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Posts from blogs I read written in the last few days.

  • Jodi Ettenberg on living grief and a serendipitous... Jason Kottke

    Jodi Ettenberg on living grief and a serendipitous discovery. “Living grief lacks the tapestry of rituals, language, and social permissions around grieving that a person is offered with d…

    Yesterday · 08:30
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    • Walking the Length of Manhattan . I did this, solo,...
    • “When Jason Ganos was asked to help sell an old box full...
    • What a great idea for a book: Cookbooking: A Fan’s...
    • “ The principal aim of President Trump’s second...
    • Weird Al Yankovic’s Tiny Desk Concert
    • Anil Dash built a standalone Touch ID sensor to use...
    • Analysts Warn U.S. Economy Becoming Overly Dependent On...
    • When you take screenshots of posts in iOS social apps...
    • “All our neighbors worked for those firms —...
    • Long past time to quit X . “Those who continue to...
  • Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Gina Trapani

    Link: TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA | Official Trailer | In Theaters August 7 My favorite pieces…

    Two Days Ago · 08:07
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    • Dashboard Touch
  • Studio Notes #98 Dan Cederholm

    Hello hello, my Friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 💾 A magnetic power bank that looks like an old floppy disk. Yep, I&a…

    Two Days Ago · 07:16
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    • An Update for Hubano
  • Towards a Personal Online Third-Space – Ana Rodrigues Marc Thiele

    Ana Rodrigues has transformed a past talk into a lovely read about how her personal website became her third-space. That place that is neither home n…

    Three Days Ago · 00:11
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    • Just You Wait – Chris Shiflett
    • Where is my Drive, my Energy?
  • Introducing Microlighter Dave Rupert

    I made a smol client-side syntax highlighter that uses the CSS Custom Highlights API called MicroLighter. I’ll talk about why I made it in a bit but first I wanted to… ahem… highlight… some of…

    Four Days Ago · 09:22
  • The Most Important Industrial Designer of All Time Jeffrey Zeldman

    One Frenchman can’t be wrong. Push to the edge of what people will accept. Stop there. Raymond Loewy called it MAYA, and used it to design the modern world. The most important industrial designer yo…

    Four Days Ago · 07:14
  • How to test colour contrast: There's more to it than you think. WonderProxy

    The WebAIM Million report (an annual scan of the top million homepages, if you haven't come across it) found that colour contrast is the single most common accessibility issue out there.…

    Four Days Ago · 07:00

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