Nebula Sans is the new brand typeface for Nebula, the premium streaming service from independent creators. Based on Source Sans and designed to be a drop-in alternative to Whitney SSm, Nebula Sans is available for anyone to use under the SIL Open Font License.

I’ve always liked Whitney - I mocked up an early version of this site using it - but with a $2,400 license fee, it’s just a tad outside my budget for a small personal blog.

If after all those years of using your Mac you are still fighting with Finder to get it to behave as you wish, look no further, FinderFix will get it to open every new window in the exact same position and size you want it to.

The inability for Finder to remember what size I want my windows to open at has long been an annoyance. This seems to fix that pretty well.

Great little tool for making pretty screenshots. Drag and drop in any screenshot and you can play with borders/background colours/etc.

HTML isn’t only for people working in the tech field. It’s for anybody, the way documents are for anybody. HTML is just another type of document. A very special one—the one the web is built on.

Browsing the internet used to be a hobby of mine. Ever since my dad got us a modem when I was around ten, I spent hours at a time just looking at different websites. The internet felt like a limitless expanse of free expression. Now, despite how many more people use the internet, I usually end up at the same three or four websites, and I end up a lot more bored.

Rediculously expensive, but you can’t deny the engineering is impressive.

Great little privacy-focused Google Analytics alternative with a very sensible pricing model.

QGDPR-compliant with no cookies or user-identifiable data storage. Securely hosted in Europe for your peace of mind.

I’ve installed it on this site (not that there’s much traffic to analyse!).

I stumbled on this when I was looking for ‘safe’ word lists for using on Pass3words.

Really good deep-dive.

The truth is, if you want to build the most-accessible product possible, you need to use both pixels and ems/rems. It’s not an either/or situation. There are circumstances where rems are more accessible, and other circumstances where pixels are more accessible.

P.S. I really like Josh’s website, fairly simple design but so much attention to detail.

Huge thanks to Aaro Luomanen for this post, this was my starting point for generating OG images on this site when I moved to Hugo.

There are a bunch of cloud services that offer og:image generation, like Cloudinary or Vercel’s og, but I didn’t want to pay for those. I want my whole website to be static and cheap to host. I managed to generate some sweet og:images using Hugo’s image manipulation tools.

Love this. Drop in any image, get an instant side by side comparison slider, and a download link for the optimsed file showing size savings. Free, open source and the images never leave your computer.

It’s time to rethink how we cook a set of favicons for modern browsers and stop the icon generator madness. Frontend developers currently have to deal with 20+ static PNG files just to display a tiny website logo in a browser tab or on a touchscreen.

A guide on what you need (and only what you need) when it comes to generating favicon files for your site. Handy if you want to roll your own, instead of using the generator sites.

Add a touch of your inner self to your every day with the Touch series mouse. Embrace a calming soft almond color palette or a soft grey base with warm orange highlights.

I love the retro look of this thing.

The Movie Database (TMDB) is a community built movie and TV database. Every piece of data has been added by our amazing community dating back to 2008. TMDB’s strong international focus and breadth of data is largely unmatched and something we’re incredibly proud of. Put simply, we live and breathe community and that’s precisely what makes us different.

Great alternative to the Amazon owned IMDB. Really nicely designed site and very well populated.

Really handy for pulling text-based 2FA codes from Apple Messages on your Mac ready to paste. This can be done natively on macOS in Safari, but is not supported in other browsers.