Follow any web feed from Mastodon
Just mention @birb in a post to Mastodon with a link, and RSS Parrot will search the site for any kind of feed, convert that feed to an RSS output, and then launch a Mastodon account that […]
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Optimise Lightroom by rebuilding previews
A step-by-step guide to forcing Lightroom to rebuild preview files. This can help reduce the overall size of the Previews folder/database, which often retains outdated previews for files you've […]
We're still not innovating with AI-generated UI
With the recent announcement of an AI-UI tool from the folks at Vercel, there's been a lot of discussion about claims around "production-ready code" that is actually riddled with bugs, lacks […]
Libre Wolf
An open-source fork of the Firefox web browsers, with a strong(er) focus on privacy and security. Basically disables all telemetry and most of the slightly questionable decisions that Mozilla have […]
A Twitter Escape Hatch
Want to read Tweets from people you follow, without using Twitter? Readwise has a tool for that.
Rethinking categorisation
I always enjoy hearing others' thoughts on taxonomies, and Lea's ideas are well thought through and come with some interesting challenges (and findings) around using hackable URLs, folksonomies, and […]
Browsing with assistive tech
A fantastic series of short, introductory videos put together by the folks over at Tetralogical. Each one provides an insight into how assistive technologies and alternative browsing methods […]
The origin of the lady code troll
I've followed Jenn for some time, but somehow missed this absolutely perfect talk they gave in 2016 at XOXO Conf. The humour is fantastic; the overview of the satire Jenn has put out is super […]
Home invasion
Like many other folk, I've been dipping my toes back into the Fediverse and checking out Mastodon. It isn't my first rodeo in this particular ring, but somehow it does feel a little different this […]
Upgrade npm on Windows easily
A very useful package for getting around the otherwise convoluted steps needed to upgrade npm on Windows. Just open up a PowerShell instance as Admin and use the following three commands (and only […]
Windows search for unwanted Amazon uploads
Just to save time in the future, this search string for Windows Explorer can be used on the root Amazon Drive folder to find all non-image […]
The internet that took over the Internet
I largely agree with Peter's take on the loss of the slow, dusty web (and I mean that with the greatest admiration 😁). What I particularly enjoyed was the following dissection of the […]
The New Shadow
I had no idea that Tolkien ever considered a sequel to The Lord of the Rings, let alone one that had multiple revisions by the time of his death. This video into that potential book, with a […]
Tufte CSS
I know very little about Edward Tufte, but they clearly have quite the following in the design/typography space. Tufte CSS is a project aiming to emulate various tenets that Tufte used to […]
CEDARS+
CEDARS+ is a new font categorisation system by the folks over at ilovetypography. Rather than trying to define fonts by fairly abstract categories like neogothic […]
Go Fest 2021
Following on from the success of last year's pandemic event (and the follow-up at Christmas) it looks like Go Fest will likely be an annual, worldwide, ticketed event 🎉 Honestly, whilst […]
Wipe Git history from a repository
A short guide to removing Git history entirely. Particularly useful when you're forking an existing project as a base for something […]
Layout love and drumming
A follow-up to Andy's previous explanation of his compound grid layout in which they explain their logic behind a 4 + 5 compound grid a bit more. It's neat, but this description is what really caught […]