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.”

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.