For over 10 years, I published weekly web design and development roundup blog posts with a section titled “What I Found Interesting.”
It’s where I shared a collection of fascinating stories and resources that caught my attention that week.
Once I retired in December 2022, I stopped publishing my weekly roundup.
But I missed sharing fun and interesting stories as well as helpful resources.
So I’m bringing back the “What I Found Interesting” section as a regular blog post.
I’m not sure how often I’ll publish them, but I want to share stories that I’ve enjoyed, lifted me up, and made me laugh.
Hope you enjoy them, too!
What I Found Interesting
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First up, NASA launches their NASA+ free streaming service today, November 8, 2023.
The ad-free, family-friendly streaming service will have live coverage of launch events and missions as well new series and original videos.
I’m excited to learn about these new series:
- Other Worlds: focusing on news and updates from the James Webb Space Telescope
- NASA Explorers: highlights OSIRIS-REx mission, the seven-year mission that completed in September 2023
NASA+ is available on the web, via the NASA Android and iOS apps, as well as through Roku, Apple TV, and Fire TV.
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Own Your Web from Matthias Ott is a free online newsletter for anyone who publishes on the web.
Whether you
want to get started with your own personal website or level up as a designer, developer, or independent creator working with the ever-changing material of the Web
you’ll find all kinds of helpful resources, links, best practices, and more.
While I’m retired from web work, I love Ott’s approach to the newsletter, encouraging people to create their own content on a website they own.
Ott offers info for people beginning their first journey publishing on the web to folks who have been designing and developing for years.
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University of Michigan student Lucy Del Deo shares her experience backpacking along the shore of Lake Superior in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. For her college Fall Break, Del Deo chose to backpack for the first time with a group of five other UM students.
Her meditation about her trip, trails, and beautiful views of Lake Superior brought back memories of my own backpacking trip years ago in the same area near Twelve Mile Beach in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and overnight stays at a backcountry campsite overlooking Lake Superior.
