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Random simulations
oimo.ioFavourite being Water 3D.
The internet is unusable now
newstatesman.comPop-ups, farmed content and sponsored posts have ruined a web that once told us whatever we needed to know.
Linked for the content, and the irony of the article being behind a cookie popup and paywall. Maybe read it here instead.
CSS Pattern
css-pattern.comFancy backgrounds with CSS gradients
The Old Net
theoldnet.comBrowse the old World Wide Web. Good for old devices with ancient browsers.
Random Web 1.0 website
wiby.meEvery time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
Juggling Lab GIF Server
jugglinglab.orgWordPress Turns 20
ma.ttHow companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed
pudding.coolI wanted to explore the malicious, confusing, and deceitful things that occur after signing up for digital services, as well as how design can nudge us to forget about a free trial or accidentally sign up for things that we didn’t intend to.
Dark patterns are often most egregious with subscriptions and free trials, especially when attempting to cancel, so I focused on those.
The Internet Isn’t Meant To Be So Small
defector.comThough it makes me feel like a grandmother on her deathbed to admit it, I remember the days when the internet was vast, when there seemed to be more places to go than anyone could ever visit and infinite things to read. What you saw was not determined by some highly protected coded algorithm that lives somewhere in the cloud. You could just go out and find it.
Trainspotter
trains.jo-m.ch
I have a rail line right under my apartment, so I built a small computer vision app running on a Rasperry Pi which records each train passing, and tries to stitch an image of it.
More information about this project can be found here.
Knit Grotesk
knitgrotesk.com
Knit grotesk is the first type family made especially for hand knitting
Cool website too!
weird little aggregator shutdown
belong.ioNo posts today! Murdered by Elon.
One of the few aggregators I loved to use. Goodbye.
Can ActivityPub save the internet?
theverge.comThe 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. But we’ve been here before.
British gov’t aims to kill off Companies House’s Bobby Tables problem
thestack.technologyUnfortunately, the current Companies House name rules – while covering copy-cats and offensive language – do not cover attempts to poison data inputs.
This is a problem, because dozens of websites, databases and other processors pull in details from Companies House – and not all of them are good at sanitising their data inputs, which can be poisoned simply with a name.