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144 CSS-ONLY BACKGROUND PATTERNS

Explore a vast collection of CSS patterns that can be easily copied and customized for various design projects.

8 UI ANIMATION TRENDS: MAKE YOUR DESIGN STANDING OUT OF COMPETITORS

UI animations enhance user experience and usability. Thoughtful animations, like mobile menu micro animations and gamified elements, create positive user associations. Tools like Flowmapp assist in planning user flows and designing interfaces.

LET THERE BE ORDER: MOTHERBIRD'S REBRAND GIVES ISO'S IDENTITY THE ORGANIZATION IT SORELY NEEDED

The ISO's new brand system by Motherbird introduces a scalable grid called "Micro Meso Macro" for flexible communication and uses the inclusive, open-source typeface Inter. Customizable illustrations and clear color guidelines enhance diversity and consistency, maintaining the brand's equity while adding a more approachable feel.

ARE YOU DESIGNING WITH THE RIGHT KEYBOARD IN MIND?

When designing mobile interfaces, designers often overlook the crucial role of keyboards. This article dives into the factors affecting keyboard appearance and behavior on iOS and Android, including input field types, phone models, screen settings, and action buttons. Understanding these elements ensures a great user experience and consistent design across platforms.

THIS LEGO APPLE STORE DESIGN SUBMISSION IS PITCH-PERFECT

A Lego fan designed a detailed Lego Apple Store featuring a glass front, tables with Macs and iPhones, and neatly arranged shelves.

POLY MONO IS A “GAME FONT” MADE OF SHAPES THAT CREATES KAREL MARTENS-INSPIRED PRINTS

Poly Mono, created by Andrew Bellamy and Otherwhere Collective, is an innovative "game font" made of shapes rather than letters, inspired by 8-bit games and Karel Martens, a Dutch graphic designer.

THE FUTURE OF TRAVEL: HOW DESIGN IS SHAPING TRAVEL EXPERIENCES

Companies like Airbnb rely on AI and social media influencers to create unique immersive experiences.

IMMERSIVE ‘Y'ALLTERNATIVE': WALMART EMBRACES SOCIAL TRENDS IN GAMIFIED COMMERCE EXPERIENCE

Walmart has launched Walmart Realm, a new virtual home for gamified, immersive shops created in partnership with influencers. Three initial virtual shops highlight products selected by popular creator partners: So Jelly, an underwater playground; Y'allternative, a gothic Western destination; and Go Chromatic, a futuristic metallic world. Walmart Realm also includes creators' social content and three mini-games inspired by the featured products. Walmart plans to expand the platform to include additional digital storefronts and partnerships with creators beginning in July.

THIS FOUNDER SAYS MEME TECH IS THE NEXT BIG THING

7 KEYS TO UNLOCK A FLOOD OF HIGH-QUALITY REFERRALS

Referrals attract your ideal clients, shorten your sales process, command premium fees, and dramatically increase customer lifetime value. Yet, while over 80% of people say they'd be thrilled to refer businesses they love, less than 30% actually do. Tactics to generate more referrals include presenting a referral offer to every client, creating a champion program of raving fans, generating referrals from your employees, building a strategic partner network, and launching your own networking hub. For B2B companies specifically, you can also offer client benefit calls to customers' trusted advisors or teach referral marketing.

FIGHTING SUBSCRIPTION CHURN: 32 TACTICS TO INCREASE YOUR RETENTION AND GET BACK TO GROWTH

This article includes 32 tactics to reduce subscriber churn, including attempting to re-engage “at-risk” accounts and incentivizing early renewal. To reduce churn effectively, a company should first conduct research to understand why its most profitable customers typically churn. The findings should illuminate numerous issues and opportunities that can be addressed systematically.

PINTEREST 2024 CONTENT CALENDAR

A look at the top Pinterest trends and seasonal moments by month. June is themed as the “main character” and characterized by the icon era, al fresco, shareables, and getaways. September is themed as “level up” and top keywords include “hard refresh”, “throwbacks”, and “in season”. November represents “gratitude” and covers anything that seeks warmth from inside out through the foods you eat and company you keep.

THE TRADE DESK UNVEILS THE SELLERS AND PUBLISHERS REPORT

The Trade Desk's new biannual Sellers and Publishers Report highlights the rise of premium internet content. The top 500 digital publishers now account for 50% of open internet advertising revenue. The report also includes a list of the top 100 open internet publishers valued by advertisers for their quality and reach.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE GENERATION EFFECT: IMPROVE BRAND RECALL

The Generation Effect explains why we remember something more when we put more effort into recalling it. For example, a 2020 study found that people were more likely to remember brand names with a single missing letter, compared to fully spelled-out brand names. To take advantage of this principle, use hidden letters in your next ad, incentivize active participation in your product, or make your social media posts interactive.

DOES GOOGLE'S “SITE REPUTATION ABUSE” POWER ENDANGER ALL OF US?

