Web hosting for the people behind bits and pixels
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SiteGround supports open and independent publishing online and offline. They specialise in managed web hosting services for open-source applications that let you keep control of your web content, get crafty with your design, and move freely between platforms. Offscreen readers enjoy up to 50% off!
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There are lots of productivity add-ons for Gmail, usually in the form of Chrome extensions. FollowUp is one of them, offering features like automatic email follow-ups and 'send later'. Although I'm really tempted by the limited and well-designed set of tools, I'm struggling to understand why this extension has to be a subscription that costs $18+ per month!?
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Jumping on the Digital Nomad trend, this book by And.Co provides a guide for those tempted to give up their home base in order to live and work out of a suitcase.
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A new version of the trusty FTP client for Mac
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I've never been much of a Terminal guy. Maybe it's because I love using Transmit too much, which has been my go-to FTP client ever since moving to Mac a decade or so ago. Panic, the adorable company behind it, just released the newest version with a useful set of new features.
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Emerging trajectories in art, science, and technology
Using the same printer/shipper as Offscreen, HOLO Magazine is a hefty, biannual publication that showcases digital art projects through intimate conversations with their creators. It's a beautiful piece of print and a great way to catalogue an emerging new art form.
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A standing desk by Ikea
I love this little, no-frills standing desk by Ikea that can also serve as a beautiful sideboard when not in use.
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Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance!
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This short piece perfectly summarises why our obsession with shiny new things is so misguided. There is much satisfaction (and real value) to be had from taking care of the things we already own and defying the brainwashing from the advertising industry.
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The Rise of the Thought Leader
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If you liked Sean Blanda's fantastic piece calling out The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex, this essay offers an even more damning assessment of so-called 'thought leaders': "The purpose of the thought leader is to mirror, systematize, and popularize the delusions of the superrich: that they have earned their fortunes on merit, that social protections need to be further eviscerated to make everyone more flexible for 'the future,' and that local attachments and alternative ways of living should be replaced by an aspirational consumerism."
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Musings on Making Things for the Web
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I can very much empathise with these musings by Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman. It also reminds me of something Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani said in issue 13: "A web community or any sort of online publishing project is a hungry monster baby that you have to constantly feed new content, design, moderation, marketing, and editing, hourly and daily, lest it appear abandoned and unloved."
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If you ever code something that ‘feels like a hack but it works’, just remember that a CPU is literally a rock that we tricked into thinking.
– daisyowl
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