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  • Isometry

    A Website by Nick Trombley
    isometry.netlify.app
    Screenshot of isometry.netlify.app on 2020-08-26 at 2.26.28 PM.png
    1. ​​The doctrine of salvation by blocks​​
    2. ​​Ad Reinhardt​​
    3. ​​Untitled Procreate Sketch #1​​
    4. ​​13. Ulam's Staircase​​
    5. ​​12. Rule Thirty​​
    1. ​​Cityspace series​​
    2. ​​Plus Equals #4​​
    3. ​​Little Blank Riding Hood​​
    • geometry
    • art
    • drawing
    • microsites
  • patternsof.design

    A Website by Nick Trombley
    patternsof.design
    Screenshot of patternsof.design on 2020-08-26 at 2.30.29 PM.png
    1. ​​A Pattern Language​​
    2. ​​The Timeless Way of Building​​
    • patterns
    • microsites
  • maya.land

    A Website by Maya Kate
    maya.land
    Screenshot of maya.land on 2021-11-17 at 1.39.00 PM.png

    an old-school blogroll, now with banners 😎

    • microsites
    • commonplace
  • Every element is an html.

    A Website by Katherine Yang
    whykatherine.github.io
    Screenshot of whykatherine.github.io on 2022-05-21 at 2.12.55 PM.png
    • microsites
    • html
  • home sweet homepage

    A Website by Amy Wibowo
    sailorhg.com
    Screenshot of sailorhg.com on 2022-05-21 at 2.07.04 PM.png

    a comic about growing up online

    • nostalgia
    • microsites
    • whimsy
  • Good Things

    A Website by Melanie Richards
    goodthings.melanie-richards.com
    1. ​​If I had The Sads​​
    1. ​​Thanks Doc​​
    • beauty
    • life
    • happiness
    • microsites
    • collections

    A personal compilation of good sensory things in life.

  • 155-217-155

    A Website by Nick Trombley
    155-217-155.netlify.app
    Screenshot of 155-217-155.com on 2020-08-26 at 2.29.20 PM.png
    1. ​​Haiku 2018–2019​​
    • poetry
    • love
    • zen
    • haiku
    • microsites
  • e-worm.club

    A Website by Zach Sherman
    e-worm.club
    Screenshot of e-worm.club on 2021-04-03 at 8.31.17 AM.png

    I’m building a custom pleroma client so that my friends and I can have a cute, self-hosted social network to post about politics and art. Besides being much more visually interesting than our facebook messenger groupchat, e-worm also attempts to solve design problems around conversational, collaborative thinking. The biggest of these problems is the inherent ephemerality of our groupchat— it doesn’t really succeed as a collaborative thinking space because it has no long-term memory. When messages are constantly buried under new ones, it places the burden on us to remember previous conversations. So the ultimate design goal for e-worm is to create a self-archiving conversational interface that preserves thought and helps us keep thinking new things rather than going in intellectual circles.

    • microsites
    • communication
    • thinking
  • drawing.garden

    A Website by Ben Moren
    drawing.garden
    Screenshot of drawing.garden on 2020-08-16 at 1.59.18 PM.png

    Gardening, but with emojis and less time.

    1. ​​A Brief History of the Digital Garden​​
    2. ​​emojraw.glitch.me (draw!)​​
    • sound
    • www
    • fun
    • joy
    • microsites
    • gardens
  • Marginalia Search

    A Website
    search.marginalia.nu

    I want to show you that that Internet you used to go exploring is still very much there. There are still tons of small personal websites, and a wealth of long form text from both the past and the present.

    So it's a search engine. It's perhaps not the greatest at finding what you already knew was there, instead it is designed to help you find some things you didn't even know you were looking for.

    1. ​​The art of finding what you didn’t know you were looking for​​
    2. ​​In Defense of Browsing​​
    3. ​​Million Short​​
    • microsites
    • search
    • discovery
    • serendipity
  • emojraw.glitch.me (draw!)

    A Website by Shannon Lin
    emojraw.glitch.me
    Screenshot of emojraw.glitch.me on 2021-04-02 at 10.23.31 AM.png
    1. ​​drawing.garden​​
    • microsites
    • whimsy
  • minimator.app

    An Application
    minimator.app
    CBBAB919-9209-468D-8A1C-76CBCC3A60CA.jpeg

    Minimator is a minimalist graphical editor.

