Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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The Real Dark Web
An analogy between dark matter and the huge crowd of web developers who are using such "boring" technology stacks.
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Passport Photos
Passport photo rules make self-expression impossible. Or do they?
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The family that shrank France
Another video from the Map Men, this time about the Cassini map of France and its legacy on contemporary cartography, presented in their usual hilarious style.
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Ancient Roman 'Pen' Was a Joke Souvenir
The tradition of buying cheap, joke souvenirs for your loved ones while travelling dates back at least two millennia.
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LABS
If you like a webcomic to finish its run before you start reading it: LABS finished today. Go read it.
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Bus Station, Unbound
After five months of playing it, on-and-off, Dan finally gets around to reviewing Bus Station: Unbound, a piece of hypertext interactive fiction set in Preston Bus Station.
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Endless Quadrum #50
Dan can't get enough of this Rimworldme comic.
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Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out
Carter Sande observes that MDN ran faster on old-fashioned hyperlinks than it did with Javascript background loading, and explains why.
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How the Knights Hospitaller 'accidentally' became a major European air power
Let's talk about the point after WW2 where the Knights Hospitaller, of medieval crusading fame, 'accidentally' became a major European air power.
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Darkroom Printing
Rory tells the story of how he set up a darkroom in his (spare) windowless bathroom and shares his experience of becoming an increasingly analogue photographer in a digital world.
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JavaScript frameworks are better for accessibility (and other myths)
Chris Ferdinandi counters a Twitter user's argument that web frameworks solve a plethora of common web development challenges, and he's right.
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Stellar Rescue
The survivors of the mining ship Red Dwarf sell out to take part in an advertisement for the AA. Which is awesome.
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Pure Fourier series animations for 12 oddly satisfying minutes
3Blue1Brown produced animations showing Fourier series configured to draw interesting pictures, and they're mesmerising.
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How a video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
Mat Westhorpe on how the Elite Dangerous videogame player community came together to bring as much joy as possible to the final weeks of the life of his 15 year-old nephew. Is somebody cutting onions in here?
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Metropoloid: A Metropolis Remix
Yaz Minksy and Joe Blair use classic videogames to produce a contemporary soundtrack for epic 1927 silent film Metropolis.