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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 12h

If the whole history of the Earth was squeezed into one day... #dataviz Source: flowingdata.com/2012/10/09/h...

A 24-hour clock illustration depicting Earth's history as a single day. The clock starts at midnight for Earth's formation, with major events like meteorite bombardment from 12:00 to 3:00 AM, origin of life at 4:00 AM, oldest fossils at 5:36 AM, sexual reproduction at 6:08 AM, emergence of seaweeds at 8:28 AM, and mammals at 11:39 PM. Humans appear at 11:58:43 PM, just before midnight.

Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 12h

We walked the red carpet, grabbed some tasty canapés, had some glasses of champagne and watched the thrilling documentary ‘AI Agents - How Do We Take Control Back’, the full VIP treat after a most insightful Day 1 of FOST London Conference.

Networking with drinks & canapés pre Agentic AI documentation screening.

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I was stumbling across this little gem: Colorstrology - A little book on Pantone colours related to birthdays. Beside briefly describing each personality, it also specifically looks into each colour’s benefits. It certainly might come very handy when working on personal branding projects.

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

YOU DON’T NEED JAVASCRIPT A practical guide to create modern websites and interfaces using only CSS by THEO SOTI has finally landed as a book. I can’t wait spinning up BB-Edit …

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Between 0 and 1 there are infinite possibilities. The world ain’t black & white. Wishing everyone a happy Non-Binary People’s Day!

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Webpages should be optimised for humans first, not A.I.

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Still in London but already Europe! It’s quite amazing how swift automated Schengen border control works out at St Pancras International, especially as U.K. resident holding an EU passport.

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London Web Standards @londonwebstandards.org · 30/12/2025

We have a diversity scheme for State of the Browser. This is for Students, people new to our industry, people from under-represented groups, unemployed, or anyone who feels they fit (we don't ask for proof we just trust people) 2026.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/#div... Please share

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Tickets | State of the Browser

More information and buying options for tickets.

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

What power structures are inherent to the field of computer-generated art? ‘1965 + 60 Years of Algorithmic Art with Computers,’ a talk by Emma Gerhard and Frieder Nake, 6.15pm GMT live from #39c3. streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3/zero/

streaming.media

Inspiration Station

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Coming up: The Art of Text (Rendering) w/ Nicolas Rougier at 10:00 GMT #Typography #39c3 fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...

fahrplan.events.ccc.de

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Time to RESET Time for a New Power Cycle The 39th Chaos Communication Congress #39c3 is about to start, with a plethora of insightful live streamed talks on security, society, bollocktics, art and tech to come …. fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...

fahrplan.events.ccc.de

Fahrplan - 39C3

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

With border control and custom sorted, i believe this St Pancras International platform is already Europe, even its Central at London. When coming off the train Amsterdam Centraal in only 4 hours there won’t be any more checks ….

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Richard Rutter @clagnut.com · 21/11/2025

The Web Day Out line-up is finalised! It's a conference all about the latest advances in #HTML, #CSS, and #JavaScript. Joining us on stage will be the fantastic @matuzo.at of HTMHell fame. Use my discount JOIN_RICH for 10% webdayout.com

webdayout.com

Web Day Out in Brighton, March 12th 2026

A one-day event all about what you can do in web browsers today!

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It’s so valuable attending Computing’s quite intimate annual IT Leaders Summit at One Moorgate. Shared insights without that vendor fluff on global technology challenges, workforce and societal obstacles makes it a truly inspiring event.

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Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

You think you’re free? Your brain’s a subscription service. Billionaires feed you dopamine and call it choice. Junk food. Infinite scroll. Nested systems built to mine your impulses and mold your identity. Welcome to the zoo. Cancel your conditioning. #Resist #EndOligarchy #Anonymous #Limitarianism

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The brain is like a muscle: you need to use it, or loose it.

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

theatlantic.com

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I can’t wait seeing features filtering out A.I. generated copy …

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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The Verge asks, Where are the iPhone’s WebKit-less browsers? www.theverge.com/news/706569/... "Apple’s technical and financial hurdles make it unfeasible for browser developers like Google and Mozilla to port their engines to iOS, says OWA."

theverge.com

Where are the iPhone’s WebKit-less browsers?

The OWA says Apple has too many barriers in place.

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Wishing all gender-fluid individuals a most beautiful Non-Binary People’s Day. #diversity

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Apparently, so many business owners do not carefully consider their chosen website technology when it comes to performance and sustainability. A Practical Guide to Sustainable Web Design w/ Matt Wheeler Tue 15 July 2-3pm. www.tickettailor.com/events/westy...

tickettailor.com

Select tickets – A Practical Guide to Sustainable Web Design – Zoom

Join us for an interactive webinar exploring how we can reduce the environmental impact of the web through thoughtful design an...

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Rachel Andrew @rachelandrew.co.uk · 01/07/2025

Here's my monthly post on what's landed on the web platform with the browser releases during June. It's been another busy month! web.dev/blog/web-pla...

web.dev

New to the web platform in June | Blog | web.dev

Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during June 2025.

