A Silly Slinky Story – A really charming single-serving site that shares the story of a gift slinky. (Must be viewed on desktop.) A product of HTML in The Park

HTML In The Park – A meetup that brings people together to code in a Toronto park. I can’t even begin to describe how much this speaks to me on a spiritual level. Via The HTML Review

The Internet’s Back-to-the-Land Movement — “Moving off the grid in a digital sense might mean opting out of mainstream internet providers to connect through independent mesh networks, or hosting content on local computers distributed across a peer-to-peer web. Though the driving technologies can be complex to understand, it is important to demystify the inner workings of the web so that individuals may regain control of the tools that build it.” Via Handmade Web

The Handmade Web – The beautiful homepage for a web design course taught by Aidan Quinlan at Virginia Commonwealth University. The reading list is fabulous. Via Jack Rieger

Be the algorithm you want to see in the world — “The humble RSS reader—which is what most podcasts apps really are—allows the user to decide how to sift through their feeds. Precious few platforms still have space for this kind of human algorithm.”

Optical Toys – A compendium of optical illusions

The vintage Mac-OS grid design of author Lucy Ives’ personal website is insane and beautiful. Via Bailey Miller

WikiTok – a web app that feeds random Wikipedia articles into a TikTok-like stream. Brilliant and so much fun. Via Kyle

Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism – “In Yanis Varoufakis’ latest book, the former Greek finance minister argues that companies like Apple and Meta have treated their users like modern-day serfs.” From Wired

Velvetyne – “An association and collective dedicated to researching and disseminating typography and typeface creation.” Entirely open-source, because “we believe that not all graphic or typographic creations should be part of a market economy and we stand for the freedom to subvert its rules.”