Links
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Die, Workwear! - The Amazing Style of British Cyclists
Lovely photos, and story, of off-road cyclists in the 1950s in the UK, members of The Rough-Stuff Fellowship. Nice normal clothes.
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Ruining a country near you soon: the beta males who think they’re alphas | Marina Hyde | Opinion | The Guardian
I could link to every Marina Hyde column, so take this excellent example as a placeholder for all of them.
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Developing an intro-level music theory course | The Ethan Hein Blog
I want to read all the resources linked to here. (I’d like to attempt the projects too, but that seems unlikely.) (via Disquiet)
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How to run a small social network site for your friends
A really good description of running something like your own Mastodon server for a few dozen people and, more importantly, handling the social side of things. (via Waxy)
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Die, Workwear! - The Spotlight Effect & Style Anxiety
I don’t think I knew that the feeling of “I’m wearing something very slightly different than usual and now everyone’s staring at me” had a name.
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80’s students, what films were your film society showing then? | Ask MetaFilter
I like the idea of working out, or remembering, what films were considered classic/interesting at a specific point in the past.
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The invention of Essex: how a county became a caricature | News | The Guardian
Where I’m from. I’m wondering if this is a Zazzle strategy by the Guardian — they’ll now produce a clickbaity article on every UK county.
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On Nighttime
Hanif Abdurraqib’s lovely essay on being awake at night (which I happened to read at 1.20am when I couldn’t sleep). (via Buckslip)
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Feature Toggles (aka Feature Flags)
I’ve never worked on a project with these, but this is a great description of the ideas behind them, and the different categories of feature flags. (via Simon Willison)
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The Online Photographer: Ten Iconic Photographs: No. 10
I’m enjoying this series of posts. The background and context is always more interesting than I expect writing about a single photo to be.
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The Barbican Estate: An Architectural Masterpiece Under Threat
The “A History of Continual Expansion” document is fascinating, to see how the school has incrementally expanded over decades.
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blissblog: link think
Simon Reynolds, for the first section on the sociality, or not, of blogging. (via Warren Ellis Ltd)
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reading-activitypub
“This document is for programmers who take one look at activitypub.rocks, click on through to the documentation, and can’t make heads or tails of it.” I did that, so maybe this will be handy if I try again. (via @mdales@mastodon.me.uk)
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Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor: EasyMDE
I’ve tried several textarea-improving things and this one is just the ticket for my needs.
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What I Learned Trying To Secure Congressional Campaigns (Idle Words)
Entertaining and interesting. “You will fare especially badly if you have written an app to fix politics.” (via @gwire)
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FiveFilters.org
Tools for turning web pages into newspaper-style PDFs, generating RSS feeds for sites that don’t have them, etc. (via Ask MetaFilter)
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The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones - Scientific American Blog Network
Clickbaity title, but interesting on sociological vs psychological storytelling. (via Buckslip)
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things magazine (Kicks Condor)
A new favourite web explorer interviews an old (and still) favourite web explorer about the past and present of blogging etc.
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1MB
Free hosting for static sites up to 1MB in size, no images, simple database, custom domains, SSL. (via Kicks Condor)
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Kicks Condor
Not just an unusual blog design but loads of good writing about the web and interesting links. (via Things Magazine)
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Little Printers | Nord Projects - a design and technology consultancy
A new iOS app and platform for bringing your Little Printer back to life.
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OdleForums
A small forum for WebFaction users to discuss where to go, now that GoDaddy owns WebFaction.
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Electric Flapjack Guitars
I really enjoy Michael’s weeknotes about making electric guitars. I know nothing about making things like this but he explains the problems, thoughts and solutions clearly.
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Low cost index trackers that will save you money
I’d forgotten this occasionally-updated post existed.
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Corporate anthems - YouTube
Dave Green’s playlist of more than 70 of these awful things.
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Warren Ellis Production Ident Roger Strunk
Nice write-up of designing a three second TV ident for Warren Ellis.
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Vim After 15 Years | Ian Langworth’s Things of Variable Interest
More new-to-me vim magic.
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A Good Vimrc
Lots of good tips here I hadn’t seen before.
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Five Books | The best books on everything
Experts recommend the five best books on different topics, sometimes very (too?) specific. Reminds me of that Septivium thing I started that never went anywhere. (via Kottke)
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Cathode | Secret Geometry
“Cathode is a fully customizable terminal app with a look inspired by classic computers.” Looks both absurd and brilliant.