Tag: marcin wichary
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Marcin Wichary on Flickr’s beautiful URLs
Marcin Wichary, writing about Flickr’s beautiful URL scheme: It was a beautiful and predictable scheme. Once you knew how it worked, you could guess other URLs. The del.icio.us and Flickr APIs and URL schemes were appropriately lauded as clean, predictable, and best-in-class. This sort of predictability isn’t seen as often these days, especially by the
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Diversions #8: Icy gin film
It has been a long, cold, mostly icy winter. I’m not sure if age makes this feeling more acute, but the data seem to show that this winter has been colder than average. I can’t remember the last time I pined for spring this badly. But, just yesterday, as temperatures finally hit 50ºF, the garlic
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Crafting link underlines on Medium
Marcin Wichary, on Medium: Unfortunately, for all the advances in web typography we’ve seen during the years — better CSS properties, more support for internationalization, custom web fonts — underlines remained mostly as they were, with very little customization available to web designers. Marcin goes on to show exactly how they did the best they could to clean up