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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
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    • Issue 049: Time-dilating chaos
  • Web game: list as many animals as you can in 1 minute... Jason Kottke

    Web game: list as many animals as you can in 1 minute (but you get more time with correct guesses).…

    Today · 09:39
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    • The Four Rules for a Good Walk
    • Legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth :...
    • “The entire Sun oscillates in a globally coherent...
    • From late January, a 40-minute talk by Rick Steves on...
    • Timothy Snyder on strongmen . “Once you accept...
    • De La Soul’s Tiny Desk Concert
    • The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit
    • TIL about babysitting co-ops . “The premise is...
    • The KDO Rolodex Is Now a Wee Feed Reader?
    • Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Acquires Original...
    • TIL about burping your house , aka lüften (in Germany),...
    • Color Photos of Rome (c. 1890s)
    • Steve Jobs famously said that computers are a bicycle...
    • LLMs are getting pretty good at unmasking pseudonymous...
    • “ Imagine what it was like for women in colonial...
    • HyperCard Changed Everything
    • Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz. “Is...
    • Takashi Murakami Remixes Monet
    • Remember the “scroll lock” key on your...
    • New Rembrandt Painting Discovered
    • Can You Draw All 50 States From Memory?
    • Recent advances in science have revolutionized our...
    • “ Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with...
    • When lit up at night, this badminton academy in...
    • “Supercharged” solar activity and the equinox...
    • Nine Inch Nails Releases Tron: Ares Remix Album
    • “ A long dive into the features that make my ideal...
    • This is the most 2026 thing I’ve ever heard:...
    • A Boston man discovered a document passed down through...
    • Lumière, Le Cinema!
    • Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi proposes sending a tiny...
    • “ Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of...
    • Why Attack Iran?
  • My brother, the rhythmic conceptualist Jeffrey Zeldman

    Remembrance of beats passed. The post My brother, the rhythmic conceptualist appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Today · 05:45
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    • What a year that was.
    • Advice for job seekers
  • Socialize the Plan Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    On AI and code review. Anyone who tells you they have this current moment in coding figured out is lying to someone (you or themselves). I’m going to keep sharing half-formed thoughts, and bits of…

    Today · 04:45
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    • Ed’s Software, in a Time of Fear
  • The Ensh*ttificator Marc Thiele

    “The Ensh*ttificator” is a little movie about who it is to blame for all the things getting worse. This video is part of a campaign by the Norw…

    Today · 00:00
  • Feedback Jeremy Keith

    If you wanted to make a really crude approximation of project management, you could say there are two main styles: waterfall and agile. It’s not as simple as that by any means. And the two aren…

    Yesterday · 09:33
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    • Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood
    • The state of State Of The Browser
  • Selectively ignore lines in git diff Lorna Mitchell

    I have a things-as-code project that outputs mostly text-based formats, but a lot of them. To keep an eye on consistency, I rebuild all the outputs and dump them into a local git repository so I can v…

    Yesterday · 00:57
  • Propellant. Ethan Marcotte

    Amid everything happening right now, I read with great interest about the technologies used in planning our latest horrid war. According to The Wall Street Journal, Anthropic’s Claude was use…

    Two Days Ago · 21:00
  • Do Not Panic Tina Roth Eisenberg

    This poster by David Schmitt made me smile.…

    Two Days Ago · 13:53
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    • The Thinking Game
    • Instructions before visiting Earth
    • Listening as Alchemy
  • Old Music Friday Brad Frost

    I love this so much. We take so much for granted, so I freaking love to be reminded of the time-traveling magic of recorded music.…

    Two Days Ago · 12:34
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    • Real-Time UI
  • Me Trying To Take a Selfie in 2001 Chris Coyier

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    Three Days Ago · 19:41
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  • Offline 23 hours a day Derek Sivers

    Last month, I moved into my new home in the woods. There’s no internet and no phone service here. It’s so productive. At first I thought I couldn’t move in without internet. But now I prefer i…

    Three Days Ago · 17:00
  • A roadmap to a Viking funeral. Greg Storey

    This weekend I met with a long-time friend who was looking for direction on a new role. The legacy program they inherited is operating like it's 2005, the company is burning through money and lea…

    Three Days Ago · 09:36
  • Baseline Loss Naz Hamid

    What the days look like now. I buzzed my hair down today. I needed to baseline it. I still have a healthy amount of hair, but it’s going. I have a semblance of vanity, but I knew from m…

    Three Days Ago · 09:21
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 2/28 Rob Weychert

    Added to the film diary:Five Star FinalMervyn LeRoy, 1931, ★★★½Little CaesarMervyn LeRoy, 1931, ★★★Imitation of LifeDouglas Sirk, 1959, ★★★Dog Lover’s SymphonyTed Fukuda, 2006…

    The Other Day · 22:00

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