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Five Links #108
July 30, 2026
1. Matthew Butterick’s font license I’m adding this to my list of great typography licenses: easy to understand, flexible and the fonts are reasonably...
Five Links #107
July 23, 2026
1. Real or fake deepfakes quiz This was a difficult quiz – I scored a little over half, but that was mostly guessing. 2. David Airey on Being Freelance When...
Five Links #106
July 16, 2026
1. ByeDoom A nice little tool to quickly grab RSS feeds: Add any public account from Instagram, Facebook, Substack, Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, X, TikTok or...
Five Links #105
July 9, 2026
1. Design Principles in Practice Make better design decisions when the right answer isn't obvious. 2. I believe in pixels In a world seemingly full of retina...
Five Links #104
July 2, 2026
1. Herbik This is a lovely serif typeface. 2. What if you said no? In the grand scheme of tech industry things to disagree with, this is a pretty low stakes...
Five Links #103
June 25, 2026
1. Finding curated public domain images A nice collection of resources that make the search for public domain images just a little better. 2. Are you in the...
Five Links #102
June 18, 2026
1. ∪ of Target Audiences (Accessibility, SEO, AEO/GEO) There’s a great Venn diagram at the end of this one: But SEO also drove bad accessibility practices,...
Five Links #101
June 11, 2026
1. I tracked down the thief who stole $200k of Lego This is an absolutely wild ride – stick with it. There’s a second part, too... 2. Pattern Breaking A...
Five Links #100
June 4, 2026
Hey, Welcome to issue #100. Thanks for being a subscriber and sticking with it. If you enjoy the newsletter, please share it with someone you think might...
Five Links #99
May 28, 2026
1. Geography is four-dimensional When someone speaks of a place, you have to ask, “When?” Geography is four-dimensional. You can’t know a place - only a...
Five Links #98
May 21, 2026
1. Strong opinions, loosely held — and what that means in the age of AI Here’s what I’ve started to notice. Teams using AI for analysis are arriving at...
Five Links #97
May 14, 2026
1. Drawers I’ve been a long-time MacOS Stage Manager user. I was drawn to it by the idea of grouping windows by project, but it doesn’t quite work like that...
Five Links #96
May 7, 2026
1. Contrast Triangle A useful tool to check the contrast across three colours (though I would always advocate to underline links). 2. In a blind test,...
Five Links #95
April 30, 2026
1. Is my blue your blue? This colour game shows where you perceive blue ends and green begins. 2. Do I belong in tech anymore? I encountered each of these...
Five Links #94
April 23, 2026
1. Train Jazz Not to be confused with Trane (as in Coltrane), this is a musical representation of real subway trains. 2. If you thought the speed of writing...
Five Links #93
April 15, 2026
1. What’s your attention worth This site roughly calculates what advertisers have spent tracking and targeting you with ads. 2. WCAG3 Contrast as of April...
Five Links #92
April 9, 2026
1. Am I a Tech Bro? Find out by answering these 18 questions. 2. VSCodium This community-driven Free/Libre Open Source version of VSCode is free from the...
Five Links #91
April 2, 2026
1. Making Software A wonderful project, explaining how technology works with brilliant diagrams. 2. Don’t post project briefs on LinkedIn Within 24 hours of...
Five Links #90
March 26, 2026
1. The shape of friction That conversation can be slow, yes. It can feel cumbersome, inconvenient, and inefficient. It’s the kind of conversation a well-...
Five Links #89
March 19, 2026
1. European Tech Map European alternatives to US providers across a wide range of software categories. 2. 100 jumps Another fun little internet game. 3....
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