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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • 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…

    Today · 06:00
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    • A Non-Special Goods Sale
  • 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…

    Today · 06:00
    2 more posts
    • Promoted
    • It’s always been culture
  • Out now: new Boards of Canada album. Get it wherever you... Jason Kottke

    Out now: new Boards of Canada album. Get it wherever you buy or stream music.…

    Today · 05:31
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    • 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 ....
    • Make Way for Beavers
    • American Wealth, Sliced Up
    • As part of the Ocean Census project, “scientists...
    • Caught In Joy: Music for Flow, Rest, and Reset
    • A recent study of 2.5M scientific papers found ~146,900...
    • To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant . “If a...
    • “Observe the moth in its monumental fight for life,...
    • Going Focaccia Crazy
    • My Son’s Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon ....
    • The first-ever Enhanced Games (open to those using...
    • Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
    • 250 to 250. We Are America.
    • Tenderly Tracking My Husband . “Knowing when to...
    • Great title for a book: Fascist Yoga . “Ever...
    • Pinterest Has Become Unusable . “When I started...
    • Stephen Colbert Hosts Only in Monroe
    • An unusual new-to-me animal: the aardwolf . It’s a...
    • Essential summertime reading: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like...
  • 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…

    Yesterday · 18:31
  • Fonts in Focus: Evert John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts Welcome to another edition of Fonts in Focus, our under-500-word reviews of great typefaces. Today, we focus on a recent release from Kostas Bartsokas of Foundry5. Ev…

    Yesterday · 12:34
  • 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…

    Yesterday · 11:32
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    • Gaeltacht cois Tamaise 2026
  • Accessible (I Think) Split-Cell Table Headers Eric Meyer

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

    Yesterday · 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…

    Yesterday · 06:07
  • Did your editor font go default serif on WordPress 7.0? Chris Coyier

    Mine did. Like this: I guess WordPress 7.0 assumes you are using a theme.json file these days. I’m not doing that yet on any of the sites I work on. If you want to embrace that future, you could…

    Two Days Ago · 08:39
  • The quirky little bug that taught me a valuable testing lesson WonderProxy

    I don’t know if it would even be relevant today, I suspect it is, but very rare if it occurs. But it did make me think differently about filling in fields. And it was so odd that my quirky little bu…

    Two Days Ago · 08:00
  • Building an MCP Server for My Lab Chris Shiflett

    I’ve had a ~/local directory full of projects for as long as I can remember. I have my own ~/local/bin of command-line tools I’ve made over the years, and individual projects live in ~/local/{proj…

    Two Days Ago · 00:00
  • How I've been using voice mode with AI Derek Featherstone

    Six patterns from 80 voice-mode conversations, how my use shifted from quick hits to structured huddles, and the habit I'm encoding into accessibility tools.…

    Three Days Ago · 11:00
  • 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…

    The Other Day · 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…

    The Other Day · 08:48
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    • Lest we forget

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