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HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.

As web developers, we’re constantly working with websites with different types of content and ways to craft that content. Whether it’s a handcrafted blog, a WordPress site or a web app, these days you likely have a bunch of images out there: some decorative, others with meaningful messages. I built […]

No algorithm, no timeline, no engagement bait. Just feeds you chose. Here's the whole ecosystem — readers, feed generators, monitoring, directories, and the standards that hold it together.

Quick, private video cuts and conversions that run entirely in your browser. A lightweight replacement for the handful of things most people used Avidemux for: * Extract a clip from a longer video (set In/Out points). * Trim a chosen amount off the start of a video. C* ut out […]

Ever look at one of those adorable 8 page zines made out of a single sheet of paper and thought "gosh, I wanna make some of those!" Ever opened Word and thought "This isn't going to work!" and cried yourself to sleep because your zine dreams were shattered? Well cry not, […]

Every day at midnight UTC, a new Wikipedia article goes into hiding. Your job is to find it. WikiWhiz is a free daily guessing game I built on top of English Wikipedia and other sister projects. If you’ve played Wordle, the rhythm will feel familiar: one puzzle a day, same […]

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So: what would happen if stories were drawn from actual data, randomized to give a valid representation of the human story? That's the question that was stuck in my head, and that drove this project forward. If you could draw a life at random from all of human history, what […]

Privacy-friendly and lightweight analytics for WordPress sites Valuable insights without tracking your visitors. No cookies, no consent banner, no GDPR issues, no data transfer agreements.

A few months ago I started working on WordPal, a module that would make it possible to convert WordPress block themes into Drupal themes. It was very rough back then, and now it works. The results are pretty good, better than I would have expected. That's a testament to the […]

But a friend online had a different answer: "tildes are only ever properly used in front of usernames on shared hosting." And that answer sent Ford back to the 90s, because back then, homepages existed at URLs like CyberFox.net/~vixen. In the essay he wrote about what happened next, he put […]

One binary.A whole fediverse server. littleFedi is a small ActivityPub server written in Go. It ships as a single static executable with a server-rendered web interface, a Mastodon-compatible client API, a durable federation queue, moderation tools, and optional PostgreSQL and S3 support. No runtime to install, no services to wire […]

Advanced Free AI Speech Recognition with Whisper Web Whisper Web transcribes audio in 99 languages with Whisper-powered AI. Free mode processes files locally in your browser using WebGPU or WebAssembly. free for 20 minute audio.

Data visualizations are not just windows into the world, but communicative acts that frame reality from particular vantage points. They can raise questions, provoke reflection, and open up complex issues for debate, but they can also mislead, manipulate, or marginalize. This atlas holds an expanding body of work about the […]

Pick a snail and get comfortable. It's a long race and overtakes are rare, but the snails are taking it extremely seriously, so the least you can do is watch. Unless, of course, you happen to know how to encourage one. Snail racing is a genuine sport, and a wonderfully […]

A static site generator for video publishing. Build and publish video sites, from single videos to large archives. No database, no programming, no maintenance required. Compatible with virtually every webhost on this planet. See example https://dorninger.servus.at/videos/

Before Hackernews, before Twitter, before blogs, before the web had been spun, when the internet was just four universities in a trenchcoat, there was *BYTE*. A monthly mainline of the entire personal computing universe, delivered on dead trees for a generation of hackers. Running from September 1975 to July 1998, […]

A lightweight, browser-based editor for building reveal.js presentations. Decks live in your browser—nothing is uploaded. Made by Mark Sample @samplereality Source code: github.com/samplereality/small-reveal

It is hard to represent our spherical world on a flat piece of paper. Cartographers use something called a "projection" to morph the globe into a 2D map. The most popular of these is the Mercator projection. Every map projection introduces distortion, and each has its own set of problems. […]

This is a slow collaborative painting. Everyone gets one stroke a day: pick an empty cell, pick a colour, place it. Nothing can be undone. Each stroke is small on its own. Together, the strokes form one public artwork shaped by everyone who visits. When the grid is full, the […]