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Craft CMS →

Put your content first.

Now available in the brand new version 3 (beta), Craft is a versatile content management system built for content creators and developers alike. Craft is flexible, scalable, and user-friendly so you can create a custom experience that best suits your brand and your audience. With simple and affordable pricing you receive unlimited user accounts, a lifetime of updates, and Craft support. Personal use remains free forever.

Apps

Orai →

AI to optimise public speaking

iOS app Orai "uses artificial intelligence and deep learning to offer instant insights on your speech so that you can practice daily and become an effective communicator."

everydayCheck→

Visualise your habits

This minimal web app creates a simple, colourful visualisation of how often you stick to your regular to-dos.

Screeener →

Device templates for Keynote

Want to spruce up your Keynote presentations? Screeener provides a simple drag'n'drop solution that enables you to just throw a screenshot at Keynote and it wraps it in a sleek laptop or phone template.

Taskade →

Sharable to-do lists as a homepage

Just add your to-dos when starting a new tab and, if desired, share a link to work on your list collaboratively with friends or colleagues. Mobile apps are in the making, too.

Gear

Offscreen #17 →

New issue ships this week

If you order within 24 hours of receiving this email, your copy will ship right away with our first major batch. Support indie publishing (and this newsletter) and join the Offscreen Magazine community of thoughtful readers. 

Lost Type Pin →

Pin-on table flip

This little ASCII code table flip pin by the wonderful Lost Type people made me chuckle.

Perusal

Read →

The Disaster Factory

Lots of people enjoyed and shared last week's republished Offscreen essay by Greg Knauss in which he describes a programmer's world of worst-case scenarios.

Read →

What Makes Work Meaningful

In this short, heartwarming essay, writer Cassie Marketos explores the question all of us ask from time to time: 'What makes work matter?'

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Designed lines.

"We’re building on a web littered with too-heavy sites, on an internet that’s unevenly, unequally distributed. That’s why designing a lightweight, inexpensive digital experience is a form of kindness." Can't get enough of Ethan Marcotte's thoughts.

Quote

There is nothing more unproductive than to build something efficiently that should not have been built at all.

– Milt Bryce