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A WEBLOG BY CHASE MCCOY ABOUT EXPLORING AND BUILDING THE WORLD WIDE WEB.

 * Blog
 * Notes
 * Email
 * RSS


ABOUT THE EDITOR

Chase is a professional designer and amateur human currently working on design
systems at Stripe.


ELSEWHERE

 * GitHub
 * Instagram
 * Mastodon
 * Spotify
 * Twitter


LINKED LIST

Things that caught my eye on the web, updated sporadically.

 * Hypermedia Systems
 * Paragraphica - Bjørn Karmann
 * Draw Down Books
 * Issue 001 / Introducing Woolgather
 * Make.md
 * Commit Mono. Neutral programming typeface.
 * Inside the secret world of NYC's last internet cafes - YouTube
 * The Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive
 * ai.txt: A new way for websites to set permissions for AI
 * apricot: a structure editor for ui


BLOGROLL

 * Alexander Obenauer
 * Amy Hupe
 * arcana dot computer
 * Audacious Fox
 * Chen Hui Jing
 * Chris Coyier
 * Frank Chimero
 * Interconnected
 * James Little
 * Jim Nielsen
 * Jules Forrest
 * Kicks Condor
 * Maggie Appleton
 * Matt Ström
 * maya.land
 * Mu-An Chiou
 * Piper Haywood
 * pketh
 * Robin Rendle
 * Robin Sloan
 * Soroush Khanlou
 * thesephist
 * Tom Critchlow
 * Zach Leatherman

Museo.app

An open source web interface that helps you find free-to-use images from some of
the world’s best museums and libraries:

 * The Art Institute of Chicago
 * The Rijksmuseum
 * The Harvard Art Museums
 * And more...

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Jul 7

We’re seeing a surge of platforms self-sabotaging and choosing to suddenly
restrict access to their content. These are all blatant attempts to trap users
by digging a moat around the communities that they’ve created.

I can think of 3 obvious reasons why this might all be happening now as opposed
to any time over the past decade:

 1. The content on social media platforms is valuable for AI training, and
    platforms want to capitalize on or keep that value for themselves.
 2. The recent, high-interest-rate environment has companies cutting costs in
    ways they might not before, and subsidizing API access for third party
    developers is no longer a bill they’re willing to foot.
 3. The bad behavior of platforms is creating a more competitive environment as
    new challengers spring up (Bluesky, Posts, Mastodon, and Threads all come to
    mind).

Those seem obvious, but are they really the cause? Is it one more than the
other? Or something else entirely?

I wonder how much of this trend is really just a domino effect of CEOs realizing
that they can get away with screwing over their users because they saw Elon Musk
(or some other robber baron) get away with it.

Jul 3

Humane (the mysterious company founded by ex-Apple executives) has finally
revealed the name of the product they’re hoping to ship this year: the Humane Ai
Pin.

I’m as skeptical as the next person about AI and wearables and really anything
with as much hypebeast marketing as this product has received. But if I put my
skepticism aside for a moment I’m able to appreciate this for what it is—a group
of people trying to create a new kind of computer and computing paradigm.

There’s a bit of footage out there of the device in action, but regardless of
the specifics I think it’s essential that we never stop asking ourselves what a
computer could or should be.


BROWSE THE ARCHIVES


FEATURED

 * How blogs shaped the web
 * Ambient internet
 * Crayons, craft paper, and CSS
 * Design systems as knowledge graphs
 * Measuring the health of a design system
 * Building Sprout Social’s component library


BY YEAR

 * 2023
 * 2022
 * 2021
 * 2020
 * 2019
 * 2018
 * 2017
 * 2016
 * 2013

Apr 16

In the new book Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words, Steve
talks about his love for books and also their shortcomings:

> The problem was, you can’t ask Aristotle a question. And I think, as we look
> towards the next fifty to one hundred years, if we really can come up with
> these machines that can capture an underlying spirit, or an underlying set of
> principles, or an underlying way of looking at the world, then, when the next
> Aristotle comes around, maybe if he carries around one of these machines with
> him his whole life—his or her whole life—and types in all this stuff, then
> maybe someday, after this person’s dead and gone, we can ask this machine,
> “Hey, what would Aristotle have said? What about this?” And maybe we won’t get
> the right answer, but maybe we will. And that’s really exciting to me. And
> that’s one of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing.
> 
> Steve Jobs’ speech at the International Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado
> on June 15, 1983

For all the work we’ve put into creating ways to capture our lives digitally, it
doesn’t feel like the ritual of passing that information down to future
generations is considered much.

