SuperGeekery: A blog probably of interest only to nerds by John F Morton.

A blog prob­a­bly of inter­est only to nerds by John F Mor­ton.

Link List

Wel­come to my link library. These are not links to con­tent I have cre­at­ed unless you see that men­tioned in the link’s descrip­tion. These are links I found inter­est­ing enough to want to keep track of. If you read Craft Link List, the Craft CMS newslet­ter I used to write, this page is a replace­ment of sorts for that exer­cise. Enough talk. Let’s hit the links.

21Nov2022

Migrating a Mastodon Account

The Mastodon instance I’ve been using, mastodon.technology, is shut­ting down in a few months, so I’ve migrat­ed my Mastodon account to a new serv­er. I want­ed to share the steps I went through in case the details are help­ful to any­one, espe­cial­ly oth­ers migrat­ing off that instance – espe­cial­ly a warn­ing about when you lose access to your old account. I don’t know if these are the best steps to fol­low, but they worked for me.

21Nov2022

UX Research Templates

Includ­ing user research plan, user inter­view ques­tions, user inter­view scripts, usabil­i­ty test­ing script, and more. Whether you’re an aspir­ing or expe­ri­enced UX designer/​researcher, I hope these tem­plates can make your work eas­i­er and more effec­tive!

17Nov2022

ArrowJS

ArrowJS is an exper­i­men­tal tool for reac­tive pro­gram­ming inter­faces using native JavaScript. It’s not real­ly a frame­work, but not less pow­er­ful than a frame­work either. At its core — ArrowJS is an admis­sion that while we devel­op­ers were falling in love with UI frame­works — JavaScript itself got good, real­ly good.

17Nov2022

Work Sans - Google Fonts

Work Sans is a type­face fam­i­ly based loose­ly on ear­ly Grotesques, such as those by Stephen­son Blake, Miller & Richard and Bauer­schen Giesserei. The Reg­u­lar weig

17Nov2022

DM Sans - Google Fonts

DM Sans is a low-con­trast geo­met­ric sans serif design, intend­ed for use at small­er text sizes. DM Sans sup­ports a Latin Extend­ed glyph set, enabling type­set­ting

17Nov2022

Public Sans - Google Fonts

Based on Libre Franklin, Pub­lic Sans is a strong, neu­tral type­face for inter­faces, text, and head­ings. It was Devel­oped by the Unit­ed States Web Design Sys­tem.

17Nov2022

Figtree - Google Fonts

Figtree is a clean yet friend­ly geo­met­ric sans serif font for usage in web and mobile apps. It’s light-heart­ed and crisp when used for text, yet still retains s

17Nov2022

Open Sans - Google Fonts

Open Sans is a human­ist sans serif type­face designed by Steve Mat­te­son, Type Direc­tor of Ascen­der Corp. This ver­sion con­tains the com­plete 897 char­ac­ter set, wh

17Nov2022

Poppins - Google Fonts

Geo­met­ric sans serif type­faces have been a pop­u­lar design tool ever since these actors took to the world’s stage. Pop­pins is one of the new com­ers to this long

17Nov2022

Outfit - Google Fonts

A beau­ti­ful geo­met­ric sans: The offi­cial type­face for brand automa­tion com­pa­ny out​fit​.io. Inspired by the lig­a­ture-rich out­fit word­mark, Out​fit​.io is delight­ed

17Nov2022

Hind - Google Fonts

Hind is an Open Source type­face sup­port­ing the Devana­gari and Latin scripts. Devel­oped explic­it­ly for use in User Inter­face design, the Hind font fam­i­ly include

17Nov2022

Manrope - Google Fonts

Man­rope is an open-source mod­ern sans-serif font fam­i­ly, designed by Mikhail Sha­ran­da in 2018. In 2019, Mirko Velimirovic worked with Mikhail Sha­ran­da to con­ver

17Nov2022

Be Vietnam Pro - Google Fonts

Be Viet­nam Pro is a Neo Grotesk well suit­ed to tech com­pa­nies and star­tups. The design­ers refined Viet­namese let­ter­forms with dia­crit­ics adap­tive forms for spe­cif­ic use cas­es and engi­neered them for bet­ter read­abil­i­ty.

17Nov2022

Lexend - Google Fonts

Lex­end fonts are intend­ed to reduce visu­al stress and so improve read­ing per­for­mance. Ini­tial­ly they were designed with dyslex­ia and strug­gling read­ers in mind.

15Nov2022

Quick Filters

Cre­ate fil­ter wid­gets for your con­trol pan­el ele­ment index lists.

11Nov2022

Palette - Colorize Photos

A new AI col­oriz­er. Col­orize any­thing from old black and white pho­tos ?, style your art­works ?, or give mod­ern images a fresh look ?. It’s as sim­ple as insta­gram, free, and no sign-up required!

05Nov2022

BIRME - Bulk Image Resizing Made Easy 2.0

BIRME is a flex­i­ble and easy-to-use bulk image resiz­er. It can resize mul­ti­ple images to any spe­cif­ic dimen­sion and crop images if nec­es­sary. It’s an online tool, and you don’t need to down­load or install it on your com­put­er. BIRME is free to use. It works on both Mac and Win­dows machines.