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A storehouse of links and readings found along the intersection of design and engineering. Weekly updates or whenever.

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the software collective
Mon, Mar 17, 2025

Hello internet! I hope everyone had a lovely Sunday. Link hoarding from now on will be accompanied by Readwise Reader, an app I use to hyper organize blogs, rss, and the likes for later ogling. This post is NOT sponsored by Readwise (although i wish it was.)

👥 software collectives to keep an eye on
  1. Ink and Switch is reimagining personal computing and is pushing for the local first software movement.
  2. Hundred Rabbits is a collective of artist-programmers on a sailboat building small, playful, open source, and sustainable software.
  3. voidzero is crafting next generation toolings for the JavaScript ecosystem (team behind Vite and VItest)
  4. Lavender Software makes software that is lavender and i think that’s beautiful.
✉️ letters on open source
  1. How to make your open source popular, from the author of PostCSS and Autoprefixes.
  2. charm.sh shares their journey to 100k stars on github in the article This is How We Do it
🫶 some personal picks

milk cartons on a shelf with a sticky note

  1. Milk Kanban! visual cues make the perfect kanban system.
  2. If you don’t tinker, you don’t have taste by ronin. If you’re not feeding your sense of taste by trying things out all the time, what are you even doing?
  3. maybe this is where we need to stop, a wonderful rant by Savy. If you read the whole thing, maybe check out llm struggles via arena.
websites with signs of life
Sun, Mar 9, 2025

Hi internet! This week we have

  • websites with signs of life
  • font foundries
  • lazy reading
websites with signs of life

See You Again by Kids Club website

  1. An interactive promotional website for a book titled See You Again by Kids Club. This website will walk you through a 360 tour of a small bar and the toys, the stories, the journey it holds of its owner.
  2. A website that lets you gift someone a custom song for fun just because. Try out sentyouasong, created by Jane Ling. Sent songs to a few friends with it.
  3. I Miss my Cafe is a virtual cafe where you could enjoy the whole cafe experience with an adjustable ambiance you could tweak to match your mood.
font foundries
  1. Notyourtype is a foundry for fun experimental fonts. Hands down the best resource if you enjoy hand written and freeform fonts.
  2. Typotheque is a foundry for silly and fancy and elegant fonts. Open Licesnse. Beware, the website is in french. Thanks nara for your contribution.
  3. Velvetyne is a collective that believes in fonts with “high poetic, aesthetic, or technical value.”

There’s more but it’s your turn now I am handing you the shovel so you could dig a deeper hole on your own. Have fun. Your starting point is here.

lazy reading
  1. Hunting the Nearly Invisible Personal Website. Personal websites are not a lost art (yet). Contains links to various blogrolls. Speaking of blogrolls, you could check out mine here.
  2. How to run a shadow library or how the operations at Anna’s Archive work. I’ve always wondered how they get away with it. Cloudflare mentioned!
  3. The hardest working font in Manhattanis called a Gorton and is older than Gill Sans or Futura. Thank you snats for sharing this.
post notes

my tab window is surprisingly vacant nowadays. i should do better. anyway unrelated extra but here is a page full of programmer quotes which i sent to Savy.

playful sustainable computing
Sun, Feb 16, 2025
  1. Glisp is an interactive computational design tool made by Baku Hashimoto. More open source tools like this via Models of Interaction github repo. Glisp by Baku Hashimoto
  2. [PDF] The Coming Age of Calm Technology is a revised paper from Weiser & Brown’s “Designing Calm Technology” (1996). Many computers share each of us.
  3. Hundredrabbit’s article An Approach To Computing And Sustainability Inspired From Permaculture. What can we do for a sustained amount of time that has a strengthening effect on the ecosystem?
  4. Oh look! The article above also has a conference talk at StrangeLoop. “we’re building on the shoulders of giants, but when you’re all the way up there on the giant’s shoulders, it is really hard to steer it.”
  1. Pretty much the entire history and legacy of Visual Basic. (spoiler: it started from a not so simple shell construction toolkit.)
  2. This Low Tech Magazine entirely powered by solar energy reminded me of the B&B we stayed at a tiny seaside village hosted by a Hungarian diving instructor.
  3. The LemonOS kernel panic screens by @lemonogata are my eye candy.

💬 hello it’s valentines week i luv yall. xo, juwee

text is ui
Sun, Feb 9, 2025
  1. Helvetica Sucks! and difficult to read at small sizes, from German typographer’s blog.
  2. Text is UI. This neat blog post tells you everything you need to know before choosing the best font for your next project.
  3. The web is 95% typography therefore we should treat text as interface. The web is all about typoraphy, period.
  4. This 160-page slide shows the characteristics of a well designed interface, not tell. Heavy on visual storytelling, less on text.
  5. Pelata Pieces is a collection of heirloom-quality wooden games and instruments. Snatched it for its beautiful font choice.
  6. and of course, the safont webring, short for ‘font savant’. safont… savant… get it?

📕 Now Reading: The Best Interface is No Interface

💬 Decorating this website took 2 days of my divided attention, more or less. More links and longer content to expect on the next few updates as I sort things out. I hid an easter egg somewhere good luck finding it.

Shoutout to @gizmobly for suggesting ‘Lexend Deca’ for this website’s typeface!

archives & readings
Sun, Feb 2, 2025
  1. Every good design is founded on a great metaphor. The theme of this website is grounded from one, could you guess it? ;)
  2. The Public Domain Image Archives is a curated collection of strange, beautiful, and forgotten treasures from visual and literary archives. There’s something for everybody.
  3. ⭐ A special reading list of books and articles that explores on ‘Computation as Liberal Art’ Reading List
  4. The design process is a mutual learning feedback loop. (Their website is down as of writing this)

💬 Low effort post, sorry. I was out of town walking the white sand beaches and exploring a tiny village by the sea.

first issue
Sun, Jan 26, 2025

my crazy habit of data hoarding has gone out of control! it’s time my unclosed tabs and unvisited bookmarks get a new home so i’m debuting a weekly digest about design and anything that could interest a frustrated developer aka me.

  1. system.css- A retro theme CSS library inspired from Apple’s System OS.
  2. The UX of LEGO Interface Panels - The six different codings in use in the LEGO interfaces: size, shape, colour, texture, position, operation
  3. Declarative Design from the author of Resilient Web Design. Imperative and Declarative, two mindsets divide the world of programming.
  4. HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me
  5. Parts of a Design System
  6. An interesting paper on How Might we Help Designers Understand Systems