The Index by Piccalilli

The Index: Issue #185

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:55:00 GMT

eyeball

Incredibly addictive game. Best to use a mouse/trackpad than a touch device to give yourself a chance too!

Dollar Slice Surf Report, New York City

A cool project by Scott Jehl as, using pen, pencil, Procreate and Figma as a much needed antidote to the slop era.

Speaker feeds

FFconf have a huge library of previous talks and speakers. Now, you can discover their RSS feeds and follow them. Handy!

Let's get creative

Folks love it when we share indexes of cool stuff, so here's another!

Protecting Blue Corridors

Some absolutely delightful design and data visualisation work here.

Styling Tables the Modern CSS Way

Here's one from the Piccalilli archives that you might have missed to wrap up this issue.

P.S. this is a good website from personalsit.es.

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The Index: Issue #184

Fri, 29 May 2026 11:55:00 GMT

musiq

Some web components that render piano keys and guitar fretboards in various configurations. Handy for educators!

Aphera

This is looking like a genuine challenger for Adobe Lightroom.

Media queries range syntax

A very concise explainer on this ever-useful syntax by one of the best in the biz at explaining CSS syntax.

You probably shouldn’t be annotating focus order

One of the best overviews of dealing with focus well in UI design/development we've seen out there.

Using safe-area-inset to build mobile-safe layouts

This is fantastic. The writing is superb and the interactive demos really help nail, understanding the concepts.

Printing the web: making webpages look good on paper

Here's one from the Piccalilli archives that you might have missed to wrap up this issue.

P.S. the standard.site Bluesky link cards integration is looking really cool.

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The Index: Issue #183

Fri, 22 May 2026 11:55:00 GMT

On Google declaring war on the Web

The time to fight back against Google is right now or we end up with AOL, slop edition.

Mechanical Pencil

Beautifully illustrated guides on how stuff works, by mechanical engineer and artist, Bryan Macomber.

Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers

But AI is a bit useful though, right?

Parachord

Some great looking software that should make organising your combined stream-based and owned music collection easier.

Extreme macro photos of insect wings

Some much needed art that does exactly what it says on the tin.

You can style alt text like any other text

Here's one from the Piccalilli archives that you might have missed to wrap up this issue.

P.S. this is a good website from personalsit.es.

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The Index: Issue #182

Fri, 15 May 2026 11:55:00 GMT

Yorick

LLM chatbots are out and dead chatbots are in.

How diamonds are made

This is just absolutely stunning work.

Taken

This does an excellent job of highlighting how easy it is for companies to be creepy and build a fingerprint on you, using information the browser happily hands over.

Making an original Jubilee line door button into a Hue light switch

A very cool idea and reading about the how was an absolute joy.

How we’re approaching theming with modern CSS

Here's one from the Piccalilli archives that you might have missed to wrap up this issue.

P.S. this is a good website from personalsit.es.

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