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swissmiss
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swissmiss is a personal blog at swiss-miss.com about design and culture. Since 2009, 40 different Hacker News readers have linked it 49 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
tina roth eisenberg | swiss designer gone NYC
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I still check https://www.swiss-miss.com/ to this day, more of this please!
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on “Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?”Submitted A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People as a story · 396 points
HN discussionI hate to be that guy, but this looks exactly like https://teuxdeux.com/ , a service made by Tina Roth Eisenberg ( https://www.swiss-miss.com/ ) which has been around for a long long time. More than one product can exist in a space (and todo lists are a dime a dozen) and maybe this was a completely original idea and GMTA, but wow it sure looks like a note for note copy
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on “WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App”Submitted Fallen out of love with LinkedIn? as a story · 129 points
HN discussionReminds me of Helvetimail - I wonder if it still exists somewhere and works with basic HTML gmail? https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/09/helvetimail-a-minimalist-... Edit: found the original CSS on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20110817055720/http://www.josefr...
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on “Show HN: Gmail Classic – CSS for Reverting Gmail's New Look”Submitted Arial versus Helvetica as a story · 104 points
HN discussionPerhaps just add another commandment about giving attribution and credit (and not representing others work as your own) to the existing TED commandments: http://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/05/the-ted-commandments.html
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on “The TED Augmented Reality Hoax”Submitted Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule as a story · 88 points
HN discussionOk, so as someone that walked this path and is currently on the other end as a freelance graphic and web designer, i'll put out a brain dump. # Development 1. For web development, you'll find tons of best practices (i.e. alistapart, smashingmag, diveintohtml5, etc). This is the easy part, you can browse these or skim them whenever you get bored. HTML is pretty straightforward, but css is a bit trickier. 1.5. An too-…
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on “Ask HN: Learning Web Design”Submitted SwissMiss Pimps Out Hotly Designed Gojee.com as a story · 13 points
HN discussionhttp://www.swiss-miss.com/
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on “Ask HN: One website that isn't popular but is your favourite?”Submitted Superman with a GoPro [video] as a story · 10 points
HN discussionRelated material: Cindy Gallop's struggle to get ANYTHING for MakeLoveNotPorn.com - which has a fantastic, social mission. She can't even get a bank. We've been working our banking partners to see if we can find a fit, but no takers. Here's a really great talk on it if you're interested: http://www.swiss-miss.com/2014/05/cindy-gallop-make-love-not...
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on “How WePay Failed Eden Alexander”Submitted The Honest $10,000 SPAM as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI launched http://wikicancel.org/ this month. WikiCancel is a subscription, contract, and account cancellation guide. There have been over 40k unique visitors so far. More importantly, visitors are contributing content. I am humbled by the response the site has gotten so far, and I am going to continue to improve WikiCancel based on user feedback. It was featured on Lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/5978253/wikicanc…
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on “Ask HN: What have you launched this year?”Submitted The TED Commandments as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSome of the design blogs or websites I follow: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/ http://blog.frankchimero.com/ http://typographica.org/ http://ilovetypography.com/ http://ministryoftype.co.uk/ http://www.typography.com/ask/?path=foot http://fortheloveoftype.blogspot.com/ http://www.jessicahische.is/obsessedwiththeinternet/ http://lydianichols.blogspot.com/ http://www.swiss-miss.com/
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Design Blogs?”Submitted Advice by Henry Miller as a story · 7 points
HN discussionTina Roth's blog is awesome - http://www.swiss-miss.com/ http://designobserver.com/
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Design Blogs?”Submitted My Favorite Interview Questions as a story · 4 points
HN discussionyeah, I get that too, but here's what you are supposed to see: http://www.swiss-miss.com/2011/02/naked-password.html
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on “A funny and unorthodox way to encourage strong passwords”Submitted The Maximum Size of a PDF as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy traffic history: started in August 2004, up to 15,000 pageviews/10,000 visits/day at the 2013 peak, when blogs were at their zenith. I'd get 10 or 20 comments/post, often. Then a slow decline until January 2015 when I became clinically depressed and barely functional such that it took everything I had to post one sentence/day just to show proof of life. I recovered completely in October 2016 and resumed multiple…
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on “Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple”Submitted Wilson Tennis Ball Factory as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://www.swiss-miss.com/
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on “Ask HN: Need Some Inspiration, What's Your Favorite Website?”Submitted Swissmiss | Code Cards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe gifts category on swissmiss may help: http://www.swiss-miss.com/gift_guide_generic?c=gift_guide_ge...
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on “Ask HN: What to buy a designer as a gift?”Submitted That Sweet Spot as a story · 2 points
HN discussiontry this: https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/04/the-cozy-web.html I'm determined to get you there
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on “The dark forest and the cozy web”Submitted Chrome Music Lab as a story · 1 points
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