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refern. is an ad-free, Pinterest-like image organizer, reimagined for creatives — save, find, organize, moodboard, study & share curated reference images all in one app.

Welcome to TextMechanic.com! Simple, single task, browser based, text manipulation tools. Popular Tools Add Prefix/Suffix into Line Insert a prefix and/or suffix into the content of each line. Add/Remove Line Breaks Add new line breaks and/or remove existing line breaks within your text’s formatting. Count Characters, Words, Lines Count your text’s characters, words, sentences, lines and word frequency. Delimited Column ... Read More

File synchronization can be fun and painless if you don’t have to deal with corporate bullshit.

Logo Nature is a site to compare logos

JUnited is all about supporting other bloggers (and their work) that I've come to appreciate. Some may know that I exist, while others... probably don't. My goal is to showcase 30 different bloggers1 throughout the month of June in this page.

My thought process about not having a Blogroll, and the introduction of a Postroll.

A community blog devoted to refining the art of rationality

I’ve been writing at least one blog post a week for the last 10 weeks. This idea of streaks is completely inspired by Matt Webb who would totally be on the cover of Blogging Weekly (if such a magazine existed).

Evergreen notes are written and organized to evolve, contribute, and accumulate over time, across projects. This is an unusual way to think about writing notes: Most people take only transient notes. That’s because these practices aren’t about writing notes; they’re about effectively developing insight: “Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking”. When done well, these notes can be quite valuable: Evergreen note-writing as fundamental unit of knowledge work.

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

Some iconic scrollbars recreated as faithfully as possible.

Information Mesh is a web platform celebrating the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web that explores social, technical, cultural and legal facts throughout different interactive timelines. The project was realized by Media & Interaction Design students at ECAL/University of Art and Design, Lausanne. It was initiated in October 2018 during a one week workshop in partnership with swissnex San Francisco, where students visited key partners and began developing the project.

The goal is to create anything you want within 1 single html file. Practice your skills with no assistance from libraries, no separation of files, and no assistance of a modern framework. How creative can you be with such restrictions?

A little something for the Halloween weekend: Alien (1979) — Original Nostromo Crew Badges & Insignia Sketches by Ron Cobb & John Mollo

Harry Cresswell is a professional Front-end web developer based in London, England. Read technical articles and notes on design and code.

How to save the open web, & get (re)started with RSS

Bluesky Starter Packs help new users find relevant feeds and users after they joined the community.

Expresso is a little tool to edit texts and improve your writing style. It will teach you to express yourself through writing more efficiently and help make your texts more readable, precise, and engaging.

Thoughts on building Paper as an indie maker.

As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Read my book: Flexible Typesetting, for free You and I are living through the biggest change in graphic design history. New devices, screen sizes, and platforms require us to adapt constantly. It’s exhausting. I wrote Flexible Typesetting to aid your practice, offering new mental models for anchoring fluid, responsive design on key typographic guidelines. And I decided to make it free.

Utility to import content from multiple services (and a CLI, too) - 11ty/eleventy-import

By the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone.

In 1995, a new industry was born, and design became a true practice.

The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year.

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A fast, simple RSS feed reader that delivers a great reading experience.

This widget adds a SubToMe button to your blog and allows people to subscribe to your content in one click.