A collection of 634 tiny 32x18 pixel art flags. It was originally only 362 flags I created in 2020 during the pandemic, and was expanded 3 years later.
Typewolf helps designers choose the perfect font combination for their next design project—features web fonts in the wild, font recommendations and learning resources.
In defense of unpolished personal websites | Ana Rodrigues
For a while now, I've been slowing working on a refactor of the codebase of this blog. At one point, I got caught in exciting world of performance and I wanted to make sure I had a super fast pageload. Currently, my CSS is added inline in the HTML and I found myself thinking "no one will be able to read this".
What does a mature, end-to-end design system look like in a big, complex organization? What are all the moving pieces, and how do they hang together as a well-considered architecture? What's required and what's optional? Hold onto your butts, because we're going to go deep on this one.
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GT Planar tests the limits of a 90-degree range, combining Retalic, Upright, and Italic styles into one continuous design space. It transitions seamlessly from -45° Retalic to +45° Italic while retaining its integrity. This typeface’s central star is its functionality, no matter the length, size, or angle. Typeface by Dominik Huber, exclusively available at Grilli Type.
Counter Forms is a new typographic venture that seeks to champion young, discursive, Antipodean type designers. Driven by typographic research, education and advocacy, we publish original typefaces and texts towards a more accessible, diverse and equitable future.
Strand | Write stories with strangers, one sentence at a time.
Write stories with the world.
Every day is a new story. Choose any storyline to continue, and answer the question “what happens next?” Then, see how others continue your story, creating branching storylines from a single prompt. It's like a choose-your-own-adventure book, written by the internet.
This document outlines a non-exhaustive list of details that make a good (web) interface. It is a living document, periodically updated based on learnings. Some of these may be subjective, but most apply to all websites.
A domain name can be registered with up to 63 characters, so I registered loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ong.
Then I created an interesting URL lengthening tool, which is this page you're seeing now.
The maximum length for a domain name is 253 characters, hence Longer than Long was born.
I encountered quite a few issues during the process, which I've documented in this Github Issue. Feel free to join the discussion.
Exactly eight years ago, I published “Hello there!” on this website. Since then, I have published hundreds of articles. Persistent writing is excellent for many reasons and is the best thing I have ever done for my personal and professional development.
The old internet — the internet we first fell in love with — was a weird and wild and unregulated country. It was experimental, free for all, exhilarating, creative. The browsers in tho…
This is a set of three core commitments derived from the practical experiences of the Yesterweb staff after two years of community organization. They concentrate what we have learned and how we operate into a general template that can be applied to any community at a foundational level. We propose these commitments as the basis of unity for those individuals or groups who wish to move in the same direction, while allowing a diversity of focus, interests, and missions.
Directory | websites accessible to older computers.
The Web Directory is a collection of websites and communities accessible to vintage, and modern computers. Our main focus is towards the retro computing community but we welcome many other types of personal pages and communities.
On Self-Expression: My Quarter Century Of Blogging
It’s with a near certainty and small sense of frustration that I say there was something that came before, but memory issues preclude me having any definitive sense of precisely, or even imprecisely, what it was. All I know is that it existed—or, at least,...