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He's an independent type designer. His site shows properly fleshed out respectable-looking typefaces for respectable-typography costs, but the Font Of The Month Club is the real joy. Whether you're looking for Victorian flavor, elegant text typefaces, design-forward display options, or the latest font feature noodling around (color fonts! color fonts!) there's a fine assortment here to be worth looking through. The Mini license costs are really nice as a reasonable impulse buy for the font-oriented and not too shocking a figure for the non-font-oriented.

I'm not at all a proper Font User -- my website's main typeface is a true abomination I keep only because an SVG filter to replicate the effect sounds hard to get right -- but I love imagining print projects that would merit Polliwog or Klooster Thin.

I like the monoalphabetic cipher with a ciphertext used to determine symbol correspondence, seems about as complicated as I'd ever want to write out by hand. Anyone have a cipher they prefer for doing by hand?

Gosh I love resources like this! It's so neat that people are sharing resources that make tech more accessible to folks with less technical experience. I have a layout I need to finish up and offer publicly to help people use HTML and CSS to lay out half-page zines... but I gotta make something with it myself first to prove it's useful.

The whole site is worth checking out, but I think it'd be easy to miss stuff like this that's a page within a topic shrine. And you shouldn't! I'm someone who spends time every year looking for Halloween music, and there is still a good helping here of stuff that's new to me.

From the about page:

FEMICOM Museum is a physical and digital museum and archive dedicated to the preservation and reimagination of femme aesthetics and girlhood within twentieth-century video games, computing, and electronic toys.

There is so much energy in these photos! Is it just millennial nostalgia that makes me so jazzed about them?

Is there a name for this kind of thing? "GIF painting" captures something about how the GIFs are being layered and composited differently from ye olde Geocities, but maybe it should be "collage" to capture the aspects of reuse.

Anyway, it's a genre that's taking off on Multiverse and on mmm.page and I find it really interesting. Please feel free to comment with any you've come across and liked; the more artistic hubris evident, the better.

Did anyone else spend a lot of time listening to MIDIs back in the day? Past their proper heyday we still hadn't had internet fast enough to do much in the way of MP3s, so this is a very nostalgic sound for me.

A nice pairing for this link is MIDIjs, which is now necessary to get a MIDI going on a webpage. H/t Castle Cyberskull on that.

This piece from 1982 is long and interesting and covers a lot of ground, but that's the bit that particularly tickles my fancy. Can you imagine?

I don't know if you're used to ordering stuff internationally from AliExpress or similar, but it's very normal for tracking information to dump a package into a void for about a month until the thing shows up at your door. This site actually connects the Chinese shipper's tracking information with the domestic shipper's tracking information and adds estimates on top of the shipper's info. Handy!

All is in flux.

All is uncertainty.

I recognize that at the decrepitude of 27 years of age, I am past the height of cool.

The world will shift, and I will jog to meet it or be left behind.

But if there is any mercy in you, Gen Z -- flared, bootcut, straight legged, pegged, wide legged, pleated mercy -- please do not bring back low waist jeans.

They looked awful on those of us who weren't thin even when we were young.

I will not return to that suffering. Please do not inflict it on each other.

Software shapes the feel of a social space. Just think of everyone who's so into Gemini -- or on the other side, how Reddit feels a bit unclean... anyway, this software may have been inspired by chan boards, but in the incarnation of it I know, it has a wonderful vibe. I just found out it's not some old thing repurposed, but an open source project under (newly active) development.

The internet is clever, but it’s not always smart. It’s personalized, but not personal. It lures you in with a timeline, then fucks with your concept of time. It doesn’t know or care whether you actually had a miscarriage, got married, moved out, or bought the sneakers. It takes those sneakers and runs with whatever signals you’ve given it, and good luck catching up.

We would never accept this kind of targeting from humans. If you offer someone a drink, they say "No thanks I'm sober", and you then keep shoving it in their face -- that is terrible of you.

We accept the equivalent as a neutral fact of Internet ads. Why?