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  1. The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing | WIRED

    A good read, mostly interesting for how hard it is to get groups to move from Facebook.

  2. I’m 53 years old. I’m 36 in my head. - The Atlantic

    Early 30s. (via Kottke)

  3. The 15 Minutes Project: Web Celeb

    1998. “I’ve done nothing else in life. Truly. I have friends and loves (all of which I met online), but other than that, I spend all my time dealing with the Net. Does it shock you that I’m not weeping? Does it mean I’m broken, somehow?”

  4. Adam Shatz · Beyond Borders: Adolfo Kaminsky’s Forgeries · LRB 16 February 2023

    On the forger for the French Resistance and many anti-colonial struggles. Quite a life.

  5. Joe Moran · Gen Z and Me · LRB 16 February 2023

    On Gen Z and generational change.

  6. Organised fun: who’s it all for? - The Face

    Very good. Feeling this more and more every time I visit the London Immersive Experience.(via @antimega@mastodon.social)

  7. Some simple ways to make content look good - Set Studio

    I do like nice clear walkthroughs of design and code like this, including bits of CSS that were new to me. (via Adactio)

  8. Glass Collisions: Preventing Bird Window Strikes | ABC

    Includes a database of 175 tested and rated products for preventing bird strikes.

  9. Tell me what the glory days of MetaFilter were like : MetaFilterMeta

    Memories of the olden days.

  10. HouseCurve

    I used this to generate filters I could apply with SoundSource to correct the sound of my desktop speakers. Or, at least, make the graph look better.

  11. On Oasis & The Gallaghers - Neil Kulkarni’s Too Much Music

    Nicely written, good, true stuff. (via FaveJet)

  12. Last of Us Arcade Scene | Page 3 | Museum of the Game® Forums

    Interesting thread and from this point some fascinating behind-the-scenes explanations. (via MetaFilter’s FanFare)

  13. Is corecore radical art or gibberish shitposts? 

    I fear that if I ever watched a corecore video it wouldn’t live up to the descriptions in these two articles by Kieran Press-Reynolds.

  14. Cocaine, class and me: everyone in this town takes drugs, all the time – they’re part of the civic culture | Life and style | The Guardian

    Tabitha Lasley from 2022 on cocaine as a way to get through miserable working-class jobs.

  15. God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter | WIRED

    Paul Ford on Twitter and Mastodon. “The Fediverse apps are all built on a set of rules called the ActivityPub standard, which is a little like HTML had sex with a calendar invite. It’s a content polycule.”

  16. Learn HTML

    A good guide, in case I need to recommend one to anyone. (via Adactio)

  17. Montaigne

    Turns a folder in your Apple Notes into a website (with RSS feed). (via @gilest@mastodon.me.uk)

  18. The end of Unto This Last.

    Oh no, another really sad business tale. Such a shame.

  19. Our Cafe has closed | Look mum no hands!

    Fucksticks. I was thinking about London places that have or might close only this morning and was feeling grateful LMNH was still around.

  20. Siteleaf - A friendly CMS for your static site

    Simple hosted CMS that generates a Jekyll-based website hosted on your GitHub Pages (or similar).

  21. Webflow: Create a custom website | No-code website builder

    Very impressive in-browser site builder, but so comprehensive and detailed that it makes me feel like I don’t know how to make websites.

  22. The Radical Design of PizzaExpress - Vittles

    Digby Warde-Aldam on the chain’s design history. The Berkeley Avenue, Bristol branch was my first Pizza Express, sometime in the early 1990s.

  23. The Magic of Small Databases

    Tom Critchlow wondering about a tool/service to make it easy to create collections of your favourite things on the web. Taggable, searchable, explorable, shareable, exportable, etc.

  24. Carrd - Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything

    Looks like a nice way to get a single-page website online.

  25. Closer to Johannes Vermeer - Rijksmuseum

    I’ve only watched the intro but seems like a really nice way to explore his paintings in detail, if you can handle Stephen Fry’s narration. (via Kottke)

  26. Will Mr. Free Speech actually do anything? (Garbage Day)

    ‘If, at any point, I think, “oh wow, an A.I. could totally speed up the way I do this” about anything, I have to accept that that task or creative process no longer has any meaning for me in my life due to corrupting pressures of capitalism and I should, instead, probably spend time thinking about how I can never do it again, rather than automating the process to do it faster.’

  27. A WIRED compendium - by Dave Karpf

    “a list of WIRED articles that best captured the vibe of the magazine through time,” US, 1993–2017. Good but, inexplicably, no ‘Mother Earth Mother Board’.

  28. The Future of the Yesterweb - Yesterweb Forum

    Closing their Discord because a 2500-person realtime chat space is unmanageable. (I’m in a couple of Discords but only dip in occasionally because they’re Too Much.)

  29. Winnie Lim » on leading a purposeless life

    “It is this space that I want. The space to move on, to tinker, to discover things I haven’t even thought of before. To be capable of giving up, letting go, quitting. I don’t wish to be fixed to something.”

  30. Timezones in Python - Benjamin “Zags” Zagorsky (PDF)

    I keep referring to bits of this, so I should save it. Handy examples of right and wrong ways to do times. (via Simon Willison)