    All drawings are made of lines in a grid based canvas. The lines are limited to vertical and horizontal lines, and quarter circles.

    • drawing
    • microsites
    • art

    Sol Lewitt vibes.

  • Looseleaf

    A Website
    rmo.zkm.de
    685BB98C-E3D6-4ADB-BD5D-CF7850B6DD26.jpeg
    1. ​​In search of visual texture​​
    • microsites
    • information
  • picnic.lectoro.me

    A Website by Renan Le Caro
    picnic.lecaro.me
    F98BB7EE-419D-494F-B079-C24FA9CEDC61.jpeg

    Create a text document, share the link and edit it with friends.

    • collaboration
    • microsites
  • Can I include?

    A Website
    caninclude.glitch.me

    This site helps you understand which tag you can include in another using the WHATWG HTML specification.

    • microsites
    • html
  • How I experience the web today

    A Website
    how-i-experience-web-today.com
    Screenshot of how-i-experience-web-today.com on 2021-08-24 at 7.30.50 PM.png
    1. ​​User Inyerface​​
    • ux
    • www
    • microsites
  • LoveFrom,

    A Website
    www.lovefrom.com
    Screenshot of www.lovefrom.com on 2021-10-16 at 3.56.21 PM.png
    LoveFrom,
    is a creative
    collective.
    • microsites
    • craft
    • art
  • press.stripe.com

    A Website
    press.stripe.com
    Screenshot of press.stripe.com on 2021-10-16 at 3.46.59 PM.png

    Stripe partners with millions of the world’s most innovative businesses. These businesses are the result of many different inputs. Perhaps the most important ingredient is “ideas.”

    Stripe Press highlights ideas that we think can be broadly useful. Some books contain entirely new material, some are collections of existing work reimagined, and others are republications of previous works that have remained relevant over time or have renewed relevance today.

    • books
    • microsites
    • interfaces
    • visualization
  • Make Frontend Shit Again

    A Website by Sara Vieira
    makefrontendshitagain.party
    Screenshot of makefrontendshitagain.party on 2021-10-16 at 3.39.53 PM.png

    We used to make websites because it was fun but at some point, we lost the way.

    We need to make dumb shit!
    Make useless stuff;
    make the web fun again!

    • www
    • microsites

    I find it a little ironic that a website so nostalgic for the days of Geocities and FTP is built with a modern JS framework like Nuxt. Still fun though.

  • Things that don't scale

    An Article by Benedict Evans
    www.ben-evans.com
    Image from www.ben-evans.com on 2021-10-10 at 10.23.17 AM.jpeg

    Maybe the internet is due for a wave of things that don’t scale at all. In that light, I’ve been fascinated by ‘Morioka Shoten’ in Tokyo - a bookshop that sells only one book at a time. This is retail as anti-logistics - as a reaction against the firehose, and the infinite replication of Amazon. Before the internet that would only work in a very dense city, but, again, the internet is the densest city on earth, so how far do we scale the unscalable?

    1. ​​Morioka Shoten​​
    2. ​​Stepping out of the firehose​​
    • scale
    • www
    • business
    • craft
    • microsites
  • AJDVIV

    A Website
    architectenjdviv.com
    Screenshot of architectenjdviv.com on 2021-10-09 at 8.55.44 AM.png
    • microsites
    • interfaces

    An experimental, spreadsheet-style interface for a German architectural practice. Kids, don't try this at home.

  • SeriesHeat

    A Website by Jim Vallandingham
    vallandingham.me
    Screenshot of vallandingham.me on 2021-10-06 at 12.44.30 PM.png

    Search for a TV Series to see a heatmap of average IMDb ratings for each episode.

    • microsites
    • visualization
  • Kicks Condor: barnsworthburning

    An Article by Kicks Condor
    www.kickscondor.com
    Screenshot of www.kickscondor.com on 2021-08-29 at 11.57.31 AM.png

    Directories aren’t surging. There isn’t this nascent directory movement fomenting - ready to take on the world. Directories aren’t trending.

    But there is a certainly really sweet little directory community now. From the Marijn-inspired stuff listed in Directory Uprising to the link-sharing ‘yesterweb’ collected around sadgrl.online - or the originals at Indieseek and i.webthings.

