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  • Almost everything Caity Weaver looked up on Google or Wikipedia in a week the fun parts are in the footnotes.

    24 July 2020
  • Sounds made by humans for your app or whatever. Pops, ticks, nudges, and more.

    6 July 2020
  • An old float house in the woods

    6 July 2020
  • Typehut another super simple blog “… or newsletter, changelog, press page, devlog, announcements, events or anything else you can imagine.”

    29 June 2020
  • Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health “Each swipe through the timeline marks the end of a day of reckoning—for the state of the world at large and for the person attached to each appendage doing the scrolling.”

    28 June 2020
  • Analog is “a physical (paper + wood) companion for your digital tools that helps you prioritize and focus on your most important tasks.”

    24 June 2020
  • I wish there was a more peaceful feed reader. Something that doesn’t make keeping up with my favorite blogs feel like a chore.

    So I made a little Figma prototype to illustrate the idea.

    I call it MARKS and the concept is simple. A list of bookMARKS that lets you know when something is new plus gets you out into the wilds of the web to hopefully discover even more great sites.

    How I envision it working: Add sites you want to keep up with, when there is something new they jump to the top of the list. When you click on the link, it’s marked as read and drops to the bottom until something new is detected.

    If you like the concept, reach out to me and maybe we can actually build it!

    Note: There used to be something similar to this called Rososo, also Fraidycat is close, but I want something even simpler.

    23 June 2020
  • Color Craft & Counterpoint: A Designer’s Life with Color Vision Deficiency is a detailed article about the life of a color blind person. I’m also color blind (red/green) and the block below about traffic lights spoke to me. I have problems when lights are blinking red or yellow late at night.

    Think for a moment about ways that color is used to convey information in the world around you. One thing that comes to my mind would be traffic lights. Color is used to let drivers know how they should proceed. No additional information is provided in case a driver is color blind. Traffic lights also use two of the colors most commonly associated with color blindness: red and green. Thankfully, most traffic lights have a common form factor. The top light is red, the middle light is yellow, and the bottom light is green. Even if I couldn’t tell the color, as long as I can tell which light is lit, then I’m able to get the necessary information.
    @alistapart https://alistapart.com/article/a-designers-life-with-color-vision-deficiency/
    19 June 2020
  • Color Copy Paste is a pretty amazing app.

    19 June 2020
  • Small Seasons is a nice little website listing nature’s micro seasons. We are currently in the seeds and cereals. “Praying mantises hatch, fireflies come out. Time to seed the soil.” I saw my first fireflies of the summer on my walk last night.

    19 June 2020
  • Kicks Condor on blogging “But it’s still worth attempting - like any creative project that might flower into something. That might actually make life worth living.”

    19 June 2020
  • One of the Most Striking Photos of the Mount St. Helens Eruption Was Also One of Its Biggest Mysteries wweek.com

    18 June 2020
  • In the interest of trying to learn #Figma I started recreating those Lego Computer #UIs that made the rounds recently. If you’d like to have a go at it, here is the link.

    16 June 2020
  • From the other side of the bridge interconnected.org

    12 June 2020
  • Walkcar is a car you can carry around like a laptop PC.

    12 June 2020
  • Collected Notes is another simple blogging platform.

    10 June 2020
  • Bear Blog is an extremely lightweight blogging tool.

    10 June 2020
  • Passive income for the soul “I now have several forms of passive income: writing, drawing, cooking, exercising, photography. Doing any of these things pays immediate dividends into my mind vault …”

    19 May 2020
  • Time for a Walk #walkdaily

    15 May 2020
  • Ships from Carnival, Celebrity, and Royal Caribbean now form a strange new archipelago a network of ships “spread out loosely in three groups spanning some 30 miles” west from the Bahamas

    14 May 2020
  • Vertical tabs in Firefox

    14 May 2020
  • Tab groups in Chrome

    14 May 2020
  • Quarantine Goals

    14 May 2020
  • A list of good things

    14 May 2020
  • A crowd sourced reading list of foundational internet writing /via Laura Olin

    14 May 2020

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