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№ 140 Children’s Book Culling 2021

Listen in while Melissa and Brian decide which of their children’s books they can discard. Don’t tell Lydia, Amber, or Penny.

Amy Keating: Reinstating net neutrality in the US

Ben Frain: QWERTY is the worst keyboard layout. A learning Colemak Odyssey

Bogdan Sandu: 7 Creative Ways to Use Geometry in Web Design

Scott Hanselman: Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Azure Static Web Apps are saving me money

Gladdapadda!

Captain Edward Font

Add Heroicons to an Eleventy site

Another Nursery Rhyme

Queue Code—“Live” Code without Errors

🔠 What makes a typeface good?

№ 139 All-Time Favorite Books 2021

For the ﬁrst time, Brian and Melissa suss out their favorite books of all time.

Mary Lou: Inspirational Websites Roundup #23

Create a URL shortener with Netlify

Nikita Prokopov: DuckDuckGo logo redesign

His name is Fast Eddie. And the new Stuff & Nonsense website design

Accessible anchor links with Markdown-it and Eleventy

Bye-bye, Disqus! I built my commenting system using AWS serverless stack and Netlify build hooks!

My and my guys all sleep on our backs. We call ourselves The Back Sleep Boys.

Idea for an oven commercial: Hansel and Gretel can’t ﬁt the witch into the microwave

№ 138 Love Songs

Brian and Melissa share their favorite love songs. Their lists are set and never change.

Benedict Evans: Paying for news

Setup Netlify CMS with Eleventy

Understanding Z-Index in CSS

Associative trails

№ 137 Movies 2020

Brian and Melissa cobble together a top 10 list of movies they saw in 2020. Let’s just say book year didn’t leave much time for watching good movies.

https://bookish.tech/

API and webpage to link ISBNs with goodreads, WorldCat, and Amazon book IDs

My Nursery Rhyme

Willing to muddle

Is Dave Ramsey’s empire the ‘best place to work in America’? Say no and you’re out

№ 136 Books 2020

Brian and Melissa put a bow on Book Year by sharing their favorite books that were new reads in 2020.

A guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git, inspired by the premise that to know a thing is to do it.

Dash - Free web development course

Looks like a great beginner course

Sites for Browsing Type Pairings

Flexbox playground

Running Is the Worst Way to Get Fit

All Wheel Drive Does Not Make You Safer

The Cook’s Thesaurus

A cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. The substitutions are the real star.

Best Homemade Spaghetti Sauce Recipe

Standard Ebooks

Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book-lover.

John Gruber: ‘The American Abyss’

Ducks made some tape for me.

№ 135 New Year’s Resolutions 2021

Melissa and Brian return for a new year with their annual new goals!

Louis Lazaris: Are These the Most Interesting Front-end Developer Tools for 2021?

Christmas Letter 2020

Even Homer Gets Mobbed

This is dangerous

My dog name ideas:

Ruﬁage
Jingle Llama
Featherpot

Laughing at the ridiculous “Year With No Santa Claus” while playing Power Grid

Christmas Eve: watching “It’s A Wonderful Life” with the girls (their ﬁrst time), looking at lights projector on ceiling while lying on mattress, eating chocolate, and opening the Mom Koser’s gift