Google's new policy on “site reputation abuse”, effective May 5, de-ranks third-party coupon pages on popular sites. It views them as spam meant to manipulate search rankings. This change impacts large news and lifestyle publishers who rely on high-margin revenue from these pages. The decision has sparked debate within the affiliate space, with some supporting Google's move and others defending third-party coupon pages. Despite Google's dominance, new players like Amazon and TikTok are driving innovation and collaboration. The $150B US digital coupon market emphasizes the potential for growth through strategic partnerships.

HOW FOUR BRANDS WON GEN Z THROUGH MEMES, AUTHENTICITY, AND COMMUNITY-BUILDING

Brands like tbh Skincare, Heaps Normal, Liquid Death, and Barbie have won over Gen Z. These brands utilize platforms like TikTok, promote socially conscious messages, and create unique, engaging content that resonates with Gen Z's values. Their success demonstrates the effectiveness of genuine, culturally relevant marketing in building strong connections with this influential generation.

US COURT TO HEAR CHALLENGES TO POTENTIAL TIKTOK BAN IN SEPTEMBER

A U.S. appeals court set a fast-track schedule to hear legal challenges to the potential ban of TikTok.

CTR HAS A <1% CORRELATION WITH AD RECALL

CTR doesn't correlate with any brand growth metrics, including brand awareness, purchase intent, or ROI.

SEQUEL.IO'S COMPETITIVE MESSAGING

A screenshot showing how Sequel.io effectively differentiates and positions itself from competitors on its homepage.

A VIRTUAL DOM IN 200 LINES OF JAVASCRIPT

A virtual DOM makes UI modification easier by tracking changes in a simplified representation of the DOM. A library tracks changes to the root DOM element by keeping a structure of virtual nodes, representing each HTML element. When the state changes, the library creates a new virtual DOM, compares it to the previous one (diffing), and applies the differences to the real DOM, making sure it matches the desired state.

REMOVING AD TRACKERS AND COOKIES - THE TECHNICAL PERSPECTIVE

Sentry recently removed non-essential cookies and trackers from its public websites. It identified cookies using Chrome's developer console and specialized scanners while using Content-Security-Policy (CSP) reporting for a comprehensive overview. To maintain a cookieless environment, Sentry implemented CSP with strict rules and continuous monitoring using custom scripts and a cookie scanner.

WINTERJS VS. BUN: COMPARING JAVASCRIPT RUNTIMES

WinterJS is a new high-speed JavaScript runtime built with Rust and the SpiderMonkey engine. While Bun has more comprehensive toolkit features, WinterJS focuses more on speed and WinterCG compliance, but lacks Windows and TypeScript support. While initial performance tests favor Bun, WinterJS shows potential when it is run natively.

HOW I CONVINCED MY MANAGER TO SUPPORT MY PROMOTION TO SENIOR

This author applied for a promotion to Senior Software Engineer at Google after being encouraged by her mentor. She presented a strong self-assessment to her manager, who initially planned to delay her promotion. She was promoted successfully thanks to her self-advocacy and support from her manager.

4 SOFTWARE DESIGN PRINCIPLES I LEARNED THE HARD WAY

This article discusses software engineering principles for building reliable software. Avoid premature abstraction with the PRY principle (“Please Repeat Yourself”). Minimize the use of mocks in testing, using a single source of truth for data if possible, and reduce mutable state.

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KOHEESIO

Koheesio is a Python framework for building efficient data pipelines. It allows developers to create complex pipelines from simple, reusable components. Koheesio supports strong typing, data validation, structured configurations, and more.

SUPERFILE

Superfile is a customizable terminal file manager. It has a multiple panel view to see multiple directories at the same time and has customizable themes.

SERVERLESS POSTGRES

An MVP of serverless Postgres using Oriole, Fly Machines, and Tigris for S3 Storage.

TRAINING IS NOT THE SAME AS CHATTING: CHATGPT AND OTHER LLMS DON'T REMEMBER EVERYTHING YOU SAY

A common misconception about LLMs like ChatGPT is that they learn and memorize everything said to them during conversations. This is inaccurate as these models function as stateless functions, processing each conversation independently without retaining memory of previous interactions. Features like ChatGPT's "memory" are actually prompting tricks that insert relevant information into the context of ongoing conversations.

INDEXING ALL OF WIKIPEDIA, ON A LAPTOP

Cohere released a dataset containing all of Wikipedia, making it practical to create a semantic, vector-based index of Wikipedia on a laptop. This developer was able to index the entire database on a laptop by making sure they had enough free disk space and RAM and disabling swap. They used an indexing library that supported indexing larger-than-memory datasets by compressing vectors.

I SOLD TINYPILOT, MY FIRST SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS

This former Google software engineer sold his company, TinyPilot, for $600k after four years of building it. He decided to sell because he wanted to focus on coding and starting a family. The company grew from $0 to $1M+ of annual revenue over 4 years.

