When Kadiatou Diakite closes her eyes, it’s as if a light switch turns on. When she opens them, it turns off. Diakite has been blind since birth. For her, seeing has nothing to do with vision. She sees through touch,…
I wanted UI that looks printed. 🖨️ A dither turns a smooth tone into a pattern of ink and paper dots, and I built a small library that does it for Compose Multiplatform: Stipple. It runs on Android, iOS, desktop and…
A creative AI workflow often starts with a simple experiment. Someone writes a prompt, generates an image, adjusts the wording, and decides whether the result belongs in a campaign, prototype, or product. That first successful output is useful, but it…
For beginners, however, it’s a different story. Feeding an AI terms like "spring easing" or "vertical rhythm" without understanding their underlying principles is like handing a scalpel to someone who’s never dissected a frog. The AI might produce something that…
When people add a lossless PNG optimizer to an asset pipeline, the argument is usually about which tool to use. I think the more useful question is where in the pipeline it sits, because one of the orderings I tried…
When you chain two PNG tools, the usual question is which one saves more. The question I care about more is whether I can see, per step, how many bytes and how many seconds each step cost, so a build…
Start with the first icon in the set, 40,369 bytes. pngquant at quality 65–80 got it to 7,600 and exited with 0. The extra step is one command, oxipng -o 4 --strip safe on a copy of the pngquant output, and it took the file…
A capacitor is two plates. If one is marked +, the capacitor is polarized (electrolytic or tantalum) and must be fitted the right way round. In the ANSI drawing the curved plate is the negative one. An inductor is a row…
The 20th century missionary couple who ferried their piano to Korea Mission workers often serve as cultural conduits, bringing together differing customs in unexpected ways. Take the case of the Sidebothams, for instance — the missionary couple who have been credited as…
By ADITYA SANKAR | October 30, 2026 While Remsen Hall celebrates its new landmark status, take the time to consider other scientists who served as namesakes of some familiar sights at Hopkins. Funded thanks to donations from his widow and son, Mergenthaler Hall…
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