Links: weblog

Todd Vaziri illustrates how center framing is not new (in response to criticism of The Substance) and such a premise is balderdash.

New addition to the blogroll, for want of a better word. I subscribed to Jen's site immediately upon hearing of it and have been delighted with each new entry, like this one. I love visiting new (personal) homes on the internet.

Venkatram Harish Belvadi has among the finest personal websites I've seen. The typography. The quiet focus. That menu to navigate and set preferences (upper right). The photography sections. It's all so very lovely! This post provides some insight.

Wanna get good lost? "There is not one internet. There are many. The fun, poetic, homecooked internets are waiting for us." / via Naive Weekly

Cory Dransfeldt shared this link from Merlin Mann that holds up all these years later. Which sparked a comment that I have fond feelings whenever I see that folder.

Swiss Miss garnered a slew of replies on Threads when she asked folks to drop a link to their blog

Wandering around Lean Rada's website and finding so many delightful projects. I quite dig this halftone effect, but zoom out and explore all the other stuff, code, art, and music.

A guide to common pages you can add to your website. What I like about this list is that it mixes utility with a framework for blending perspective — prompts to capture and share notions. / via Trevor Morris

sizeof(cat) has collected a super list of personal website and blog directories. / via Tracy Durnell

This is a good place as any to enter the lovely and colorful digital garden that Rachel Smith tends. You won't be tracked, have to swat popups or worry about any nonsense. There are many places to wander from there. 💐

Inspired by NaBloPoMo, Anne Sturdivant organized a one-month blogging challenge starting today! Posts can be about anything, or a guiding topic to keep things on some track). I'll aspire to get caught up and post along. Here's the list of 2024 participants.

Tranquil and delight-filled, I love this personal site that contains much goodness in exploration.

A searchable collection of 6400+ personal websites’ about, ideas and now pages. Love the sample searches that inspire exploration and prompts to make more thorough web pages. / via Chuck Grimmett

Type in a Fediverse handle and this site will present a list of folks you follow and their respective RSS feeds. Lots of new paths to follow! / via Jeremy Keith

Jason Kottke updates the design of his site after a long spell and it's good. So much has been folded in neatly as he's added functionality over the recent years. My favorite part = the emoji tag links (right column end on desktop, footer in mobile)

Digging the six projects that MIT links in this piece about personal, whimsical and artistic web sites and explorations. Saving to savor after work!

Robin Mientjes has a new website and it is delightful.

Jeremy Keith serves up a handful of links to places with oodles more links, many new to me.. As Cassidy (another personal site also new to me) writes, "I miss human curation" — Sames. It's excellent to find new places to wander.

There’s something about this growing App Defaults list that feels special and I think Chris McLeod captures it, “Currently that’s over 200 people. It might sound silly, but I’ve not seen a list of active bloggers that long in years...”

Steady posting from her Ominmedia since 2007 in decidedly old school digs. I'd love to know the process behind it as her voice is present but she certainly can't be blogging!

It’s a bright spot on the internet.

Here’s a great place to dive into Scott Bom’s personal website that has the best buckets of navigation and a fresh coat of paint. Be sure to delve into Documenting for a stream of inspiration and type releases. (But all sections are filled with goodness)

Cabel has rebooted. There are snacks. 2023, the year of the blog???

A fantastic growing directory of personal blogs organized by Phil Gyford. / as seen all over the feeds

"Your own private domain is the most valuable thing you can own." It's certainly up there! / via Belong

Always looking for new music and super enjoying the singles and playlists of New Commute thanks to posts by Wolf Bomb

I'm working on a blogroll tag and porting folks over from RSS. First up is Seth. He blogs about running, the music business, metal, promoting yourself (or band) and bright colors.

Bobby Solomon had a great blog about creativity and culture that was a favorite destination for many years. It lives again today as a thoughtful and densely awesome newsletter.

There are a handful of websites I keep inside a favorites folder. I'm invariably delighted whenever I see new posts on Jason's site and why I gladly extend membership each year.

Kai Brach, founder of OffscreenMag, has been putting out this solid email newsletter (digital publication) since 2018. Every issue has something good.

Jon Hicks has been drawing his morning eggs on an iPad, and they're updated to his site with a series of steps he outlines in his journal. I am intrigued by processes that help capture ideas and store them online.

Since 2010 Colossal has been sharing work of visual artists around the world. Colorful, diverse and always inspiring.

Seth consistently writes about creativity, solving problems, considering technology, finding passion and executing on ideas. I'm often nodding vigorously at the end of every post.

Maker of CSS Tricks (formerly) and Codepen (now), but also blogger of human existence. I love his writing and varied topics, even when it is technical and above my head. He always brings it back down to a grok-able level.

Rob writes about the craft of technology, art, design, movies, music, the year that was, the future yet to be and he sometimes writes about air guitars.

A fun side site by Austin Kleon.

This mini-performance on Conan is so awesomely weird. / via Fimoculous

/ via MikeyBurton

This excerpt culled by adm on Fimoculous is a great entry to the entire piece.

I think the folks at Smashing Magazine must have the biggest monitors in the entire world.

It's nice to see the other side of FAIL get some love.

I thought I'd seen this site before, but I don't remember it being so darn pretty. The scans of sandwiches on a dark background works very well. (via 37s)

What happened to the baby teeth under your pillow (via Ze)

Established to help shed some light on many of the small influences that have converged to make the Where the Wild Things Are movie a reality.

Animals being all huggy and stuff. (via Feaverish)

The Optimist Conspectus is simply a survey of optimism; a series of answers to a deceptively-simple question: What are you optimistic about? (saw this on Twitter, can't backtrack the truncated URL)

and the new digs look lovely (with new views and awesome search)

Lovely typeface studio in Brooklyn. Visual goodness on the weblog, big thumbs up on the white gloves, content, presentation. Fun t-shirts there to boot. (via basement.org)

Amy up the street (if laws were different, we'd almost be related) started a 'blog about life, raising kids, saving money, and switching from bottled wine to boxed. I'm not only super-enjoying her perspective -- I'm learning stuff to boot.

A research blog that focuses on emerging networked musical explorations.

This came up in conversation last night, so I'm sharing as a reminder.

It's almost the end of February, and Naz almost did not release a new personal site or redesign. Rest assured, his new digs at NZRN are pretty like his entire body of work. All whipped together with this TextPattern I hear so many good things about.

Maker of exceptionally thoughtful design

Failure is the new LOLcat.Thanks Metafilter and Feaverish

Grace Dobush is able to spot Friz Quadrata (The Law & Order font) at 50 paces. It is her blessing and her curse. Via a monkey, who called it in

Stephanie and Mav live 3191 miles apart. They like to get up early. They also take photos, share them, pair them up, and share them again with us.

A refreshing twist on recounting the days. Best part (right after the drawings and writing) is the swear filter (via Drawn!)

a site for the collection and hopeful reunion of Pittsburgh's lost gloves (clever and very well done, via Tom)

Seen the bear image around. Love them all (via feaverish)

MT launches community solution. Watching screencast now.