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I am *deliriously* happy to announce that the new Wakamai Fondue is finally live!!
https://www.wakamaifondue.com/
Thanks for making do with the shoddy old version, for trying out the beta, for your patience, and for your support!
I will dive into all that's new and better very soon, but until then, I wrote a short introduction and why I am so happy this new version is finally out: https://pixelambacht.nl/2026/a-new-wakamai-fondue/
Happy fondueing!! 🫕
Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.
Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.
My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!
Schoenberg's archives are destroyed
https://slippedisc.com/2025/01/disaster-arnold-schoenberg-archive-is-destroyed-in-la-fires/
Today, I am grateful for @internetarchive and all online archives, and the institutions that doggedly do the tedious and often thankless work of making them go. Like @SLUBDresden & @arthistoricum who digitized and host the seminal German design magazine Gebrauchsgraphik (which was once available only at IADDB, a site currently offline due to a rebuild): https://www.arthistoricum.net/werkansicht/dlf/112648/1
Here are rock solid snippets from just the first issue in 1924.
The article includes a selection of jacket designs that hint at Ursula Suess’s wide range of lettering styles: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/62531/as-we-are-now-book-jacket#comment-887351
Note that these are all custom-drawn letterforms, not fonts in use.
#NowPlaying Prefuse 73 – New Strategies for Modern Crime Vol.1 & Vol.2
https://prefuse73.bandcamp.com/album/new-strategies-for-modern-crime-vol-1-vol-2
28 track album