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Gemini is a new internet technology supporting an electronic library of interconnected text documents. That's not a new idea, but it's not old fashioned either. It's timeless, and deserves tools which treat it as a first class concept, not a vestigial corner case. Gemini isn't about innovation or disruption, it's about providing some respite for those who feel the internet has been disrupted enough already. We're not out to change the world or destroy other technologies. We are out to build a lightweight online space where documents are just documents, in the interests of every reader's privacy, attention and bandwidth.

swissmiss is an online garden (aka design blog) run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a Swiss designer gone NYC.

a webring for cool people who like to make things!

FreshRSS is a self-hostable RSS aggregator and reader. It allows you to read and follow several news websites at a glance without the need to browse from one website to another. FreshRSS is lightweight, configurable, and easy to use.

Obsidian Publish is the easiest way to publish your wiki, knowledge base, documentation, or digital garden.

Mailto link code and markup generator with subject, body, cc and bcc. Quickly and easily generate code for those annoying mailto links.

mostly harmless

I’ve often been asked what the best way to start blogging in [current year] is. It turns out, that’s a pretty difficult question to answer! Instead, I have some guiding principles I personally follow to help guide my choices.

Nearly Perfect is a focused, illustrated guide to building enduring products. Why do certain products effortlessly dominate their competition? Why do some seemingly sophisticated products flounder and fail? This book explains why. Nearly Perfect explores problems and solutions from first principles, then applies this foundation to products and what makes them great. The best products in the world benefit from compounding loops, which we lay out in a practical, easy-to-understand framework.

BlogFlock is a social network for reading, discovering, and sharing your favourite blogs and feeds with friends. Create lists of blogs you love, and follow lists created by others. You can even use lists to aggregate Mastodon feeds, newspapers, Reddit subreddits, podcasts - anything that has an RSS or Atom feed.

Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web

Color scheme for UI design

Your gateway to all things retro!

Teleport to amazing webpages all over the internet and discover new content

Pliko microblogging. Welcome to Pliko! Our network is a retro micro-blogging website similar to what early versions of Twitter were. Share whatever you're doing at any moment in a message of only 140 characters

The Old Twitter is back…

Marcin Wichary Designer, writer, & typographer

A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

There's a corner of the Internet where people have been reclaiming their digital independence by hosting their own websites and promoting the idea of owning your own content—it's called the IndieWeb. This community has its own website, IRC channels, social media presence, and more, all dedicated to the idea that individuals should control their own digital presence through personal websites.

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Everything from learning the basics to running your own foundry.

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

This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

Chase McCoy explores, builds, & writes about the web.

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.

Emotions guide our lives. Exploring how we feel is a worthy endeavor for anyone hoping to understand themselves or even build a successful brand.

I found this post by ava about the parallelism between blogging and romanticism magnificent: Blogging that’s personal and reflective (and not just how-to’s, …

talking about romanticising and Romanticism (two different things).