Oryx Dark Mode

FEBRUARY 2022

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Hi *|FNAME|*,

ZSA is small and we hire slowly. So when a new hire graduates the trial period, it's a special feeling. This month, Aled Davies did just that. A talented senior-level developer, Aled has already brought you our "Celebrating" page last month, and this month he implemented the all-new Dark Mode for Oryx, which you can see below. Now that he's a full-fledged member of the team, I can't wait to see what Aled does next. Welcome to ZSA, Aled!

In other news, below is a wonderful interview with Samppa, an architect, as well as a puntastic link for all of your dad-joke needs. And if you scroll all the way down, you'll see an animation we created for our "Moonlander cats" page. That page is almost ready, so if you still have a picture you want to share with us, now's the time. Finally, the zip kit is now back in stock, after a stronger-than-expected launch.

As always, thank you for reading, and please email me anytime — ez@zsa.io.

All the best,
Erez

Oryx Dark Mode

It's in the footer.

Oryx is now available in a light theme or a dark one, and can also automatically switch between them based on your operating system's "dark mode" setting. The theme switcher is in the footer (Auto | Light | Dark).

Featured User Interview

Samppa Hannikainen

Architect

In this wide-ranging interview, Samppa shared everything from great sauna tips to trackball recommendations to Windows tools. Quite a funny read.

"My natural state is messy, and I love being organized. I value intention over appearance. I also value appearance."

Layout of the month: Matt Gemmell Planck EZ

I’m Matt Gemmell, a Scottish novelist and former software developer. The Planck is my first ortholinear and my first 40% board, and I’ve spent a couple of weeks getting it set up to my liking. Click through for some handy tricks for writers and gamers.

Things we liked

Portmanteau & Rhyme Generator →

Endless dad joke fodder

Takes two words (nouns, verbs, anything) and mashes them up in a few surprising and oddly satisfying ways. “Fun” and “link” gave me “site excite” and “delight site,” which this definitely is.

Khroma →

Beautiful color recommendations

Khroma lets you train an AI on the colors you like (you need to pick 50 colors to start!). Once trained, it produces lovely hues and gradients for designs, and lets you search using expressions like “warm pastel”. It results in lovely colors because you trained it.

Literature Clock →

Time for a quote

A text-based clock that shows quotes from literary works that happen to feature the current time of day. If only it had a built-in typing trainer, it would be perfect.

Neighbourhood Generator →

Instant maps of imaginary places

Creates a map of a lovely little neighbourhood, in your browser. There are some key bindings to change map display settings. Extremely fast, and oddly satisfying. I would print some of these. I love the auto-generated neighbourhood names, too.

Architecture in Music →

Instruments, from the inside

I’ve never seen a piano or a cello shown like this. Gorgeous photos (not renders). The style and the lenses used make the inside of the instruments look like architectural spaces or Sci-Fi scenes.

Tip: We have a subscriber-only link archive with all of the links we shared over the years. Just for you. ❤️

Wallpaper of the month

Part of our Cyberpunk series, this is what Ready Player One might look like with a Moonlander.

Thank you for reading!