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

  • Dave’s Rule of Life Chris Coyier

    Dave, from #735: Never trust an adult over 35 who can’t explain what they need from you in a bulleted list. I’m thinking like a laptop sticker or t-shirt, right? A little AI slop to help p…

    Today · 07:45
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    • Media Diet
    • Multipage
    • Justice for CSS
    • Glasses
    • Kelsey
  • Crossword Clues Where It’s Clear the Puzzle’s Creator Got... Jason Kottke

    Crossword Clues Where It’s Clear the Puzzle’s Creator Got Themselves into a Jam Letter-wise. Incl. “Could be found on the second to last line of an optometrist’s vision chart” and…

    Yesterday · 08:10
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    • Unseen Places: Rediscovering the Art of Observation by...
    • Every US Electrical Outlet Explained
    • Japanese book rave. A club in Tokyo spread carpets on the...
    • Weball allows you to roll up websites into a Katamari...
    • Is This Weird Quiz Game the Toughest F1 Video Game Ever?
    • I just went down a rabbit hole of incense seals. So cool.
    • Bill McKibben: I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We...
    • In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US,...
    • Chasing a Plane Across the Moon
    • Abolish Frat Culture. “This is going to be uncomfortable...
    • Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some...
    • Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life...
    • Bertrand Russell Shows How to Respond to Fascists Who Want to Debate
    • The Global Rise of Electoral Dictatorships. Is the U.S....
    • A short (too short?) video from Little White Lies on...
    • Great Deals on Apple Stuff Today
    • “Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that...
    • Where in the world are typefaces being designed? The US,...
    • Wildwood
    • AI-generated images don’t have to look like AI-generated...
    • In 2005, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory calculated that...
    • Lots and Lots and Lots of Control Panels
    • The Job Trail, a web game about making it through 52...
    • Blue Planet III
    • 118 Things to Do Instead of Doomscrolling. Including “put...
    • From a tongue-in-cheek Google Japan, a conveyor belt...
    • Silent Friend
    • Things That Are Good to Do. Including “admit what you...
    • The Ku Klux Klan is rebranding itself as The Knights...
    • Watch One of Radiohead’s Best Live Shows: Bonnaroo 2006
    • An interesting long profile of Mark Zuckerberg. “Mark is...
    • The Best Sandwich Shop in America?
    • Richard Linklater is directing a film adaptation of the...
    • Mapsnap is a program designed to take old Sanborn...
  • Craft & Work London 2026 – My Photos Marc Thiele

    Keir and Craig once more did a fantastic job in organising and running Craft & Work 2026 in London. A great day with lots of good conversations.…

    Yesterday · 03:23
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    • Apple Charger with C7 Figure‑8 Power Cord
  • Studio Notes #105 Dan Cederholm

    Hello, My Friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🪡 Came across Valeria Duque’s series of embroidered photographs and…

    Two Days Ago · 08:35
  • Exile on Silicon Valley Naz Hamid

    The golden window of tech may have expired. In 2010, I came across a video of Mick Jagger being interviewed (text version here). It was for a re-release of Exile on Main Str…

    Three Days Ago · 21:35
  • My Interop feature ranking Ana Rodrigues

    The Firefox team just launched a website that allows users to rank the Interop 2027 proposals that they care about. And I care about things - for selfish reasons and for work. And that's a challenge.…

    Four Days Ago · 18:00
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    • Bookmarks that were lingering in tabs
  • How to test for Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities WonderProxy

    Treat every input field on your website as a potential door into your web application. If you keep the door unlocked, it not only puts the application at risk, but every user who visits the site and t…

    The Other Day · 22:10
  • “The joy of life is in the contrast.” Greg Storey

    While I appreciate the time we just spent on the road, I envy an old friend who recently finished a year of traveling abroad with her family. Sophie, her partner, and daughter visited thirty-two count…

    The Other Day · 10:23
  • Recursion is DEAD and HTML killed it Dave Rupert

    There’s a new web platform feature flighting in Chromium called Declarative Partial Updates. This proposal adds a new <?marker> element which enables out-of-order streaming of content. Rather…

    The Other Day · 09:36
  • Lake Of Souls by Ann Leckie Jeremy Keith

    In some ways, the short story is the ideal format for science fiction. If science fiction is all about ideas, a short story is a way to take an idea and play it out without any obligation to build a…

    The Other Day · 09:31

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