Tom BH

Ooh either Searching for Sugar Man or Project Nim. What's the best you've seen?

Why Green Man Festival made me think about creativity in a whole new way A weekend in the Welsh mountains taught me that joy isn't frivolous; it's a game-changer for creative work of all kinds. As a writer, there are times I've wrestled with the blank page. And whateve...

I had such a fab time at this year's Green Man, and this piece really sums up how it feels to be there. Lovely take on why joy is so important. www.creativeboom.com/insight/why-...

You folks consistently dig out the coolest typefaces

More lifts should play lift music.

Amusing Screenshot from rijksmuseum.nl with featured collections 'bad cats' and 'facial expressions'

Spotted these wonderful curated collection themes from rijksmuseum.nl 😄

Morning web-design bsky - can anyone recommend an app or technique to emulate the look of a basic LCD display on MacOS? Looking to test text rendering and icon line-weights without needing another monitor.

lh units look really useful, great that they're available now! Developers will finally be able to join in with designers clashing over whether to enable baseline grid in InDesign 😄

Front-end devs of bsky, do you have any new year's resolutions?

I love this idea! This is also the nudge I need to return to North Sea Jazz again asap. Such a great festival.

Pasillo Infinito Alex Alvear · Album · 2024 · 6 songs

This is a gorgeous album for coding to while the snow is falling gently out the window ☺️ open.spotify.com/album/1gUfsQ...

What do you think about whether a dropdown in a website nav should be triggered by hover or click? Thinking about a11y and UX, and personal preference.

We need more music where the singer says "take 'em for a walk, Artie" and then a guy with a clarinet just goes nuts for like 8 minutes

Nothing sharpens a client's mind like pushing to production! Suddenly lots of design features which have been visible for months on the staging website are throwing up all sorts of questions 😆

Remembering a web project from when flexbox was gaining momentum. Analytics showed modern browser use, but there was a really old version of Safari showing up consistently.

Turns out that the client’s own team was supplied with old iPhones... horrible way to discover cross compatibility issues.

Modern-day HTML email templates are the one place these nuggets are still useful, it’s hellishly nostalgic 🤣

A vintage illustration take on the movie 'Whiplash'. It shows a minimalist graphic depiction of a drum set, where the drumsticks are the name of the director.

I saw 'Good Movies as Old Books' from Matt Stevens in the Smashing Mag newsletter. Really beautiful illustrations, and entirely convincing designs. You should take a look, there are so many.

www.hellomattstevens.com/good-movies-...

One of the greats 🤌

I think my expectation was that calling the function would implicitly return the value from the new call.

I asked Github Copilot Chat whether throwDice() can ever return null, and it answered saying that throwDice() can never return null. The 'double check your answer' trick caused it to spot the error.

A code block illustrating the bug. It shows changing the function call inside the catch from just being called, to being assigned to a variable which is then returned.

I came across a bug in some js error-handling code and thought I'd post about it because it seemed subtle 🐛.

When calling a recursive function from inside the catch of a try-catch, you have to capture or return the result otherwise execution will continue.

Anyone know if there's a name for this?

A payment gateway which looks like it was designed in the 1990s including a glossy paypal button

When a checkout payment UI looks like this, I'm really grateful for Monzo's virtual card feature. Even if this payment gateway is secure, the design just *feels* sketchy. We're spoilt for choice these days, there's little excuse for this kind of nostalgia!

Text: Look at these beautiful letters. Wulkan Display is a chunky display serif font. The lowercase k has a really interesting spiky detail, the e is slightly tilted back, the top of the lowercase f has a lovely pinch.

I've been in love with the Wulkan Display typeface all year. So many beautiful and interesting details!

Mushroom, pineapple and pickles. I'm not proud 🫠