Posts and notes from Nick Simson
Playing the hits
How I omg.lol
American fantasy
Hex codes of my life
Volley
IndieWeb is Metal
Desktop Totems
Springfield, U.S.A.
Just a tool
Take Two: Roundup
IndieWeb Carnival: Take Two
The Hudson Square Wonder
Slow renewal
Ye Olde Blogging Questions Challenge
Version Six
Creative corners
Choose inclusion
Self Made Man
The last web designer on earth
Friction and resistance
Intention economy
Books finished in 2024
Winter Writing Workshop
Notes from a week off
A song that made me cry
The Mets are a good team
The future of this website
Rubber stamped
The origin of “nsmsn”
The promise of social interoperability
Comfort watch ⚾
My current Webmention setup
Fifteen books
Tool U Want
The most powerful design tool for the Web
Short ramble on blog names, identity, and professionalism (whatever that means)
Burberry and brass knuckles
Pueblo League baseball teams
We’re an American band
Gifted at losing
Words matter
Revisiting my accessibility statement
“Enhanced Distribution”
The friends we made along the way
Short ramble on book typography
A font is a personal thing
Z is for Zapf Dingbats
Y is for Yrsa (and Rasa)
X is for x-height
W is for Wood Type
V is for Vocal Type
U is for Upright Italics
T is for Transitional
S is for Script
R is for Recursive
Q is for Questa
P is for Pairs
O is for Old Style
N is for Neo-Grotesque
M is for Monospaced
L is for Licensing
K is for Karla
J is for Journal
I is for Ink traps
H is for Halyard
G is for Geometric
F is for Franklin
E is for Epilogue
D is for Drop Caps
Call me a Luddite
C is for Chaparral
B is for Besley*
A is for Atkinson Hyperlegible
My ActivityPub settings
I broke ActivityPub on my site.
Short ramble on categories and tags
A MLK Day memory
Blogs, replies, and federation
Without arbitrary rules aren’t we just people sitting in chairs?
Books finished in 2023
That happened in 2023
Two nights in DC
December
Aztec Ruins
Plugin Inventory, 2023
Doubles and shadow lands
A Vexillological Moment
Finding the Covid-19 vaccine for someone under 3 is tough right now.
Re: Books I’m reading at the moment
Mapping blog posts
Hello WordPress, my old friend.
Thank you, Knoxville
Simple sites and HTML energy
NewwwYear Itches
Books finished in 2022
Giving Tuesday
Working from gnome
Never
Earth tones
These webfonts do not track you
Adding an accessibility statement
Ditch Twitter. And Instagram. And Goodreads.
Lullabies
Books finished in 2021
Boone
Now with dark mode
What it's like to be the target of a COVID conspiracy
You’re not so terrific and that’s OK
Different realities
The Ordinary Things
Commonplace books, gardens, and streams
My six favorite utility classes
Gridlessness and modern CSS
Learn JavaScript with Morten Rand-Hendriksen
An engine, a building, a garden
Accessibility and Performance
Design Justice Principles
Cedric Johnson on Public Goods and Inequality
Books finished in 2020
Scaffolding
Web fonts and base HTML
Learn HTML with Jen Simmons
Ready for a Newww Year
MMXX
Books finished in 2019
Books finished in 2018
Books finished in 2017
Books finished in 2016
JavaScript is not your interface.
Many best practices
Becoming an everyday developer
Everyday developers
Reading is hazardous
Collaborating on the new Tumbleweeds site
Deploy