Issue 61
A 10 minute video about Abigail Goldman who makes dioramas of murders. 😱 Hey fellow kids! Comixify uses GANS to turn your TikToks into comics.
🥊 THE BEST GANS 🥊 BEAUTIFUL WEBSITES 😍 THE BROKEN WEB 💔
Heya,
We've reached peak-tech.
I received an email containing a story about Elon Musk's starships, Harvard researchers' discovery of the DNA switch for regenerating limbs, and Russia's new hallucinogenic weapons.
It could be that neither of the first two exists, and we are trapped in a world created by the third.
What a perfect segue into the latest in cool art, wi-fi routers, psychodrama as diorama, and, the best GANs of the week.
Enjoy, Chris.
🕸️ The Cool Side of the Web
A 10 minute video about Abigail Goldman who makes dioramas of murders. 😱
topic.com
Hey fellow kids! Comixify uses GANS to turn your TikToks into comics.
Also for, us, oldies it works on YouTube and Twitter videos.
pw.edu.pl
Looking for love in hyper-fictional places? This waifu does not exist. 🙅♀️
This is the last of the "X does not exist" links because there's no going back from this full meta offering with the perfect element of tragic love.
It's hard to resist the tragedy of loving fictional characters that disappear into the ether every time you hit F5.
thiswaifudoesnotexist.net
Samsung will set your love life on fire with Refrigerdating. ❤️
If you're more interested in a real love affair, then Samsung will put a torch to romance and find you a partner based on the contents of your fridge.
refrigerdating.com
🤩 Visually Pleasing
Strawberry Tapes is beautiful. 🤗
I read a few articles about the excitement and growth of AI art. This page is web design throwing the artistic gauntlet down. While it might be promoting an album, it also happens to be the best thing I saw this week.
strawberrytapes.com
Visions is a beautiful website for a literary sci-fi magazine. 🛸
The page has awesome touches with the scrolling, and the fonts in the physical book are gorgeous.
readvisions.com
Beautiful 80s film posters from Ghana.
itsnicethat.com
⚒️ Tools and Resources
Free and open source UI Kit for Bootstrap 4, React, Vue.js, React Native. 👩💻
creative-tim.com
Firefox Send allows you to send 1GB files with E-to-E encryption and a link that automatically expires. 💌
firefox.com
Git Explorer. 🤠
The easiest way to find all the Git commands.
gitexplorer.com
Best wifi routers compared because you can't always pick the one that looks the coolest.
TP-Link Archer is the adult version of a Diamondback for me; looks great, very, very expensive, and goes hella fast down a mountain.
codeinwp.com
🕷️ Design & Development Arena
Why Do All Websites Look the Same?
The question is reasonable, if slightly unfair. Not everyone has the design skills to pull off a beautiful site. This means it can cost a heck of a lot to build an amazing website, so templates make sense for a lot of people wanting to build a web presence.
The designs in this article are, for sure, avant-garde, but it's not necessary for form and function to be two twains heading in different directions. Having a generative design engine for the art gallery makes sense. For a banking website, less so.
medium.com
Just to temper the artistic fires...The web is broken. 💔
So, avant-garde is nice but...we WebAIM analyzed the top million homepages and found 59,653,607 a11y errors.
Pick your battles. And, here's a nice a11y guide to help and a fun color contrast checker.
webaim.org
🎮 Fun & Games
The Cube is a playable Rubik's Cube made with HTML, CSS, and JS. 😍
codepen.io
Outro
You cannot beat a Rubik's Cube for a newsletter ender.
If Twitter's your thing, then hit me up there. Once, again if you would like to have a run in the Captain's chair then let me know. Because, theoretically, I have "work" to do.
Fowardating is a good way to break the ice; forward this email to anyone you'd like to know better.
Finally, we always have room for more crew, so sign up here.
Stay safe out there,
Chris.