Author Archives: Johan

Expand stroke-based SVGs in batch using an Illustrator script

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I was in the situation where had a bunch of SVGs, but they were stroke-based, from feather-icons.com. I don’t trust the cross-browser rendering of SVG strokes. It leads to problems when trying to color the icons with CSS as well – so I needed the expanded versions. There are over 200 icons in the set. Expanding […]

“Mag ik uw identiteitskaart voor de garantie?”

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Als ik een game in de Mediamarkt ga halen vragen ze aan de kassa of ze “mijn identiteitskaart mogen voor de garantie”. Ik zie de mensen voor mij dan vaak schaapachtig hun kaart afgeven. Mediamarkt zal er wel bij varen, bij een hoop adresinformatie van hun klanten. Volgens de Europese garantiewetgeving lijkt het me zeker […]

pug-textmate2-bundle

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From the README: If you are one of the holdouts who is still using Textmate and codes in Pug, you will find that there are a lot of outdated bundles out there. I use this one which provides the correct syntax highlighting. It’s not perfect but it’s the best I have. It’s a modified version […]

Weg met de betutteling

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Ik kom het keer op keer tegen. De ping-pong tafel. De PS4 op kantoor. Referentie: Artikel in Net magazine over een studio in Belfast Ik snap het niet. Waar dienen die dingen eigenlijk voor? Om op 16u op vrijdag een rondje ping pong te spelen (en lawaai te maken voor de rest)? Om tussen de […]

Android thoughts

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I am a casual user of Android. I only use Android every once in a while, such as now, while my iPhone is in repair. I’ve owned several Android Phones over the years, mostly Google ones. I choose to use Android sometimes, just to stay up to date with what is happening, so I can design […]

The Figma API (for the rest of us)

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As a personal challenge, I tried to do do a few things with the Figma API. There were 3 main reasons to do so: I am interested in design automation. I feel like we are sometimes doing a lot of non-work in design. How can we automate repeat tasks so we can work on the actual work? […]

Remove newbie UI from AI/PS

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You can remove the (slow) newbie-friendly UI in both PS and AI by unchecking “Show The Start Workspace When No Documents Are Open” and chcking the “Use legacy ”File new” interface”. Good stuff ?.

Figma tutorials

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I wrote a few Figma tutorials last night. The original plan was to write a small tutorial but I ended up writing this huge thing in different parts. Here’s an organised list of links to the articles: Tutorial 1: Basic organisation Tutorial 2: Style overrides Tutorial 3: Component matching  Tutorial 4: Working with multiple pages and global […]

Variable fonts are here, and they are awesome

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Yesterday I bought Flexible typesetting by Tim Brown. This inspired me to do some experiments with variable fonts, which you can find here. The code behind that website is on Github, so if you are curious, you can check it out here. I quite like the concept. Having access to so many font variations from […]

My go-to utilities for macOS

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Part of what makes the Mac so great is the slew of utility apps to improve your productivity. Here’s a list of my favorites, most of which I have used for many years. SizeUp is a window manager. I use it to put windows on the left or right half of my screen, or easily maximize […]