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Posts from blogs I read written in the last few days.

  • Is The Future of Design Systems In A Context Layer? Mark Boulton

    Stuart Frisby nails a problem I’ve been observing for a while. I’ve long had the view that a design system (as we’ve known them) is one consumable form of a design language. A design la…

    Today · 11:04
  • Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity... Jason Kottke

    Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made. “The phone in your pocket is several orders of magnitude more sophisticated than the computers used for the Apollo m…

    Today · 10:45
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    • A YouTuber discovered that most videos contain inaudible...
    • Winners of the 2026 Photomicrography Competition
    • Dark Forestry. “What defense against this onslaught of...
    • The Divorce Tapes (gift link). “The only music she...
    • They found a chunk of Mars in the Sahara Desert. A recent...
    • The Match Archive
    • An analysis of 59 studies (including a 24-year Danish...
    • “Are sperm counts declining? Are microplastics and...
    • We Have Star Wars at Home
    • From filmmaker Kevin B. Lee, a story about seeing Platoon...
    • A call for more “mindful underparenting” from...
    • KDO Search Now Available to Everyone
    • Bain Capital Acquires Tibetan Buddhism For $35 Million....
    • Anthropic has new rules for its Opus 5.5 model to “steer...
    • And in other news, the NY Times is trying to buy...
    • Salon, one of the last OG general interest web...
    • Video captured by Amy Yolland of three humpback whales...
    • Subvocal’s glasses turn your silent speech into text at...
    • Foursquare was recently acquired and co-founder Dennis...
    • Grocery Shopping With a Bow & Arrow
    • Paul Ford: “The web browser is very, very, very powerful...
    • Women who die postpartum often do so because they lose...
    • A growing list of brands to avoid because they are...
    • Stunning Image of Our Satellite-Choked Night Skies
    • I Thought I’d Left Authoritarianism Behind. “To anyone...
  • Archives.Design Tina Roth Eisenberg

    Archive.Design is a digital archive of graphic design related items. A labor of love by Valery Marier.…

    Yesterday · 16:20
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    • Draw.Horses
    • A Beauty of a Lighter
    • Give Freely
  • Explorer? Being lost makes you fully present? The mystery of distance. Desire cherished instead of satisfied. Similar thoughts in this book Derek Sivers

    Explorer? Being lost makes you fully present? The mystery of distance. Desire cherished instead of satisfied. Similar thoughts in this book: sive.rs/book/GettingLost…

    Yesterday · 13:32
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    • Interesting business book 'Alchemy' by Rory Sutherland about ideas that don't make sense in theory but work in practice
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 11/7 Rob Weychert

    🎬 Added to the film diary:Vampyros LesbosJesús Franco, 1971, ★★★PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PABlade RunnerRidley Scott, 1982, ★★★★FlowGints Zilbalodis, 2024, ★★★★Fear CityAbe…

    Two Days Ago · 22:00
  • Hacking a new home screen for my Samsung TV Cassidy Williams

    I used Nathan Clark's CleanFrame project to make my 2021 Samsung TV work and feel better!…

    Two Days Ago · 17:00
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    • Editing videos with Borumi, FFmpeg, and GitHub Copilot
  • Got Them Little Side Projects Moved to CodePen Hosting Chris Coyier

    I had my little Smashburgers in Bend website on Astro on Cloudflare Pages. While I 💜 both of those things, CodePen hosting is more than capable, and that’s obviously extremely fun and satisfy…

    Three Days Ago · 16:42
  • Pseudo-pseudo-classes for maximum interactive demos! Dave Rupert

    Have you ever wanted to display all variants of a Button next to each other in your Storybook like your designer did in Figma? But then you come to a screeching halt when you realize :hover, :active,…

    Three Days Ago · 08:50
  • Studio Notes #109 Dan Cederholm

    Good Morning, Friendly Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🐆 Apparently I’m about a year late to this, but Cheetos…

    Three Days Ago · 07:43
  • In Your Face - Meeting reminder app for Mac, Windows, iPhone, and iPad | In Your Face Brad Frost

    In Your Face is one of my favorite apps for making sure my ADHD brain shows up to meetings and events on time.…

    The Other Day · 17:00
  • Rosin App Jon Hicks

    Qobuz Theme v1.5 Despite making Jacket app for myself, I'm still tinkering with my custom Qobuz theme, and for version 1.5 I'm presenting it a little differently. First of all, the changes Qobuz were…

    The Other Day · 10:15

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