My Mastodon Bookmarks — a Blogroll of Things Worth Reading

from puntofisso

I've seen a few maps around with 50/50 splits of the UK according to several statistics.

So I've generalised the concept and created this interactive map.

- select a dataset/upload your own
- slide/rotate the bar
- find how dataset splits

Enjoy! https://puntofisso.net/MapSplit

#map #data #opendata

from ajkohn

Search Console Tab Titles

Working with a junior developer named Claude I created a simple Chrome Extension that dynamically changes the Title tag for Google Search Console tabs to include the domain.

So instead of this:

Performance on Search Results

You get this:

[domain] Search Console

So now when I mouse over those tabs I can immediately find the right one!

Give it a spin.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/search-console-tab-titles/aojohdbkgioefnpngdgnoofgngfdingp

And if you like it, please leave a review.

#seo #google #gsc

from cleared

The hanging indent, without the two-declaration trick: one keyword inverts text-indent, so every line except the first is indented. Bibliographies, transcripts, reference lists.

Before:

.ref { padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em; }

After:

.ref { text-indent: 2em hanging; }

#CSS #HTML #WebDev #Frontend

from codepo8

Always wondered what your browser tells the world about you even when you have cookies disabled?
https://kuber.studio/cookie/

from jpmens

Just stick it in the DNS!

RFC 10023: The "_for-sale" Underscored and Globally Scoped DNS Node Name

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10023/

from crisverstraeten

Well that got settled quickly:

Projects going to statichost.eu and client work to Kinsta/Sevalla.

from misty

Now this is a fun party trick: https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/

from stephaniewalter

Storied Colors is a catalogue of 250 named colors, from pigments, chemical formulas and dyes to a few digital hues, each tied to documented evidence for its name and history. You can browse all the colors, or simply check the color of the day.

https://storiedcolors.com/

from thisismyglasgow

The completed ceramic murual in Glasgow's Central Station based on an Art Nouveau style advert for Drooko Umbrellas. Inspired by an original by Margaret and Frances Macdonald, it was created by MakeIt Glasgow.

If you wish to check it out for yourself, it's on the stairs leading down to the low level platforms from the south side of Argyle Street

#glasgow #streetart #artnouveau #umbrella #centralstation

from denodell

Some browsers check what site you're on and render the page differently. Yup, you read that right.

TikTok gets special treatment. So does Netflix. Instagram. Even SeatGuru.

Safari and Firefox both do this. Chrome doesn't. There's a reason for that... Read on.

https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-treat-big-sites-differently?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=browser_quirks_post

from hejchristian

This is a fantastic offline music player for macOS. It's served me very will since ditching the streaming services.

https://github.com/kushalpandya/Petrichor

from jakegiltsoff

Glyph Finder is a labs project from Adobe Fonts — search for any unicode character, and see a bunch of available fonts which support it.

Remember the time years ago where there was fun websites with walls of different ampersands for inspiration‽

Now you can hunt down the perfect font based on the character you need.

#ReleaseDay2026

https://labs.fonts.adobe.com/projects/glyph-finder

from tylerhall

Iris for macOS is available. It's the native photo and video library I always wanted. I hope you like it, too. https://irisphotos.app

from flohgro

@robb @johnnydecimal this, together with some actions in @drafts and a GitHub repository for the @11ty site, makes a pretty great posting system

https://flohgro.com/blog/my-11ty-blogging-workflow/

from vasilis

Today I made another clock.

☞ https://vasilis.nl/clocks/shop/07/

from bobmonsour

Here's how I made this social media image.

https://bobmonsour.com/blog/deconstructing-these-auto-generated-og-images/

from bobmonsour

Yes, I've been using AI. Here's what I've done so far.

https://bobmonsour.com/blog/how-ive-been-using-ai/

from zeldman

Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 26 (Tahoe) ship with a built-in on-device LLM, but it’s locked behind Swift APIs with no terminal or HTTP access out of the box. apfel is a Swift binary that breaks it open, exposing the model as a CLI tool, an OpenAI-compatible HTTP server, and an interactive chat session. Private, secure, on your device only, with no token costs.

https://apfel.franzai.com/

from malarkey

👉 I got tired of correcting machines, so I gave them five rules

https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/i-got-tired-of-correcting-machines-so-i-gave-them-five-rules

from metin

Want to move from US-based apps and services to Europe-based ones?

