nicedbloc
- niceKrassy
- niceok_not_ok
- Oohsea_sea
- https://halftonepro.…utopian
- halftonepro.comutopian
- https://lostminds.co…Jeremyhead
- oh nice i've been using vectoraster for ages but i like the looks of thiscolin_s
- paid? LOL
illustrator 5.X and scriptographerimbecile - Phantasm.MrT
- georgesIII12
- HahaSimonFFM
- Lolset
- ahahahasureshot
- Nice.monoboy
- Love that third eye.
#staywokeORAZAL - ^ Illuminatisureshot
- I want the reptilian version of googly eyesApeRobot
- nice :)Bennn
- @ApeRobot, the parietal eye is already there.ORAZAL
- clearly it even works on qbnersdrgs
- genius.Krassy
- I hope I never have a kid.garbage
- this is incredible.inteliboy
- aahha awesome :))sted
- GeorgesII9
- i think this might have just changed my life.Al_dizzle
- magnetsGnash
- i'd still manage to fuck it upscarabin
- Niceset
- Thats awesomedesmo
- http://i0.kym-cdn.co…terry_cloth
- can't stop watching.kenyonb
- delicioussofakingback
- one dad's simple trick, architects hate him!_niko
- only about 20 years too late, but thanksformed
- cooldbloc
- yupmoldero
- Brilliant. Is it taped elastic cord? how?sea_sea
- pin a rubber band to your boardGnash
- amazing.CyBrainX
- I'lll wager this is a string. A rubber band would be harder to lean the pencil against.CyBrainX
- ^strings don't stretchGnash
- i_monk14
150,000+ botanical and animal illustrations for download from the Biodiversity Heritage Library: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bi…
- WIcked!ideaist
- Only 1585 pages!ideaist
- I wish the source files had higher ppi, but still great. Also, The Commons at Flickr has always been a gold mine of stuff like this.evilpeacock
- Damn... I LOVE stuff like this. This is fantastic. People sell this stuff on Etsy all the time; we've found a few we want to print and frame in our house.mg33
- I'd like to thank the interns who had to scan all of these pages.stoplying
- if there is a need for this collection I can generate a torrentos.sted
- I’m going to creat print on demand stuffs with these, set up an online shop and profit. Ditto templates, and design assets.shapesalad
- Why not. And if not, someone else will...shapesalad
- sted – do!i_monk
- Nairn12
- Ooh, you can also download it for use offline, should you wish:
https://stephanegini…Nairn - Reminds me of Amorphium, anyone mind that?PhanLo
- Cheers Nairn!PhanLo
- Sweetbezoar
- coolBennn
- That is pretty amazing!monNom
- Nicemoldero
- wow funi_was
- A wave of inspiration came over me. I've spent the last 5 days on this
https://i.imgur.com/…drgs
- Ooh, you can also download it for use offline, should you wish:
- sarahfailin10
IDK how many of you have been recently PISSED that you can't right click to just search for an image in Chrome anymore. Instead it offers you the option to search with Google Lens, which uses the power of AI to find every similar image that ISN'T the one you're looking for. AMAZING!!
Well, for now you can deactivate that fantastic feature by putting this in your browser: chrome://flags/#enable-lens-regi...
Change the Lens setting from 'default' to 'disabled.' You're welcome!
- i seem to have an extension called 'search by image' by google that i don't remember installing and is no longer on the store :-skingsteven
- chrome :// flags/#enable-lens-r...PonyBoy
- #enable-lens-region...PonyBoy
- lolPonyBoy
- ..lens-region-searchPonyBoy
- Lol pony!OBBTKN
- 1. Don't use Chrome.
2. Oh wait I'm finished.garbage - I had it, but it changed back by itselfdrgs
- The normal search still has some AI going on and says things like "girl in dress" when in reality I want to find her IG name.SimonFFM
- Fuck you Google, just find my image thanks.utopian
- Any party trick to prevent reloading backgrounded tabs on focus?sted
- Stop using it!ArmandoEstrada
- Gnash1
Learn to speak Quebecois
- Learn to what now? BEWBSset
- No.detritus
- she sounds deaferr
- ...https://www.youtu...mugwart
- fail!mugwart
- Its really cute she's trying to be funny. Lolpango
- Just so everyone understands the difference between real French and Québécois:
https://i.imgur.com/…Continuity - ^ lolGnash
- https://www.youtube.…Gnash
- What's up with that SM collar?riskunlogic
- no way those are realsection_014
- is it her?
http://i.imgur.com/i…zaq - what's with the "a-ha" in every sentence? :) iWood anyway.renderedred
- @risk -- apparently she's a subGnash
- check her out
http://www.theartofb…helloeatbreathedrive - ^ I'm not clicking that linkGnash
- iWOODRamanisky2
- I just watched this and she didnt pop out!?!? WTF!?!?!nylon
- @ renderedred -- Piper says "uh huh"
https://www.youtube.…Gnash - i'm Quebecois guys you know? I didnt watch thr whole video cuz she's annoying AFBennn
- does the button pop at the end?pinkfloyd
- @Bennn:
Yes.
