Places online from the past couple of weeks. In other words, good ways to procrastinate while feeling relatively good about it all.

Web- (Sites and What They Can Be)

http://varia.zone/en/what-a-website-can-be.html

The Varia piece discussing static websites as a statement of independence is a timely find since I am struggling with a personal web project. (Stacey isn’t supported by the latest PHP updates anymore and the good-ol’ work site is now permanently down. I was looking for a flat-file site generator and am not sure anymore. In other news, this blog now runs the latest version of Bludit with custom styles ported over and database cleaned up. I—still—don’t like the image insertion process and some of the unnecessary styling quirks, though.)

A Sunlit Magazine

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html

LowTech Mag’s solar website is run on sunlight and some really nice basic styles. The page background doubles as a battery-level indicator. I love the articles and the way the quotes are treated too. The bit on typography in the site is rather lovely in its Bringhurst-ness. Makes me want to order an RPi4 and some cables.

Back-to-the-LAN

https://www.are.na/blog/the-internet's-back-to-the-land-movement

This article is the proverbial mouth to this specific rabbithole I have been in. The references are all worth your time and so is are.na for its eclectic collections and ways of inteconnecting them. I went from here to low-fi camera-hacks and back in fewer minutes than it takes to say lo-fi.

Yamatomichi Stories

https://www.yamatomichi.com/products/34702/

I love the way Yamatomichi’s product pages are presented. They are genuine stories with width and depth and loads of fun once you translate the pages. The Cheap-Hike journal articles are gold, too.

Huaraches

http://408ownworks.hatenablog.com/

The 408OwnWorks website is something I wish I had come across when in my own-huaraches-phase (post reading Born-to-Run).

Typography Again

My course with NID-V kids is starting later, after a week from the original schedule. We start by the end of October now. Had some fun putting a materials page up here on Exif. I can empathise with how too much online learning fatigues people. Mine are—I think—more off- than on-line when it comes to most days. Here is how we dealt with an on-line timetable for the last week of course the last time (which was also the first time).