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.”

Digital Divinity: Ancient traditions meet modern technology – “Technology has transformed how we spend, study, live, eat — even how we sleep. And for the 6.75 billion people around the world who consider themselves religious, technology is also changing their faith. How people worship, pray, and commune with the divine is transforming from Seoul to Lagos.” Via Tender Web

Thoughts.page – “A platform for hosting a small webpage for your thoughts. It’s basically like twitter, but nobody can @ you. … Thoughts pages are an attempt at a quieter, slower, more personal internet. A little space on the web, just for you.”

Diagram Website – I’ve spent several hours surfing the sites presented in this beautiful “internet map,” created by Kristoffer Tjalve. A wonderful intro course on how the internet can still be a place for magic.

René Coignard – Another beautiful fully text-based blog from a “political activist, human rights defender, and artist from Russia.” Via minim.blog

minim.blog – A blog about “existential and digital minimalism,” the ethos is in both the content and the underlying design. The purely text-based design (you need to navigate using CMD-F) is really beautiful. Via No CSS Club