DUCKDB DOESN'T NEED DATA TO BE A DATABASE

DuckDB is a database that can create virtual tables that reference data stored elsewhere, making it easier to share and query large datasets while remaining adaptable to changes in the underlying data.

GOOGLE CONFIRMS THE LEAKED SEARCH DOCUMENTS ARE REAL

Google confirmed that 2,500 internal documents were leaked that had data that was collected and potentially used in its search ranking algorithm.

REACT NATIVE REANIMATED

React Native Reanimated 3 is a comprehensive low-level abstraction for the React Native Animated library API.

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OPENAI TRAINING ITS NEXT MAJOR AI MODEL, FORMS NEW SAFETY COMMITTEE

OpenAI has announced the formation of a new Safety and Security Committee to oversee risk management for its projects and operations. The company recently began training its next frontier model. The new Safety and Security Committee will be responsible for making recommendations about AI safety to the full company board of directors. It will be responsible for processes and safeguards related to alignment research, protecting children, upholding election integrity, assessing societal impacts, and implementing security measures.

AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE SHARED THOUSANDS OF LEAKED GOOGLE SEARCH API DOCUMENTS WITH ME; EVERYONE IN SEO SHOULD SEE THEM

API documentation from Google Search was recently leaked. The 2,500-page document contained 14,014 attributes that appear to come from Google's internal Content API Warehouse. While it doesn't show things like the weight of particular elements in the search ranking algorithm or prove which elements are used in the ranking systems, it shows incredible details about the data Google collects. This article looks at the leak and extracts some of the most interesting details, for example, how Google utilized cookie history, logged-in Chrome data, and pattern detection to fight manual and automated click spam.

NEURALINK RIVAL SETS BRAIN-CHIP RECORD WITH 4,096 ELECTRODES ON HUMAN BRAIN

Precision Neuroscience claims to have set a new record for the number of neuron-tapping electrodes placed on a living human's brain at 4,096. The high density of electrodes allowed neuroscientists to map the activity of neurons at an unprecedented resolution during a surgery to remove a benign brain tumor. Precision's device sits on top of the brain and does not penetrate the brain at all. It consists of a film that contains 1,024 electrodes embedded in a lattice pattern. The device is modular, allowing for multiple films to be used at once - four devices were used during the surgery.

WILL SCALING SOLVE ROBOTICS?

Over 900 people attended last year's Conference on Robot Learning, which featured 11 workshops and almost 200 accepted papers. One of the largest debates at the event was whether training a large neural network on a very large data set was a feasible way to solve robotics. This post presents the different sides of the argument to deepen people's understanding of the debate. Scaling has worked for other similar fields. However, it is impractical as there isn't much robotics data available and there's no clear way to get it. Even if scaling works as well as in other fields, it likely still won't solve robotics.

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DOING IS NORMALLY DISTRIBUTED, LEARNING IS LOG-NORMAL

A process taking two, three, or five times as long as estimated is much more common when learning is involved. It is almost never the case in software development that you know all or even most of the technical hurdles that you will face in the process of development. This throws everything we know about traditional project management into disarray. Knowing your tooling and having enough experience can help you provide better estimates.

YOUR API SHOULDN'T REDIRECT HTTP TO HTTPS

The common practice of redirecting API calls from HTTP to HTTPS should be reconsidered. Many programmatic API clients don't keep browser-like state of things like HSTS headers they have seen. The usability-security tradeoff argument doesn't apply as APIs are mostly consumed by other software. HTTP interfaces should be disabled entirely or return clear error responses for unencrypted requests. API credentials sent over unencrypted connections should be considered compromised and revoked.

EX-OPENAI BOARD MEMBER REVEALS WHAT LED TO SAM ALTMAN'S BRIEF OUSTING

Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner revealed new details about what led to CEO Sam Altman's ousting in November in a recent interview. The board had apparently learned about ChatGPT's release on Twitter. Toner says that Altman had lied to the board multiple times. Altman was reportedly withholding information and misrepresenting things that were happening in the company for years. His lies made it difficult for the board to make decisions, leading them to think that he wasn't the right person to lead the company to AGI.

ASK HN: WHAT WOULD YOU SPEND YOUR TIME WORKING ON IF YOU DIDN'T NEED MONEY? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

This Hacker News thread discusses what developers would choose to do for their ideal job. The answers range from large, world-benefiting schemes to personal projects and just doing nothing. Some of the answers are from people who have retired or are about to retire.

YOUTUBE ROLLS OUT ITS NEW PLAYABLES GAMES TO ALL USERS

YouTube has rolled out over 75 games playable directly on the platform previously only available to Premium members.

NVIDIA SAID TO BE PREPPING AI PC CHIP WITH ARM AND BLACKWELL CORES

Nvidia is reportedly preparing a system-on-chip that pairs Arm's Cortex-X5 core design with GPUs based on Nvidia's Blackwell architecture.