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Wolfdog has posted Essential tools to make the modern web more bearable, and people have even more recommendations in the thread. Bookmarked so hard. 🔖

screenshot from Blake Watson's 'HTML for People' book site

"I feel strongly that anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want": JHarris posted Blake Watson's great, free, web book with simple directions and <em>a ton</em> of resources for marking it up old-school. [this is good]

The internet has been an amazing invention, bringing all sorts of media to your desktop or mobile device. But as the years have gone by, perhaps it’s been a bit too much? Maybe you’d like a stripped down and more bandwidth friendly version of some sites? Say no more friend! Shepherd made a post about news sites that do that, based on their earlier AskMetafilter question. Come bask in the words!

MonkeyToes posted Tiny Awards: Celebrating the Goodness of the Homemade Web about (Mefi's own) Matt Muir's project to "celebrate interesting, small, craft-y internet projects and spaces which basically make the web a more fun place to be." This year's nominations are open until June 23!

Photo by Sergey Nikolaev on Unsplash

Interesting conversation on Kitteh's post We Need to Rewild the Internet, about the desiccating corporate "pathology of command and control" that has choked, flattened and ravaged the once-lush sprawl of online diversity.

Cat on laptop via dougwoods (https://www.flickr.com/photos/deerwooduk/)

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Merrick Thread Co., The spider and the tiger (on black background), Boston Public Library via Wikimedia

How do I help my spider friend through the winter?

“Will you walk into my parlor?” by REM Photo .. Have patience I'm off grid (cc by)

Pop-and-lock synchronized dance spiders; sonascope's beloved Pilea Cadierei, and that time the spider plant survived a Chrysler; signal on signals: the web before the web. Speaking of which, does anyone fancy a crawl across the multiverse? And in case you missed it, a loving look at barking spider plumes, plus "How convenient that a spider god was available to answer this question."

MartinWisse posts about "Photopea," a free web-based graphic software alternative to Photoshop.

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