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

  • West of England Design Forum 🇬🇧 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 12:00
  • Underdubbed Jeffrey Zeldman

    When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbin…

    Today · 07:04
  • In situ Syntax Highlighting in macOS Applications Like Keynote Eric Meyer

    If you do code-heavy talks in Keynote and want to syntax highlight the code, this might be for you.…

    Today · 07:03
  • How You Get the Mentos into the Diet Coke Chris Coyier

    Did you think this was gonna be some grand metaphor blog post? Nope. You probably know: if you put Mentos in Diet Coke, it makes the carbonation go crazy and fizz shoots out of the bottle. It’s…

    Yesterday · 15:18
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    • Untitled
    • The Raven Tattoo
  • Is this the sloppiest AI slop video of all time? The... Jason Kottke

    Is this the sloppiest AI slop video of all time? The AI-generated voiceover (at ~6:45) gets tripped up saying “what WWE” and basically sings Daisy Bell for more than 10 minutes until so…

    Yesterday · 14:28
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    • If I lived in LA, I would go to this concert at the...
    • Disclosure Day surely sets a world record for the number...
    • Walter White’s Big Hat
    • “Film posters inadvertently photographed by...
    • “If Platner’s past rhetoric about and treatment of...
    • A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night...
    • New Ambient Album From Marconi Union
    • The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech . Like:...
    • Commodore (you know, the 64 folks) is releasing a flip...
    • How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? “Every hour,...
    • Mad Max creator George Miller wants to make one more Mad...
    • Randomly thought of Brendan Dassey today. He’s...
    • The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By...
    • Telescope Ranchers
    • How to get out of bed . “There is no 28 point shot...
    • DJ Shadow and the BBC Symphony Orchestra will be...
    • On Inherent AI Risk: “Extinction-Level Capitalism”
    • Paul McCartney on Song Exploder . I think he was with...
    • The Knicks Starting Five Painted on One Dollar Bills
    • Sports but make it wealth inequality :...
    • The world’s first trillionaire is a killer . “A...
    • Two competing (?) thoughts kept going through my head...
    • Joe “Handyman” Negri, a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood...
    • US Authorities Investigate Huge Etching of ‘8647’ on...
    • David Hockney, iconic British artist known for his...
  • Mini-apprenticeships with master artists in their studios, worldwide Tina Roth Eisenberg

    VAWAA makes my heart sing. Imagine traveling to spend time with an artist, where they spend time teaching you their craft. In their home. Their studio. Mini-Apprenticeships with master artists. I love…

    Yesterday · 12:09
  • How I'm teaching an AI my writing voice Derek Featherstone

    Teaching an AI your voice usually means copying how your writing looks, with little attention to the reasoning behind your choices. Here's the method I built to capture that reasoning and continuously…

    Yesterday · 10:30
  • Jakob Nielsen: ‘Buy the Book Already’ Josh Clark

    Usability legend Jakob Nielsen offers a thorough review of Sentient Design (plus a detailed comic-strip summary!). His conclusion: “Buy the book already.” Jakob’s review focuses e…

    Yesterday · 06:39
  • Enhancing with CSS Grid Lanes Jeremy Keith

    CSS Grid Lanes has started to ship in browsers. It’s in Safari and behind a flag in Chrome and Edge. It enables masonry layouts, where items get packed together in the most efficient way possible…

    Yesterday · 04:03
    3 more posts
    • Speaking in Dublin
    • A tale of two browsers
    • Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 6/13 Rob Weychert

    Added to the music library:SweepersSweepers, 2025MagazineYHWH Nailgun, 2026No GasolineWidemouth, 2026Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!Horse Lords, 2026Added to the film diary:Secret Mall Apartmen…

    Four Days Ago · 22:00
  • KeyCon 2026 recap Cassidy Williams

    I spoke at KeyCon, a mechanical keyboard convention!…

    Four Days Ago · 18:00
  • Studio Notes #88 Dan Cederholm

    Greetings, Good Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🥏 Master type and lettering designer, Simon Walker, made The Cover Let…

    The Other Day · 07:45

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