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

  • Ring of Fire in the Sky Jason Kottke

    Portuguese photographer Rui Santos captured this shot of the recent solar eclipse. Stunning. Here’s what makes this shot look a little different from other eclipse photos; from APOD:…

    Today · 13:48
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    • How to make a good Star Wars movie for once ....
    • And also a trailer for season 2 of Star Wars: Ahsoka ....
    • Trailer for VisionQuest , the third leg of the...
    • In Bourgogne, they’ve been recording grape date harvests...
    • Post-pandemic vaccination rates of US kindergarteners...
    • Whoa, Columbia House (12 cassettes for 1¢) is finally...
    • The area known as Tornado Alley continues to shift...
    • “ Sand temperatures above 29°C now produce 95–99%...
    • A.J. Jacobs recently interviewed “the Papa Bear of...
    • Unwinding the Great Tech Power Grab . “If tech seeks to...
    • We live in a world of ordinary abundance & luxuries...
    • Ozu in Color (Every Frame a Painting)
    • Two new episodes of Ric Burns’ 1999 documentary...
    • Yale study : “A single-payer universal health care...
    • Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential...
    • Open Thread for August 2026
    • NOAA: Contiguous US Breaks Its Record for Hottest Month...
    • The Moral Unseriousness of Centrist & Conservative Pundits
  • Ebb, Meet Flow: Intrinsic Design in a Nutshell Jeffrey Zeldman

    In 2020, the gifted makers of websites at Clearleft shared methods to achieve fluid responsive design. “Utopian” web design was (and still is) their half-kidding name for this approach, which Appl…

    Today · 11:24
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    • For students who make websites
  • When The Boys Came Out To Play by John Mackel Jeremy Keith

    I went to plenty of great sessions when I was in Belfast. One of the best was during Belfast Tradfest, out at The Hatfield with Bríd Harper, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, and Michael Rooney. I ended…

    Today · 09:26
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    • Polytropus
    • Chíne tréile
  • The Quiet Grief of Adult Friendship Tina Roth Eisenberg

    “Friendship, has always depended on a certain irrational generosity. A willingness to waste time together magnificently. To listen to the same anxiety for the fifth time. To sit through silence.…

    Today · 04:28
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    • The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
    • Evil Wears a Top Hat
    • What Kind of Difference
    • Eclipse Viewers (1932)
  • Almost Invisible Rob Weychert

    David Allingham, 2010 I find that a terrible movie that broadcasts its amateur maker’s steep learning curve is usually more interesting than a terrible movie made by a professional for…

    Yesterday · 21:59
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    • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 8/15
    • Wrong
  • Shadow-piercing local component variables Dave Rupert

    Stuart Robson’s post Solving CSS @layer Ordering in Design Systems with Design Token Metadata, a response to Chris Coyier’s Thinking Horizontally in CSS @layer, came to me at a serendipitous time.…

    Yesterday · 09:14
  • Exactly What He Says (Quote) Marc Thiele

    Exactly what VFX Supervisor Marion Spates says here. […] I mean I hope everyone is excited as I am about what I do. The one thing I try to encoura…

    Yesterday · 03:21
  • The desire for something real Simon Collison

    Back in 2018, I was writing articles and speaking to tech crowds about an Internet of Natural Things, trying to convince them that there was an increasing desire to use…

    Three Days Ago · 18:00
  • Studio Notes #97 Dan Cederholm

    Summer Greetings, Friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🦈 A group of friends in Quincy, Massachusetts recreated the entire…

    Four Days Ago · 08:17
  • Diddit Gina Trapani

    Link: Diddit — A simple, shareable logbook for iPhone I’ll always be a sucker for great software to…

    Four Days Ago · 07:58
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    • A 2026 detour
  • Structure in Type Design John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts The legendary type designer Adrian Frutiger once described an epiphany he had: “When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added, but rather the white sheet…

    Four Days Ago · 07:42
  • Unforgetful Marco Arment

    I have ADHD. Probably.1 My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework, disappointing everyone around me, and being told by every adult that I was lazy, “just” needed t…

    Four Days Ago · 06:31

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