    Barnsworthburning (by Nick Trombley) is a very formidable addition to this community - a clean, multilayered design and an innovative bidirectional index.

    1. ​​barnsworthburning.net​​
    2. ​​Some Things: Laurel Schwulst​​
    • notetaking
    • microsites
    • i
    • indexes

    Just want to say: HOLY SHIT I WAS LINKED BY THE KICKS CONDOR. And not just as a "here check out this cool link", but as a thoughtfully written review that describes much of this site better than I could myself.

    This is a big deal for me.

  • So many little design helper sites!

    An Article by Chris Coyier
    css-tricks.com
    Image from css-tricks.com on 2021-09-29 at 11.41.35 AM.png

    I’m sure y’all find these things just as useful as I do. They don’t make us lazy, they make us efficient. I know how to make a pattern. I know how to draw a curve with a Pen Tool. I know how to convert SVG into JSX. But using a dedicated tool makes me faster and better at it. And sometimes I don’t know how to do those things, but that doesn’t mean I can’t take advantage. Fake it ’til you make it, right?

    • microsites
    • tools
    • css
    • html
  • Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours

    A Website by Nicholas Rougeux
    www.c82.net
    C75859E1-8F80-4157-A3CF-884F771C73D2.jpeg

    A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook with new cross references, photographic examples, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux.

    • color
    • microsites
  • The Whimsical Web

    A Website by Max Böck
    whimsical.club
    Screenshot of whimsical.club on 2020-09-02 at 3.30.46 PM.png

    A curated list of sites with an extra bit of fun.

    • whimsy
    • fun
    • microsites
    • collections
  • Funcooker

    A Website
    funcooker.fun
    Screenshot of funcooker.fun on 2021-08-29 at 3.35.16 AM.png
    • microsites
    • whimsy

    Search almost every episode of 30 Rock by keyword.

  • User Inyerface

    A Website
    userinyerface.com
    Screenshot of userinyerface.com on 2021-08-24 at 7.32.15 PM.png

    A worst-practice UI experiment.

    1. ​​How I experience the web today​​
    • interfaces
    • ux
    • microsites
  • SEA — SEASONS

    A Website by Melanie Richards
    seasons.melanie-richards.com
    Screenshot of seasons.melanie-richards.com on 2021-08-19 at 1.50.24 PM.png

    With the many distractions life has to offer, it is all too easy to let the seasons slip by and wonder where an entire year has gone. This site is an effort to observe the seasons with intentionality. Each season documents ways to observe the moment, pulling often from pagan traditions.

    • seasons
    • microsites
  • Lizzo's Juice Shop

    A Website
    www.blameitonmyjuice.com
    Screenshot of www.blameitonmyjuice.com on 2021-07-15 at 1.38.54 PM.png
    • microsites
    • whimsy
  • This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine

    An Article by Leon Bambrick
    secretgeek.github.io
    Screenshot of secretgeek.github.io on 2020-12-24 at 1.26.04 PM.png

    I decided to make a truly naked, brutalist html page, that is itself a quine. And this page is it.

    Viewing the source of this page should reveal a page identical to the page you are now seeing. Nothing is hidden. It's a true "What you see is what you get."

    1. ​​Herb Quine Interviews Herb Quine​​
    • microsites
    • html
    • css
    • brutalism
  • littlebigdetails

    A Blog by Floris Dekker
    littlebigdetails.com

    Little Big Details is a curated collection of the finer details of design.

    As Charles & Ray Eames put it:

    “The details are not the details; they make the product.”

    This is intended to be a source of inspiration.

    Created and curated by Floris Dekker. Alumni: Andrew McCarthy.

    1. ​​Essential vs. nice to have​​
    • details
    • microsites
    • whimsy
    • design
  • Color Controversy

    A Website by Leo Robinovitch
    colorcontroversy.com
    Screenshot of colorcontroversy.com on 2020-10-08 at 9.32.58 AM.png

    So some friends and I were talking about colors one day and how we all see colors a bit differently and how that's neat.

    But is there a color that is interpreted differently THE MOST? Is there a most controversial color? Well, (if I contrive an ongoing survey and collect data about it), the answer is yes, of course!

