Bookmarks
This is a place where I log interesting articles, bookmarks, typefaces and other miscellany.
Inspired by:
- Matt Baer’s Delete Your Facebook
- Luke Mitchell’s Bookmarks.
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14.09.22
Ashore – Work remotely in the UK
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14.09.22
Jeffsum – Ipsum in the style of Jeff Goldblum
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14.09.22
Take Care of Your Blog – Robin Rendle
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12.09.22
This House Does Not Exist
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05.09.22
Caninclude – HTML parent and child selector validation
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23.08.22
All Tech Is Human
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23.08.22
Andy Budd: Paying speakers is better for everyone
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23.08.22
Ben Evans: Ads, privacy and confusion
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23.08.22
Contract for the Web
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23.08.22
GOV.UK avoids telephone links
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23.08.22
LinkedIn Viral Post Generator
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23.08.22
Stop Killer Robots
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23.08.22
The Global Disinformation Index
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17.08.22
Shop Different – Apple Store Time Machine
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17.08.22
Facebook fails to detect election-related disinformation in ads in the run-up to the 2022 Brazilian election
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16.08.22
Color & Contrast
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15.08.22
Daring Fireball: Are business earnings through tracking ads legitimate?
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15.08.22
Daring Fireball: Is Apple’s ATT doing anything?
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13.08.22
Antipoda – Sans-serif with a retro feel
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13.08.22
Blurred
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13.08.22
Brickit – Lego ideas from photos of lego bricks
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13.08.22
Connary
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13.08.22
Felt – Maps made easy
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13.08.22
Minimal – Notes app
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13.08.22
Shroud.email – Hide email from spammers
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13.08.22
Sudtipos
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13.08.22
What Should I Read Next?
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13.08.22
Superrr Lab
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12.08.22
Logseq – privacy-first, open-source knowledge base
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12.08.22
CSS Speedrun – CSS test
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10.08.22
Facebook hands police DMs and other data to assist in abortion charges
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06.08.22
Blank image alt tags vs aria-hidden (and other useful assistive things)
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03.08.22
Meta sued for violating patient privacy with data tracking tool
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02.08.22
25 settings to change on Mac
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02.08.22
Spurious Correlations
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02.08.22
US cell carriers selling data
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29.07.22
Cookie Database
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29.07.22
Telepathy – Archive Telegram chats, list members and more
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28.07.22
Climate change deflection
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28.07.22
Dave Rupert on climate change
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28.07.22
Matthius Ott on climate change
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26.07.22
Desklamp – Notes for PDFs
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26.07.22
Gevme – The WordPress of virtual events
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26.07.22
GoJournal
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26.07.22
Faster WordPress in 3 lines
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22.07.22
Forget personalisation, it’s impossible and it doesn’t work – MarketingWeek
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21.07.22
Facebook tries to silence whistleblower Daniel Motaung
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20.07.22
Romie – Serif
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19.07.22
Aeonik Fono (Fauxnospace)
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19.07.22
Aeonik (Sans)
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19.07.22
CoType Foundry
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19.07.22
Listen Notes – Podcast search engine
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19.07.22
Squash – Mac image editor
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19.07.22
txti – fast, text-only websites
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18.07.22
Scrintal – Visual note-taking
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18.07.22
The Sound of Colleagues
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18.07.22
Clean Creatives
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17.07.22
Awesome Privacy
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17.07.22
Bob Hoffman – “I have nothing to hide”
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17.07.22
Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are Collecting Highly Sensitive Info on Would-Be Patients – The Markup
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06.07.22
Defensive CSS
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05.07.22
Considerations for building multi-lingual sites
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04.07.22
Context Center
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01.07.22
How to hard-lock an iPhone
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27.06.22
Positive News
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22.06.22
Content Security Policy Cheatsheet
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22.06.22
Stacket – automatically convert Webflow projects
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22.06.22
W3C definition of tracking
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21.06.22
earth.fm – but for natural soundscapes
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21.06.22
Hey Patterns – product design patterns in the wild
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21.06.22
How websites die
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21.06.22
How to target specific email clients and platforms
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20.06.22
HackMD – real-time collaboration in Markdown
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20.06.22
