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Dan Cederholm
Personal blog · simplebits.comdesignwritingculture
Dan Cederholm writes SimpleBits®, a personal blog at simplebits.com about design, writing and culture. Since 2007, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “On Speaking”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
A tiny type foundry, goods shop, and design studio made by Dan Cederholm.
Most-linked posts?
- On Speaking2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-13
- Food for Thought2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-25
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-07-06
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-24
What Hacker News says?
Among the alternatives listed is Behance -last time I checked this network was owned and operated by Adobe. btw, the stopusinglinkedin.com site links to behance.com which does not exist. It's behance.net Dribbble (the other design resource listed) I understand was co-founded by designer Dan Cederholm, but oddly if you visit his current Wikipedia page there's no mention of his involvement with Dribbble -only on his S…
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on “Stop Using LinkedIn”Submitted What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble as a story · 308 points
HN discussionAnyone remembers Dan Cederholm ( http://www.simplebits.com/ ) and his excellent books "Web Standards Solutions" and "Bulletproof Web Design"? He even had a series of exercises like this on his blog. Oh, the gone days of the web which was a web and not some misfit wannabe app engine :(
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on “A few HTML tips”Submitted Interface Design Juggling - great advice on typography, color schemes, microformats and more [.pdf] as a story · 9 points
HN discussionMarco also has a tweet referencing Dan Cederholm being associated with the icon (@simplebits) https://twitter.com/#!/marcoarment/status/125991945523822592 Edit: Dan's post here: http://simplebits.com/notebook/2011/10/17/instapaper4/
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on “Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone”Submitted Food for Thought as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnother variation, inspired by nautical signage: https://simplebits.com/products/ships-whistle-font
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on “Routed Gothic Font”Submitted On Speaking as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSpeech recognition is pattern recognition. Computers are inefficient and relatively limited in their capacity to discern relevant data from complex data sets when the size of these sets begins to soar exponentially. That's why weather prediction in many areas isn't worth much more than a week. Consider how well the human brain can synthesize disparate data in the relatively simple form of sentences with scrambled wo…
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on “Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition”Submitted Beautiful Accidents as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI do recommend some books: http://www.cssmastery.com/ http://handcraftedcss.com/ http://simplebits.com/notebook/2009/06/09/wssse/
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on “The "book" is dead”Submitted Safari 3.1 Develop Menu as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI am, in fact, particularly proud of that. 3.5% of my (compressed) CSS is devoted to using the best available ampersand. http://simplebits.com/notebook/2008/08/14/ampersands.html
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on “Dive into Python 3: Strings”Submitted On/Off as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI remember this from way back in the 00's as part of the Web 2.0/semantic web era. I was a big fan of Dan Cederholm's design work ( https://simplebits.com - he did the design for the site). I do like the principle of trying to use semantic html, but I don't think that things like this ever got the kind of mass adoption that would give them staying power. Still a nice nostalgia trip to see it here.
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on “Microformats – building blocks for data-rich web pages”Submitted Sass For Web Designers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are many CSS books that give concrete examples of various layout types that work in all browsers. Dan Cederholm wrote one of the best: http://simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof/
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on “I Hate CSS”Submitted SimpleBits / Adapted as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA little bit of info on its creation, here: http://simplebits.com/work/corkd/
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on “Cork'd to Shut Down”Submitted Imitation, Repetition, Innovation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionContent is king? I'm reminded of Dan Cederholm's favourite website [1]. [1] http://simplebits.com/notebook/2013/02/16/food-for-thought/
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on “W3schools: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good”Submitted Twenty Bits I Learned Book, SimpleBits as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDan Cederholm is a high-quality designer with great jumpstart material. Namely, his books "Bulletproof Web Design" ( http://www.simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof/ ), and "Web Standards Solutions" ( http://www.simplebits.com/publications/solutions/ ). If you can afford the time and expense, a one-day Carson Workshop from a CSS master can help a lot. This one is already past, but for example: http://carsonworksh…
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on “Ask YC: Where to learn web design?”Submitted On Speaking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionReally? What kind of icons are you talking about? From the article ( http://simplebits.com/notebook/2004/08/23/anatomy.html ) written by a professional, I understood that creating an icon is a difficult process and you need a specialized tool. [e.g. You need to have two views - Zoomed in, Zoomed out] And I doubt you can create an icon in less than 30 seconds. [Total time taken to download Paint.NET from http://www.d…
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on “Ask HN: Good web-based icon editor?”Submitted Handcrafted Haiku Winners Announced as a story · 1 points
HN discussionGo out on the wild and get some inspirations: Dan Cederholm: http://simplebits.com Spencer Fry: http://spencerfry.com Mike Rundle: http://flyosity.com Sam Brown: http://sam.brown.tc Matt Mullenweg: http://ma.tt Tim Van Damme: http://maxvoltar.com Meagan Fisher: http://owltastic.com Adii Pienaar: http://adiirockstar.com
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on “Ask HN: When designing a personal site, how to get through creative-block?”Submitted How I Might Deal with IE6 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionStart with CSS tutorials (box model etc): http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp http://www.html.net/tutorials/css/ and then move to these two books: http://www.zeldman.com/dwws/ http://www.simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof/ And you should know more than web designers that charge a ton of money to develop table-based sites.
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on “Ask YC: Best way to learn CSS/UI design?”Submitted CSS Type Set as a story · 1 points
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