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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
  • Exploring NYC With Next Generation Skaters Jason Kottke

    This might be my new favorite skate video? It follows a pair of young skaters around the city as they chat about their friendship, share tips about living life, and try skating everything…

    Today · 07:48
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    • Can we agree to pause the AI race? “If we can’t,...
    • This ancient Egyptian painter’s palette from 3000 years...
    • Fun thread: “sodas with a doctorate” (e.g. Dr. Pepper).
    • VoiceDot : “Every dot on this globe is a real...
    • Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art ....
    • How — and Why — to Cull Your Book Collection . “6....
    • Dancing Boston Dynamics Robot Knows Its Revenge For This...
    • The official trailer for Dune 3 . I am so looking...
    • The Amble One is perhaps the world’s best-designed golf...
    • Taffy Brodesser-Akner: I Survived a Cold Plunge and All...
    • MapTap is like a quicker, easier version of GeoGuessr:...
    • We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t...
    • Do you believe that everybody should have fun or that...
    • Stacks : “Run HyperCard stacks directly on your...
    • XKCD: What if chess included the offside rule? (If...
    • This is a fun and really well-done triple mashup of...
    • A sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. NES cartridge...
    • This is neat: Robin Sloan is rewriting his 2009 short...
    • Stop chasing life goals and start trying tiny...
    • What’s the Point of Sex, Anyway? “There is yet...
    • The Open Source AI Gap Map shows the current...
    • The End of Reading Is Here . “The decline of...
    • Why The Best Player Alive Barely Runs
    • Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future...
    • British political news: Nigel Farage is facing...
    • City’s Beautification Initiative Hamstrung By Commitment...
  • Lost time = Lost money WonderProxy

    The alert was concerning because it was for CPU usage by a sync worker. The usage graph showed a drastic increase starting late the day before. Unless many more users were suddenly much more active, s…

    Today · 07:00
  • Seth’s Riff’s Tina Roth Eisenberg

    Seth’s Riff’s is a collection of kernels, notions and riffs from Seth Godin. What a treasure trove! GAH!…

    Today · 04:10
    4 more posts
    • The Ability to Be Wrong
    • Collection of Vintage User-Interfaces
    • We But Mirror The World
    • Marble Pillows
  • Who Do I Talk To?: The Case for PHP Working Groups Ben Ramsey

    I speak at conferences and organize user groups, and I spend a lot of that time encouraging people to contribute to PHP and other open source projects. Inevitably, someone approaches me at an event an…

    Yesterday · 16:47
  • A Loving and Well-Loved Man Mike Davidson

    A couple of weeks ago, one of the most unique people in our industry passed away. A quiet man of incredible volume, Om Malik was the person whose voice traveled only a few feet but always filled the r…

    Yesterday · 12:07
  • Stalin decided what was good science. Millions starved. Jeffrey Zeldman

    What happens when leaders choose political expediency over science? The post Stalin decided what was good science. Millions starved. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Two Days Ago · 03:46
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    • The Secret
  • Studio Notes #92 Dan Cederholm

    Hello there, Very Fabulous Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🎥 Christopher Nolan's upcoming The Odyssey film was fi…

    Three Days Ago · 07:48
  • I’m available for new projects Simon Collison

    For over a decade I’ve traded as Obvious Things, a name that’s only appeared on paperwork. Later this year I’ll finally be launching OT properly as a focused art +…

    Four Days Ago · 18:00
  • Medea by Rosie Hewlett Jeremy Keith

    In preparation for my jaunt to a Greek island, I figured it would be good to have some Greek-adjacent reading material with me to peruse on the beach. So I scoured the shelves of my local library to…

    Four Days Ago · 08:29
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    • Speak at UX London 2027
    • Gaeilge sa Ghréig

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