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

  • Istanbul Tűrkiye - 12 days in 10 neighborhoods, meeting up with 30 local people for 60 hours of conversation Derek Sivers

    Istanbul Tűrkiye - 12 days in 10 neighborhoods, meeting up with 30 local people for 60 hours of conversation: sive.rs/met/at-16…

    Today · 09:14
  • Introducing our new podcast: Make Great Software with Chris & Gina Gina Trapani

    Gina Trapani Once upon a time, the web was mostly a text-based medium. If you were an introverted writer wh…

    Yesterday · 11:00
    3 more posts
    • From producer to builder
    • Astro Teller on creativity and the fool's mindset
    • How I learned to love lifting
  • Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black... Jason Kottke

    Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black people should have to pay for ancestry.com. Why do I have to pay you to figure out where you stole me from?”…

    Two Days Ago · 16:01
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    • Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out....
    • Chromatic Inkscapes
    • Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book. “It’s...
    • Roooobot. Huuuuuman.
    • The trailer for Blade Runner 2099, a new limited series...
    • Going 94 MPH on a Skateboard (New World Record)
    • I played (not) solitaire for more hands than I would care...
    • Good headline: Nine Inch Snails.
    • Beautiful Seamless Ride
    • Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element...
    • Fishdraw is a single JavaScript file that generates...
    • How Hunting Owls Use Sound to “See” Under the Snow
    • How many shots are in the average movie? How does it...
    • Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World. “The epic...
    • Where You Should Live: Five Factors to Keep in Mind
    • Teaser trailer for season three of The Lord of The Rings:...
    • Tiny Little Office is “an office suite with no accounts...
    • The Muffled Thud of Fire in the Hole
    • It’s time to de-privatize the US government. “The problem...
    • Q: “An AI tool with all your passwords or a bear in the...
    • May Peace Prevail on Earth
    • “‘Digger’ has a lot of haters. Here’s why they’re wrong.”...
    • Anthropic says that, as of Sept ‘26, they were merging...
    • Whoa, the Lion Nebula!
    • The Case for Quitting: The Surprising Benefits of Opting...
    • “If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields...
    • The first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The...
    • Girls is coming back to HBO for a 5-episode run. Lena...
    • So Many Different Mes
  • Ranking proposals for Interop 2027 Jeremy Keith

    The Firefox team are asking us to weigh in on proposals for Interop 2027—what features should browsers be concentrating on implementing or improving. Here are my top five: Web app installation…

    Two Days Ago · 11:58
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    • The Tusks Of Extinction by Ray Nayler
    • The Mountain In The Sea by Ray Nayler
    • Zero
  • Studio Notes #106 Dan Cederholm

    Greetings and Good Vibes to you, Fine Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🪀 I’m mesmerized by Hajime Miura’s…

    Two Days Ago · 07:32
  • Silly Old Bear Jeffrey Zeldman

    Remembrance of Poohs past. The post Silly Old Bear appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Three Days Ago · 11:57
  • Goodbye sweet Jessie Ana Rodrigues

    This post has a content note of pet loss. Visit the link directly if you're okay with reading it.…

    Four Days Ago · 18:00
  • Building a static newsletter archive Cassidy Williams

    I decided to host my newsletter archive myself on this website!…

    Four Days Ago · 18:00
  • My Interop 2027 Rankings Eric Meyer

    In which I explore why I ranked what I did for Interop 2027.…

    Four Days Ago · 12:14
  • Available To Be Found Tina Roth Eisenberg

    View on Threads…

    Four Days Ago · 08:46
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    • Cooperation Over Competition
    • Light On
  • Font Faces: Stefan Hattenbach John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts Stefan Hattenbach was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1961. Although he’s moved around a lot, with longer stays in Budapest (1993–94) and San Francisco (2005–06),…

    Four Days Ago · 04:55
  • Video and Interview from “Head in the Cloud 2026” Marc Thiele

    I genuinely enjoyed being part of Head in the Cloud by mittwald this year. Now they released the video of my talk (it’s in German, sorry), which wa…

    Four Days Ago · 01:21
  • How to test with a screen reader WonderProxy

    If you are not visually impaired, chances are you may never have come across a screen reader or text-to-speech tool. So in this post, I’ll explain how they work. How they sound, as you will find it…

    The Other Day · 22:10
  • Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous Rob Weychert

    Today I did that thing where I knowingly miss the point of the Met, whizzing past its vast collection of antiquities from around the globe in favor of a marquee exhibition of modern American painte…

    The Other Day · 21:59

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