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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.

An unofficial bonus chapter for the iOS Human Interface Guidelines: Learn how to structure iPhone apps with drill-downs, modals, pyramids, sequences, and more.

A weekly dispatch of curated links worth your time. No buzzwords, hype or FOMO.

Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

See the unseen.

No tech. No distractions. Pure Creativity. Publish your ideas to millions just using pen & paper.

For all the bits that didn't make it to the highlight reel. Discover new people and great content.

Easily share content to social networks across the web.

A bookmarklet to copy browser tab URLs with titles as rich text and Markdown.

Some notes on how to style RSS and Atom feeds with XSLT stylesheets. By Robb Knight

A collection of other webdevelopment and design blogs I like to read.

How to pull interactions from social media platforms like Twitter back to your own site, using Webmentions, webmention.io and Bridgy.

A randomly generated endless city built with WebGL.

The two most revolutionary technological advances in human consciousness are the invention of writing and the form of photography.

Calendar Collective is a living archive of alternate calendars.

From the Macintosh ROM of Classic days, to Open Firmware in Power Macs, and on to (U)EFI with Intel, and ending up with LLB and iBoot in Apple silicon Macs.

I first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flan

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