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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • 25 Books That Capture This American Moment . They... Jason Kottke

    25 Books That Capture This American Moment. They include Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland, and Rabbit Redux by John Updi…

    Today · 12:07
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    • Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains ....
    • On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism ,...
    • World History Timeline
    • New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan...
    • The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence...
    • Sarah Rose (who is blind): “Meta glasses are...
    • How Russell Vought Became the Shadow President
    • Omg, Amazon Prime inserted an ad for Febreze in the...
    • A very good, very 2026 headline: Japan Runs Out of Robot...
    • When Your Participation Is Decoration
    • “I believe in myself. That’s why I...
    • Shape of Dreams (Zendaya × Spike Jonze)
    • The Guardian asked authors, critics, and academics to...
    • The 2026 National Recording Registry inductees were...
    • This Tiny Celestial Body Past Pluto Shouldn’t Have an...
    • A Moment That Changed Me: I Saw My First Total Solar...
    • What Childhood Folklore Did You Learn As a Kid?
    • I Want to Live Like Costco People . “Embracing the...
    • Robin Sloan writes about the personalized, AI-written,...
    • What Would J.R.R. Tolkien Think of Palantir?
    • Meet the Sad Wives of AI . “Princess Diana...
    • Just dropped: Foo Fighters’ Tiny Desk Concert ....
    • Stop-Motion Lego Dr. Strangelove
    • Adam Serwer : “Violence serves an authoritarian...
    • A map of the regions of the US , as voted on by Reddit...
    • “So, at about 14, I became the team’s...
    • The World Press Freedom Index at Global 25-Year Low
    • Sounds of the 60s: the IBM 1401 (punchcard collation,...
    • Jamelle Bouie thinks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is...
    • Being Fed Content
    • Study: “A few weeks of X’s algorithm can...
    • Can You See the World When You Close Your Eyes?
    • We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More...
    • Digg has (sorta) relaunched (again) and instead of an...
    • How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant...
    • Remember Desktop Tower Defense ? I played it for a bit...
    • Taken : this is a web page that shows how much data your...
    • Mesmerizing 4K Video of a Cat-5 Super Typhoon
    • Interesting thread about why rural towns don’t...
    • Wallace & Gromit 24/7 Livestream
    • People Who Don’t Like People Are Making All of Our...
    • Grandma Stand
    • Where are the public benches on the internet?...
    • Now open in NYC: a pop-up called The Donald J. Trump and...
    • The Hidden Cassettes . “This is going to sound...
  • The closing talks at UX London 2026 Jeremy Keith

    When I told you about the schedule for UX London 2026, I said: After your afternoon workshop there’ll be one final closing talk at the end of each day before we head to the bar. These closin…

    Today · 08:59
  • Studio Notes #84 Dan Cederholm

    Greetings, Bon Vivants. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🖼️ The level of detail and intricate line work of these art pr…

    Today · 06:00
  • tweet Derek Sivers

    Prepare your “no” and keep it handy: sive.rs/n0…

    Yesterday · 16:07
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  • The Shadow Spec: When a bug becomes canon WonderProxy

    When you fix the bug in legacy code, and it impacts your largest enterprise customer! You have found the shadow spec.…

    Two Days Ago · 08:00
  • Bulleted & Numbered Lists in Adobe InDesign Veerle Pieters

    Bulleted and numbered lists can significantly enhance your layout when styled effectively. I frequently use this technique while designing various printed materials for my long-term client, EmC…

    Two Days Ago · 00:17
  • Font Faces: Nick Shinn John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts Welcome to the debut issue of Font Faces: the people behind the type. We ask type designers from around the globe the same five core questions (plus some potential fo…

    Three Days Ago · 21:06
  • Attention: Fake Reminders Regarding the Renewal of Trademark Rights Marc Thiele

    10 years after you registered a trademark in Germany, you have to renew it, if you want, otherwise the copyright ends after the period you paid for.…

    Three Days Ago · 05:39
  • The Boring Internet | Terry Godier Brad Frost

    The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. YESSSSSS. The Boring Internet by Terry Godier…

    Four Days Ago · 21:24
  • Good products begin with good decisions Chris Shiflett

    Faculty has been a product studio for ten years. This week, we’re launching something new: a productized engagement called the Faculty Sprint. Ten years ago, building products was slower and more e…

    Four Days Ago · 11:22
  • Point Out The Good Tina Roth Eisenberg

    point out the good when you see it. in life, in others, in yourself. because the world needs to remember what kindness and love look like. – topher kearby…

    The Other Day · 14:07
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    • Brik.space
    • Wonderful World

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