No-Signup Tools – apps that don’t need an account
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20.06.22
Cory Doctorow on unfair contract clauses
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18.06.22
Quick accessibility tests anyone can do
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17.06.22
What a website is, why you should have one and why the web should be diverse
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17.06.22
Latinotype
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17.06.22
Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites
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17.06.22
Pop-ups are dead, long live pop-ups: or, the bait-and-switch hidden in today’s cookie announcement
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15.06.22
Statify – WordPress analytics without cookies
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15.06.22
Greenlight – feedback on any website
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15.06.22
Maccy – open source copy and paste for Mac
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14.06.22
Heather Burns on the UK government’s approach to privacy
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14.06.22
Modalz Modalz Modalz
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14.06.22
Min Browser
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12.06.22
Kagi Browser
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12.06.22
Kagi Search
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11.06.22
Internet “influencers” and “creators” [Robin Sloan]
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10.06.22
The Better Email
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09.06.22
ReadQuick
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07.06.22
Magnet: workspace/desktop organiser for macOS
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07.06.22
Rectangle: free and open source window resizer for macOS
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05.06.22
Ad-blockers used by 42.7% of internet users
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05.06.22
3/4 iOS users opt-out of in-app tracking (2022)
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05.06.22
Ad fraud in 2022 estimated to be $120bn
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03.06.22
Firefox Translation Extension (local)
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02.06.22
How much does this meeting cost?
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01.06.22
Conference Code of Conduct
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01.06.22
WCAG 2.1 Guide
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31.05.22
Convert Chrome + Firefox tabs to eBooks
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31.05.22
Deceptive Design (previously Dark Patterns)
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31.05.22
Web Accessibility Overlay Factsheet
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31.05.22
Website overlays are bad for privacy
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30.05.22
Twitter fined $150m for selling data collected for 2FA
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24.05.22
Apris (Serif)
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24.05.22
Ethical Design Resources
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24.05.22
Install PHP on macOS Monterey
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24.05.22
PHP Monitor: Switch PHP versions locally
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22.05.22
Previewed - mockup generator
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21.05.22
Dala Floda (Serif)
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21.05.22
Gza (Serif)
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21.05.22
Out of the Dark
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19.05.22
Beausite Classic
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19.05.22
Biotif
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19.05.22
Are my third-parties green?
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18.05.22
Cal.com – self-hosted and SaaS calendar
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18.05.22
OneTab – collapse all tabs to a single exportable list
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18.05.22
Click – browser-based game on online profiling
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18.05.22
Some top 100,000 websites collect everything you type—before you hit submit
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16.05.22
Categorising music in seasons
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16.05.22
Monitor test / dead pixels
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16.05.22
RSS Best Practices
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16.05.22
Unlike most adtech, Facebook knows your name
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14.05.22
Macklin (Sans/Serif [Text]/Slab)
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12.05.22
Molly White on the lesser-talked-about problems of Web3 [Harvard Business Review]
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12.05.22
WordPress’ market share is shrinking
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11.05.22
An introduction to Variable Fonts [Figma]
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11.05.22
iOS App Store ads have a higher conversion rate when personalised ads are turned off
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10.05.22
Terms of Service; Didn’t Read
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07.05.22
Waypoint NDA
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05.05.22
No Hello
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04.05.22
MailerSend transactional email
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04.05.22
Clockify time tracking
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04.05.22
htaccess to nginx converter
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03.05.22
Robin Sloan on Twitter
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02.05.22
Apple Store Inventory Checker
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02.05.22
Curated OpenGraph Inspiration
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02.05.22
Facebook pulls the plug on podcasts after on a year
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30.04.22
Bitwarden offers unique usernames
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30.04.22
Idle devices don’t save as much energy as companies claim they do
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29.04.22
Copy and paste spaces
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29.04.22
GIFs + prefers-reduced-motion CSS trick
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29.04.22
38% of people say surveillance ads make them feel “creeped out”
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29.04.22
79% of users prefer contextual ads to surveillance-based tracking ads
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29.04.22
Killing surveillance with contextual ads (Cory Doctorow)
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28.04.22
Contra Chrome: Cartoon explainer of how Google tracks Chrome users
