A history of painting (with dinosaurs)
Ultimately, this is a book review, but it's a very good one that helps dissect the topic of where palaeoart fits in with the wider canon of art itself. It certainly gave me pause for thought on how […]
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Internet artifacts
The early Internet's greatest hits. From the hamster dance to Homestar Runner; the first webcam to the first online video. It's a real trip down memory lane for those of us who grew up on this […]
Visions of an alternate, slightly more habitable Mars
A remarkably complex and detailed spec-bio project, with a focus on an alternative history where early 20th century ideas about the ecosystems of Mars turned out to be much more accurate than in our […]
Restoring a Lost Firefox Session
Ever close Firefox or have a crash, restart it, and discover an entire window of tabs is missing? You can potentially resurrect that lost session state, if you act quickly enough.
A brief history of the digital garden
Maggie's writing is always fantastic, and their thoughts on digital gardens are always worth reading. The history here is nothing new to me personally, but does present it in an ideal manner. I also […]
The Fediverse is already dead
A wonderfully well-written look at the state of the "Fediverse", and whether or not that term has any value left in it. There's a lot of interesting history and some slightly spicy takes in here, but […]
Scrobbling stats
A great (and niche) website that lets you look up the history of any given Last.fm account. For example, here's my stats page: theAdhocracy's Last.fm stats. There are lots of great data […]
The South Georgia museum
The fact that there is a fully-staffed museum on South Georgia makes me so incredibly happy 😊 This is an island without any permanent inhabitants (unless you count the penguins), no hotels, no […]
White identity
What even is "whiteness". Is it skin colour? Not really. Genetics? Race precedes genetics or even evolution. A vague concept of "European" descent? What about Roma people, or (for a lot of history) […]
CSS regions: a history
I have a vague memory of CSS Regions being talked about, but had completely forgotten them. It turns out that's likely because the spec has effectively been pulled. I think it's technically still out […]
Reality behind pub names
Some interesting facts taken from an article by Louise Crane in Ferment […]
A dictionary of problematic terms
A community-led, open-source project attempting to define problematic language (in English) and suggest better replacement terms. Unfortunately, not all listed phrases or words have detailed […]
The variations of the commonplace book
An interesting overview of the history of note-taking, specifically as it relates to the concept of a commonplace book and the myriad related forms, including the most recent idea of a […]
Avian vector encyclopedia
The Avian Vector Encyclopedia (or AVE) is a beautiful and fascinating project at the juncture of graphic design, art, and natural history. Scott is attempting to illustrate every species of […]
Types of type
Apparently, the type design world has recently thrown out its formal classification system and has yet to decide on a replacement. ILT (as ever) does a great job of summarising the current […]
Ancestors and descendants
Eric has written an often brilliantly funny canned history of the way CSS worked (or, more specifically, didn't) in the early days of the Web. It's worth a read just to see how good […]
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 […]
World building online
This looks like a very interesting world-building tool. Create maps, family histories, write stories, track campaigns, all from a single profile. Neat […]