I wonder if this might be a common use case for conversational AIs in the
future. You can imagine a ChatGPT trained on the works of Aristotle, waiting to
answer new and novel questions. Like Steve says, we won’t always get the right
answer, but maybe we will.

The digital book is lovely and full of wisdom—definitely a recommended read.


THE EYES AND EARS OF AI

March 26, 2023

It’s hard to keep up with the progress of AI. It seems as though every week
there’s a new breakthrough or advancement that seemingly changes the game. Each
step forward brings both a sense of wonder and a feeling of dread.

This past week, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT plugins which “help ChatGPT access
up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services.”

> Though not a perfect analogy, plugins can be “eyes and ears” for language
> models, giving them access to information that is too recent, too personal, or
> too specific to be included in the training data.
> 
> OpenAI

OpenAI themselves have published two plugins:

 * A web browser plugin which allows the AI gather information from the internet
   that was not originally part of its training corpus by searching the web,
   clicking on links, and reading the contents of webpages.
 * A code interpreter plugin which gives ChatGPT access to a sandboxed Python
   environment that can execute code as well as handle file uploads and
   downloads.

Both of these plugins are pretty astonishing in their own right, and unlock even
more potential for AI to be a helpful tool (or a dangerous actor).

But what caught my eye the most from OpenAI’s announcement is the ability for
developers to create their own ChatGPT plugins which interact with your own
APIs, and more specifically the way in which they’re created.

Here’s how you create a third party plugin:

 * You create a JSON manifest on your website at /.well-known/ai-plugin.json
   which includes some basic information about your plugin including a natural
   language description of how it works. As an example, here’s the manifest for
   the Wolfram Alpha plugin.
 * You host an OpenAPI specification for your API and point to it in your plugin
   manifest.

That’s it! ChatGPT uses your natural language description and the OpenAPI spec
to understand how to use your API to perform tasks and answer questions on
behalf of a user. The AI figures out how to handle auth, chain subsequent calls,
process the resulting data, and format it for display in a human-friendly way.

And just like that, APIs are accessible to anyone with access to an AI.

Importantly, that AI is not only regurgitating information based on a static set
of training data, but is an actor in and of itself. It’s browsing the web,
executing code, and making API requests on behalf of users (hopefully).

The implications of this are hard to fathom, and much will be discussed,
prototyped, and explored in the coming months as people get early access to the
plugin feature. But what excites me the most about this model is how easily it
will allow for digital bricoleurs to plug artificial intelligence into their
homemade tools for personal use.

Have a simple API? You now have the ability to engage with it conversationally.
The hardest part is generating an OpenAPI spec (which is not very hard to do,
it’s just a .yaml file describing your API), and you can even get ChatGPT to
generate that bit for you. Here’s an example of someone successfully generating
a spec for the Twilio API using ChatGPT.

It seems to me that this will greatly incentivize companies and products to
create interfaces and APIs that are AI-friendly. Consumers will grow to expect
AI tools to be able to interface with the other digital products and services
they use in the same way that early iPhone users expected their favorite
websites to have apps in the App Store.

There are certainly many negative and hard-to-predict consequences of opening up
APIs to AI actors, but I am excited about the positives that might come from it,
such as software products becoming more malleable via end-user programming and
automation.

Don’t want to futz around with complex video editing software? Just ask your AI
to extract the first 5 seconds of an MP4 and download the result with a single
click. This type of abstraction of code, software, and interface will become
ubiquitous.

Of course, I don’t think graphical interfaces are in trouble just yet. Geoffrey
Litt points out that trimming video is actually much more intuitive via direct
manipulation than via chat.

But when you consider that ChatGPT can write code to build GUIs and can even
interact with them programmatically on a user’s behalf, the implications become
clear. Everyone will benefit in some way from their own personal interface
assistant.

I wonder also how many future products will be APIs only with the expectation
that AIs are how users will interact with them?

Simon Willison wrote a great blog post demonstrating this. He wired up a ChatGPT
plugin to query data via SQL, and the results, though technically returned as
JSON, get displayed in a rich format much more friendly for human consumption.

I wonder if future “social networks” might operate simply as a backend with a
set of exposed APIs. Instead of checking an app you might simply ask your AI
“what’s up with my friend Leslie?” Or you could instruct your AI to put together
a GUI for a social app that’s exactly to your specification.

