Links For You - Vol. 1

2024-03-17T00:00:00.000Z

Here are my internet recommendations from the last few months!

This is a human-curated "for you" page... if your "for you" page was actually mine. This should also contain previous listings from "Word of digital mouth", on my homepage.

Articles and ideas

• American society wasn’t always so car-centric. Our future doesn’t have to be, either. It's not a phase, mum! Thoughtful public infrastructure leads to a healthier society!

• Issue No. 029: Live Near Your Friends. I've followed this article around a number of sites (this is hopefully where it settles). I'm sure reading this opened a trapdoor to my brain and now the idea is stuck in there.

• How to Live Near Your Friends. Yep, the idea stuck.

• How Google is killing independent sites talks about product recommendations and the awful state of search engine results and SEO.

• My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file, which is something I've started doing at work. Sometimes simple is best.

• Would life be happier without Google? I spent a week finding out. A fun read and a real adventure.

• Why Britain doesn't build contains thoughts on the housing situation in Britain and how it might be fixed.

• On Being Friends with Our Computers: An Invocation for Soft Tech is a poetic manifesto.

Music

• Windswept Adan - Ichiko Aoba is moving, haunting and comforting, all at the same time.

• yoyo - A Beacon School is my favourite find of 2023. Wonderful album

• Heart-Shaped Bruise - Etta Marcus

• Haunts - German Error Message

Visual art

• The Presidential Ham straddling this category and "Quirky".

• Jeff Östberg is an illustrator with a clear style and a clean portfolio. Soft lines and colours.

• Astronomy Picture of the Day courtesy of the people at NASA.

• Deth P. Sun is a simple, but very pretty, website containing even prettier illustrations.

Making your mark on the internet

Places that make it easier to get on the indie web.

• Bear Blog is a free and simple blog hosting platform.

• Blot makes a blog from a Dropbox or Google Drive folder (for $5 per month).

• Micro.blog is a more feature-ful service for $5 per month.

• Ichi: Your home on the Internet lets you make a personal homepage for free.

• Marginalia Search. you won't find what you were looking for, but you might find something you weren't.

Quirky

• The catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell. There's nothing I can say about this, but I like it.

• Sorry Dieter is a post with AI-generated images of products in the style of Dieter Rams, with some thoughts on the topic.

Projects

• Self-balancing cube, more interesting than the title sounds, I promise!

• File Life is/was a journey made where it's traveller picked up a file on a memory stick from people they met, in exchange for the deletion of the original file.

High quality personal pages and blogs

• Katherine Yang gets a double-feature for such a beautiful website.

• Fabien Sanglard always seems to write about things that I find interesting. Retro tech, reverse engineering, nerdy thoughts, etc.

• Rafał Pastuszak has provided inspiration in the form of their homepage. Great visual communicator and the website is full of calming graphic design.

• Joshua Stein is pretty serious about old Apple hardware.

• Aegi's Cafe is an artist's neocities page, not updated anymore though :(.