JetBrains Mono: A free and open source typeface for developers
My new favourite monospaced font.
HTML for People
HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly web book.
Converge 2024
A conference in Brighton centered around design systems, but not only, with an amazing speaker line-up.
Public Work by Cosmos
Public Work is a visual search engine for public domain content from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources.
Mode survie sur la montagne sacrée, Morgan Segui – Les Baladeurs
An amazing tale of resilience and life force by Morgan Segui while hiking the Manucoco opposite Timor-Leste.
Automatisch - Open Source Zapier Alternative
Automatisch helps you to automate your business processes without coding. Use our affordable cloud solution or self-host on your own servers.
Why AI Web Scraping (Mostly) Doesn’t Bother Me - TidBITS
The entire point of publishing on the open Web is to make the content available to everyone. If you want to restrict who can read your content or how they can use it, you put it behind a paywall.
84—24
The tale of restoring an ’80s timeless classic, harking back to an era when 128KB were deemed more than sufficient.
How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search
Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add "udm=14" to the search URL.
Dieter Rams
Ten principles of good design
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
A breathtaking article on the fragility (and resilience) of the skinny tubes crisscrossing the Earth’s oceans… and the decreasing number of people who know (and can) repair them.
The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe | From the Desk of Doug Wilson
The story of the most elaborate April fool’s joke ever printed
Some use cases for revert-layer
Did you know about the revert-layer keyword?
40 Years Ago, This Ad Changed the Super Bowl Forever
An oral history of Apple’s groundbreaking “1984” spot, which helped to establish the Super Bowl as TV’s biggest commercial showcase.
The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024 - Infrequently Noted
Frontend is haunted by 2013's Great Branch Mispredict
The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
These iconic, low-resolution designs are the perfect tool to learn the basics of physical interface design. Armed with 52 different bricks, let's see what they can teach us about the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.
UI An UX Figma resources
A fantastic list of Christine Vallaure's recommended Figma resources
Haikei
Create and explore SVGs
Playbook for universal design – Universal design methods for more inclusive solutions
Supporting the development of inclusive innovations
Preview Social Media Share and Generate Metatags
Double check your OG tags
cryptii
Web app offering modular conversion, encoding and encryption online. Translations are done in the browser without any server interaction.
Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed connects your web site to Mastodon and the fediverse.
A (more) Modern CSS Reset - Andy Bell
Andy Bell's reset properties revisited 4 years later.
It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks.
We all lost when the web design role was split in two.
The ideal viewport doesn’t exist
Consider the vast fragmentation of screen sizes and browser viewports.
Metra Ticket Gallery | C82
Scans of monthly train tickets Metra sells in and around Chicago by Nicholas Rougeux.
You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Apparently, killing someone is basically legal if you do it with a car.
Writing by Numbers
Garry Knight: "Using AirPods as a Hearing Aid…" - Toot.Cat
A run through of how to setup your AirPods as a hearing aid
Formative posts – Eric Bailey
Here are things other people have written that have helped to shape who I am. Enjoy!