This will certainly lead to entirely new ways of relating to one another online.

It would be interesting to try this today with good old RSS, which could be
easily wired up as a ChatGPT plugin via a JSON feed. Alas, I don’t yet have
access to the plugins feature, but I’ve joined the waitlist.

I’m both excited and nervous to see what happens when we combine AI with a
medium like the web.

Mar 24

I’m finally getting around to playing Ghost of Tsushima which is impressive all
around. But the thing that has impressed me most is… wind??

The game rejects the normal interface of a minimap to guide players, and instead
uses the wind and the environment to show the way forward.

When The Guiding Wind blows in Tsushima, the entire game world responds. The
trees bend over, pointing you onward. The pampas grass ripples like the surface
of water. Leaves and petals swirl around the scene. The controller emits the
sound of gusting wind, and the player can swipe the touch pad to blow the winds
and set the environment in motion.

Such a simple mechanic is so unexpected and beautiful and calming in a world of
cutting edge graphics and 4K 60FPS VR madness. Video games (and everything else)
today are so over the top, but in the end it’s something simple like the wind
that gets you.

🍃 Let the guiding wind blow 🍃


EVERY DAY IS SCIENCE FICTION

March 20, 2023

Science fiction is one of my favorite genres because of its power to make the
strange familiar and the familiar strange.

Kim Stanley Robinson wrote an anti-dystopian essay in which he discusses how
science fiction works:

> For a while now I’ve been saying that science fiction works by a kind of
> double action, like the glasses people wear when watching 3D movies. One lens
> of science fiction’s aesthetic machinery portrays some future that might
> actually come to pass; it’s a kind of proleptic realism. The other lens
> presents a metaphorical vision of our current moment, like a symbol in a poem.
> Together the two views combine and pop into a vision of History, extending
> magically into the future.
> 
> Dystopias Now

I read that and then, a day later, stumbled upon a thought experiment published
on the wonderfully quirky website of Ville-Matias Heikkilä.

The thought experiment, titled “Inverted computer culture”, asks the reader to
image a world where computing is seen “as practice of an ancient and unchanging
tradition.”

> It is considered essential to be in a properly alert and rested state of mind
> when using a computer. Even to seasoned users, every session is special, and
> the purpose of the session must be clear in mind before sitting down. The
> outer world is often hurried and flashy, but computers provide a “sacred
> space” for relaxing, slowing down and concentrating on a specific idea without
> distractions.
> 
> Inverted computer culture

What a dream. I encourage you to read the piece which is quite short. It struck
me as being exemplary of the aforementioned double action of science
fiction—both a vision of the future and a metaphor for the current moment. You
can imagine how a fictional immune response to our current culture might drive
us toward a world of computing and technology like the one imagined here.

To push it a bit further, I prompted ChatGPT to write a story based on the
thought experiment and threw the result into a gist. You can read the story it
came up with here.

The story’s alright, but the last paragraph is something else. It captures so
many of the feelings I have about computing and the web:

> As she sat there, lost in her work, she knew that she would never leave this
> place, this sacred space where the computers whispered secrets to those who
> knew how to listen. She would be here always, she thought, a part of this
> ancient tradition, a keeper of the flame of knowledge. And in that moment, she
> knew that she had found her true home.

Here’s to all those who know how to listen.


HOW BLOGS SHAPED THE WEB

March 15, 2023

I have a lot of nostalgia for the era of blogging that I grew up with during the
first decade or so of the 2000s.

Of course there was a ton of great content about technology and internet
culture, but more importantly to me it was a time of great commentary and
experimentation on the form of blogging and publishing.

As social media and smartphones were weaving their ways into our lives, there
was a group of bloggers constructing their own worlds. Before Twitter apps and
podcast clients became the UI playgrounds of most designers, it was personal
sites and weblogs that were pioneering the medium.

Looking back, this is probably where my meta-fascination with the web came from.
For me the most interesting part has always been the part analyzing and
discussing itself.

Robin Sloan puts it well (as he is wont to do):

> Back in the 2000s, a lot of blogs were about blogs, about blogging. If that
> sounds exhaustingly meta, well, yes — but it was also SUPER generative. When
> the thing can describe itself, when it becomes the natural place to discuss
> and debate itself, I am telling you: some flywheel gets spinning, and powerful
> things start to happen.
> 
> Robin Sloan, A year of new avenues

Design, programming, and writing started for me on the web. I can recall the
progression from a plain text editor to the Tumblr theme editor to learning
self-hosted WordPress.

