2024-09-29 Sunday Links
Sep 29, 2024
- Selling a small front-end web project — what I learned - Alistair Shepherd - a nice writeup on the process and experience of selling a small website, My Top for Spotify
- It’s Lists All the Way Down - The History of the Web - the wolrd wide web is lists
lists have been really foundational for the transmission of information. Writing in New York Mag, Kyle Chakra explores how Wikipedia, in some ways a logical extension of Otlet’s original idea for a a Universal Bibliography, has even gone as far as creating meta “lists of lists,” which help organize and rearrange the lists of information. There’s even a lists of lists of lists.
- Chris Shiflett: “There’s nothing quite like tight kerning to make a design look dean and modem.” - Mastodon - an 11/10 joke
- I implore you to do something useless - TonyD’s Substack - the importance of being idle
Creativity requires a mélange of experiences that cannot be quantifiable. They include but are not limited to: quiet contemplation, boredom, inspiration, taste, style, genre, motif, and dozens of others. These experiences do not come on-demand. They require a specific state of being that can only be acquired away from the measured and regimented processes that society loves too much.
- Ultima Online Classic Client Upgrade – Ultima Online, via Massively - UO played a huge part of my youth and it’s amazing to hear that the devs are working on with the ClassicUO folks to keep the classic client (or at least a classic client alive)
we are working with the developers of the third-party client “ClassicUO” with the goal of making available an officially sanctioned version for use on all shards
- Playing: I’m a few hours into Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and it’s a lovely, chill time so far, with some vague Scribblenauts vibes.
- Reading: The Practice of Not Thinking - more importance of being idle