Independence
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr
We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.
Have a complaint about CVS? So do pharmacists: Many just walked out
Can't Be F*cked: Underrated Cause of Tech Debt
Can’t Be Fucked
Aussie slang for not wanting to, or not having the energy and motivation to do something.
“Man, i really can’t be fucked changing the channel, let’s just watch Springer.”
- Urban Dictionary
The Ultimate Vintage Design Collection – Tom Chalky
Over 1400 high-quality vintage design goods that have been sourced, restored, and repurposed from a private collection of century-old books and ephemera worth in excess of $2500. Use this collection of design goods within an unlimited number of commercial projects. This includes end products for sale, print and web work, social media, etc. Read the Extended Commercial License for more details (Oh, this also covers the bonus fonts too!). This collection contains PNG & JPEG images which will work within all graphics software (Including design apps on mobile and tablets). It also includes vector files (.AI & .EPS), these will work within Illustrator, Sketch, Afinnity, Corel Draw, Photoshop and more!
Google Search Is Dying
(There is good discussion on this article on Hacker News and Reddit) Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface. So instead we resort to using Google, and appending the word “reddit” to the end of our queries.
How Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest
Google Search is dead to me. Here's how and why Kagi's high quality results and compelling value proposition allowed me to fully make the switch.
We're all lurkers now
No one's talking online anymore.
Brand assets and guidelines — Patreon
Design Takes Time
Defining the identity of iA Presenter next to iA Writer was a three-year process that went hand-in-hand with the UI development. Design takes time.
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The Case Against Everything Buckets — Alex Payne
The Mac software ecosystem faces a plague. A plague of Everything Buckets. Indulge me.
If you search for “productivity” or “organization” software for the Mac, you’ll find variations on a particular type of application. These applications claim to be “your outboard brain” or “your digital filing c
Write plain text files | Derek Sivers
Don't be a decel
Technological progress must be harnessed, not fought
Inkbase: Programmable Ink
What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
The Bullshit Web
My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember webpages loading slowly: ten […]
Waterbed Theory
Markdown (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
iPhone First Impressions
Review of the first iPhone from Daring Fireball.
Hacking the iPhone Notes App for the Admittedly Nit-Picky Purpose of Changing the Text Font to Helvetica
How to hack the iPhone Notes app to use Helvetica as the text font.
Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground
The most interesting product of Twitter’s popularity, to me, has been the explosion of Twitter API client software.
Sweep the Sleaze | Information Architects
Promising to make you look wired and magically promote your content in social networks, the Like, Retweet, and +1 buttons occupy a good spot on pretty much every page of the World Wide Web. Because o
Do Things that Don't Scale
The Curse of Dialup World
An acquisition gets weird.
I'm a fucking webmaster | Justin Jackson
We were magicians and the web was our magic
Internet manifesto | sadgrl.online
An Internet Manifesto.
Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb — Smashing Magazine
There is an alternative to corporate bubbles online — it’s called the IndieWeb. Build your own personal websites, control your online presence, and learn on your own terms.
Take back the internet
Personal website hunting
A credible threat to (and from) commercial social network silos/1
The Fediverse, especially through Mastodon, has been acknowledged by the major players as a threat —to be eliminated.