End-of-Summer Hyperlink Dump: Stones, Streams & Scarf Machines
It’s September 4, and even though the sun is shining and it’s warm outside as I type this, you can feel summer’s on its way out in the northern hemisphere.
Remember my June experiment? Still going strong! No social timeline = less doomscrolling (not that it was a huuuuge problem for me, but still). Even with that going on, I’ve been hoarding links all summer from newsletters, my feed reader, and friends. Ready for a little hyperlink party? Let’s go!
Martin shows us how to store data on paper.
Stones, streams & toilets. Why do those feel like they belong together? Is it just me? My brain’s weird, right?
Can a composition be organized in space rather than time?
I love how this machine is knitting a super long scarf—powered by wind! “When it is windy the machine knits fast and with less wind the machine knits slowly.”
Starting in ‘95, girls and women were making movies and mailing VHS tapes to each other. Proto-TikTok?! The Joanie 4 Jackie archive is a treasure chest.
One Saturday in August, people all over the world gathered in parks (or indoors if it was raining) to write and celebrate HTML. If you missed this year’s HTML Day, go browse the site and hit up the event links. So much HTML energy. 🤤
Speaking of everyone’s favorite markup language, Our HTML Cookbook is the cutest little pamphlet to print and stash for HTML Day 2026.
Oh, by the way, you do not have to use generative ai “art” in your blogs because there are websites where you can get real, nice images for free.
Or maybe we skip images entirely? Here’s a directory of websites that mostly stick to text.
The hacker e-zine Phrack just turned 40. If you missed it back in the day (I was a baby), go read The Conscience of a Hacker from ‘86 and then follow it up with The Hacker’s Renaissance.
Not into hacking? How about the history of Mac settings, 1984–2004? You can actually click around and use the old interfaces!
The New York Times declared The Death of the Cyberflâneur back in 2012. I don’t think we ever really left, but the word sure did. I wouldn’t be too sad if it came back, though! Seeing the team at The Syllabus calling themselves cyberflâneurs warmed my heart.
Now… personal websites! These are some gems I found this summer:
I wish my site was in 3D like Elle’s. I wish it had shadows like Daniel’s. I wish I was half as stylish as Raymond. I wish my website had a custom Game Boy cursor, beautiful postcards from visitors, and an interactive background like Bekah’s, Robin’s, and Jenn’s.
The Tiny Awards 2025 winner drops soon. (I voted for Elle!) Go peek at tinyawards.net, hop on their mailing list, and check out past winners and finalists while you wait.
That’s all, folks! Twenty-four links collected by yours truly during the summer of 2025. Damn, I realize as I type this that it should have been 25 links. You know… for the rhyme? Let’s see…
One more: if you found any of this interesting, you’d probably enjoy my Hyperlink Hodgepodge. Fresh links every week!