    • color
    • vision
    • perception
    • microsites
  • this vs. that

    A Website by Phuoc Nguyen
    thisthat.dev
    • code
    • html
    • css
    • microsites

    A gallery of examples comparing two similar but different front-end concepts.

  • If we were allowed to visit

    A Poetry Collection
    ianmaclarty.itch.io
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    If We Were Allowed To Visit is an anthology of poems by Gemma Mahadeo rendered by Ian MacLarty.

    As you move through the game's environment, the poems are rearranged into the shapes of the objects they're about, each frame becoming a new generative poem.

    1. ​​Concrete poetry​​
    • poetry
    • games
    • microsites
  • When all of my friends are on at once

    A Website by Laurel Schwulst
    allmyfriendsatonce.com
    Screenshot of allmyfriendsatonce.com on 2020-08-08 at 8.08.29 PM.png

    Memories of being online

    • adolescence
    • melancholy
    • nostalgia
    • microsites
  • tixy.land

    A Website
    tixy.land
    Screenshot of tixy.land on 2020-11-11 at 2.42.41 PM.png

    sin(t * x) * cos(t * y)

    Creative code golfing.

    • code
    • math
    • visualization
    • microsites
  • tree.fm

    A Website
    www.tree.fm

    Tune Into Forests From Around The World. Escape, Relax & Preserve.

    1. ​​Shinrin-yoku​​
    • sound
    • nature
    • trees
    • music
    • microsites
  • Games For Crows: Feels

    A Game
    gamesforcrows.itch.io
    Screenshot of gamesforcrows.itch.io on 2021-06-18 at 3.30.33 PM.png
    • whimsy
    • microsites
  • A Library Demand List

    A Website by Robin Sloan
    www.robinsloan.com

    This visualization takes the current New York Times Best Sellers list for combined print and e-book fiction and scales each title according to the demand for its e-book edition at a collection of U.S. public libraries, selected for their size and geographic diversity.

    • visualization
    • sound
    • microsites

    I wouldn't have found this single-use visualization particularly notable if not for the wonderful little sounds that play when you click on the different scaling buttons. I love that. More apps and websites should use (optional) sound. Unobtrusive, helpful feedback.

  • The small web is beautiful

    An Essay by Ben Hoyt
    benhoyt.com

    I believe that small websites are compelling aesthetically, but are also important to help us resist selling our souls to large tech companies. In this essay I present a vision for the “small web” as well as the small software and architectures that power it.

    1. ​​Why aim small?​​
    2. ​​Features and complexity​​
    3. ​​Solving the problem of software bloat​​
    4. ​​Raw size isn't enough​​
    1. ​​Rediscovering the Small Web​​
    • www
    • microsites
  • Telescopic Text

    A Website
    www.telescopictext.org

    telescopictext.org is an experimental tool for creating expanding texts. It is based on telescopictext.com.

    1. ​​Writing. By Tully Hansen​​
    • microsites
    • writing
  • sodelightful.com

    A Website by Christina Tran
    sodelightful.com
    Screenshot of sodelightful.com on 2021-03-02 at 12.39.44 PM.png
    Screenshot of sodelightful.com on 2021-03-02 at 12.39.55 PM.png
    Screenshot of sodelightful.com on 2021-03-02 at 12.39.44 PM.png

    I'm Christina Tran. If you want to trace the trails I've made in the world through the intermittent marks left on the interwebs, below is a map of my becoming in no particular order. But I also hope we get the chance to share a meal, explore nature, experience art, and/or create something together sometime. Because we are all multi-faceted, multi-dimensional beings who can't be TL;DR'd.

    • microsites
    • humanity
  • Simon Collison's timeline

    A Website by Simon Collison
    colly.com
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    Image from colly.com on 2020-12-14 at 9.50.40 AM.jpeg
    Image from colly.com on 2020-12-14 at 9.50.44 AM.jpeg
    Image from colly.com on 2020-12-14 at 9.50.35 AM.jpeg

    I’ve shaped this timeline over five months. It might look simple, but it most definitely was not. I liken it to chipping away at a block of marble, or the slow process of evolving a painting, or constructing a poem; endless edits, questions, doubling back, doubts. It was so good to have something meaty to get stuck into, but sometimes it was awful, and many times I considered throwing it away. Overall it was challenging, fun, and worth the effort.

