#illustrations

#illustrations

Animations can make or break your website's user experience.But, if you're using a third-party library to create animations, it's important to choose carefully.The same library that enables you to create complex animations will often have a significant impact on your website's overall performance.Before making any final decisions, be sure to weigh the pros and cons of adding animations to your site.

Dear Diary: One evening last spring, my husband and I were strolling in the Village after having dinner out.I was about ve months pregnant at the time.As we walked, we passed two women sitting on folding chairs outside a psychic's storefront with a table of cards and candles between them.August, one of them said, pointing at my belly.

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY - What do Copernicus and Calvin & Hobbes have in common?You can find both of them side by side this weekend at the 63rd annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory this weekend, where bibliophiles and casual browsers can browse rare collections at all sorts of price points.

(Image credit: Oxford University Press / Joseph Foley)
Love a good optical illusion?So do we - and so do rats, it turns out.The Asahi illusion is a particularly baffling one that tricks our perception of light.Looking a little like a flower, it features petal-like shapes around a white centre.The petals are black on the outer edges but transition to yellow as they taper, creating an effect which makes the white centre look brighter than it is.

In February 2023, together with @glennui and @almonk we started building a new website for Next.js.On the surface, the design made by Glenn seemed really simple, but with plenty of opportunity for delight and subtle animations.Personally, I found the design to be a breath of fresh air: no swanky mesh gradients, obnoxious artifical shines, or overuse of gimmicks.

An open letter calling for a 6-month "pause" in work on advanced artificial intelligence is dividing the tech industry - not just between AI boosters and skeptics, but also between different factions of AI's critics.Driving the news: The letter - initially signed by Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and other industry luminaries - urged "a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities."

If the 2022 Stella prize shortlist showcased the rise of Australian poetry, this year's shortlist is a story about the publishers with all six titles chosen by the judges coming from small and independent publishers.Announced on Thursday morning, the shortlist includes Gudanji/Wakaja writer and educator Debra Dank's memoir-of-sorts We Come With This Place, out through Echo Publishing; big beautiful female theory by Eloise Grills, a book of essays and illustrations from Affirm Press; Sarah Holland-Batt's poetry collection The Jaguar, from UQP; and Adriane Howell's novel Hydra, from Transit Lounge.

State efforts to restrict gender-affirming care are moving beyond trans youth and increasingly focused on patients over the age of 18.The big picture: Legislators in Kansas, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas have introduced bills barring health providers from offering care such as hormone treatments or surgery to people as old as 26.