People and places that inspire me
Human curated, human crafted, humans on the web.
One thing I have recently been enjoying are the newsletters that some of these fine people send out. They are personal, informative, and just human. It’s a way to connect without a corporation acting as an arbiter. I have marked the newsletters I subscribe to with a 📩.
People
- Adel Faure - FLOSS text mode, pixel art, games, tools and music - Adel Faure. Prepare to have your mind blown.
- Aksui - Benjamin’s place on the Internet is like no other - a calm and thoughtful place
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Cassidy Williams - Memein’, dreamin’ keyboard schemein'
RSS New
- My rainbow sweater
- I got yet another digital typewriter: The BYOK
- A history of styling choices leading to native CSS
- Notes for my future self on how to set up a camera for streaming
- Making art with CSS gradients and corner-shape and skew, oh my
- Goodbye to an 11-year-old Issue
- How passkeys work
- I am making videos again!
- Improving my newsletter's open rate the hard(er) way
- Making interesting borders with CSS corner-shape
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Clemens Scott - A great example of a personal knowledge database
RSS
- Published ocular, a tiny static image gallery generator with rss support.
- Updated Happy Not Happy.
- Started a series of abstract paintings.
- Set up a workshop space in the basement.
- Made two oak wood swords for my son.
- Stavrochori, Crete.
- 7 Days of Naikan
- Made figurines with the kid from self-made clay.
- Les Magnans, Southern France.
- Hollenstein an der Ybbs.
- Dave Jacoby - When you need a dose of Perl
- Devine Lu Linvega - the other half of 100 Rabbits
- Elliott Cost - An amazing computer artist, designer, and programmer
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Everest Pipkin - I can spend a lot of time here. But please, Everest, the dates in your rss feed are killing me!
RSS
- 6/3/25 - In an era of slop / make aalittle thing out of clay
- 6/3/24 update - it has been a long year
- 6/4/23 update - wool, ducklings, many projects
- 2/16/23 update - lambs, work, the start of spring
- 12/31/22 update - a year end
- 11/28/22 update - barnacle goose experiment, real geese, books, winter
- 9/12/2022 update - world ending game, amaranth, sheep, lightning
- 7/10/2022 update - ravel, dogs, figs, bugs
- 6/20/2022 update - summer, wildfires, monsoon season, apricots, world ending game
- 5/3/2022 update - testing if RSS works edition
- Ian Fieggen - AKA Professor Shoelace. I first discovered Ian a couple of decades ago when I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong when tying my shoes.
- James Stanley - Well written and interesting stories (tag line from his website: The writing is bad and the stories are not very interesting.). Check out James’ projects 😮👏
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Mattie - A long time friend, with always inspiring and insightful thoughts about life, software, and games.
RSS New
- Security advisory: dye template injection
- Link Dump: Origins
- Dumping e-Reader cards
- I made a font, and a new version of 4-e
- 4-e 3.0: support for multiple GBFS "stacks", reworked user interface
- Friction is good, actually
- Weekend project: prepping for a 4-e demo
- Does that software really need to be built?
- Fix Fastmail sending on macOS Mail
- This is now an 11ty blog
- Nathan Hewitt - public musings.
- Rek Bell - half of 100 Rabbits. Sailing and creating.
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Sightless Scribbles - Robert Kingett is a fantastic author. I was first introduced with his article The Colonization of Confidence which is a must read.
RSS New
- The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner.
- library spotlight queer liberation library
- Grieving Alongside Water
- Dead Skyrim Fan Lives on Through Mod
- DIY Writers Retreat With a Travel Agent
- LOADING CARTRIDGE: THE_PURR_PARADOX.EXE
- Where Home is Not Safe
- The Braille Menu Conspiracy
- The Bookstore Hope
- The Ballot is a Doorstop, Not a Love Letter
- Vasilis van Gemert - he does love clocks, and I love his design and books.
- マリウス.com - A personal site with so many interesting things: from travel to photography to keyboards to code (and yes, the domain name is real and legit – learn about Punycode on the same site).
Projects or other sites
- 17776 Football - still working my way through this speculative fiction
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Branch Magazine - A Just and Sustainable Internet for All
RSS
- Compost Engineers and Sus Saberes Lentos: A Manifest for Regenerative Technologies
- Reimagining the Browser for a Green Web
- Designing Regenerative Technologies
- Designing a Grid-Aware Branch
- Letter from the editors
- The Cloud Is Not Above Us
- Sounds of the Grid
- AI, Climate, and the Global Majority: A Just Transition Toward COP30 and the People’s Summit
- Cosmology of Internet Infrastructure: Three Visions to Bridging the Digital Divide
- The Gardening Electricity Handbook
- diagram.website - I am caught up in this right now. A project by Elliott Cost
Articles
- Things you should never do Part I - when i need to remind myself not to throw away a project and start over