The 100-Year Plan on WordPress.com
Some really interesting long-term thinking from Matt—it’ll be interesting to see the terms and conditions.
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Running Code Over Time – Eric’s Archived Thoughts
We should think of our code, even our designs, as running for decades, and alter our work to match.
Tinnitus Tracker
Rob has turned his exhaustive spreadsheet of all the concerts he has attended into a beautiful website. Browse around—it’s really quite lovely!
Rob’s also writing about the making of the site over on his blog.
10 Year Challenge: How Popular Websites Have Changed
Side by side screenshots of websites, taken ten years apart. The whitespace situation has definitely improved. It would be interesting to compare what the overall page weights were/are though.
Daily CSS Design
There are some lovely animations in this year-long challenge.
The idea behind Daily CSS Design is to create one responsive design every day for a whole year. All shapes, patterns and colors are made by coding.
What I Read in 2016 - TimKadlec.com
Tim’s book recommendations have always been solid. Here’s his year-end list. I’m honoured that he not only read Resilient Web Design but also gave it all the stars.
2015 Year in Review | codebar
Codebar had a very good 2015.
Of the 137 workshops run, “100 of those workshops were organised by our two busiest chapters, London and Brighton”—50 each.
My latest Twitter bot: @5point9billion (14 Dec., 2015, at Interconnected)
I always loved Matt’s light cone project—it was a big influence on the Radio Free Earth hack that I made with Chloe. Now it has been reborn as a Twitter bot. Here’s Matt’s documentation for his future self:
I haven’t made a habit of project write-ups before, but I’m taking an increasingly “long now” approach to the tech I make and use. How will I remember what I made in a decade? By reading this post.
Lightyear.fm
This is a nifty audio-isation of distance from the Earth, like Radio Free Earth but a lot slicker.
100 Year Starship Study
Now this looks like a fascinating project …and there’s a symposium happening in Florida at the end of September with Jill Tartar, Stewart Brand and more. I want to go to there.
Secret Websites, Coded Messages: The New World of Immersive Games
Reznor had stepped into a new kind of interactive fiction, one where players don't just passively consume the story.