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Posts in Category ‘Humor’

Buttonhole: A Button You Can Unbutton

  • September 26, 2023
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Skeuomorphism taken to the extreme rarely works. But it can be fun. Like a turntable interface for playing YouTube music or a rotary telephone dial for number inputs. For buttons, skeuomorphic design usually takes form … Read more

    • Code
    • Demo
    • Humor
    • User Interface

Chess Patch Notes

  • September 23, 2020
  • 1 comment

Chess is a continuously evolving game. Technically. There have been many rule changes, but each one has taken centuries to be introduced and widely adopted. That might all change though with the latest work from … Read more

    • Games
    • Humor

The Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS

  • June 8, 2020
  • 28 comments

After 65 years at Mad Magazine, comic artist Al Jaffee announced his retirement. Jaffee was best known for his Mad Fold-Ins, where folding the page would reveal a hidden message in the artwork. Plenty of … Read more

    • Code
    • Demo
    • Humor

Verifying Money Inputs on the Web à la Personal Checks

  • December 13, 2018
  • 1 comment

With the era of the humble unstyled and unscripted input field behind us, there’s increasing variety in how monetary inputs work on the web. And this inconsistency can lead to big mistakes. Take two cases … Read more

    • Humor
    • User Interface
    • Web

Relevant XKCD

  • January 23, 2017
  • 12 comments

Footnotes An xkcd tribute inspired by what has become a meme. Also inspired by all things recursive like We Become What We Behold and xkcd itself. Made with the official xkcd font. Can you guess … Read more

    • Humor

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My name is Thomas Park, and I started Codepip to make tools that help people learn to code. I previously researched human-computer interaction and computing education at Drexel University in Philadelphia. More about me…

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