Useful links…

https://european-alternatives.eu

https://euroalternative.co

https://www.switch-to.eu/en

https://www.goeuropean.org

https://eutechmap.com/map

https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/%F0%9F%87%AA%F0%9F%87%BA-european-alternatives-to-american-apps.46070

https://www.privacytools.io

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools

https://eurotechguide.com

https://switching.software

https://codeberg.org/ADHDefy/delightful-creative-tools

Big freeware / open source list:
https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/3tPYpALSRBVZ5od-0YfEKp+l

LinkedIn alternative:
https://ponos-job.eu

#EU #europe #tech #tips #FOSS

from coywolf

TinyStart is a fast, minimalist launcher for macOS by @nileane that focuses on the essentials: opening apps, folders, links, and search engines.

https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/tinystart-is-the-spotlight-search-alternative-ive-always-wanted/

#Productivity #MacOS

from nfd

@operationpuppet I'm on 11ty (Build Awesome) currently and have no plans to switch.

I recently discovered this simple new static site generator that seems great for people who don't need all the Build Awesome complexity. https://hypertemplates.net

from hamatti

Last night, @tlohde nerdsniped me with a great Eleventy question while I was on the train on my way home and I couldn't resist to figure it out.

The question was: is it possible to write a Markdown post, mark its content as sections and then split those sections up in the layout?

Yes! My approach is to use a special split marker and a custom filter.

https://hamatti.org/posts/markdown-content-split-to-sections-in-eleventy-and-nunjucks/

#Eleventy #11ty

from bobmonsour

Alex Preston, author

https://alexhmpreston.com/

#11ty @11ty

from nileane

it's been about a month since I uninstalled Logi Options+ from my mac, I've been using BetterMouse instead https://better-mouse.com (thank you so much whoever first recommended it to me), and oh my god I should have done this way sooner

from robhawkes

Terrain data is already live, and wind roses are coming soon once I've tidied a few things up and done some more testing.

And even more features and updates are being worked on… 👀

Check the map out for yourself here:

https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com

from rudy

there's a certain day of the week every year, that allows you to calculate the day of the week for any date that year -- in your head!

for 3 years out of four, it's January 3
in the fourth, in leap year, it's January 4

so for 2026, this day, called Doomsday, is Saturday

The Doomsday Algorithm
https://rudy.ca/doomsday.html

the easiest part of the Doomsday algorithm is the even months

all of these Doomsdays are Saturdays in 2026 --

April (4th month) 4th
June (6th month) 6th
August (8th month) 8th
October (10th month) 10th
December (12th month) 12th

the other months are fairly easy too, and pretty soon you will be able to do any date this year

check out the 2026 Doomsday calendar below

you can also extend this to other years and even centuries, but it's a bit trickier

the Doomsday Algorithm was originally devised by John Horton Conway, a famous mathematician, who died of COVID in 2020

from Gurggles

Witchcraft.😮

from debcha

I got to introduce someone to the greatest website of all time yesterday:

https://www.mcmaster.com

[If you’ve never had occasion to use it: just go to that link, pick something, repeat. Or look around where you live or work for something that’s broken and needs replacing and look for that part. Or think about something you might want to make.]

from angiebaby

Some funny to cleanse your timeline.

from bastianallgeier

OMG this is so good: https://colorpalette.pro/ Almost as if Teenage Engineering builds a color palette builder. 🥰

from jon

@Gargron

I totally missed this and just found it in in the repo: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/36075

If you only knew how much this excites me as an SEO and someone that loves structured data. 🙌

from rustybrick

Google's @johnmu PSA: Verify your cloud host for images, videos, etc with Search Console - he explained how https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-console-cloud-host-40363.html

#googlesearchconsole #googleseo #seo

from bagder

Just noticed this site exists:

https://justuse.org/curl/

from grigs

Our former colleague @paulhebert launched a new daily word puzzle game with a twist. It is a lot of fun and a beautiful, well-built web app. Definitely worth checking out! https://tiledwords.com/

from TheBulletin

Are you interested in how web sites can identify and track you via your browser? Try this handy tool from the @eff

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

from kottke

Fun logic puzzle game called Clues by Sam. “Your goal is to figure out who is criminal and who is innocent.” https://cluesbysam.com

from belldotbz

Don’t worry if someone else has written about stuff before. Don’t even worry if you have written about stuff before.

2019: https://piccalil.li/blog/two-simple-methods-to-vertically-and-horizontally-center-content-with-css/
2025: https://piccalil.li/blog/another-article-about-centering-in-css/

from rachelandrew

Between the time we launched the original Learn CSS course on web.dev and today, container queries landed in browsers and became Baseline Widely available! It was high time for an update, and we were lucky enough to have the team at OddBird work with us on it. Enjoy 9 new modules! https://web.dev/blog/learn-css-refresh

from simonrjones

@koalie I still have a Flickr Pro account but don’t use it enough. Self hosting would be great, if it was simple.

I see Flickr Foundation has a “data lifeboat” tool that helps you export photos. http://datalifeboat.flickr.org/