Minimal Universe

Minimal Universe collect posts from our favorite Minimal-related Blogs listed below.

  • The fail manifesto

    The fail manifesto:

    We are uncovering better ways of failing
    in this industry by doing it and helping others do it.
    We are adding yet more bloated and abstract concepts that
    are so complicated no one knows what they actually mean.
    If they do mean anything at all.

  • "Zen does not deny the existence of a Supreme Being either. It neither affirms nor denies, it simply..."

    “Zen does not deny the existence of a Supreme Being either. It neither affirms nor denies, it simply is.”

  • Morihei Ueshiba, O’Sensei. The creator of Aikido

    Morihei Ueshiba, O’Sensei. The creator of Aikido

  • "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no..."

    “Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.”

    - Strunk and White, Omit needless words

  • (※) tools you should use

    mrtoto:

    …to simplify how you create and consume content on the web. These bookmarklets sit in my browser’s bookmarks bar; in fact, they’re the reason I display the bar in the first place.

  • How to...

    Add line numbers to the Unix command lines Less and VI:

    less: less -N
    vi: ‘set nu’ command in editor

  • Photo

  • "We do not remember days, we remember moments."

    “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

    - Cesare Pavese

  • "We encounter creeping featurism in software on a regular enough basis, most tangibly in our role as..."

    “We encounter creeping featurism in software on a regular enough basis, most tangibly in our role as application users: many options, many ways to set them, many ways to lose track of them, many cunningly hidden defaults — many subtleties. Sometimes we seem to be slaves to the application-fattening tedium of common but ineffective idioms”

    - Kevlin Henney, Omit needless code

  • Kevin Saint Grey

    Kevin Saint Grey is a photographer with a minimalist aesthetic. He says:

    Painters decide what to put into a work. Photographers decide what to leave out.

    In an way, his images are understimulating. This has the effect that you tend to ‘fill’ them with a little bit of yourself. Or, as one of his followers says in a testimonial: “I get lost in them.”