All of that was driven by the desire to tinker and experiment with the web’s
form. How many ways could you design a simple weblog? What different formats
were possible that no one had imagined before?

Earlier this week I listened to Jason Kottke’s recent appearance on John
Gruber’s podcast and was delighted to hear them discuss this very topic. Jason
is one of the original innovators of the blog form, and I’ve been following his
blog, kottke.org, since I was old enough to care about random shit on the
internet.

Kottke.org turned 25 years old this week, and Jason has been publishing online
for even longer than that. All along the way, he has experimented with the form
of content on the web. He’s not alone in that—many bloggers like him have helped
to mold the internet into what it is today. The ones that influenced me besides
kottke.org are Daring Fireball, Waxy.org, Jim Coudal and Coudal Partners, Shawn
Blanc, Rands in Repose, Dave Winer, and more that I’m certainly forgetting.



A screenshot of kottke.org from October 12, 1999, and my personal favorite
design of the site over the years



Jason and John have an interesting conversation during the podcast (starting
around 25 minutes in) about how the first few generations of bloggers on the web
defined its shape. Moving from print to digital mediums afforded a labyrinth of
new avenues to explore.

It’s always important to remind ourselves that many of the things we take for
granted today on the web and in digital design had to be invented by someone.

Early weblogs did not immediately arrive at the conclusion of chronological
streams—some broke content up into “issues”, some simply changed the content of
their homepages entirely.

It wasn’t until later that the reverse-chronological, paginated-or-endless
scrolling list of entries was introduced and eventually became the de-facto
presentation of content on the web. That standard lives on today in the design
of Twitter, Instagram, etc., and it’s fascinating to see that tradition fading
away as more sites embrace algorithmic feeds.

By the way, I’d be remiss here if I didn’t mention Amy Hoy’s amazing piece How
the blog broke the web. Comparing the title of her piece with the title of this
one, it’s clear that not everyone sees this shift in form as a positive one, but
she does a great job in outlining the history and the role that blogs played in
shaping the form of the web. Her particular focus on early content management
systems like Movable Type is fascinating.

Another great example that Jason and John discuss on the podcast is the idea of
titling blog posts.

They point out that many early sites didn’t use titles for blog posts, a pattern
which resembles the future form of Tweets, Facebook posts, text messages, and
more. But the rise of RSS readers, many of which made the assumption that
entries have titles and design their UIs around that, forced many bloggers to
add titles to their posts to work well in the environment so popular with their
readers.

Jason mentions that this was one of the driving factor for kottke.org to start
adding titles to posts!

This is an incredible example of the medium shaping the message, where the UI
design of RSS readers heavily influenced the form of content being published.
When optimizing for the web, those early bloggers and the social networks of
today both arrived at the same conclusion—titles are unnecessary and add an
undue burden to publishing content.

This difference is the very reason why sending an email feels heavier than
sending a tweet. Bloggers not using titles on their blog posts figured out
tweeting long before Twitter did.

When referring to the early bloggers at suck.com, Jason said something that I
think describes this entire revolution pretty well.

> […]there was in information to be gotten from not only what they linked to,
> but how they linked to it, which word they decided to make the hyperlink.
> 
> Jason Kottke on The Talk Show episode 370 (35:40)

It’s not often that you have an entirely new stylistic primitive added to your
writing toolbox. For decades you could bold, italicize, underline, uppercase,
footnote, etc. and all of a sudden something entirely new—the hyperlink.

With linking out to other sites being such a core part of blogging, it’s no
surprise that the interaction design of linking was largely discussed and
experimented with. Here’s a post from Shawn Blanc discussing all the ways that
various blogs of the time handled posts primary geared towards linking to and
commenting on other sites.

Another similar example is URL slugs—the short string of text at the end of a
web address identifying a single post. For many of my favorite bloggers, the URL
slug is a small but subtle way to convey a message that may or may not be the
same as the message of the post itself. One other stylistic primitive unique to
the web.

The different ways in which bloggers designed their site or linked to words
became a part of their unique style, and it gave their each of them an entirely
new way to express themselves.

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It’s hard to communicate how grateful I feel for this era of experimentation on
the web, and specifically for Jason Kottke’s influence on me as a designer. The
past 25 years have been a special time to experience the internet.

There was a time when I thought my career might be curved towards blogging
full-time and running my own version of something like kottke.org. Through
exploring that I found my way to what I really loved—design and software. My
work continues to benefit from what I learned studying bloggers and publishers
online.

