Silent Poems
Not easy to describe, but lots of fun to play around with. Create art, of a sort, by typing.
RemovePaywall | Free online paywall remover
Paywall removal tool. These seem to be a bit of a moving target (or rather the success with which they work is), so it's good to have a collection of them.
slash pages
Fun little guide to all sorts of "common" pages you could add to a website. I imagine most people would never discover them, but I like it as an idea.
s l o w r o a d s
Endless driving in the browser; perfect for /those/ meetings. You know the ones.
gaining access to anyones browser without them even visiting a website - eva's site
So I’m glad I never got comfortable with Arc, having briefly tried it and not really liked it.
giscus
A widget for blogs and similar that uses GitHub discussions as a comments section. Might be a good idea for my own blog.
How to win at CORS
A comprehensive introduction to CORS.
HTML head tags
Good list of tags that can go in the header section of a web page.
CSS selectors cheatsheet
Good cheatsheet of CSS selectors.
How do developers get such amazing background images?
Reddit thread about stock images that contains a reasonable list of sites where royalty-free images can be found.
Copy to clipboard pure JavaScript - JSFiddle
Example code for copying rich text to the clipboard from JavaScript.
CSS Grid Generator
Handy-looking CSS grid generation tool.
BADA55.io - CSS hex color words for web developers
Amusing, and not always sfw, resource for colours with "interesting" names.
Beyond appendChild: Better convenience methods for HTML - DEV Community
Short article about some handy DOM manipulation methods and idioms in JavaScript.
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
Interesting site/paper detailing instances of "dark patterns" in online retail. Instances of website design that seek to manipulate the customer into doing things they may not have wanted or intended.
User Inyerface - A worst-practice UI experiment
Really rather funny exploration of some of the worst design elements you can find on the Web.
I Can't Stop Winning (Pinboard Blog)
Happy birthday Pinboard!
Better performance by optimizing Gunicorn config - Building the system - Medium
Advice on how best to configure Gunicorn for Django applications.
MySQL and storing emoji: proper utf8mb4 with Django | exana.io
The MySQL unicode issue as seen from a Django point of view.
Placeholder support for contentEditable elements, without JavaScript
Handy method of adding placeholder-a-like text to contenteditable elements in a document.
A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
List of online tools and services that are useful for software development, and which have a free tier that allow for testing things out.
Contract for the Web
Website for the contract for the web
Happy Hues - Curated colors in context.
Handy website that gives some great examples of colour palettes for web design (and other kinds of design too, I guess).
A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development.
Handy set of svg-based icons, ideal for websites and web-based apps.
Pronoun Island
Nice idea for a way of including pronouns in profiles, etc.
Here’s what I didn’t know about “content” - Manuel Matuzović
Deepish dive into what the content property can do in CSS.
Media Queries Level 5
Some detail on the CSS query that lets you detect of someone has their OS set to prefer dark mode rather than light.
Setting up a local web server on macOS 10… - Apple Community
Setting up a local web server, especially with php and serving from a user's home directory, on macOS.
Advanced usage of Python requests - timeouts, retries, hooks
Great article that discusses some useful advanced uses of requests.
Favicon generator
Very handy favicon generator. Covers all the useful bases.