There's a lot in this metaphor that seems valuable! Cf. "homebrew" in tabletop role-playing games.

Best practices in a commercial kitchen will differ from those in a condo kitchen. Some things are only worth the effort to make in a large quantity, which can mean not at all at home. At the same time, no restaurant would care enough to make a picky-eater loved-one of yours their masala chai specifically without cinnamon, or something. Tools that wouldn't make sense in a space-strapped restaurant kitchen may be okay if you've got suburban-size cabinets.

What is the bash script of the kitchen?

What is the Trader Joe's pre-chopped mirepoix of code?

He's an independent type designer. His site shows properly fleshed out respectable-looking typefaces for respectable-typography costs, but the Font Of The Month Club is the real joy. Whether you're looking for Victorian flavor, elegant text typefaces, design-forward display options, or the latest font feature noodling around (color fonts! color fonts!) there's a fine assortment here to be worth looking through. The Mini license costs are really nice as a reasonable impulse buy for the font-oriented and not too shocking a figure for the non-font-oriented.

I'm not at all a proper Font User -- my website's main typeface is a true abomination I keep only because an SVG filter to replicate the effect sounds hard to get right -- but I love imagining print projects that would merit Polliwog or Klooster Thin.

Apparently such things typically have December as slaughtering-of-the-pig? But a boar is so much more Germanically seasonal. I love the decadent flat ultramarines in this -- actually it's cool how little the palette varies from the pigments they clearly used. Ultramarine, yellow ochre, burnt sienna...

I like the monoalphabetic cipher with a ciphertext used to determine symbol correspondence, seems about as complicated as I'd ever want to write out by hand. Anyone have a cipher they prefer for doing by hand?

Gosh I love resources like this! It's so neat that people are sharing resources that make tech more accessible to folks with less technical experience. I have a layout I need to finish up and offer publicly to help people use HTML and CSS to lay out half-page zines... but I gotta make something with it myself first to prove it's useful.

This is such a lovely video! I'm going to go and watch more of her stuff -- exactly the sort of "lifestyle content" I never seem to find. Friendly energy, syncretic bits of practice and fact, beautiful shots of nature, and some hands-on advice: love it.

These are so charming -- I want to throw a party where I can make people wear them. It seems like you could get a lot of mileage out of a ream of white cardstock and the animal skull set.

There are a lot of lovely tarot deck kickstarters that I have managed to restrain myself from backing. They tend to seem to be conceived of by illustrators. This one seems to me to have been designed by someone who really wanted to push the envelope on cool foil detailing, and I have thereby been suckered in.

It's already like 4x funded, by the way -- I'm not telling you about it because I need you to back it, but because I want to share Ooh Pretty Shiny.

The whole site is worth checking out, but I think it'd be easy to miss stuff like this that's a page within a topic shrine. And you shouldn't! I'm someone who spends time every year looking for Halloween music, and there is still a good helping here of stuff that's new to me.

This is delightful!

Having a species guide you have to scroll down to consult replicates precisely the experience of staring at a bird as hard as you can, memorizing as much as you can, and then turning to your bird book as soon as it flies away.

Seeing the birds from far away also helps create a sense that, well, my area's common birds are still special and particular.

I think the lost hollow is my favorite. Which is yours?

h/t kicks condor

Okay I'm like one of the probably-fewer-than-ten people in the world with a defined whostyle, so obviously I'm psyched by this.

Having a list of people (defined by h-cards) and an offline tool to traverse their sites, grab the whostyles, sanitize the CSS, rescope the selectors, and repackage for your own site seems like a totally valid approach to me. That way the sanitizing could improve over time without having to respec inter-site dynamic inclusion.

If you wanted to be properly agnostic about it, I'm sure you could make something like a Jekyll plugin to handle specifying the origin of the blockquote and kicking off finding the h-card and doing the style pull for that within a static build.