Hello and welcome to an especially tricksy edition of Design Lobster. This week we’re exploring the curious history of “Easter Eggs” in software, and examining a gravity-defying teapot that makes poisoning your enemies a breeze.

In this security industry, the manual processes that drive traditional threat modeling methods are increasingly inadequate for managing the growing scale and complexity of today’s products and services.

Designing digital projects and disagreements go hand in hand. It’s a natural part of the process.

As a freelance designer, you will probably still be a beginner providing your services and thus expanding your business opportunities. However, many working designers do not realize how important it is to follow certain rules that will help you climb the career ladder and secure your reputation.

In this article, I’ll be showing how to get the same effects with no content duplication.

The text-box-trim and text-box-edge properties in CSS enable developers to trim specifiable amounts of the whitespace that appear above the first formatted line of text and below the last formatted line of text in a text box, making the text box vertically larger than the content within.

Developers have to split their time between heads-down work and collaborative touchpoints. VS Code aims to reconcile their competing priorities to keep them in the flow.

An exploration of layout formations during scroll, where content is pinned until the layout is fully assembled.

If you’re not familiar with Mastodon or the Fediverse, different servers can have their own custom emoji, similar to Slack, Discord, etc. Having 19k (really closer to 20k in this case) is highly unusual, but not unheard of.

Data, data, and some more data. As businesses are swimming in the ocean of information, data engineers have become the lifeguards with their trusty flotation device — Python.