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zeldman.bsky.social
Free family of hyperlegible® fonts designed to improve legibility and readability for people with low vision.

H/t @fredgatesdesign.bsky.social.

www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
www.brailleinstitute.org
January 9, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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davewalker.bsky.social
Latest issue of Diagram Club, my cartoon-based newsletter (No 68).

- The newsletter is pivoting
- A new feature is revealed
- One reason for optimism in 2026
- Also I have a new hat

diagramclub.substack.com/p/068-one-re...
Two figures holding banner saying ‘appy ew ear’, the h, n and y from the beginning of each word having fallen to the floor.
January 7, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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davewalker.bsky.social
Restarting this little project.
budgetcycling.bsky.social Budget Cycling @budgetcycling.bsky.social · 12d
Hello world. Thought I’d start this up again, and on Bluesky. Summary: Tips for cycling on a budget.
January 4, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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ariaa.bsky.social
My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜
January 3, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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davewalker.bsky.social
Link (Amazon UK): amzn.to/4pSA2ym

Also available on Amazon US, Europe, etc, by searching ‘Household Problems’.
Amazon.co.uk
amzn.to
December 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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davewalker.bsky.social
News! A new book. Household Problems: Domestic Incompetence in Diagrams. It’s a collection of more than 44 cartoons, as seen in my Diagram Club newsletter. A bit late in the year? Sure, but still available for Christmas delivery. Amazon UK link: amzn.to/4pSA2ym
(available internationally too)
Book with title Household Problems - Domestic Incompetence in Diagrams. By Dave Walker. Colours are purple and teal. Black and white pictures - someone sweeping stuff under a rug, a printer with a sad face, some trays that don’t stack, a spilled drink, and someone tripping over something.
December 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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bmhughes.bsky.social
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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davewalker.bsky.social
Without trying to be too Black Friday about things, (but, let's face it, failing), today's the ideal day to buy someone a cycle cartoon gift from my shop. There's free UK postage and 10% off with code TAKE10 davewalkershop.com
Graphic saying 'New at dvaewalkershop.com'. There's a picture of a Christmas t-shirt and jumper, a t-shirt for children, and a mug. All of the products have cycling cartoons on them, such as Santa riding a bike, or bicycle design with text 'this machine fights climate change'.
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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adactio.com
Journal: Why use React?

Or, more precisely, why use React *in the browser*?

🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22265
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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jeremias.codes
I wanted to write about this for a long time, but @adactio.com did it first and definitely better. Web frameworks should be invisible to the user, they serve us developers. Users don't care, and shouldn't pay the price neither.
Why use React?
Or, more precisely, why use React *in the browser*?
adactio.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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matthogg.fyi
“I think that most developers have the mental model of JavaScript frameworks completely backwards. They believe that the framework saves them time and effort …. Instead these frameworks are simply limiting the possibility space of what you can do in web browsers today.”

adactio.com/journal/22235
Providers
Web browsers provide you with great features for free. Why would you choose to use tools that stop you taking advantage of that?
adactio.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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bell.bz
bringing this one back because it shouldn't die with twitter
A dude pouring a hilariously over-sized olive oil bottle over a normal sized bowl of salad leaves. He is captioned as developers and the oil is captioned as JavaScript. The salad is captioned as website
November 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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dbushell.com
adactio.com/journal/22235

☝️ wise words in this link
Providers
Web browsers provide you with great features for free. Why would you choose to use tools that stop you taking advantage of that?
adactio.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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davewalker.bsky.social
Latest newsletter posted. In Diagram Club #061:
- Why houseplants die (no idea)
- Photographs from my week (annotated)
- Why painted cycle lanes aren’t generally worthwhile
- Hand-drawn paragraph breaks as usual
- [Paid] Updates from China

diagramclub.substack.com/p/061-please...
#061 Please assemble in the telephone box
I don't know why your houseplants die / White paint (waste of)
diagramclub.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
stillbreathing.bsky.social
Saw this and thought of @robbsutherland.bsky.social. I believe that this frieze in Notre Dame in Paris is saying that after his resurrection Jesus appeared in a Punch & Judy show.
Medieval frieze in Notre Dame, Paris, showing several figures in the window of a building, which looks like a Punch & Judy show.
October 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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davewalker.bsky.social
Part 2 of my visit to China. Welcomed incredibly warmly, amazing book launch event, filming the TEDx talk that couldn’t happen, finding my second-favourite cafe in the world (etc). open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...
#057 From China, part two: Taiyuan
Making movies / The book event
open.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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codepo8.bsky.social
Idea Instructions is a web site showing computing algorithms as @ikea non-verbal instructions.
idea-instructions.com/binary-search/
BINÄRY SEARCH
Binary search is a fast algorithm for finding the position of a value within a sorted array. It reflects the way people intuitively guess numbers by repeatedly asking Is your number bigger or smaller ...
idea-instructions.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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csswizardry.com
This is one of the best talks I’ve ever seen. Give it 20 minutes of your weekend.
scott.hanselman.com Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · Jul 17
Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.

I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
youtu.be
September 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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bylinesnetwork.co.uk
Advocacy and hope at Greenbelt 2025

This year’s Greenbelt Festival brought together art, activism and hope, and stood for justice and solidarity with Palestine amid global turmoil

By Jonathan Stirling

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
@greenbeltfestival.bsky.social
Advocacy and hope at Greenbelt 2025
This year’s Greenbelt Festival brought together art, activism and hope, and stood for justice and solidarity with Palestine amid global turmoil
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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davewalker.bsky.social
New diagram: Pep talk
Diagram with two axes. On vertical axis: 'Have got' at top, 'Have not got' at bottom. On horizontal axis: 'That' on left, 'This' on right. The key underneath says X = You. The X is in the top right of the diagram, next to 'Have got', and 'This'.
August 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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donnafontenot.com
People say “I miss the old web.” So I built something new that revives what worked back then and fixes what didn’t.

Here’s how I rebuilt webrings for 2025:

webringstudio.com/we-dont-just...

#indieweb #webrings #nostalgia #rebuildingtheweb
We Don’t Just Miss Webrings - We Fixed Them - Webring Studio
Webrings died for a reason. We fixed it. No dead ends. No loops. Just a better way to connect sites that belong together.
webringstudio.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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robbsutherland.bsky.social
I have been way too busy to update my blog lately. I just managed to grab a few moments to share the video in which I shared my thoughts on Low Income Communities Funding with #GeneralSynod.
Talking Low Income Communities at General Synod
My words about Low Income Communities Funding from Saturday’s session of General Synod.
www.robbsutherland.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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zeldman.bsky.social
“But good DX doesn’t guarantee good UX. In fact, it’s often the opposite. Because the more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for.”

h/t @piermario.bsky.social 3/3
JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.
www.jonoalderson.com
July 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
The Internet Archive has rolled out an extremely effective new tool for searching for old Geocities GIFs.

I'd apologize for what I'm about to do to this website as a result, but that would be a lie, because I won't feel sorry at all

gifcities.org
GifCities
gifcities.org
June 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
stillbreathing.bsky.social
My wife says I eat scones in a weird way. But I see nothing weird about putting the cream on first then the marmite.
May 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM