Link Dump 05 - January 2025
— published on 15·01·25I could talk about the boom of migrations from Meta's platforms to Mastodon or Pixelfed, but I already do on my Mastodon profile so instead I'll link to more interesting stuff.
On this month's menu: CSS tricks, typography, the personal and handcrafted web
CSS
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ComiCSS makes short comics using only HTML and CSS!
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Panorama de techniques CSS (FR) parfois méconnues par les designers, à garder en tête et se rappeler des astuces
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A new CSS property called text-box-trim looks promising
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Capsize CSS does the thing above but makes it available for browsers that don't support the feature yet
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Roman Komarov's blog on CSS experiments and advancements for this beautiful language
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Pseudo-random CSS with the Cicada Principle - use
:nth-child
with prime numbers to make stuff look randomly styled!
Personal & handcrafted web
- Netlibre propose des noms de domaine gratuit pour toustes!
- How To Make A Damn Website teaches you that you don't need a Wordpress installation or Cargo, just HTML for now
- Exploring the Personal Web all from one starting point - this article!
- A Personal Web Mind Map with a ton of links to start your journey
Typography
- F%NT is a grid-based font-making tool by Benoit Wimart
- Public Type Works presents a new model for compensation of libre typographers: crowdsourcing fonts until a goal is reached and they're made free.
Bonus
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Les Conférences Gesticulées proposent des prises de paroles publiques par des gens qui incarnent leur sujet pour entretenir une éducation populaire.
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You can move your Insta posts to Pixelfed very easily because developer
@dansup
is amazing -
Libre Graphics Meeting 2025 will be held in Nuremberg in the end of May

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