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Thomas Fuchs

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Thomas Fuchs

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Sep 13, 2021

How to retrobright old yellowed plastic

Retrobrighting requires two ingredients: hydrogen peroxide and a source of UV light or heat energy.

Thomas Fuchs

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May 2, 2021

The 5 cringiest tech industry songs

Self-loathing has a long and celebrated history in Silicon Valley. Here’s my top 5 most cringiest songs brought to you by the tech…

The 5 cringiest tech industry songs

Thomas Fuchs

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Aug 19, 2018

Good riddance, Twitter

This week, I quit Twitter.

Good riddance, Twitter

Thomas Fuchs

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Jun 11, 2018

So I’ve been making web stuff for a quarter of a century now

As I’m sitting down here on a NeXT computer (in honor of the machine the web was born on!) to write this—I admit, yes, computers are faster…

So I’ve been making web stuff for a quarter of a century now

Thomas Fuchs

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May 23, 2017

I apologize for the inconvenience

These are words you should never write in a support email. Why? Because it’s dishonest and reeks of A/B-optimized corporate technobabble.

I apologize for the inconvenience

Thomas Fuchs

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May 15, 2017

Why Time Tracking is So Hard

The old saying goes, “Time Tracking ain’t easy”. All you want is accurate and on-time data so you can plan your resources, bill your…

Why Time Tracking is So Hard

Thomas Fuchs

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Sep 18, 2016

5 minute challenge: UX bugs in Medium

#5minutechallenge — I gave myself 5 minutes to look for problems with Medium’s text editor, and here’s the first 5 issues I found (I’m on a…

Thomas Fuchs

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Sep 17, 2016

How to retinafy your web app (in a hurry)

Supporting multiple screen densities (Retina screen laptops, hi-res phones, etc.) doesn’t have to be complicated. Unfortunately, there’s…

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Jul 13, 2016

10 Things Your Help & Support Tab Should Do

Many websites and apps have a “help”, “support” or “feedback” tab somewhere on the side of the window. And often the user experience is…

10 Things Your Help & Support Tab Should Do

Thomas Fuchs

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Mar 26, 2016

What if we had a great standard library in JavaScript?

Over the last few years the “authorities” of the JavaScript world concentrated on adding ever more features to the language and building a…

What if we had a great standard library in JavaScript?

Thomas Fuchs

Thomas Fuchs

10.4K followers

I make and run web apps: pep.cards and nokotime.com. I made Zepto.js and script.aculo.us. Started web dev in '94.

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