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

  • Silly Old Bear Jeffrey Zeldman

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

    Today · 11:57
  • How Hunting Owls Use Sound to “See” Under the Snow Jason Kottke

    The great grey owl basically has a sound cone for a face, which helps it hunt down voles burrowing through snow in the winter. The owl’s large facial ruff, formed of dense feathers, he…

    Today · 10:55
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    • 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
    • ArtCraft is building open source versions of what looks...
    • Reelizer: A Trove of Movie Art
    • Thing I am going to make time for in the next few days:...
    • The People Holding Up the Internet. Amazing to see how...
    • Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net...
    • “I’m forced to admit that these AI-decompiled web browser...
    • Improving Conversation on KDO
    • Prompting as Self-Portrait. “We need the blank page and...
    • Nearly 4M Records of Enslaved People in 20 Former British...
    • Why I Did Not Leave Nazi Germany in Time. “Many of us...
    • The Worst Way To Get To Space. I’d never heard the story...
    • All the Percents on Star Trek: TNG
    • My friend Matt was recently here for a week in Tokyo and...
  • Astro Teller on creativity and the fool's mindset Gina Trapani

    Link: 2025 Academic Convocation Keynote Speaker Astro Teller “The fool loves side quests and often go…

    Today · 08:00
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    • How I learned to love lifting
    • Margaret Hamilton on software engineering
  • 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.…

    Yesterday · 18:00
  • My Interop 2027 Rankings Eric Meyer

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

    Yesterday · 12:14
  • Available To Be Found Tina Roth Eisenberg

    View on Threads…

    Yesterday · 08:46
    2 more posts
    • 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),…

    Yesterday · 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…

    Yesterday · 01:21
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    • You Should Go to ffconf
  • 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…

    Two Days Ago · 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…

    Two Days Ago · 21:59
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    • A nation of murder witnesses
    • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 10/10
    • Dr. Giggles
  • Zero Jeremy Keith

    The term “no-brainer” refers to a suggestion that is so compelling that it would be foolish to even consider not doing it. I came across a no-brainer recently, thanks to Matt Hobbs: Make al…

    Two Days Ago · 18:55
  • Archived Tweets Chris Coyier

    I finally got around to importing my whole historical Twitter archive (just my own original tweets, not replies or retweets) into this WordPress site as a proper Custom Post Type: https://chriscoyier.…

    Two Days Ago · 07:48
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    • Atomic Wall Clocks
    • EPS?
    • Dave’s Rule of Life
    • Media Diet
  • Goblin Village Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    I’ve started working on a game about being a frustrated and ineffectual manager of a goblin village. Most of the work is writing narrative snippet and then asking Claude to turn it into code. On the…

    Three Days Ago · 19:00
  • Coastal exposure Simon Collison

    My Fujica with the wide-angle lens on Wells beach. Following our evening with The Hu, we woke early-ish in a Premier Inn off the A47. We grabbed some bad coffee and drov…

    Three Days Ago · 17:05
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    • The Hu
  • All watched over by algorithms of loving grace. Ethan Marcotte

    Lord, but I’m tired of recommendation engines. Tired in my bones. I watched a video of a musician I listened to obsessively in high school, but not much since then. He was playing an old favo…

    The Other Day · 22:00

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