I was recently investigating gumroad and was quite pleased with their new design system. I liked how all their features were summed up as simple taglines (“Go from zero to $1”, as an example), and how the vibrant color pallet drew me between each explanitory diagram.

At the time, I googled “Gumroad design scheme” and came up empty with a name for it. However, weeks later, I noticed Figma did a similar design for their own website. Two is a trend, so I sought out what this design system was called and found this article, which called it Neubrutalism.

I’ve been investigating more deeply about Indieweb, namely their idea of a permashortlink - put succinctly, it is inevitable that shortlinking providers will either

1. Fold, or
2. Deprecate underused links.

This means that relying on them - and they are awfully convenient - is a net negative to the longevity of any web content you produce - and we’ve already seen it happen.

The Indieweb solution to this deprecation problem is, of course - to roll your own. Reading the wiki about this raises the same problem I have with a lot of Indieweb content - it’s a wiki clearly written by developers. I don’t think it’s actionable for the average web content consumer - even if they were gunhoe about running their own blog - to roll any of the permashortlink solutions mentioned on the wiki by themselves.

These are a collection of photos from last Christmas, winter 2021. They were taken in a single afternoon at the same location - the beach located in Mill Bay, Victoria.

All were shot on my Nikon FE2 with a 50mm Series E lens, on Ilford HP5+ Black & White Film, pushed to 1600 ISO.

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