Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Best Websites To Get HTML/CSS Templates
ClientManager Review: Onboarding and Client Management In One Place
TIL: you need to escape the </script> in a string in an inline script in HTML
Bookmarks I saved in 2023 and beyond
Let's get these out of the way!
Bookmarks related to tech and web development
- Shawna, a Set Maker by olia.
- Letting Eleventy Schedule Its Own Builds by Luke Morrigan.
- Using Trello as a Super Simple CMS by Phil Hawksworth.
- Sometimes the job is an assembly line by Dave Rupert.
- Hands‐on guides to assitive technology and accessibility testing by Adam Liptrot.
- Style your RSS feed by Darek Kay.
- WIP: Block links / Cards by Manuel Matuzović.
- Hacker News Blogroll.
- Re-creating a Japanese Fireworks Catalog from 1883 in CSS by Mads Stoumann.
- So, you don't like a web platform proposal by Yoav Weiss.
- Tucked corners by Ana Tudor.
- Take this aria-label quiz by A11y is Everything.
- The ideal viewport doesn’t exist by Andy Bell.
- Scrolljacking 101 by Sara Ramaswamy.
- Sunday Sites.
- Creating custom easing effects in CSS animations using the linear() function by Michelle Barker.
- I Used a Game Boy Camera for FaceTime Video Calls in iPadOS 17 and It Was Glorious By Federico Viticci.
- Fixing Search by Robin Berjon.
- Windows 95 by Gabrielle Wee.
- AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born by James Vincent.
- Why thousands of young Chinese people use a pink dinosaur as their alias by Caiwei Chen.
- Being an imperfect gardener of my digital garden by Elizabeth Tai.
- LearnWithJason: CSS-Only Scroll-Driven Animations by Bramus Van Damme.
- Eleventy Notes by Sandro Roth.
- Design Ethically by Katherine M. Zhou.
- Coworking With a Friend to Write More by Jacob Kaplan-Moss.
- Scribe.
- Scroll-Driven State Transfer by Roman Komarov.
- On Social Media, Lurkers, Introverts, and Blogging by Roy Tang.
- Blinded By the Light DOM by Eric A. Meyer.
- Plucky: a standing wave underline by Noah Liebman.
- Why side projects are essential for creatives—and employers should embrace them by Jonas Downey.
- First-Gen Social Media Users Have Nowhere to Go by Jason Parham.
- What happened to blogging for the hell of it? by Whiona.
- Never Use “Scroll” Value for Overflow by Roma Komarov.
- Lost in Translation: Tips for Multilingual Web Accessibility by Ben Myers.
- Don't Use Fixed CSS height or width on Buttons, Links, or Any Other Text Containers by Ashlee M Boyer.
- Pixel Art Studio by Michelle Barker.
- Using 11ty to bring back tag clouds by Ginger.
- Weekly Bookmarks 5: CSS and Web Components by Roma Komarov.
- share-button Web Component by David Darnes.
- Of Time And The Web by Jeremy Keith.
- DIMPACT – measuring emissions from media and digital entertainment by Ellen Davies.
- Engineering progression for humans by Sophie Koonin.
- Infinite Scrolling: When to Use It, When to Avoid It by Tim Neusesser.
- HTML with Superpowers by Dave Rupert.
- Adding a git based changelog in 11ty by James Doc.
- Tales from a solo dev by Tommy Palmer.
- Highlight Text When a User Scrolls Down to That Piece of Text by Chris Coyier.
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Other bookmarks
- We are COVID’s collateral damage. And we are legion. by Amy Bailey, PhD.
- Energy makes time by Mandy Brown.
- Some tactics for writing in public by Julia Evans.
- The Nine Men Of Madeley.
- Humpty Dumpty Print.
- Purrli.
- British police testing women for abortion drugs by Phoebe Davis.
- I Bet I Can Speak Spanish
More than blogrolls
The latest edition of Matthias Ott's Own Your Web (which I recommend subscribing to!) points out that there are a lot of blogs out there, but they can be hard to discover. As a vessel to help others discover blogs, Matthias recommends curating a blogroll.
Blogrolls are great. I have one too! But I don't think they're enough. The visibility of a blogroll is limited to people that visit your blog and are curious enough to poke around. The content of a blogroll is limited to blogs you consistently follow, but individual posts are worth sharing too.
Lots of blogs do this: Chris Coyier occasionally shares links his thoughts intertwined, Freek's blog is a mix of original articles and links, and I've come across a lot of unexpectedly interesting articles through larger blogs like Daring Fireball or Kottke. Some have a separate RSS feed for sharing content, like Jim Nielsen's notes.
In the same edition of Own Your Web, Matthias shared a link to an article titled Curation is the last best hope of intelligent discourse . Joan Westenberg argues that with the rise of AI and algorithms, human curation is more important than ever.
Human curators can distinguish between nuanced arguments, recognise cultural subtleties, and evaluate the credibility of sources in ways that algorithms cannot. This human touch is essential for maintaining the integrity of our information ecosystem. It serves not only as a filter for quality but also as a signal for meaningful and trustworthy content amidst the overwhelming noise generated by AI systems.
Aside from its importance, an algorithm is not going to surprise you. I could listen to Spotify's Discover Weekly recommendations all day, but my taste wouldn't widen.
So, go forth and multiply content! Share what you find interesting, start a conversation, surprise your readers, and let the small web flourish!