#web-development

• The Most Exciting Design Systems Are Boring

  https://nikolas.ws/boring-design-systems

• Project Managing Conceptual Labor

  https://nikolas.ws/project-managing-conceptual-labor

• Blog Tag Game

  https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/01/blog-tag-game

  Tumblr-style tag game about blogging—I'd love if you join in!

• Accessibility is not an afterthought

  https://asterfialla.com/blog/accessibility-is-not-an-afterthought

• Map as Context

  https://nikolas.ws/map-as-context

• Soft Apps

  https://nikolas.ws/soft-apps

• Pattern Languages in Programming and Interface Design

  https://nikolas.ws/pattern-languages-in-programming

• A Quick Guide to Everything I Know about Webmentions

  https://reillyspitzfaden.com/digital-garden/tutorials/webmention-tutorial

  Collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! — using microformats to enrich your mentions; adding a webmention form; and parsing, displaying, and updating them with Eleventy, Netlify, and Bridgy.

• Towards an Ethical Web Development

  https://nikolas.ws/an-ethical-web-development

• A Grimoire of Shell Scripts

  https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/04/a-grimoire-of-shell-scripts

  Today I'm discussing my thoughts on “home-cooked” and “situated” software, and how that's inspired me to start a collection of useful script tools for myself.

• A Clean Start for the Web

  https://nikolas.ws/clean-start-for-the-web

• How to Design While Developing

  https://nikolas.ws/how-to-design-while-developing

• The Design System Between Us

  https://nikolas.ws/the-design-systems-between-us

• Is Progressive Enhancement Dead Yet?

  https://nikolas.ws/is-progressive-enhancement-dead-yet

• I Would Rather Spend an Evening on a Web Scraper than Use Your App

  https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/05/i-would-rather-spend-an-evening-on-a-web-scraper-than-use-your-app

  My Swedish textbook publisher wanted me to listen to audio examples on their site or in their app. I had other ideas.

• Paper Maps, Web Maps, Good Maps

  https://nikolas.ws/paper-maps-good-maps

• Everything Easy is Hard Again

  https://nikolas.ws/everything-easy

• A Quick Guide to Everything I Know about Webmentions

  https://reillyspitzfaden.com/wiki/tutorials/webmention-tutorial

  Collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! — using microformats to enrich your mentions; adding a webmention form; and parsing, displaying, and updating them with Eleventy, Netlify, and Bridgy.

• The Performance Inequality Gap

  https://nikolas.ws/the-performance-inequality-gap

• john hall codes

  https://johnhall.codes

  Hey guess what: I do webstuff.

Bookmarked

• https://maggieappleton.com/pattern-languages

• https://briefs.video/videos/is-progressive-enhancement-dead-yet/

• https://infrequently.org/2021/03/the-performance-inequality-gap/

• https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-design-systems-between-us

• https://frankchimero.com/blog/2018/everything-easy/

• https://bigmedium.com/ideas/boring-design-systems.html

• https://macwright.com/2020/08/22/clean-starts-for-the-web.html