Random Web Surfing
url.town is an indie web home grown URL directory of fun, interesting or useful websites. Spamming the random link link is a wonderful way to wile away a few hours and learn something along the way. I also enjoy Wikipedia’s…
Category Web
The Social Website — Update
This is a follow-up to my previous post, The Social Website. In that post, I challenged myself to turn this website into my “central social media hub”. Having thought about it a while, I suppose that can mean any combination…
The Social Website
What if personal websites could replace traditional social media networks as the primary vehicle for sharing content on the Internet?
Excalidraw is a simple but highly capable wireframe editor and drawing tool. It runs entirely in the browser and saves data to browser storage — no cloud service required. You can also save and load drawings to and from a local…
Great post calling out the growing apathy around government corruption. It matters. I care.
I was cruising around this lovely personal website — another pixel artist — and was curious what tool she uses to create her art. It’s https://www.piskelapp.com/ — a fun and free web-based alternative to Aseprite that can save files in browser storage.
Neocities provides a free website builder in the spirit of Geocities. I found that at pomelo.lol, which also led me to Aseprite.
How to Survive the Broligarchy by journalist Carole Cadwalladr succinctly captures a lot of what I’ve been thinking about since January.
Speak n Spell implemented in JavaScript — Bonus points if you can get it to say “butcher”.
I thoroughly enjoyed this BBC article on the medlar tree and its fruit’s curious past. This was a discovery from Pocket, which I found out today is unfortunately shutting down.