Brief books for people who design, write, and code

A Book Apart

DJR Typesetter

If you want to build principled software, avoid becoming VCware. Stay user-supported. It is now possible for tiny teams to build principled software that mil...

100% user-supported

Kitten is a small web development kit for creating and serving sites using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

Kitten

A screenshot of my profile on built.organic, which includes a new button: Join Chat.

because you’ll have more awesome friendships • be consistent • suggested post ideas • setup advice • getting initial readers

Why and how to write things on the Internet

https://www.benkuhn.net/writing/#build-a-consistent-writing-habit

Discover micro-interactions, easter eggs, and other seemingly extra design details that infuse life, personality, and fun back into the web.

Design Spells · Design details that feel like magic

Rap Feud

Relearn CSS layout

Figma’s new AI features settings. Content training option has “Let other people use your designs without any credit” added to it.

https://blog.kinopio.club/posts/header-fonts

Typographics 2024 Conference, Day 1

ECSS sets simple rules for simple styling. No more naming everything, no more technological dependencies. Only intentional, consistent, simple, expressive, predictable, sustainable CSS.

ECSS — Simple Rules for efficient CSS

Notes on personal libraries, collections and small indexes on the web

The Magic of Small Databases

https://tomcritchlow.com/2023/01/27/small-databases/

My daughter wanted a Unicorn monster truck. Had Dali-e make her one.

Demo time!

This week I rebuilt my portfolio using my read.cv profile.
read.cv/andy 👉 f26dwlm8t.sites.cv

Try it with your info by prefixing your username to the url like this:
srd-f26dwlm8t.sites.cv

You can view and edit the source code here 😉
https://sites.read.cv/f26dwlm8t

What I imagine is happening inside my RAM when I get the beach ball of death

@andy I'm in the process of redoing my personal (non company) site – if you need / want beta testers who don't mind  encountering big bugs and writing reports, happy to do it because read's data model covers basically everything I need anyway.

A Book Apart is going out of business... 🥲 The best time to buy some design-related books, tho! 

https://abookapart.com

For a few months I’ve been working on something very fun with @djrrb — there’s still some cool bits coming, but I have a feeling you guys might want an early peek 👀 

Desktop only atm!

https://typeset.djr.com/

This is the coolest building I've ever seen.

Curious how@many “designers” use code rather than Figma or similar to put together designs? 🎨 

I’ve never been good at Figma but I can throw together spicy designs using Tailwind and code 👨‍💻

You can tell me to jump into a pit of snakes, roll up a boulder up a hill or build a castle brick by brick on my own, I can do that. 

BUT you can never make me look, read and sort out my own notes, thats worse than anything I know. no way

Astro CLI is one of the best out there hands down

Brian Eno, asking the real question:

"Why aren't programmes for grown-ups made with the same assumptions: viz, people are inpatient, want results quickly, prefer good rapport to endless options, are more concerned about easy usability than high fidelity"

I call myself a generalist with a rabbit hole disorder

TUNIC is incredible and you should play it and definitely DO NOT look up anything, it’s best played absolutely blind.

Browsers could be more helpful with debugging SVG shapes... visualizing control points manually is tedious

Thought I'd ease back into things with built.organic by adding something fun 👀

📣 Say hi to Bobtail, a riff on the vibes of old-school forums, a deliberately unwalled garden for small communities. I’m getting closer to an open beta, and I’d love to start letting folks try it out. Sign up for an updates-only email list here: https://buttondown.email/bobtail

I think devotion to building a company and learning to work through the tensions is an exhilarating and fun experience

I don’t find the success of early prototyping or the liquidity events to be only reasons to do it. Exiting feels like the moment a great movie is forced to end.

Happy Monday who’s ready to grip n rip this mfn week 😤

This has been in the works for quite some time now, and we're really glad to finally be able to share this with you 💜

Let's make the internet fun again! 🧙‍♂️

https://designspells.com/

I hate NDAs. Designers have to be silent for most of their tenure at a company. When they leave, they have to sneak their work out for their portfolio or they’ll have nothing to show employers. 

We get hired based on what we make, but we can’t talk about or show what we make.

Being a founder who can design, code and sell is a cheat code

ok rap beef might be silly but we've got some cool web projects that have come out it: 

https://www.rapfeud.com/

Why is designing for yourself so impossible 😵‍💫

Good advice in there. I found this book https://every-layout.dev/ very helpful for the concepts around the sustainability principle.

My risoprint zine and poster store is live! 🏄‍♀️ store.connie.surf 🌊!

I missed the keynote and am feeling cynical, but...

Details on each new font – and why each one was chosen – is up at https://blog.kinopio.club/posts/header-fonts

Rhizoma is open for everyone. No more testing, no more breaking changes. Just fixing bugs, and adding features. Be gentle when testing: https://rhizoma.cc

either you really need to do it and you have to do it and you do anything it takes to do it, or you don't really need to do it

The Adobe legal team is working overtime this year…

Hey guys I’m back. 

Went and got married real quick. It was fun.

First week of https://built.organic, pretty amazing!

Some great talks here at typographics

https://www.youtube.com/live/rZCipjf9P1w

ssh ssh.mmyron.com

it's pretty simple for now. in the future i'm hoping to host some blog posts as well.

would be pretty interesting modifying them to make them as best as they can be for a TUI.

built w/ charmcli (wish, lipgloss, & bubbletea)

> i don’t want life to be anything other than what it is

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