Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use #RSS.

https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/

Existential crises notwithstanding, I've been working on my music collection project again, introducing a way to organise releases around life periods. Special thanks to @sphars, whose blog post about managing books data pointed me towards Node scripts—which enabled me to realise this feature.

https://damianwalsh.co.uk/posts/creating-connections-with-music-and-technology/

#11ty #smallweb #digitalgardening #webdev

I just removed 15 dead helpers over on tiny-helpers.dev and it feels like a discover less and less small online tools for web devs… 👇

https://tiny-helpers.dev/

What are you favorite quick-to-use online tools these days? Maybe I can add some new ones.

I just came across the website of @sphars and loved their idea of a books page to track their reading progress (https://www.spencerharston.com/books/).

Earlier this year, I decided to spend more time reading books (I have literally hundreds(!) of unread ebooks), so this sounds like a great idea to incorporate into my own website.

#reading #books