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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. Let's star

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.

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.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: • Err and err and err again but less and less and less. • – Piet Hein …

Engineer with a passion for Design, Dieter Rams, Watches, Coffee and Bauhaus

The chronicles of a self-taught designer and developer.

Sociotechnologist, writer and speaker working on tech and its social impact. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite.

A popular old essay about finding calm and rhythm online.

A 100% Free and Secure Browser Notes App

Brutalita is an experimental font and font editor, edit in your browser and download OTF.

introduction If you surf the modern "small web" to any extent you've encountered 88x31 buttons - a staple of late 90s and early 2000's websites under…

Hidde's blog about web accessibility, standards, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more.

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.

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.

a post from alan w. smith

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,...

sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.

he floppy disk collection is part of the Museum of Obsolete Media, which comprises over 800 media formats spanning audio, data, film and video storage media. This microsite is designed to run from a 3.5-inch High Density microfloppy and is self-contained, so requires no internet connection.

A decentralized discovery network where websites promote each other through intentional, trust-based links.

Arcane curation focused on the convergence of the IndieWeb, Fediverse and Cybersecurity

The creation of the original Macintosh has been extensively studied and written about, but what happened after it launched? What was it like to own a Macintosh in the mid-eighties? I intend to tell this story of the Macintosh through the pages of MacUser.

When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.

Mario Carrillo is an artist with a profound interest in creating moving images to explore creativity, technology, and visual perception.