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“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.” · JOHN MUIR

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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
  • The new yet familiar CodePen 2.0 Dave Rupert

    CodePen v2 is now released! Because I co-host a podcast with Chris I’ve had an up-close perspective at this monumental effort over the last five years. I know how much work has gone into this releas…

    Yesterday · 22:50
  • Studio Notes #94 Dan Cederholm

    Hey there, Friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 📞 iPhone charging docks that look like old pay phone enclosures. Complete…

    Three Days Ago · 07:58
  • You lost me at “infielder.” Jeffrey Zeldman

    The instant a business guy uses a sports metaphor to make his most important strategic point, I am lost. If you want me to understand your business idea, try wrapping it in Wendy Carlos’s secrets of…

    Three Days Ago · 05:38
  • New orca behavior unlocked. They’ve been known to sink... Jason Kottke

    New orca behavior unlocked. They’ve been known to sink boats and wear salmon for hats; now they’re ramming fish so hard they explode. “Orcas were observed to hold sunfish in their jaw…

    Four Days Ago · 17:09
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    • A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the...
    • “A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by...
    • “In extreme cases, it can create a phantom...
    • Rebecca Solnit on the Tate brothers, The Odyssey, and...
    • What’s On the Sandwich Named After You at the Local Deli?
    • Why are American ambulances so expensive? In part...
    • We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night...
    • A Matter of Form (1984)
    • An online edition of all 85 of the Federalist Papers ,...
    • “ This map shows the predicted density of...
    • Oh wow, The Verge made a 70-minute video on how The...
    • Frozen Polygon Waves
    • What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us...
    • A list of Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail...
    • There is nothing more I love in this world right now than...
    • Unclassifiable Artists
    • A digital museum of video game levels …you can move...
    • I have lived more than two score and twelve years on this...
    • The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration , a collection...
    • “ Researchers let AI models run a simulated society...
    • Brian Eno on the Cherished Sounds of Failure
    • Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It...
  • How I destroyed a 3000 $ IoT Device, and what it taught me about testing WonderProxy

    This is the story of a heuristic that I stumbled upon while testing, and the bigger lesson underneath it. Every system you work with hides a risk nobody has poked yet.…

    Four Days Ago · 06:23
  • Coming Up For Air Brad Frost

    Yesterday, I sent out a newsletter and wanted to share it here too because HOLY CRAP. It's been nearly two months since I've published a newsletter or substantive blog post, to which I say, “No sir,…

    The Other Day · 18:00
  • The Odyssey Simon Collison

    I watched Interstellar at the cinema and left feeling utterly exhilarated, and I’ve made a point of catching new Christopher Nolan films on the big screen ever since.…

    The Other Day · 07:00

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