Bookmarks
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Longform to sink your teeth into. More in the microblog.
- Guide on how to make your website printable with CSS
- If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying
- Why I Write (and Care) About the Internet, and What So Many People Get Wrong
- Improve the RSS experience of your blog readers - I enjoy offering RSS feeds and advice on how to improve the experience is very much welcomed!
- The Fediverse Beyond Mastodon mini-series - A four part exploration of the Fediverse beyond Mastodon covering activities from blogging, multimedia sharing, communities, to music listening.
- Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH - learn about the technofascist reality we live in!
- Thoughts on Digital Third Spaces
- Gen-Z love dumb phones, the analog, e-ink screens, slow living, community, and longform work.
- CHILDHOOD: Hypercapitalist Nostalgia & Unsupervised Internet Access
- 10 Ways to Write Like the 90’s
- How to Rewild Your Writing Practice
- A Beginner's Guide to the IndieWeb for Writers Who Don't Code (But Maybe Want to a Little)
- The Internet Needs More Cross-Pollinators
- Being Taken Seriously as a Writer
- The 1% Rule: An Open Letter to Everyone Who Doesn't Post Anything Online
- Dreamwidth and Yearning for Humanity on the Web - "Journals are where you work things out before you know what you think."
- 100 things you can do on your personal website
- Joyful web design
- A Bridge to Somewhere: How to Link Your Mastodon, Bluesky, or Other Federated Accounts is a neat little practical guide from the people at EFF.
- emoji.lbgt is a collection of LBGT+ themed emojis.
Tools
Web Development
- Robert Birming's Bear Blog library - collections of themes and code snippets to spice up blogs and websites hosted at bearblog.dev.
- Can I Use? - checks for compatibility of a range of features across browsers and their respective versions.
- Normalize.css "makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards. It precisely targets only the styles that need normalizing."
- Minireset.css is "tiny modern CSS reset."
- Default Browser Styles is webpage to search for the default style browser render elements.
- Auto Prefixer is a "plugin to parse CSS and add vendor prefixes to CSS rules using values from Can I Use."
- Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the user’s browser.
- Fastly Polyfill is a tool to add polyfills.
- Start Test for Web Accessibility
- Blacklight an online tool designed by The Markup to reveal a site's tracking technology.
- Website Carbon evaluates the carbon footprint of a webpage.
Fun
Websites to check out instead of doomscrolling.
- Pride Badges API
- Internet Bumper Stickers
- Omnichord - making music has never been easier.
- World Wide Shen - a digital garden.
- Polyducks
- sakura petals - a digital garden.
- brennan.click - digital garden
- Brennan.day - I can't get over how pretty and minimal it is. The rainbow highlight are so pleasing to the eye and the orange hues feels like a hug. I like this site so so much.
- about the dinosaur on the bench
- Dinosaur Collection
- The Key
- LIMINAL SPACES
Directories and Aggregators
- Maggie Appleton's Digital Garden Directory
- ¡Blog!¡Blog! Directorio de blogs en español
- powRSS - an RSS feed aggregator.
- surf.social - a feed aggregator from various social media platforms into a single feed both by orgs and individuals.
Communities
Events
Neighbors
Campaigns
