// the take
A single README of specific, no-fluff rules for polishing web interfaces — interaction, typography, motion, touch, accessibility, and performance details. It's for frontend developers who already know the basics and want a checklist of the small things that separate a tight interface from a sloppy one, not a library or framework.
Every item is concrete and testable — specific CSS properties, specific millisecond and pixel values, specific attributes — instead of vague UX platitudes. It surfaces real browser quirks that usually get learned the hard way, like iOS zooming on inputs under 16px, Safari ignoring border-radius on outline, and hover states flashing on touch press. The footnotes link to primary sources for the less obvious claims, so you can verify rather than take them on faith.
It's pure prose advice with zero code or components — there's no lint rule or library enforcing any of this, so applying it is entirely manual and easy to regress on. Last pushed September 2023 with no commits since; some of the browser-specific notes (the Safari 16.4 outline-radius fix, for instance) are already dated or moot. A handful of rules are stated as settled fact with no measurement behind them (e.g. the 200ms animation ceiling) — it's one developer's taste, not a spec, and should be read that way. There's also no structure beyond a single long page, so re-finding one specific tip later means re-skimming the whole document.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →