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“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” · STEVE JOBS

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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
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    • Issue 049: Time-dilating chaos
  • Color Photos of Rome (c. 1890s) Jason Kottke

    The Library of Congress houses an online collection of 48 color photographs of Rome taken in the 1890s. The prints were created using the photochrom process: The prints look deceptivel…

    Today · 08:00
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    • LLMs are getting pretty good at unmasking pseudonymous...
    • “ Imagine what it was like for women in colonial...
    • HyperCard Changed Everything
    • Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz. “Is...
    • Takashi Murakami Remixes Monet
    • Remember the “scroll lock” key on your...
    • New Rembrandt Painting Discovered
    • Can You Draw All 50 States From Memory?
    • Recent advances in science have revolutionized our...
    • “ Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with...
    • When lit up at night, this badminton academy in...
    • “Supercharged” solar activity and the equinox...
    • Nine Inch Nails Releases Tron: Ares Remix Album
    • “ A long dive into the features that make my ideal...
    • This is the most 2026 thing I’ve ever heard:...
    • A Boston man discovered a document passed down through...
    • Lumière, Le Cinema!
    • Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi proposes sending a tiny...
    • “ Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of...
    • Why Attack Iran?
    • “For months, callers to the Washington state...
    • A 2-hour mix of music compiled by Thom Yorke that plays...
    • The Candy Factory
    • Do people still worship the ancient Greek gods?...
    • Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer ....
    • Marks found on 40,000-year-old artifacts might be a...
    • The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can
    • Pope Leo XIV to his priests: stop using AI to write...
  • Selectively ignore lines in git diff Lorna Mitchell

    I have a things-as-code project that outputs mostly text-based formats, but a lot of them. To keep an eye on consistency, I rebuild all the outputs and dump them into a local git repository so I can v…

    Today · 00:57
  • Do Not Panic Tina Roth Eisenberg

    This poster by David Schmitt made me smile.…

    Yesterday · 13:53
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    • The Thinking Game
    • Instructions before visiting Earth
    • Listening as Alchemy
  • Old Music Friday Brad Frost

    I love this so much. We take so much for granted, so I freaking love to be reminded of the time-traveling magic of recorded music.…

    Yesterday · 12:34
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    • Real-Time UI
  • What a year that was. Jeffrey Zeldman

    Know your web design history. The post What a year that was. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Yesterday · 10:57
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    • Advice for job seekers
  • Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood Jeremy Keith

    Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This knocked me for six when I read it back in 2022: It’s like a slow-building sucker punch. Like my other favourite book of that year—A Ghost…

    Yesterday · 01:19
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    • The state of State Of The Browser
  • Me Trying To Take a Selfie in 2001 Chris Coyier

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    Two Days Ago · 19:41
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  • Offline 23 hours a day Derek Sivers

    Last month, I moved into my new home in the woods. There’s no internet and no phone service here. It’s so productive. At first I thought I couldn’t move in without internet. But now I prefer i…

    Two Days Ago · 17:00
  • A roadmap to a Viking funeral. Greg Storey

    This weekend I met with a long-time friend who was looking for direction on a new role. The legacy program they inherited is operating like it's 2005, the company is burning through money and lea…

    Two Days Ago · 09:36
  • Baseline Loss Naz Hamid

    What the days look like now. I buzzed my hair down today. I needed to baseline it. I still have a healthy amount of hair, but it’s going. I have a semblance of vanity, but I knew from m…

    Two Days Ago · 09:21
  • Ed’s Software, in a Time of Fear Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    I enjoyed this essay from my friend Ed Lyons, which I think speaks well to my particular state of mind as someone who has been in this industry for 30+ years, a parent, a people leader, a builder. So…

    Three Days Ago · 06:58
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 2/28 Rob Weychert

    Added to the film diary:Five Star FinalMervyn LeRoy, 1931, ★★★½Little CaesarMervyn LeRoy, 1931, ★★★Imitation of LifeDouglas Sirk, 1959, ★★★Dog Lover’s SymphonyTed Fukuda, 2006…

    Four Days Ago · 22:00
  • Studio Notes #73 Dan Cederholm

    Hello, amigos. Here's issue #73 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🧱 French street artist, le cyclop, paints bollards to make them look like LEGO he…

    The Other Day · 07:54

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