This blog got a new favicon thanks to the Small Web

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Thanks to the magic of the Small Web, a stranger I'd never met handcrafted a new favicon for this blog.

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The other day I was checking out what was surfacing on Bubbles, and I ended up reading this post from Matt Stein about how he likes to hand-draw favicons.

At the end of the post, he mentions he would love to make favicons for others, so I decided to reach out and ask him to make one for this blog. After a few emails back and forth, I ended up with this beauty in PNG form in my possession:

Favicon for my blog handcrafted by Matt Stein. It's a green circle with a black S inside. The S looks like a scribble, and at the top there is the point of a pen drawing it.

Then I processed it to get three new versions (ICO, SVG, and "Apple-friendly" PNG) as recommended by Andrey Sitnik, and voilà, new favicon online!

I find all this beautiful: one person who loves their craft, helping others without expecting anything in return, just for the joy of having another opportunity to practice their skill and share it with others. This is the web we need to get back to. A web of personal, non-transactional exchanges. A web that creates trust and community. A web that algorithm-driven platforms often fail to foster.

Happy websurfing!