Links of interest
Because Brave doesn’t reliably sync my bookmarks and search engines are less useful by the day
#Blogs & Personal Sites
#Lists of sites
#Web (technologies, design & development)
- taylor.town
- Rachel Andrew, Google technical writer
- Mark Boulton, product designer
- Aleksandr Hovhannisyan (note his article on font fallbacks without layout shift)
- rsapkf
#*nix
#Retro Computing
#Funny
#Cool Websites
(websites whose primary characteristic is that they are visually, audibly, or mechanically interesting)
- Windows 93
- CoolModFiles and chiptune3.js demo
- Aiza Labs compare your salary with athletes or play with teams notifications
#Sharing 🏴☠️🦜
- 📚 Anna’s Archive seems to have most every ebook and PDF
- 🔗 awesome-piracy
- 🔗 reddit megathread
- 🔗 /u/nbatman’s wiki
#Software Development
- The Grug Brained Developer, a layman’s guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained
- Command-Line Interface Guidelines
#IT Infrastructure
#VPS & Hosting
- LowEndBox has a bunch of promotions for cheap VPS, dedicated, and shared web hosting
#Typography
#Sans-serif Typefaces
- Alegraya Sans feels a bit older and more hand-etched than most sans-serifs
- Marcellus, a Trajan-esque title font with lowercase that feels a bit like Optima
- Averia Sans, the averages of every sans-serif on Dan Sayer’s computer
- National Park looks like router-cut signs with perfectly rounded ends
- Rubik has rounded ends that feel more squircle than circle
- Wolf Sans bears a striking resemblance to the legends on the IBM Model M keyboard
- Nunito is a nicely balanced rounded sans-serif as is its derivative SN Pro
- Nunito Sans lacks the aforementioned rounding
- Red Hat Display and Text are lovely readable sans-serifs used on this very site
- Inter is variable and pleasant, if a bit vanilla. Helvetica-esque
- Open Sauce (demo) is another Helvetica-esque with distinctive inktraps
- Metropolis (used for Mozilla Firefox titling) and VMware’s version Clarity City are nice. The author seems to have gotten in some sort of spat with Jonathan Hoefler about its resemblance to Gotham
- IBM Plex Sans has a bit of personality. Corporate, computery, and very safely playful. On-brand.
#Serif Typefaces
- STIX Two Text is a true rarity: a Times-based font that I don’t find ugly. Designed for scientific journals, but looks nice most anywhere.
- Averia & Averia Serif are the averages of every font on Dan Sayers’ computer
- Vollkorn is beefy & homegrown, like a stew
- XCharter nicely extend’s Matthew Carter’s simple screen font, Charter
- Source Serif is in a very similar vein to Charter, but with more characters and weights. I love its distinctive ‘?’ glyph
#Monospace Typefaces
- Cascadia Code. Yeah, I know it’s M$ and it’s now a default font, but it’s pretty and readable.
#Tools
- Variable font helper to select, compress, and host variable fonts from Google fonts
#Themes
#Syntax highlighting
#AI Dreck 🤖
#Unsorted Items
- Sad Servers
- Zola & Tera docs
- BOFH API and the excuse generator using it
- Free for Developers - a list of tools & platforms with a free tier
#Meta Lists
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