Really lovely post from Craig Mod. “In memory of my friend.”

“It is with a heavy heart that I share that Enrique Allen passed away this week after a crushing battle with cancer.”

A faithful reproduction of the bitmap version of the Chicago typeface created by Susan Kare for Apple Computer in 1984.

This is one of the most detailed and thorough summaries of the WordPress drama I’ve read.

Fun article that explores the ways mystery and intrigue are used in Breath of the Wild and A Link to the Past.

“An open future for social networks.”

“OpenFreeMap lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free.”

The most in-depth blog post you can imagine on the bicycle, explaining in great detail how it works.

“The car-centric age of development is one long mistake.”

“A few days into making One Million Checkboxes I thought I’d been hacked. What was that doing in my database? A few hours later I was tearing up, proud of some brilliant teens.”

An upcoming headless browser that looks quite promising. It’s open source, so you can start using it now if you build it yourself. Otherwise, they’ll provide binaries once they feel they’ve reached beta.

Yet another browser, but this one is independent and not just a new UI layer on top of an existing engine.

A new type foundry from Jessica Walsh.

This looks like a really helpful tool for fighting health insurance, using AI to help you appeal denials, etc. “Make your health insurance company cry, too.”

This is a really fun way to learn the basics of CSS Grid with plenty of hands-on examples.

Utopia is an approach to web design that doesn't rely on breakpoints. Elements scale proportionally and fluidly.

Clearleft’s browser support policy is about features, not browsers, and I like it.

Jack Cheng explains the design and development process behind his new iOS app Bebop.

“The creative process is fabulously unpredictable. A great idea cannot be predicted”

Ethan Marcotte describes his approach for blocking AI bots.

This is an article on A List Apart that describes the holy grail as a web page that loads in two seconds or less. That is an unbelievably low bar and speaks to how bad things have gotten.

“In remembrance of the humblest newsletter service and its brief run nurturing great personal writing on the internet.”

“Italian graphic designer Emanuele Abrate has come up with a clever project titled Logofonts, in which he substitutes wordmarks of famous logos with the name of the fonts they use.”

Jeremy Keith updated his useful Lighthouse bookmarklet and expanded it to include the full PageSpeed Insights. Useful for assessing performance, accessibility, best practices, and SEO.

Access Ajax, CSS transitions, WebSockets, and server-sent events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext.

“HTML microframework that gives you the power to create modular web user interfaces with the familiar simplicity of plain HTML.”

“Any computer program can be designed to run from a single file if you architect it wrong enough!” This is a pretty great resource for learning how ActivityPub works.

This is the best email testing tool. Just send any email you need tested to the unique email address generated for you, and it will publish a comprehensive report. Very useful for making sure you have email authentication set up correctly.

This is great, and the dark mode is even better. (Seriously, try it out. It’s not just different colors.)

Stream free text-based movies in your terminal.

“In 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh, the world’s first truly user-friendly computer.”

“I don’t know where everyone went.”

“This is an exceptionally long post detailing pretty much everything I learned at an event shortly before Christmas at Meta’s offices in San Francisco.”

Great article from Cory Doctorow about all of the AI hype and what we can expect to be left when it dies down.

“Transform any old website with a list of links into an RSS Feed.”

“The Final-Final Test Badge Marathon is a gauntlet of the worst, trickiest Mario shit you can imagine.” I agree, and yet, I loved it. Possibly my favorite Mario level ever.

“This page collects all the familiar navigation patterns for structuring iOS apps, like drill-downs, modals, pyramids, sequences, and more!”

The texture healing concept from this “innovative superfamily of fonts for code” is pretty neat.

Just a really lovely story from Chris Glass about discovering a surprise his mom left him 20 years ago.

Good article about passkeys from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Passkeys are similar in spirit to the TOTP passcodes that various authenticator apps can generate, except they’re passwords rather than six-digit numbers.

Nice post by Cap Watkins on design management. “Trusting your team doesn’t have to mean not guiding your team.”

“The Web is a little bit darker today, a fair bit poorer: Molly Holzschlag is dead.”

“If we imagine better futures, there’s no guarantee they will happen. But if we don’t imagine them, it’s guaranteed they won’t.”

The US Justice Department perfectly captures the spirit of AMP by describing it as “an effort to push parts of the open web into a Google-controlled walled garden.”

“New mask studies relying on a medical paradigm do not erase decades of engineering and occupational science that show they work.”

The New York Times covers the lore and history of the Zelda series.

Illuminating post from Erin Kissane about Bluesky and Mastodon, with a focus on experience, culture, and vibe.

“The tech industry is abuzz about a new standard for social networking that is more open, more user-centric, and potentially more powerful than Twitter and Facebook.”

Video from Luke Wroblewski about metrics and why it’s so important to make sure you’re measuring the right things.

“Home Movie: The Princess Bride is an American comedy miniseries […] a ‘fan made’ recreation of the 1987 film The Princess Bride.”