It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
The epitome of Alan Dye
Public
The secret to being happy in 2026? It’s far, far simpler than you think …
Stop stressing about self‑improvement or waiting until you’re on top of everything. This year give yourself permission to prioritise pleasure.
Home: Mushroom Color Atlas
Explore the chromatic universe of fungi through the spectrum of colors naturally produced by dye mushrooms.
Coherence X by BZG: Turn Websites into Apps using Chrome on macOS
This looks really interesting.
Fran Sans Essay — Emily Sneddon
Fran Sans is a display font in every sense of the term. It’s an interpretation of the destination displays found on some of the light rail vehicles that service the city of San Francisco.
Alan.app – tyler.io
Alan draws a border around the qctive window on macOS. "Good riddance Alan (Dye)"
Messenger
Simply amazing what can be done in the browser these days
Butterick’s Practical Typography
Amazing source of information (buy the book)
Your URL Is Your State
The Overlooked Power of URLs
Tab Roving • Niklas Gadermann
Handling focus management for element groups
Research
Quant vs. qual.
A workaround for using custom properties in media queries
This is soooo clever 😍
The Best CSS Unit Might Be a Combination
Use the unit that means what you mean - brilliant article by @mia
Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com
« I’ve decided it’s past time I start describing “artificial intelligence” as a failed technology, and I’d like you to join me. »
One List To Rule Them All · September 10, 2025
An amazing list of features and properties, most of which I'd never heard of!
Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
For love of pixels Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
I LOVED ResEdit 😍
Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
A brilliant TEDx talk by Scott, which deeply resonated with me.
Email is Easy
Barely got half of them right (even by guessing)
Welcome to Macintosh!
Revisiting Apple's eWorld
Frame of preference
A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004
Rare Earths Mining in Myanmar Is Polluting Thailand’s Kok River
The wild plots of Iranian dissident hunters
Coffee in the Sun
Think of it as Maps with weather and shade data added to it. Brilliant ☀️
Rick Rubin | The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding
The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding. Inspired by Laozi’s Dao De Jing, it’s Rubin’s take on intuitive programming.
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Uses
Spot on Jeremy -- as usual.
Folklore.org: The Original Macintosh
I've been diving back into all these amazing stories lately
CSS Custom Properties vs. Sass Variables: A Pragmatic Guide Always Twisted
Sass remain a super useful technology, when you need it
Optimizing Webfont Performance
Brilliant Ariel, as always.