Whether you care much about writing or not, I encourage you to have a blog.
Write about what interests you, take great care of how you present it to the
world, and you might be surprised where it takes you. There are new forms around
every corner.


AMBIENT INTERNET

March 12, 2023

The recent fad of the metaverse is all about digitizing the physical world and
moving our shared experiences (even more so) onto the internet.

I wonder what an opposite approach might look like—one where, instead of making
the physical digital, we instead attempt to bring the online world into our
physical spaces (and no, I don’t remotely mean AR or VR).

The first thing that comes to mind for me is Berg’s now-defunct Little Printer
project from back in 2012 or so. Little Printer was a web-connected thermal
printer that lived in your home and allowed you to receive print-outs of digital
publications, your daily agenda, messages from friends, etc.

Little Printer was an attempt at bridging the physical and digital, essentially
creating a social network manifested as a physical object in the home and
consumed via paper and ink.

Personal websites are the digital homesteads for many. Those sites live
somewhere on a web server, quietly humming away in a warehouse meant to keep
them online and secure. For each of us those servers represent empty rooms
waiting to be decorated with our thoughts, feelings, interests, and
personalities. We then invite strangers from all over the world to step inside
and have a look.

Like the Little Printer, I wish that my web server could exist in my home as a
physical object that could be touched, observed, and interacted with.



[source]



Hosting a web server yourself is surprisingly difficult today given the advances
we’ve made in consumer technology over the last few decades. Hosting content on
someone else’s server has become as simple as dragging and dropping a folder
onto your web browser. There are countless business that will happily rent out
online space to for very cheap (or even free, with the hopes that eventually
you’ll upgrade and give them money).

We’re all tenants of a digital shopping mall, sharing space controlled by
corporate entities who may not share our values or interests.

When someone visits my website, I wish it could feel more like inviting them
into my home. What if my website lived in my home with me?

Imagine if having a web server in the home was as common as any other appliance
such as a refridgerator. You might look over and see your friend (or a welcome
stranger!) browsing your website. You could see what they’re browsing—look at
photos with them, listen to a song together, whatever—and start a conversation
about any of it.

I’m certainly not the only one who has imagined this. A while ago I stumbled
upon a project by a student named Jeeyoon Hyun called “Personal Pet Pages” which
is a small, personal web server with a fiendly screen displaying what’s going on
inside the server.

> Ever since we’ve decided that servers are something heavy, enigmatic, gigantic
> black boxes belonging to corporations - not individuals - we have slowly lost
> agency towards our own small space on the Internet. But actually, servers are
> just computers. Just as your favorite cassette player or portable game
> console, they are something that you can possess and understand and enjoy.
> 
> Personal Pet Pages, ITP Thesis Archives 2022

Jeeyoon’s idea combines turns a web server into a sort of virtual pet, one that
you can move around and interact with.

Matt Webb has also considered the idea:

> It is boundary-violating, to have a website in the corner of your bedroom.
> Websites are meant to be in the cloud. Eternal, somehow, transcendent, like
> the voice of code floating down from the sky. But no, there it is. It is real!
> I can kick it! Argumentum ad lapidem.
> 
> I wish my web server were in the corner of my room

Those fixated with the idea of the metaverse might are interested in bringing
real-world objects into the cloud. I wonder instead how we might try to bring
objects from the cloud into the real world and into our homes. How would we
design webpages differently if our materials included the servers that they’re
hosted on?


WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

February 4, 2023

I remember the first time I saw a Mac in person. I was in middle school, but on
the campus of the nearby college because my dad had a gig as a stand-in drummer
for a local band.

While hanging out backstage—something I often had the privilege of doing from a
young age as the son of a drummer—I saw a girl, sitting on the ground, typing
away on a brand new MacBook Air.

The Air had just been introduced to the world, and I remember rewatching the
announcement video online. Steve Jobs talked about the computer at Macworld only
to reveal that it had been on stage with him the entire time inside a manilla
envelope. He opened it and pulled out the thinnest computer in the world. I had
no idea a computer could even look like that.

After my dad’s show I immediately pointed out the girl and her computer, and I
remember him sharing my excitement so much that he asked the girl if we could
look at it a bit closer. She was kind and happy to show it off and even let me
hold it. From then on, I was hooked. I knew that’s the computer I’d own one day,
and sure enough I’d get my first Mac, a MacBook Air, a few years later in high
school.

