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  1. 1 YEAR OFF GRID - Everything we build on our abandoned land | TIMELAPSE | Renovating a caravan park - YouTube

    I enjoyed this. That’s a LOT of manual labour to clear some land.

  2. PhotoSwipe: Responsive JavaScript Image Gallery

    Nice image lightbox thing, for future reference. (via Go Make Things)

  3. Peakto, the game-changing photo organizer software for Mac

    Explore your photos from different apps/services in one place. Unsure if this is a “now you have two problems” thing, but it sounds clever.

  4. Avalanche, the best photo conversion software for Mac

    Transfer photo libraries between Lightroom, Luminar, Capture One and Apple Photos.

  5. Succession: Kill List | FanFare

    I enjoy the Fan Fare discussions of Succession, but especially the insights of “Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted” like this one comparing it with The Thick Of It, Veep, etc.

  6. How to scale a JavaScript project over time (part 1) | Go Make Things

    A nice short series showing how he gradually structures vanilla JavaScript files.

  7. Everything you don’t actually need to know about the economics of Succession | Financial Times

    Interesting, if futile. (via Money Stuff)

  8. Historical timeline maker | Timeline creator for students | Aeon Timeline

    Paid app for Mac, Windows or iOS. Haven’t tried it but looks interesting. (via Ask a MetaFilter)

  9. Timeline

    Timeline.js. “Easy-to-make, beautiful timelines” on the web using a Google Spreadsheet or JSON as a source. (via Ask MetaFilter)

  10. Jane Miller · Desert Hours · LRB 16 March 2023

    A lovely piece, some reflections from a ninety-year-old.

  11. The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing | WIRED

    A good read, mostly interesting for how hard it is to get groups to move from Facebook.

  12. I’m 53 years old. I’m 36 in my head. - The Atlantic

    Early 30s. (via Kottke)

  13. The 15 Minutes Project: Web Celeb

    1998. “I’ve done nothing else in life. Truly. I have friends and loves (all of which I met online), but other than that, I spend all my time dealing with the Net. Does it shock you that I’m not weeping? Does it mean I’m broken, somehow?”

  14. Adam Shatz · Beyond Borders: Adolfo Kaminsky’s Forgeries · LRB 16 February 2023

    On the forger for the French Resistance and many anti-colonial struggles. Quite a life.

  15. Joe Moran · Gen Z and Me · LRB 16 February 2023

    On Gen Z and generational change.

  16. Organised fun: who’s it all for? - The Face

    Very good. Feeling this more and more every time I visit the London Immersive Experience.(via @antimega@mastodon.social)

  17. Some simple ways to make content look good - Set Studio

    I do like nice clear walkthroughs of design and code like this, including bits of CSS that were new to me. (via Adactio)

  18. Glass Collisions: Preventing Bird Window Strikes | ABC

    Includes a database of 175 tested and rated products for preventing bird strikes.

  19. Tell me what the glory days of MetaFilter were like : MetaFilterMeta

    Memories of the olden days.

  20. HouseCurve

    I used this to generate filters I could apply with SoundSource to correct the sound of my desktop speakers. Or, at least, make the graph look better.

  21. On Oasis & The Gallaghers - Neil Kulkarni’s Too Much Music

    Nicely written, good, true stuff. (via FaveJet)

  22. Last of Us Arcade Scene | Page 3 | Museum of the Game® Forums

    Interesting thread and from this point some fascinating behind-the-scenes explanations. (via MetaFilter’s FanFare)

  23. Is corecore radical art or gibberish shitposts? 

    I fear that if I ever watched a corecore video it wouldn’t live up to the descriptions in these two articles by Kieran Press-Reynolds.

  24. Cocaine, class and me: everyone in this town takes drugs, all the time – they’re part of the civic culture | Life and style | The Guardian

    Tabitha Lasley from 2022 on cocaine as a way to get through miserable working-class jobs.

  25. God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter | WIRED

    Paul Ford on Twitter and Mastodon. “The Fediverse apps are all built on a set of rules called the ActivityPub standard, which is a little like HTML had sex with a calendar invite. It’s a content polycule.”

  26. Learn HTML

    A good guide, in case I need to recommend one to anyone. (via Adactio)

  27. Montaigne

    Turns a folder in your Apple Notes into a website (with RSS feed). (via @gilest@mastodon.me.uk)

  28. The end of Unto This Last.

    Oh no, another really sad business tale. Such a shame.

  29. Our Cafe has closed | Look mum no hands!

    Fucksticks. I was thinking about London places that have or might close only this morning and was feeling grateful LMNH was still around.

  30. Siteleaf - A friendly CMS for your static site

    Simple hosted CMS that generates a Jekyll-based website hosted on your GitHub Pages (or similar).