Posts and notes from Nick Simson

In her talk for PixelPalooza 2025 today, Jen Looper shared her thoughts on the personal web in the age of AI, referencing Marcel Proust, the Dark Forest and the Cozy Web, online communities and inclusion, Useless Websites, and a ton more.

R.I.P.

Algorithmically, I thought I should know Peel Dream Magazine by now.

I spent a good chunk of the morning listening to the Rebuilding soundtrack, which came out today and I think will be a part of my “music for getting work done” rotation.

Bookmarked Implementing Netlify’s Image CDN by Jim Nielsen.

Only in the Year of Our Lord 2025, did I learn about scriptorium@christdesert, a web design service run by Benedictine monks in remote New Mexico in the 1990s.

Bookmarked Programming principles for self taught front-end developers by Kilian Valkhof.

Bookmarked A Quick Guide to Everything I Know about Webmentions by Reilly Spitzfaden.

Early this morning, I edited yesterday’s post on Understanding Comics to remove a chunk about the Cracker Barrel logo backlash, meme culture, and AI generated comic strips.

In my youth, I lived and breathed cartoons, comics, and animation.

Bookmarked The Good Internet – Director’s Cut by Sacha Judd.

From what is anisota.net?

Bookmarked Your Website Owes You Money by Fictive Kin.

Bookmarked Color Scheming by Chris Burnell.

Bookmarked I ♥︎ NY Type curated by Anthony Polanco on Are.na.

Bookmarked Delivery Is a Visibility Problem by Ron Bronson.

Barry Petchesky, on Game 7 of the 2025 World Series for Defector: Baseball makes you feel bad… I mean that baseball at its best, when the beats are on rhythm and when the high notes are hit, can be downright torture to watch.

Bookmarked A Vernacular Web by Olia Lialina.

Bookmarked Visualizing NYC Broadband by Will Luckman.

Bookmarked The Sita Collection by Order Type Foundry.

Bookmarked “Ultralight” with Laurel Schwulst.

Equator is a brand new magazine, focused on politics, culture, and art.

Bookmarked fluck.site by Fearless Living Under Creative Knowledge S.L.

Leon, arguing for collectives, not more tech: So, a starting point for collective blogging is a pool of folk with a range of skills to set up websites.

Bookmarked Are.na Search by Henry Zhu.

I wrote a bit about the 1995 film Hackers as a visual time capsule of 1990s cyberculture.

I need a handle, man.

Bookmarked Tiny Content Framework by Nicole Fenton.

Charles Broskoski on Personal Business: A Personal Business is run by people who are truly into what they are doing, and invested enough to offer products, services, and/or experiences that are both high-quality and idiosyncratic.

I’ve been seeing a couple of HTML + CSS zine layouts making the rounds online recently.

Enjoyed this conversation with Rudy Fraser about Blacksky Algorithms and decentralized tech, on Bridget Todd’s podcast There Are No Girls On The Internet: Can BlackSky Fix What Twitter Broke Using Bluesky Tech?

Frank Chimero, on Creative agency in the AI landscape: Thinking of AI as an instrument recenters the focus on practice.

Last night I drew this inflatable frog suit guy for a mass demonstration today because I guess this is what resistance looks like now?

Bookmarked PlainLangauge.gov (archived) by Alt 18F.

Bookmarked Indice by Automattic.

Bookmarked A Brief History of Every Team in NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) by Gaijin Baseball.

The next thing I may do to expand Typo.town is to start a collection of free fonts that aren’t on Google Fonts.

I just posted my 100th song to Crucial Tracks!

Of all the type foundries out there, I like reading Klim’s release notes the most.

For those wondering, Blacksky’s migration guide works pretty well.

Bookmarked Migrating to Blacksky PDS: Complete Guide by Blacksky Algorithms.

I went to my first ABQ Zine Fest today.

This!

I signed up to back Last Night at Lounge Ax, a documentary film project on Kickstarter.

Eleanor brought home an April issue of The Atlantic from the library, which featured an excellent story called “The Girls of Summer” by Kaitlyn Tiffany.

Second person birds Stored up in a turquoise milk crate Heavy-handed heartache Beat three times A pearl snap pocket flap Headed for the heights Hankerin’ for a cafe tray The screenplay screams out for a change of scene Find a way out, rainbow trout Second…

In the late 1990s, Steve Burns hosted a children’s television show called Blue’s Clues.

The day you get Bandcamp notifications from Horsegirl and Ratboys within minutes of each other.

A post by Miriam Suzanne: There’s one CSS ‘rule’ I always come back to – the heart of what I’m calling Poetic CSS: What are we trying to express, and how clearly can we express it?

Brian Merchant recently collected responses from artists, illustrators, and graphic designers for his “AI Killed My Job” feature.