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And now Apple has introduced a MacBook Air thinner than the original iPhone. I
wonder what middle school me, who coveted but did not own an iPhone at the time,
would think about that.

I received the new M2 MacBook Air (in Midnight) a few months ago and I’ve been
smitten with it. It is a cool, dark slab of silent compute, and it feels dense
and book-ish in the most satisfying way.

The battery life deserves its own mention, and feels like a leap ahead for
personal computers in its own right.

In all honesty I thought the time had come when a computer could not longer
really excite me in the way that original MacBook Air did. But, this new one
takes me right back there. It reminds me how lucky we all are to carry around
devices that can conjure up all sorts of magic. And it takes me back to my
beginnings in software when people wrote about the design of new iOS and Mac
apps like they were art critics.

My life and friends and relationships and career are all in there, wound up with
the electrons.

In setting up and using this new computer for the first time, however, I’ve
realized how much devices today are like shells. The real computers, the ones
that store our data and perform tasks on our behalf, are behemoths sitting in
data centers. Setting up a new computer today is mostly a task of signing into
various web applications to access your data, not transferring data onto the
machine itself.

Our computers have become internet computers. And that might mean that the
physical devices we own will trend towards nothingness—their goal is no longer
to impress or inspire, but to be so small and light as to fall away entirely.

There’s something about that which makes me feel a bit melancholy. It feels like
the days of computing devices being objects with personality and conviviality
are fading. The computer is no longer a centerpiece, it’s an accessory, a thin
client for some other machine or machines which are hidden away from us.


FOOTPRINTS IN THE MARTIAN SAND

January 4, 2023

Since I was a kid the space program has been an object of my fascination, and
even as an adult I’ve been captured by the heroics of NASA and other
organizations launching probes and telescopes into the far reaches of space.

But something has never sat quite right with me about the recently renewed
interest in human space travel, especially from CEOs of private companies like
Musk and Bezos.

I think it’s always been a combination of two things:

 1. There are so many problems here on Earth, many of which could be solved with
    the resources being invested into sending humans to another world.
 2. Colonizing another planet is… still colonization.

I’d really never given it too much thought until this week when Maciej Cegłowski
made his blogging return for the first time since 2020:

> Wherever you stand on the matter, whether you’re a Musk fanboy, an unaligned
> Mars obsessive, or just biplanetary/curious, I invite you to come imagine with
> me what it would take, and what it would really mean, for people to go put
> their footprints in the Martian sand.
> 
> Idle Words: Why Not Mars

Maciej does a great job explaining just how bad and nonsensical of an idea it is
to send humans to Mars.

As much as I love media about humans traveling to the red planet (The Martian
and For All Mankind come to mind), perhaps it’s best that fantasy lives on
solely as part of our imagination for now.

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A WEBLOG BY CHASE MCCOY ABOUT EXPLORING AND BUILDING THE WORLD WIDE WEB.

 * Blog
 * Notes
 * Email
 * RSS


ABOUT THE EDITOR

Chase is a professional designer and amateur human currently working on design
systems at Stripe.


ELSEWHERE

 * GitHub
 * Instagram
 * Mastodon
 * Spotify
 * Twitter


LINKED LIST

Things that caught my eye on the web, updated sporadically.

 * Hypermedia Systems
 * Paragraphica - Bjørn Karmann
 * Draw Down Books
 * Issue 001 / Introducing Woolgather
 * Make.md
 * Commit Mono. Neutral programming typeface.
 * Inside the secret world of NYC's last internet cafes - YouTube
 * The Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive
 * ai.txt: A new way for websites to set permissions for AI
 * apricot: a structure editor for ui


BLOGROLL

 * Alexander Obenauer
 * Amy Hupe
 * arcana dot computer
 * Audacious Fox
 * Chen Hui Jing
 * Chris Coyier
 * Frank Chimero
 * Interconnected
 * James Little
 * Jim Nielsen
 * Jules Forrest
 * Kicks Condor
 * Maggie Appleton
 * Matt Ström
 * maya.land
 * Mu-An Chiou
 * Piper Haywood
 * pketh
 * Robin Rendle
 * Robin Sloan
 * Soroush Khanlou
 * thesephist
 * Tom Critchlow
 * Zach Leatherman

Museo.app

An open source web interface that helps you find free-to-use images from some of
the world’s best museums and libraries:

 * The Art Institute of Chicago
 * The Rijksmuseum
 * The Harvard Art Museums
 * And more...

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