Some may come and some may go.
Magazines
The last Offscreen Dispatch came with a list of 33 independent magazines which ”explore a different niche using the multi-sensory experience of print”.
Here are my personally selected top five (chosen by their thematic taglines):
- Mayday: culture, society, technology and unpredictable realities
- MC1R – for redheads
- Electronic Sound
- Pet People celebrates the love stories of pets and their people, in one city at a time.
- Water: a quiet exploration of all things water and life, celebrating its undeniable beauty and complexity
That there still is an evergrowing resource of new or unknown (print) magazines out there might come as some solace for the loss of two online mags I enjoyed reading in the last years: Both, The Awl and The Hairpin recently announced their ends on the same date. 😿
Men all the way down…
Your City Has a Gender and It’s Male.
“My city is always looking for solutions (…) There is no ‘place’ in my city. There are only points and routes that connect those points.”
Designing For A Browserless Web.
Turning Design Mockups Into Code With Deep Learning.
Within three years deep learning will change front-end development. It will increase prototyping speed and lower the barrier for building software.
RSS Box Beat Back!
I wanted to learn Svelte so I took my long-time hobby project, the RSS Box Viewer, and started refactoring.
It felt great to replace twisted and aged jQuery spaghetti code with reactive patterns, and I am already a big fan of component files, a great ménage à trois between HTML, CSS and JS in one place.
Of course, I could not keep myself from improving a lot of other parts, casually trying out (or even discovering) many things which became state of the webdev art already some time ago – and maybe just now are so yesteryear again (if they are not, yet, they might be tomorrow):
New HTML5 elements, SVG icons, CSS grid, responsive output, ES6 syntax and polyfills, code transpiling, minimizing download and render time – just to name a few.
So may I (in fact a bit proudly) present the new version 18.1.19 of this coded company:
(Sure, it still has the same old-fashioned look inspired by Dave Winer, but behind the scenes it’s running a fresh and much faster codebase. So go ahead and customize your own color-themed RSS box!)
Better Typography with Font Variants.
Learn how to use font variants, including ligatures, caps, numerals and alternate glyphs, to create more precise, beautiful typography on the web.
Like Avocados? Thank This Giant Extinct Sloth.
They ate avocados, pit and all.
Just intonation in the Renaissance (via www.earlymusicsources.com).
Unterstütze die bunte Vielfalt am Donaukanal.
(…) läuft eine neue Ausschreibung von 6 Flächen am Donaukanal, die Hafenkneipe und Central Garden sind betroffen und könnten dabei schlechte Karten haben, weil eines der Auswahl-Kriterien wohl ist, dass Konzepte, die viel Geld mitbringen, bei der Auswahl bevorzugt werden. Das wäre dann das AUS für die Kleinen an der Franzensbrücke.