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28.04.22
Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document
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28.04.22
Matt Stoller on the Amazon Prime Scam
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28.04.22
Logo Package Express Extension
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27.04.22
BeReal: random everyday prompts to share a photo with friends
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27.04.22
Bull-5 – Typewriter, regular and monospace font
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27.04.22
Hints – self-organised notes, links, screenshots, tasks, files, reminders and voice memos
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27.04.22
TheFutureParty – business, entertainment and pop culture
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27.04.22
Tweaks for Twitter – browser extension
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25.04.22
What is GitHub? Explainer video
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19.04.22
+Jakarta Sans
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19.04.22
N27 – sans-serif sharp cut typeface
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18.04.22
Familjen Grotesk
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18.04.22
Lowercarbon Capital – backing for companies that slash carbon emissions
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18.04.22
Proxima Sera
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16.04.22
The Next Web: Muting your mic reportedly doesn’t stop big tech from recording your audio
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15.04.22
System Font Stack – making the most of pre-installed fonts
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14.04.22
OMGF – Host Google Fonts locally on WordPress
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14.04.22
macy.js – lightweight, dependency-free masonry layout
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14.04.22
Learn Regex
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11.04.22
How to pronounce GIF (spoiler: soft g)
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10.04.22
Making RSS feeds autodiscoverable
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09.04.22
TextSniper – Grab text from anything on the screen
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06.04.22
Why Tim Berners-Lee can’t answer your question in person
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02.04.22
Luna Display – Turn 5k iMacs into displays
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30.03.22
Lobby group backed by Amazon and Google claims thousands of members. Many have never heard of it.
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28.03.22
MaskerAid – Intelligent emojis for photos
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22.03.22
NoTunes – Stop Apple Music/iTunes launcing automatically
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20.03.22
Schick Toikka
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20.03.22
Swiss Typefaces
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14.03.22
Tent community building software
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13.03.22
SpyBuster anti-spyware
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08.03.22
Digital Cleanup Day
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06.03.22
WPO Stats Case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization on UX and business metrics
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02.03.22
Smithsonian Open Access: images to use
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23.02.22
What happened when Facebook encouraged businesses to focus on video content
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22.02.22
Your Undivided Attention – Humane Tech Podcast
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21.02.22
Carbolytics – carbon impact of tracking
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21.02.22
Quad9 – Recursive DNS resolver
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21.02.22
Quad9 set up instructions
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21.02.22
Quad9 Test
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21.02.22
TT Firs Neue
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21.02.22
TT Ramillas
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21.02.22
TypeType
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16.02.22
Accessible Palette
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15.02.22
Azeret SemiMono (Fauxnospaced)
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15.02.22
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
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10.02.22
Responsive Email Templates
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10.02.22
David Rosenthal’s Thoughts on Crypto + Web3
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07.02.22
Enabling tabbing in Firefox
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06.02.22
Fontshare
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03.02.22
Anderson Grotesk
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03.02.22
Breite
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03.02.22
Clear Sans
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03.02.22
Dapifer
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03.02.22
Hauora Sans
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03.02.22
Spectral (sans)
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03.02.22
UNCUT.wtf
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03.02.22
FreeAgent invoice template
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01.02.22
AirBuddy
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31.01.22
The problem with web3/NFTs/crypto [video]
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30.01.22
German court rules cloud-hosted Google Fonts are illegal
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23.01.22
Crypto doesn’t just have an energy problem, it produces tremendous amounts of e-waste, too
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17.01.22
Calm Calendar – private diary
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17.01.22
Polling shows small businesses aren’t happy with Facebook and Instagram’s business model
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07.01.22
France fines Google ($169m) and Facebook ($67m) for making it too hard to reject cookies
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06.01.22
100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying – Guardian
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05.01.22
What Happened When This Online Business Owner Quit Social Media? – Cal Newport
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05.01.22
The Modern Milkman
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01.01.22
Rand Fishkin on alternatives to paid ads
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01.01.22
Lying is essential for privacy – Terence Eden
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01.01.22
TrueCall – 0333 88 88 88 88 privacy phone number
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01.01.22
Anil Dash’s (Annual) Digital Reset