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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • Gaeltacht cois Tamaise 2026 Jeremy Keith

    Bhí me i Londain an deireadh seachtaine seo caite mar gheall ar an Gaeltacht cois Tamaise. Cúpla lá iontach ba ea iad! Bhí na ranganna ar siúl Dé Sathairn agus Dé Domhnaigh, ceithre huaire a…

    Today · 10:02
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    • Brigid by Kim Curran
  • Craft Is Not Culture Naz Hamid

    A time, a place, and humans. Let’s take a moment to consider the font, Instrument Serif. Created by the Portland-based design agency Instrument for their own use — along…

    Yesterday · 17:42
  • Required reading: “The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything” Jeffrey Zeldman

    Cameron Cummins-Smith’s grand unifying theory connects the far right’s seemingly disparate obsessions—from trans panic and great replacement theory to anti-feminism and white birth-rate anxiety…

    Yesterday · 08:48
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    • Lest we forget
  • PHP Tek: A Homecoming Ben Ramsey

    PHP Tek always feels like a homecoming. No matter how much time passes between conferences, or between the person I was the last time I attended and the one I am now, walking into that hotel and findi…

    Two Days Ago · 22:16
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 5/23 Rob Weychert

    Added to the film diary:Cry-BabyJohn Waters, 1990, ★★★★ Tagged: May 2026 Reply via email Shop discount for RSS subscribers: I make art and zines and art zines. Visit…

    Two Days Ago · 22:00
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    • 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    • Send Help
    • 🔗 Just You Wait
  • A simple clustering algorithm for lists Cassidy Williams

    I nerd-sniped myself deeply when sorting baby toys and came up with a fun pattern for doing so!…

    Two Days Ago · 18:00
  • Eric Rodenbeck on AI as a Design Medium . “In my... Jason Kottke

    Eric Rodenbeck on AI as a Design Medium. “In my class, the first principle is simple: Do not take what comes back from prompts at face value. Interrogate it. Iterate on it. Stay with it l…

    Three Days Ago · 11:55
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    • “A woozle effect …occurs when frequent...
    • “A three-month national investigation by Beyond...
    • Water World
    • The Secret to Winning on Jeopardy . “To win on...
    • Paul Brown’s iPod . This is a lovely remembrance &...
    • What Number Was Stephen Colbert Thinking Of?
    • This is impressive: an AI model has disproved an...
    • Three Hours of Unbelievable Moments From Nature, Narrated by David Attenborough
    • “US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola...
    • Trump Destroyed USAID. Now People Are Dying....
    • Free admission to Canadian national parks this summer!...
    • At Long Last, I Have Maxximized My Looks ....
    • What If Lock-In Doesn’t Matter So Much Anymore?
    • All the Star Wars Lightsaber Designs
    • My friend Adriana wrote about her story game based on...
  • The Importance of Tools and the Hedonic Treadmill of “Feels like Magic” Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    Claude Code felt like magic when I used it for the first time (14 months ago?). And then it felt like magic again when the models got good at code at the end of the year. But then I wanted to be able…

    Three Days Ago · 06:08
  • Studio Notes #85 Dan Cederholm

    Hello, Friends! Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🧢 This week I came across Lost & Foundry, a cool shop that sews vintage p…

    Three Days Ago · 06:00
  • Adult Friendship Tina Roth Eisenberg

    Sociologists have long argued that human relationships are sustained less by intensity and more by regularity. Simply encountering the same people repeatedly builds closeness over time. Youth offers t…

    Four Days Ago · 15:28
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    • Creativity
    • Ragtime: Tiny Desk Concert
  • tweet Derek Sivers

    Fight Club: I liked it the first time years ago, but watching a second time when you already know the end reveal? Elevates it from good to great. So many brilliant details in the screenplay. What else…

    Four Days Ago · 15:18
  • Just You Wait Chris Shiflett

    I turn 50 today. I feel incredibly lucky to have experienced these particular 50 years. I was born in 1976 — when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple, the year after Bill Gates dropped out…

    Four Days Ago · 08:37
  • Design Better AMA: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred Josh Clark

    Big Medium’s Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred got real in this AMA on the Design Better podcast with Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery: AI fatigue is real. Speed (over quality) is a race to t…

    The Other Day · 12:53

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