Bookmarks

• Published on May 25, 2025
• Updated on May 28, 2025

A currently alphabetically sorted list of links to interesting or fun web pages, articles, blog postings, and YouTube videos. I may organize it better some day. But today is not that day.

• A Dao of Web Design
• All the Videos in Layout Land; YouTube, Playlist of 35 videos
• Alternatives to Using Pure Black
• Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide
• Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager.
• Brutalist Web Design
• Butterick’s Practical Typography
• Contrast Ratio Checker
• CSS Tip
• Design for Real Life
• “Designing Intrinsic Layouts” by Jen Simmons—An Event Apart video; YouTube, 59:07
• Every Layout – Relearn CSS layout by example
• “Everything You Know About Web Design Just Changed” by Jen Simmons—An Event Apart video; YouTube, 1:01:24
• Experiment des Monats
• Frugal’s Free Image Database
• GifCities
• HeroIcons
• Heydon Pickering: Get Your Priorities Straight; YouTube, 39:58
• Heydon Pickering / Capitalism, The Web, And You / ffconf 2022; YouTube, 38:22
• HTML Conformance Checker
• HTML Living Standard
• IconSVG
• Inclusive Components
• Inclusive Design Principles
• IndieWeb
• Introducing TODS – a typographic and OpenType default stylesheet
• Léonie Watson – There Is No Spoon – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2025; YouTube, 31:08
• Matthias Ott – Painting With the Web – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2025; YouTube, 47:25
• Modern Font Stacks
• “Modern Layouts: Getting Out of Our Ruts” by Jen Simmons – An Event Apart Austin 2015; YouTube, 1:01:45
• Mozilla Developer Network
• NASA’s Multimedia Collection
• neal.fun
• Responsive Web Design
• Slash Pages
• Sorted CSS Colors
• Squoosh
• The Cube Rule of Food Identification
• The Experimental Layout Lab of Jen Simmons
• The folly of chasing demographics – Heydon Pickering (Converge 2025); YouTube, 24:16
• The ideal viewport doesn’t exist
• The Modern JavaScript Tutorial
• The New York Public Library Digital Collections
• The whimsical web
• This is a motherfucking website.
• Unsplash: Birmingham Museums Trust
• Unsplash: British Library
• Unsplash: Library of Congress
• Visually hidden content is a hack that needs to be resolved, not enshrined.
• Windows98 Icon Viewer
• Writing Less Damned Code – Heydon Pickering – btconfBER2016; YouTube, 39:20
• wiby
• Words
• You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML