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Thomas Fuchs

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Thomas Fuchs

How to retrobright old yellowed plastic

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

Sep 13, 2021

Sep 13, 2021

Thomas Fuchs

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…

May 2, 2021

The 5 cringiest tech industry songs

May 2, 2021

Thomas Fuchs

Good riddance, Twitter

This week, I quit Twitter.

Aug 19, 2018

Good riddance, Twitter

Aug 19, 2018

Thomas Fuchs

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…

Jun 11, 2018

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

Jun 11, 2018

Thomas Fuchs

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.

May 23, 2017

I apologize for the inconvenience

May 23, 2017

Thomas Fuchs

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…

May 15, 2017

Why Time Tracking is So Hard

May 15, 2017

Thomas Fuchs

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…

Sep 18, 2016

Sep 18, 2016

Thomas Fuchs

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…

Sep 17, 2016

Sep 17, 2016

Thomas Fuchs

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…

Jul 13, 2016

10 Things Your Help & Support Tab Should Do

Jul 13, 2016

Thomas Fuchs

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…

Mar 26, 2016

What if we had a great standard library in JavaScript?

Mar 26, 2016

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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