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Web Witch Weekly: Issue 22
The art of making websites, calculating empires, reimagining fluid typography, doing evil things with generative AI and recipes, dogs may have domesticated themselves, and more!
Hi friends and welcome to issue 22 of Web Witch Weekly! I’m experiencing my first full England winter and am drowning under the thick layer of cloud and fog that refuses to lift. I hope it’s a little bit sunnier wherever you are. Onto this week’s links.
On the Web, About the Web
The Art of Making Websites
Jim Nielsen writes about how websites are a reflection of who you are on many different levels. A lovely read.
Calculating Empires
A beautiful visual history of technology and power since 1500.
Reimagining Fluid Typography
Miriam Suzanne asks where we went wrong with responsive and fluid typography and explores whether our best practices are actually the best.
Request for feedback: Incoming call notifications API for web apps
The Microsoft Edge team is asking for developer feedback about a new proposal to extend the Notifications API.
🔊 Hey, Listen!
BBC Radio 4: Witch
No technical podcasts of note to share this week, but I have been enjoying this deep dive into the cultural and political place of witches and witchcraft throughout the centuries.
Tutorials & Tools
Doing Evil Things with Generative AI and Recipes
Raymond Camden uses AI to take a recipe and turn it into the recipe blog posts we all like to complain about.
Don’t miss the book sale! Receive 35% off your entire order over on Manning.com!
Outside the Web (Exploring Outside Our Bubble)
For Centuries, Indigenous People Lived in These Desert Canyons. Now, New Technology Reveals Extraordinary Details About This Sacred Site
A beautiful collection of photos and words about this sacred place in the Arizona desert.
Maybe dogs didn't need us at all to domesticate themselves
An interesting look at why dogs may not have been domesticated by humans, but domesticated themselves.
An 11,000-Year-Old Settlement Redefines Early Indigenous Civilizations in North America
This recent discovery is one of the oldest ever discovered in North America.
Non-technical book recommendation of the week
 | Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. But as doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as patients, women have continuously challenged medical orthodoxy. Medicine's history has always been, and is still being, rewritten by women's resistance, strength and incredible courage. |
The Web Witch (Stephanie)
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