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I like the way that Warren Ellis works out loud. I’ve read some great books because of this, and learned a lot about developing your own style.

I no longer look at traffic stats. I know what it is. That’s not what this site is for. This is a space for achieving personal goals: I’m using it to get thoughts out in front of me where I can see them properly, and if you’re here with me reading over my shoulder, I’m happy with that.

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[T]his place should be a repository of all the things that interest me and teach me, under the general rubric of storytelling, culture and knowledge work. That’s the focus. This is a tool. That means, among other things, that I need to get better at deep linking back into the archive of the site. This is one thing that social media trained us out of. If you’ve been around a while, tumblelogs kind of did that to us too.

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Modifier: “evolving the tools” becomes its own rabbit hole. Just learn the habit of putting stuff where you can fucking find it later, Warren.

Source: LTD Development | WARREN ELLIS LTD

As I’m catching up with news from various sources and bookmarking articles to come back and share via Thought Shrapnel, I also come across interesting tools and resources.

Here are some of them that I thought were interesting enough to share.

ArchiveWeb.page is “the latest tool from Webrecorder to turn your browser into a full-featured interactive web archiving system!”

Bookfeed.io is “a simple tool that allows you to specify a list of authors, and generates an RSS feed with each author’s most recently released book.”

Loudreader is “the world’s only ebook reader that can open .azw3 [and] .mobi files in a browser!”

NES.css is “a NES style (8bit-like) CSS framework.” (also see Simple.css)

novelWriter is “a markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents.”

Open Peeps is a hand-drawn illustration library. “You can use Open Peeps in product illustration, marketing imagery, comics, product states, user flows, personas, storyboarding, invitations for your quinceañera…or anything else not on this list.”

Pattern Generator provides you with a way to “create unique, seamless, royalty-free patterns”.

Same Energy is “a visual search engine. You can use it to find beautiful art, photography, decoration ideas, or anything else.”

Screenstab allows you to “cut down on time and effort by auto-generating appealing graphics for marketing materials, social media posts, illustrations & presentation slides.”

Quotation-as-title by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Image by Jessica Lee.

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Developing your own style (and archive)

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