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  • Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s... Jason Kottke

    Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season. “Key environmental indicators show that the nation is a tinderbox, gripped by widespread drought and with a light snow…

    Today · 15:18
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    • I’ve probably featured this before but always worth...
    • Star Wars Influences: Dam Busters
    • “Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support...
    • In Post-War Japan, the US Used Quiz Culture to Help...
    • Meet the Ukrainian Stunt Pilot Who Shoots Down Russian Drones
    • Power Lines: Maps That Shaped the Way We See the World ....
    • “ Serena Williams has announced her sensational...
    • The Illuminated Windows of NYC
    • Legendary film editor Marcia Lucas died last week ....
    • Roost is a messaging app where messages aren’t...
    • Slow blogging day today; I spent some time on the KDO...
    • Pope Releases Encyclical On Perils Of Disney’s ‘Star...
    • Radiohead’s OK Computer reimagined as Nintendo 64...
    • Andor Gave Us One Of TV’s Best Monologues
    • Infinite Jeffs is an actual physical book you can buy...
    • How Should a Book Sound? And What About Footnotes?...
    • Out now: new Boards of Canada album. Get it wherever you...
    • From The Mandalorian and Grogu, an extended loop of...
    • Not a surprise but nice to have the data: the Federal...
    • The Backward Index
    • On The Fuel Efficiency of Launching My Enemies Into The...
    • The Rise & Fall Of ‘Petty Tyrants’ . “The energy...
    • Down with -maxxing! Searching for the absolute best...
    • There are no lightsabers in The Mandalorian and Grogu, a...
    • 100 Iconic Moments From Sir David Attenborough
    • Consider the Sister : an interview with Amy Wallace....
    • I, Sisyphus, Am Ninety-Five Percent of the Way There ....
  • Social RSS (?) Chris Coyier

    What’s up with this? The spirit, of course, is “I want my Google Reader back.” I should be careful though: I imagine if we really did have it back exactly as it was, it would probabl…

    Today · 09:20
  • She’s the Boss. Jeffrey Zeldman

    She is not here to eat. She is here to ensure my compliance. The post She’s the Boss. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Today · 08:22
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Brutal Types John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts “Brutal” is such a nasty, albeit seductive, word. A quick visit to my desktop Oxford dictionary confirms that the adjective “brutal” is, etymologicall…

    Today · 01:42
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    • Fonts in Focus: Evert
  • Joining the atmosphere Rachel Andrew

    I don’t post to or visit the social network formerly known as Twitter, but as a very early Twitter user, I can’t quite bring myself to delete all my old posts. There’s so much histor…

    Yesterday · 09:52
  • Generating HTTPS URLs with Symfony on DigitalOcean App Platform Ben Ramsey

    I’ve been dealing with a frustrating issue in a Symfony application hosted on DigitalOcean App Platform. Since it took me quite a while to find the solution, I thought I’d share it here in case it…

    Yesterday · 09:10
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 5/30 Rob Weychert

    Added to the film diary:OrlandoSally Potter, 1992, ★★★½High NoonFred Zinnemann, 1952, ★★★½Added to the music library:ArchitectonicsHoavi, 2026Temporal ShifterMicrowaves, 2026SeismoUps…

    Two Days Ago · 22:00
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    • Uranium Club at Spruce Street Harbor Park
  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    Two Days Ago · 10:00
  • Pair programming with AI Derek Featherstone

    The productivity trap in coding with an AI: you finish faster but maybe understand less. Here's the instruction set I'm experimenting with to make the LLM my learning partner via pair-programming.…

    Three Days Ago · 21:33
  • Studio Notes #86 Dan Cederholm

    Good morning, my friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 📼 The day after Stephen Colbert's final Late Show, he filmed a…

    Three Days Ago · 06:00
  • You retreat in time and space Simon Collison

    Heaven and hell. Prophecy and revelation. Longing and love. If you’ve ever found comfort in the uneasy warmth of a Boards of Canada record, you’ll be hypnotised by t…

    Three Days Ago · 06:00
  • Starting in the Analog domain Stoyan Stefanov

    I find myself writing more orchestral music, it's tough, requires more concentration than programing (skill issue?) and is sooo time consuming. I also write code (duh!). And I also write books (not so…

    Four Days Ago · 18:31
  • Picture at an exhibition Jeremy Keith

    I few weeks back, I got an email with the subject line, Screenshot in an Exhibition: I am currently developing an exhibition celebrating the thriving folk musics of these islands for the Royal C…

    Four Days Ago · 11:32
  • Accessible (I Think) Split-Cell Table Headers Eric Meyer

    A way to create a diagonally split header cell without mangling accessibility, I hope.…

    Four Days Ago · 07:05
  • Happy My 21st Blog Birthday To Me! Tina Roth Eisenberg

    Yesterday, May 27th, marked the 21st birthday of this beloved online garden of mine. The rolling panda beautifully represents how I feel about this. I had no idea just how much this labor of love woul…

    Four Days Ago · 06:07

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