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BlogScroll - Personal Blog & Site Directory
This is an open directory of personal sites and blogs, maintained entirely on GitHub.
This project was created by Den Delimarsky in an effort to bring attention to little 🌱 digital gardens and ✨ personal corners of the internet that people maintain outside the "Big Tech" walled gardens.
Open RSS
Open RSS is a nonprofit organization that provides free RSS feeds for websites that don't have them
The Joy of Silly Useless Software | The Candybox Blog
Software can be silly, useless, and dumb, just like games!
Software can bring joy to our otherwise cold and utilitarian digital world. I am talking about the things that exist just to brighten up our otherwise impersonal productivity related spaces…
Pal
Pal lets you apply an eight-color terminal color palette to any image you upload. Use the keyboard controls to choose a theme, set thresholds, and cycle hues.
Image Hues - Vaisakh Pradeep
Natural, fresh color palettes from random beautiful images
I need my space — Saron Yitbarek
A scientific approach to line-height
wwwtxt.org | 1980-1994
Revisit the early Internet with real online conversations (1980-94)
⟨hand-selected вy KYRA OCEAN
linkhut - a social bookmarking site
Welcome to linkhut! This open-source social bookmarking service that allows you to tag, save, manage and share Web pages all in one place. With emphasis on the power of the community, linkhut greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet. • Absolutely no tracking or advertising • Import/Export your bookmarks • RSS feeds • REST-like API with OAuth • 100% free and open source software
Sargam Icons
300+ open-source icons.
I’m betting on HTML
AI Use Disclaimer: I wrote this post and then GPT-4 fixed my grammer and spelling
Typography for User Interfaces
Back in 2004, when I had just started my career, sIFR was the hottest thing out there. It was developed by Shaun Inman and it embedded custom fonts in a small Flash movie, which could be...
Plain Vanilla
An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
security.txt
A proposed standard that allows websites to define security policies.
Humans TXT: We Are People, Not Machines.
An initiative to know the creators of the website. Contains the information about humans to the web building.
Extending indieweb.txt With Reference Information
Adding information to indieweb.txt about how the site author wants to be referenced on other sites.
Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age
Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations?
The Nuance of “Domain”
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.
A Guide to Combining Fonts
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.
CLI Club: Command-line Interface Tools & Alternatives
A collection of the best CLI/Ncurses software covering a wide range of categories from messaging, music, text editing and more.
HTML Recipes
A collection of quick copy HTML snippets for a variety of common scenarios.
TinyList
Create and share notes and checklists, without sacrificing your privacy. A PWA notes/checklists application that syncs instantly across devices.
Design Systems Database & Gallery
Best-in-class Design Systems collection with a repository of Components and Foundations references from top-tier tech companies and leading UI teams.
The Terminal – For Noobs (Like Me), Part One
If you’re like me, from time-to-time you’ll come across tasks that should be done in the terminal. But as you’re not very familiar with it, you wince a bit, and then just paste whatever they say, and hope for the best. The guide might also assume you know a bunch of concepts, that you don’t really understand. Like, why do some commands start with $?
Announcing WordPress Export to Markdown v3
WordPress Export to Markdown is a CLI tool (a Node script) that helps you migrate from WordPress to a static site generator (like Eleventy, for example)
Colors - A nicer color palette for the web by @mrmrs_
Accessible color combinations for prototyping on the web https://clrs.cc/a11y/ via
How I org in 2023 — Nick Anderson
I’ve been pretty much living in org-mode for 6 or 7 years now1. It’s my exocortex, second brain, second mind, mind palace, pensive, and personal knowledge management system2. The features and tools I use as well as how I organize my files has changed quite a bit over this period of time and I thought it would be nice give myself (and anyone else who cares) a reference of what it was like in 2023 so here it is.
Use plain text email
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.
Minimalism and the Art of Photography
I settled on a Fujifilm X-Pro 3, which looks similar to the Leica M cameras. Then, I bought one lens (a Fuji 35mm F2 prime) to go with the camera. The entire kit has an appealing, rangefinder style aesthetic.
How to Host WordPress as a Static Site
Static site hosting for WordPress in 2024 - combining the best features of WordPress with the effectiveness of the JAMStack