Stephen Coles

@stewf
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Editorial Director & Associate Curator at Letterform Archive in San Francisco. Co-founder of @FontsInUse and @typographica.

#typography #fonts #lettering #urbanism #UtahJazz

Mehttps://stephencoles.org
Typefaceshttps://typographica.org
Typographyhttps://fontsinuse.com
All Lettershttp://letterformarchive.org
@bshaykin @[email protected] Metatext is under active development. Follow @metabolist.
@virginia Who knows what state they are in? What news? What danger? I don’t know because I have not read the report!

The flock of bushtits (and their occasional chickadee cohorts) that come through the yard every afternoon is so delightful. A peeping entourage of gently upbeat revelry that is not unexpected in this locale, but always a nice surprise. Like at a popular outdoor bar in some alternate reality where roving frat parties are actually enjoyable to encounter.

Here they are a few months ago at the bath. #birds #birdbathcam

thank you 23andMe for sending this ridiculous email to remind me that I should have unsubscribed long ago.
Almost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.
@amdt @craigmod I like what the font did here.
@metabolist I would love a setting to see uncropped images in the timeline.
@anildash TrackBack is still operational (though much less commonly used than a decade ago). I still get them every week or so at typographica.org.
With the revitalization of the open web and the fediverse, it’s worth revisiting all of the parts of the social web that we’ve lost, and reflecting on how we might rebuild them in a Mastodon world. https://anildash.com/2016/08/08/the-lost-infrastructure-of-social-media/
The lost infrastructure of social media.

More than a decade ago, the earliest era of blogging provided a set of separate but related technologies that helped the nascent form thrive. Today, most have faded away and been forgotten, but new incarnations of these features could still be valuable.As social networks grew in popularity and influence,

Anil Dash

There was once a dream of a decentralised web.

As recently as a decade ago we had a still very active blogosphere, connected via blogrolls and RSS. Specialised web forums were still mainstream and messenger apps could largely interoperate.

Centralised social media slowly ate that dream. It had plenty of positives, but it pulled more and more people away from the open web and into corporate walled gardens.

Some people kept the dream of decentralisation alive. And now you are here.