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Sciter Notes application has been published
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Category: Design
Epic discussion: VS Code Uses 13% CPU When Idle Due to Blinking Cursor Rendering
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VS Code Uses 13% CPU When Idle Due to Blinking Cursor Rendering Discussions: Reddit and Hacker News Couple of citations: Assuming 1 million users of VS Code This blinking cursor will waste $3 million per year in electricity costs, and output 32,000 tons of c02 per year. 2150: “Grandpa, why did the ocean’s dry up?”…
Maintainable CSS
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I have found Maintainable CSS site exceptionally useful for designing maintainable CSS systems. Modular and encapsulated: Styles don’t bleed or cascade without your permission. Any design requirements: Completely flexible to your needs. No tooling required: But you can use tooling if you want to. Easy to learn: Read the guides and see. Any size project:…
UI usability solution I am especially proud of
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25 or so years ago we were designing one accounting application that required intensive input of numbers by operators. That was in Russia at the time when personal computers were just appearing in offices massively. Amount of numeric data that operators needed to input was enormous and as in any financial institution the requirement for…
From Skeuomorph to Flat UI, evolution of one application
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That’s Norton 360 of Symantec and its Sciter based UI in transition from 2007 to these days: They are updating UI and styles each year, some screenshots are not present.
Pixel Art at its best
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Andrey Lyapichev ( Андрей Ляпичев ) AKA Weilard have started series of articles about Pixel Art on habrahabr.ru. That’s about graphics in computer games, but not only. Composition, perspective, perspective simulation by color and contrast, etc. Part one, part two … That’s in Russian. If you cannot read Russian just look through images there to…