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

A Rage For / Against the Machine panel certainly provides a great conclusion after debating all day A.I. in research, creativity and UX design. #HCID2025 #ParadigmShift

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Michael @mwdelaney.me · 22/06/2025

How your website’s super cool interactive navigation system feels to use

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Penpot @penpot.app · 19/06/2025

We have so many updates and good news about the Figma to Penpot export plugin🎉 ✅Fully compatible with all the releases 📦Much lighter image handling ✏️Faster and more accurate vector translation 📂Exports in native .penpot format and much more! Learn everything! community.penpot.app/t/figma-to-p...

community.penpot.app

Figma To Penpot Export Plugin

🎉 Improvements to the Figma to Penpot migration plug-in! Hello everyone 👋 We’re excited to share the latest updates to the Penpot Exporter plug-in. Migrating between tools shouldn’t mean losing desi...

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

As designers, we play a vital role in navigating the rapid changes facing society. Next week's Human Computer Interaction Design conference provides a most insightful forum to discuss our current Paradigm Shift from technology (AI) to politics to climate. hcidopenday.co.uk

hcidopenday.co.uk

HCID Conference

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 17/06/2025

CSS uses a complex algorithm to decide how to animate transforms. If you get it wrong, as many folks do, you end up with an unnatural animation. Here's how it works, and how to avoid the pitfalls. jakearchibald.com/2025/animati...

jakearchibald.com

Animating zooming using CSS: transform order is important… sometimes

How to get the right transform animation.

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 04/06/2025

The 2025 State of CSS survey is now open! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

survey.devographics.com

State of CSS 2025

Take the State of CSS survey

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

As external hard drives always come in M$-DOS default format, it’s very good practice to reformat into non-Microsoft to keep it more secure by performing a two-pass erase. But then as drives got bigger, it might take a few hours … *sigh*

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Penpot @penpot.app · 21/05/2025

You asked, we delivered!🫶 Design tokens starter kit by @laurakalbag.bsky.social Explore how different token types can be applied, try out the design tokens for yourself, or use this starter kit as a starting point for your own design system.I Let us know your feedback😍 penpot.app/penpothub/li...

penpot.app

Penpot | Libraries & templates detail page

Build, share and choose your own plugins in Penpot.

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

At the iconic historic IoD for One Executive Day discussion the finer aspects and implications of using AI and Low-Code to build enterprise grade applications …

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

With Adobe Xd sadly dead and Figma out of control, Penpot appears to rescue website prototyping. Tonight surely will be that eye opener event when it comes to quality web design.

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Steve Faulkner @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social · 12/05/2025

Best kept secret: the IBM accessibility checker, blows other #a11y testing tools out of the water ✅ open source and well maintained ✅ Free and ad free ✅ multiple rulesets ✅ export results to excel www.ibm.com/able/toolkit...

ibm.com

Tools for different phases of your project.

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

“The EU A.I. Act might be good for your organisation, even if you’re not obliged to use it”, recommends Duncan Brown from IDC.

Duncan Brown from IDC presenting his Cybersecurity Summit keynote.

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

At The Biltmore in sunny Mayfair today for IDC’s Cybersecurity Summit discussing the darker aspects of internet technology.

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Another little step towards AI web content scraping prevention … #Copyright

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

It’s quite fascinating when it comes to a panel on The Dark Side Of The Money that honestly absolutely no investors are in the room. #Equity #Investment #RareFounders

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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 18/04/2025

Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive blog.archive.org/2025/04/17/t... "At a time when digital information is disappearing, being rewritten, or erased entirely, the tools to preserve history must be defended—not dismantled." I've signed the petition.

blog.archive.org

Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive | Internet Archive Blogs

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Waking up late! Did someone manipulated the clock again?

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Without having to stay at a hotel, I’m so glad that there’s a very swift 06:33 LNER service from KingsX to Leeds, reaching my workshop already by 9am.

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Nikki Pilkington @nikkipilkington.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Stop letting SEO tools dictate your content strategy. They’re guides, not gospel. If your content genuinely helps users and demonstrates expertise, you’re already ahead of competitors obsessing over perfect page scores.

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Forms Are Only Logical! Forms are the lifeblood of the web, and probably the most tricky when it comes to UX and security. Learn about form controls without JS and DOM manipulation in a talk by David Benson on Thu 20 Feb at JS Monthly meetup in Central London. guild.host/events/jsmon... #HTML #CSS

guild.host

JSMONTHLY FEBRUARY MEETUP | Guild

Feb 20th 6:00PM: This month we are hosting our event on Wednesday 20th of February Three amazing speakers will share their insights Schedu

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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Would you give a government access to your calendar, your contacts, your photos, and all your documents stored in the cloud?

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Harry Roberts @csswizardry.com · 07/02/2025

CSS is render- but not parser-blocking. This means that while a browser is fetching CSS, it is permitted to continue parsing the rest of your HTML but not render it. HOWEVER! If you’re not careful, you can inadvertently end up in parser-blocking territory.

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