We know.Continuity - Her whole Youtube marketing line is around her boobs. And guess what... IT WORKS! :DBennn
- Time to visit Quebec.pango
- #rackBusterBoy
- And youve all been dick trolledcannonball1978
- And that's a problem because?BusterBoy
- https://youtu.be/Vky…
"guys. Is my bikini too small? Let me know" LOLpango - Four and a half million views. She's droll as fuck and making a living from this. Fucking bewbage ratings.set
- Damn autocorrect. Dull not droll.set
- lol I do find her adorkable.pango
- lol contGuyFawkes
- PhanLo13
Here's another little animation tool for MAC called LIZARD LADDER made by https://twitter.com/TedWiggin
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http://www.tedwiggin.com/LizardL…
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It does magic in-betweens between drawings and creates little loops. Demo vid below
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Some daft shit I made:- cool!milfhunter
- +Wordsworth
- <3sea_sea
- That head mutation reminded me of the failure of Flash shape hints for shape tweens.CyBrainX
- @cybrainx yeah me too! I quite like it for that reason. To get the text to tween so well I had to draw it from the same origin each timePhanLo
- utopian11
- Material icons have been out for a while no? Quite like a lot of these compared to FA and the other free sets out there though.sausages
- the news is, google fonts does icons now.uan
- Ah gotcha, nice :)sausages
- Finally can lighten up the backend a bit n kill those damn icon pluginsGuyFawkes
- Huge fan of icon fonts, but they really aren't good for web use.akiersky
- Yeah, if you care about performance and especially accessibility don't use icon fonts.
https://cloudfour.co…evilpeacock - We always use Font Awesome. The icons are nicer than thesedbloc
- So they offer an icon for Facebook, but none for Twitter or YouTube (even though they own YouTube)? This is weird.SimonFFM
- zarkonite6
- witchcraft I tells ya_niko
- oh man, I have this problem DAILY! I always have exactly this box and exactly the dimensions of this item and never know what to do! this is truly useful!Krassy
- what the...fyoucher1
- My life just shifted to a new pathBennn
- that's some 4th dimensional shitfeel
- like none of you have worked in a packing warehouse before?face_melter
- Nopango
- I've watched this 20 timesmisterhow
- how the fuck i managed to stay alive without this knowledge?sted
- One of these things I will never be able to remember even though I watched it 20 times, too.SimonFFM
- true hahaBennn
- amazingNutter
- GTFOsarahfailin
- Gnash12
- In 2022 maybeNBQ00
- Ordering mine. Can think of other things to do with it too.maikel
- take that copyright laws..neverscared
- Batteries included?stewart
- Bluejam4
- My cat's breath smells like cat food.Nairn
- My cat's name is MittenBennn
- w=42trooperbill
- What about entanglement?Gnash
- There's a geek channel on youtube that they sometimes suggest to me and it's all about such stuff, too...SimonFFM
- Whats W?drgs
- Wonderful? Wow? Wanking?Continuity
- I had to help my 4th grade son multiply fractions last week and I could barely do it.fooler
- 'Woo'Nairn
- Here’s a ball.
Perhaps you would like to bounce it?futurefood - W usually stands for Work, but this is silly, also Higgs is a particle, not a fucking equation lolgrafician
- this is as useful as Trump being the President of the US, but nice joke lolgrafician
- Flood the containment field with tachyon particles.CyBrainX
- ^ are you mad?! That’s a crazy thing to do!Gnash
- ... she’ll blow for sureGnash
- These are the calculations i make in my head trying to plug in a USB cable the right way up on the first tryscarabin
- I shudder to think at the cumulative man years wasted globally by people repeatedly misinserting USB cables.Nairn
- I might have this wrong, but I estimate that nearly 4,000 man-years are wasted annually spending 10 seconds a day by people swapping USBs.Nairn
- er.. globally, I mean.
Not just by me personally.
That would be impossible.Nairn - I question that gravity section. The force of gravity is inverse square based on distance.CyBrainX
- Salarrue10
- +++PhanLo
- CoooolD4W33D
- genius. I want to invest...shapesalad
- love the nameshapesalad
- I‘m not a performer though and I don’t like to be in front of the camera. I am probably the only person today.SimonFFM
- Interesting.webazoot
- Best pitch I have ever seen. I need this.riskunlogic