Richard MacManus has started a blog about “Web Development History”.

He says

As the name suggests, it’ll be an ongoing chronicle of internet history — but from a development perspective.

⇾ Visit: Web Development History

Ahmad Shadeed has written a very useful and insightful article about which option you have got to deal with text that is placed over an image, using CSS.

⇾ Visit: Handling Text Over Images in CSS

Toggling light mode to dark mode is not simply inverting colors or making everything that is white black and vice versa. There are lots of things to consider, when creating a dark mode for your website. It also is not simply a design decision, but can be very useful. Robin Rendle explains why …

⇾ Visit: Building Dark Mode

“How to Favicon in 2021: Six files that fit most needs” – Andrey Sitnik about a smarter approach to use a minimal set of icons instead of a huge list of files (via Manuel Matuzović).

⇾ Visit: How to Favicon in 2021

I really do like Tuna, as stated in an earlier post, in which I tested Tuna for my beyond tellerrand Website. I also bought Pulpo and used it at my events – on printed materials as well as on screen at the main stage.

Now Felix Braden released a new contemporary sans serif family he called Arpona Sans, which is – like he says – inspired by the work of Edward Johnston and Eric Gill for London Underground.

Arpona Sans is a versatile font, usable for branding, in editorial design, as well as for web and app design. If you take a look on the microsite for Arpona Sans, you can see a few examples for Arpona Sans in use and can have a look how it even plays quite well in running text. Next to this you’ll find much more background about the creation process, which is lovely to read.

Right now you can grab your own copy of the family at MyFonts for 60% off (until April 18th). If you are using Adobe’s Creative Cloud, you can use it included in your Creative Cloud license.

Links:

• Arpona Sans microsite
• Arpona Sans on MyFonts with 60% off until April 18th, 2021

In a longer interview with the Spin Magazine, Ian MacKaye of the band Fugazi was asked why they only charge five bucks for their concerts. Part of what he said was …

For five bucks we could suck. Because we are human and we do suck sometimes.

I like that.

Anselm, Tobias and Holger started Colloq to fill a gap that appeared when Lanyrd wasn’t maintained anymore and filled with spam posts. I sadly felt, what happened now for the last couple of months: Colloq says good bye and is closing in March 2021.

⇾ Visit: Colloq is Closing Down

Andy Baio, who spoke at beyond tellerrand in the early days and co-organised XOXO for 7 year, was “Frustrated with the state of virtual event platforms[…]”, so he started working on one and called it Skittish.

Exciting to see, where this leads to.

⇾ Visit: Andy Baio Working on a New Virtual Event Platform – Skittish

A few months ago James Victore was speaking about when you could feel old. Answer is here btw..

Today I watched a video that targets a similar topic. Vic Lee speaks about how people are too afraid of starting something new as they think with 45 or even 55 you are too old. But are you really? You’ll never find out until you try.

Have a look and share the motivating message.

Very much looking forward to continue my online event series I called Stay Curious and which is for the beyond tellerrand Community. Tonight with Carla Diana and Brendan Dawes.

⇾ Visit: Looking Forward to Tonight’s Show with Carla Diana and Brendan Dawes