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Acts of Volition
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Acts of Volition is a personal blog at actsofvolition.com about design and culture. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Birth of Mozilla Visual Identity Guidelines”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's older posts on music licensing, Firefox and Mozilla branding, Windows display greys, and a desk project. The comments do not comment on the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Acts of Volition
Most-linked posts?
- Birth of Mozilla Visual Identity Guidelines2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-03-23
What Hacker News says?
That's very true. I can't stream one of my favorite shows, Northern Exposure, because of the music licensing. They even had to change some music in order to release the DVDs. http://actsofvolition.com/2005/03/musiclicensing/
Comment linking /2005/03/musiclicensing/
on “Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't Inform Customers About”Submitted AI Floss as a story · 1 points
HN discussionEven better, haha! Seriously impressive work though - one of these projects that show just how absurdly bloated and slow mainstream OS development has become. Also for reference for those unfamiliar with the difference in greys: http://actsofvolition.com/images/screenshots/Display-95-thro...
Comment linking /images/screenshots/Display-95-through-XP.png
on “SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics”Submitted Birth of Mozilla Visual Identity Guidelines as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> I've always felt that Mozilla should rebrand Firefox as simply 'Mozilla'. And throw away the last bit of brand recognition they have? Actually, they plan to do the opposite: call unrelated products Firefox Xyz because that's the brand that people know. Firefox (then Firebird) should have been Mozilla Browser, and Thunderbird should have been Mozilla Mail [1]. The codenames proved to be quite catchy though. > Norma…
Comment linking /files/mozillabranding/
on ““We will end development on Firefox OS for smartphones after the 2.6 release””I created an artists rendition of this last year: http://www.actsofvolition.com/archive/2013/september/swimmin...
Comment linking /archive/2013/september/swimmingdesk
on “My Treadwater Desk”Flashback to 2001: http://www.actsofvolition.com/archive/2001/december/windowsx... (Two years later, Steven analyzed the visual identity of Mozilla: http://www.actsofvolition.com/files/mozillabranding/ That article, as far as I can remember, resulted in a fruitful collaboration between Steven (Silverorange) and Mozilla.)
Comment linking /files/mozillabranding/
on “Windows 10 is unfinished”