    • www
    • history
    • microsites

    I feel exactly the same way about my own personal site.

  • Nested

    A Website
    orteil.dashnet.org
    Screenshot of orteil.dashnet.org on 2021-01-29 at 6.24.15 PM.png

    I have a secret for you

    A strange universe-expanding game that's been described as "whoah dude".

    Explore procedural galaxies, land on unknown planets, read the thoughts of every living thing, rummage through people's pockets, and more!

    • reality
    • recursion
    • microsites
  • ...and by islands I mean paragraphs

    A Website by J.R. Carpenter
    luckysoap.com
    Screenshot of luckysoap.com on 2021-01-14 at 9.46.49 AM.png

    Islands are possible only in literature. Topical islands are in a time without History. They are paragraphs. They are not part of the central body of the text. Isloated writing is always a testimonial. The castaway embodies the contradiction of beieng a speaker without a society.

    • seafaring
    • literature
    • loneliness
    • microsites
  • HTML Elements Memory Test

    A Website
    codepen.io
    Screenshot of codepen.io on 2020-12-18 at 9.08.45 AM.png

    My first attempt was 54. Not even half!

    How many HTML elements can you remember?

    • html
    • microsites
  • aboutfeeds.com

    A Website by Matt Webb
    aboutfeeds.com

    Use feeds to subscribe to websites and get the latest content in one place.

    Feeds put you in control. It’s like subscribing to a podcast, or following a company on Facebook. You don’t need to pay or hand over your email address. And you get the latest content without having to visit lots of sites, and without cluttering up your inbox. Had enough? Unsubscribe from the feed.

    You just need a special app called a newsreader.

    This site explains how to get started.

    1. ​​How would I improve RSS?​​
    • rss
    • blogging
    • microsites
  • The life and death of an internet onion

    A Website by Laurel Schwulst
    the-life-and-death-of-an-internet-onion.com
    Screenshot of the-life-and-death-of-an-internet-onion.com on 2020-08-08 at 8.52.57 PM.png

    In her piece "A drop of love in the cloud" (2018), artist Fei Liu writes about the like/heart button as a flattening affordance of giving affirmation and love. The text-editor provides a much more expressive input.

    But even people who can't communicate well because of language barriers can express love through actions, like cooking food. Can we create other "love inputs" that might allow us to "reach across the chasm of a seamless signal"?

    What is expressing "real" love or affirmation about? Is it about effort, thoughtfulness, generosity, something else? What might a thoughtful or generous interface feel or behave like?

    • love
    • communication
    • ux
    • www
    • microsites

See also:
  1. www
  2. whimsy
  3. html
  4. visualization
  5. sound
  6. ux
  7. art
  8. css
  9. interfaces
  10. collections
  11. fun
  12. love
  13. communication
  14. nostalgia
  15. poetry
  16. drawing
  17. code
  18. color
  19. craft
  20. beauty
  21. life
  22. happiness
  23. joy
  24. gardens
  25. adolescence
  26. melancholy
  27. zen
  28. haiku
  29. patterns
  30. rss
  31. blogging
  32. geometry
  33. details
  34. design
  35. history
  36. brutalism
  37. seafaring
  38. literature
  39. loneliness
  40. reality
  41. recursion
  42. humanity
  43. writing
  44. thinking
  45. nature
  46. trees
  47. music
  48. math
  49. vision
  50. perception
  51. games
  52. seasons
  53. notetaking
  54. i
  55. indexes
  56. tools
  57. scale
  58. business
  59. books
  60. search
  61. discovery
  62. serendipity
  63. commonplace
  64. collaboration
  65. information
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  2. Melanie Richards
  3. Laurel Schwulst
  4. Ben Moren
  5. Matt Webb
  6. Max Böck
  7. Floris Dekker
  8. Simon Collison
  9. Leon Bambrick
  10. J.R. Carpenter
  11. Christina Tran
  12. Ben Hoyt
  13. Robin Sloan
  14. Shannon Lin
  15. Zach Sherman
  16. Leo Robinovitch
  17. Phuoc Nguyen
  18. Kicks Condor
  19. Nicholas Rougeux
  20. Chris Coyier
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