watched Your Colors Suck (it’s not your fault)
Hey do you want a 37 minute info dump about digital color? Of course you do.
Your Colors Suck (it’s not your fault) - YouTube
Topics covered include: Quantization, color banding, dithering, value mapping, palette swapping, radiometry, photometry, how humans perceive color, colorimetry, spectral rendering, the rgb color model, deriving srgb, the hsl color model, gradient mapping, randomly generated color palettes, perceptual color spaces, the lab color model, oklab
tl;dw: use OKLAB not RGB or HSL. There’s even oklab() in CSS now.
Activity Log
hackers.town: 2023-10-22 Sun 09:17
Frustrated by Electron apps that don’t offer an API. Thankfully it’s getting less common but still.
Your app is 200MB of JS in front of 10MB of data. I know there’s an API in there somewhere. Just let me use yours.
hackers.town: 2023-10-22 Sun 12:04
From a chat with my mom, who’s looking for smaller scale hub-and-spoke storefronts for artists (sort of like Fediverse Etsy for lack of a better analogy), me contrasting her goal with VC-funded storefront sites:
“targeting sustainable income and community for all involved parties, which is the real unicorn honestly. Anyone can look good for a few months and flame out dramatically if you give them a few hundred million”