Check out this guide to the best Adobe Photography plans and learn about the differences between them, and how to choose the best one for you!

My blogging methodology from ideation to research to writing to editing & finally to publishing.

Internet Search Tips Internet Search Tips Internet archiving, CLI, Google, tutorial. A description of advanced tips and tricks for effective Internet research of papers/books, with real-world examples.

In a world where color photography is the default, Black and White can feel almost like an act of resistance. When we embrace monochrome, though, it's like we opened a window to a whole new world, filled with possibilities. In this e-book, I cover most of the tools in Adobe Lightroom, and through ex

Learn how to create your own digital garden using Tiddly Wiki with this step-by-step guide.

In this article, I'll show you how to deploy a static website for free in only 3 minutes, using a cloud storage service like Google Drive or Dropbox. And no - fast.io didn't pay me or freeCodeCamp to create this article. We don't have any relationshi...

A tutorial on the workflow from Markdown texts to beautiful PDFs /

This website is a tool & space that shares knowledge on how to build your own archive. For my transnational families, immigrants, and displaced people who are separated and fragmented from their family histories, I see you, I feel you, and I hear you. This is for you. I hope these templates can be filled with your stories celebrating moments of joy, your histories and cultural practices, and your own experiences that can get passed down generations or act as a space for healing.

How to save the open web, & get (re)started with RSS

A game to learn how to kern type

This guide explains how to host an own blog / website for free with about 1 hour of effort. It’s how I host this blog. There are certainly other options, and I’ve used some in the past. But this worked very well and with very little configuration effort. In this guide I use Gitlab as code host and Netlify to publish the website. I’m using the Hugo build system to build a static page.

In this tutorial, we will build a small microblog that implements the ActivityPub protocol, similar to Mastodon or Misskey, using Fedify, an ActivityPub server framework.

This is the home of Webspaces, a new kind of website that uses HTML to create 3D worlds in addition to 2D pages. Webspaces are made up of static HTML files - this webspace is hosted on GitHub Pages. If you want, you can fork it as a starting point for your own

Running your own blog helps you keep an online journal of your life and thoughts that doesn't depend on unreliable tech platforms like Facebook or Twitter. But this process is still needlessly complicated and certainly not user-friendly for regular people.

How to make things that live on the internet.

If you have any doubts, then you're the target audience of this guide.

Own Your Web is a newsletter by Matthias Ott about designing, building, creating, and publishing for and on the Web. Every other week, I send out an exclusive email full of actionable insights, best practices, hacks, links, books, tools, and other high-quality insights I found or explored. Whether you want to get started with your own personal website or level up as a designer, developer, or independent creator working with the ever-changing material of the Web, this little email is for you. ❤✊ Free. No spam ever. You can unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you consent to my use of your email address to stay in touch with you, as provided in my Privacy Policy.

This essay explains how Git works. It assumes you understand Git well enough to use it to version control your projects. The essay focuses on the graph structure that underpins Git and the way the properties of this graph dictate Git’s behavior. Looking at fundamentals, you build your mental model on the truth rather than on hypotheses constructed from evidence gathered while experimenting with the API.

Collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! — using microformats to enrich your mentions; adding a webmention form; and parsing, displaying, and updating them with Eleventy, Netlify, and Bridgy.

Why you should use microformats and some examples of how they work.

The Designer's Journey is a growing list of 900+ goals and achievements for designers of all experience levels, disciplines, and career phases to accomplish.

I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research. This article may contain traces of nostalgia and none of Lena.

A scientific approach to line-height

An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links and realized there’s more to “domain” than initially meets the eye.

Combining fonts is one of the trickiest parts of typography. Here’s a guide, combined with an example to help you get font combinations right.

A collection of quick copy HTML snippets for a variety of common scenarios.

There are two main types of emails on the internet: plain text and HTML. Many people, particularly in technical communities, strongly prefer or even require the use of plain text email from participants. However, your mail client may not have it set up by default. We'll help you get it configured, and introduce you to the norms and conventions of plain text email.

Static site hosting for WordPress in 2024 - combining the best features of WordPress with the effectiveness of the JAMStack