Start your own blog in seconds with Scribbles - a beautiful, minimal blogging platform featuring an intuitive editor, custom domains, and privacy controls. Free plan available with up to 25 posts.
Blog of the .Day: Explore the (indie) web, one blog at a time.
Every day, Blog of the .Day highlights a new blog. The blog is chosen at random and a new one should be deployed daily via Netlify. Joe Crawford became steward of this project in May
RSS Club is a collection of blogs (personal and otherwise) committed to providing RSS-only content. It’s like a newsletter delivered to your feed reader in order to celebrate the medium of RSS and breakaway from social media.
The internet can feel like it's built for speed.
You join a new service and you're presented with a feed. The name tells you all you need to know. The feed is the actor. You are the thing that is acted upon. You don't control the feed. Your role is
The web was established with the best of intentions. The basic idea was that if everyone could share their thoughts and ideas with the world, the best ones would be vetted and float to the top. The bad ones would be ignored and pushed to the bottom.
Lately, I have been particularly struck by the writings of those who are autistic. They may have great difficulty being understood in the every-day world among their family, acquaintances, and fellow students or coworkers, but many seem to have little difficulty recording their emotions in text. In this medium, they share brilliantly the pain of their isolation among fellow beings that do not and likely never will understand them. They reveal their suffering in words that cannot be ignored. These are intelligent people whose very human writings often shine with emotion and understanding.
I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff
RSS is like your youtube subscription feed in hyperdrive. Subscribe to sites you love and decide what shows up — no exploitative social media algorithm needed. No more ads or algorithms deciding how to keep you doomscrolling. This 1999 tech actually solves a lot of 2025 problems.
Here's the kicker: Most websites, even social media, quietly support RSS feeds.
Apple Macintosh 1990’s After Dark Screensavers in CSS
Relive classic 1990s Mac and PC screensavers like Flying Toasters and Aquatic Realm, remade using modern CSS techniques like animations and transforms.
Typocard | minimalistic typo graphics for powerful ideas
Small, minimalistic graphics for powerful ideas in a few words. Typogram is a simple web app to create nice-looking, minimalistic graphics that focus on a short snippet of text for sharing on the web.
Typogram allows you to set optional headers and footers to anchor or attribute a text or quote, and provides some minimal customization options for design style.
Organize your day with ease. A markdown paper to organize daily to-do’s and thoughts
No installs. No sign-up. No noise.
You get one page, write what matters today.
- Most note and todo apps are overloaded.
- I believe, just one page is enough for organizing.
What real words are actually valid CSS HEX colors? Parsing an English dictionary for entries containing only the letters ABCDEF and limiting the result to words of exactly 6 or 3 letters length (#FFFFFF or #FFF) gives us some interesting results.
CSS Stats provides analytics and visualizations for your stylesheets. This information can be used to improve consistency in your design, track performance of your app, and diagnose complex areas that might benefit from refactoring.
This chain letter-esque post has been doing the rounds, and in the spirit of trying to rebuild my blogging muscle I thought what better to blog about than blogging? This post is a bit of a love letter to having your own place on the web, no matter how simple.
Rules:
1. No HTML tags of any sort. "View source" must equal that which is displayed in the browser.
2. You can use an index.html page to redirect to an actual text page, if necessary.