#146

28 November 2025

It’s that time of year again! Let’s have a look at the deals we, and our much loved community are offering this year. It’s the most important time of year for independents, so let’s give them our support 💛

This is really cool. It’ll serve you nice complimentary paint colours by default, but you can upload an image of your room or wallpaper and it’ll find you a good colour too.

If you think the soul and community of our industry has been ripped out by the AI industrial complex, you couldn’t be more wrong. Lovely to see.

A great overview of how AT protocol (tech behind Bluesky etc.) works with custom domains, written for non-tech people. Referring to this as the internet handle is a very good idea too.

Ghost are doing great things here, making huge strides to improve discoverability of websites in their network.

A fantastic set of super fast, open source icons that have minimal code and minimal rendering complexity to boost performance and save carbon.

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P.S. I talked about how hard 2025 has been.

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Until the next issue, take it easy 👋
Andy