Building on the idea of an IndieWeb zine - Benjamin Parry
Speaking of zines, I really like Benjamin’s ideas about a web-first indie web zine: using print stylesheets with personal websites to make something tangible but webby.
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MULTIPAGE VERSION
Wilto has made a zine where each issue is dedicated to HTML elements:
I like HTML, and I wanted to do something with a little texture to it.
The first issue is about heading elements.
Dao Day 2024 – a regression in the making | Clagnut by Richard Rutter
The arc of the web is long and bends towards flexibility.
Design Systems Database: Surf among top‑notch Design Systems
A collection of collections, this is a directory of design systems, with the handy option to browse by component type. The blueprints section is still a bit thin on the ground, but likes the most useful bit—an in-depth dissection of individual compenent types.
Learn Privacy
Stuart has written this fantastic concise practical guide to privacy for developers and designers. A must-read!
Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought - Bitestring’s Blog
How browser fingerprinting works and what you can do about it (if you use Firefox).
print-color-adjust - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
I love print stylesheets but I was today years old when I found out that print-color-adjust exists.
COLOR anything | colouring pages of absolutely anything for kids or grown ups
This is a genuinely lovely use of machine learning models: provide a prompt for an illustration to print out and colour in.
Mike explains his motivation for building this:
My son’s super into colouring at the moment and I’ve been struggling to find new stuff for him.
Chrome 108 beta - Chrome Developers
I think this might be the most excited I’ve been in quite some time about an update to browser support, which probably says a lot about my priorities:
Support for the
avoidvalue of the CSS fragmentation propertiesbreak-before,break-after, andbreak-insidewhen printing.
Finally!
Highlights | Catalogue | Sainsbury Archive
There are some tasty designs in this archive from Sainbury’s.
Fandom Relics and the Enthusiastic Past - Long Now
Not much stays in one place for one long, especially when it comes to digital artifacts. When the Yahoo Groups archive was summarily deleted by parent company Verizon just a few years ago, fandom suffered massive losses, just as it had during the Livejournal purges of the late 02000s, and during the Tumblr porn ban in 02018. Fandom preservation, then, ties into the larger issue of digital preservation as a whole, and specifically the question of how individual and group emotions and experiences — which make up so much of what it means to be a fan — can be effectively documented, annotated, and saved.
supercookie • workwise
Favicons are snitches.
archives.design
All of these graphic design books, magazines, and type specimens are available for perusal on the Internet Archive.
Print To CSS by Dan Davies
A series of really nice CSS grid demos based on two-page magazine spreads.
Jon Aizlewood · Agile and design — How to avoid Frankensteining your product
Jon’s ranting about Agile here, but it could equally apply to design systems:
Agile and design is like looking at a picture through a keyhole. By slicing big things into smaller things, designers must work incrementally. Its this incrementalism that can lead to what I call the ‘Frankensteining’ of a digital product or service.
Type in the digital era is a mess
Marcin explains why line height works differently in print and the web. Along the way, he hits upon this key insight about CSS:
Web also took away some of the control from typesetters. What in the print era were absolute rules, now became suggestions.
Remember that every line of CSS you write is a suggestion to the browser.
Accessibility Events | CSS-Tricks
If you’re using Apple’s VoiceOver, both your phone and your computer will broadcast your assumed disability to the entire internet, unless and until you specifically tell it to stop.
Apple’s new feature a step towards digital apartheid - Axess Lab
I also discussed this accessibility events feature with my friend who is a screen reader user herself. She said it feels like it’s a first step towards a well-meant digital apartheid.
Great Leap Years - Official site of Stephen Fry
I just binge-listened to the six episodes of the first season of this podcast from Stephen Fry—it’s excellent!
It covers the history of communication from the emergence of language to the modern day. At first I was worried that it was going to rehash some of the more questionable ideas in the risible Sapiens, but it turned out to be far more like James Gleick’s The Information or Tom Standage’s The Victorian Internet (two of my favourite books on the history of technology).
There’s no annoying sponsorship interruptions and the whole series feels more like an audiobook than a podcast—an audiobook researched, written and read by Stephen Fry!
So We Got Tracked Anyway
Even using a strict cookie policy won’t help when Facebook and Google are using TLS to fingerprint users. Time to get more paranoid:
HTTPS session identifiers can be disabled in Mozilla products manually by setting ‘security.ssl.disablesessionidentifiers’ in about:config.