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

  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
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    • Issue 050: Fine Specimens is out today
    • A book! A book tour! A book tour newsletter!
  • Why AI agents need to learn to read the room Josh Clark

    Researcher Genna Bridgeman shared practical findings about how AI interactions are affected by social expectations of the specific communication channel. Bridgeman is a product researcher for Inter…

    Today · 14:43
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    • SaaS Is Dead?
    • The Shape of the Thing
  • Kermit Roosevelt Chris Coyier

    I was at a school function the other day where the 2nd graders performed a bunch of Aesop’s Fabels and it was great. It was a double-header with 3rd graders who then read prepared reports on fam…

    Today · 11:08
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    • AI is my CMS
    • Untitled
    • Claude is an Electron App
  • KDO: 28 Years Later… Jason Kottke

    It’s getting a little ridiculous, isn’t it? 28 years of kottke.org, as of today. Older than Google. Older than The Matrix. Older than Christopher Nolan’s feature film career. Older…

    Today · 07:28
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    • For the first time in awhile, copies of two lost...
    • The Great Friendship Flattening . “I amass bits of...
    • Why Movies Just Don’t Feel “Real”...
    • 10 Hours of Ambient Freezer Drone
    • Recommendations of 25 medieval manuscripts to explore...
    • The Z9GT model EV from China’s BYD “can be...
    • It’s an Open Thread
    • Craig Mod is software bonkers . “I’m...
    • Balcony solar finally seems to be taking off in the US ....
    • Yet another graph showing that when you control for...
    • Potoooooooo was an 18th-century British racehorse whose...
    • “Presolar grains” (microscopic crystals that...
    • Lego Sets Remixed
    • This is great: Channel Surfer is “a retro TV...
    • coulou’s vinyl cafe (no. 4) - rainy day selections...
    • The Void Would Very Much Like You to Stop Screaming Into...
    • Clive Thompson wrote about coding with AI agents ....
    • A Miraculous Escape
    • “We took an ancient vice…put it on...
    • Ballot Guessr : “GeoGuessr for politics. See a...
    • AI Is Rewiring How the World’s Best Go Players...
    • A printable zine: 50 Ways To Meet Your Neighbor ....
    • Missed this earlier in the week: The Tournament of Books...
    • This photo of an Icelandic glacier is really something.
    • The People Who Shun Super-Popular Pop Culture ....
    • There are at least 60 Pizza Hut Classics (red roofs,...
    • Africa (Toto) But It Lists Every Country in Africa
    • Steve Scherer was a Reuters’ bureau chief in...
    • Wow, KDO pal and explorer Ariel Waldman has her own show...
    • Georg Cantor is celebrated for revolutionizing...
    • “ 8 in 10 AI chatbots were regularly willing to...
    • Jamelle Bouie Interview on Work Is Four Letters
    • Draw your own constellations .
    • The Baskerville Punches
    • Amount Of Water Man Just Used To Wash Dish To Be Prize...
    • Syndicates of Capital
    • Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin was the first person to go to...
    • Another recent HyperCard discovery (that isn’t...
    • “Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues...
    • Ghost Elephants
    • Github’s uptime lately seems…..concerning?
    • “Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported...
    • The Shape of Paris
    • The Modern Times cafe moved to a pay-what-you-want model...
    • “A group of runners starts jogging around a...
    • Jay Graber is stepping down as CEO of Bluesky to...
  • A die-cut above Jeffrey Zeldman

    Cover art for the 1971 prog-rock LP “Fearless,” by British band Family features a distinctive, die-cut cover design depicting the five band members gradually morphing into a single entity combinin…

    Yesterday · 07:30
  • Studio Notes #75 Dan Cederholm

    Hello hello, and greetings to you. Here's issue #75 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🍋 I came across a new-to-me band that made me temporarily fee…

    Yesterday · 06:00
  • Dog Rugs Tina Roth Eisenberg

    These dog rugs by Emily O’Leary are weird and fascinating.…

    Yesterday · 03:44
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  • I was inconsiderate but now I’m everywhere Derek Sivers

    When I was in the music business, there was a record producer who lived in New Jersey, but refused to come into New York City. Anyone that wanted to meet with him had to drive all the way down to his…

    Three Days Ago · 18:00
  • A web font strategy Jeremy Keith

    The Session has been online in some form since the late 1990s. That’s long before web fonts existed. To begin with, Times New Roman was the only game in town if you wanted serif type on a website…

    Three Days Ago · 08:17
  • A Designer’s Thoughts About This Moment in AI Brad Frost

    I was walking my dog in the woods and decided to share my thoughts about the state of AI and the tension between the trajectory of AI companies and the designers/creators/makers of the world who are…

    The Other Day · 17:05
  • 🔗 I was at a funeral today and felt all the… Rob Weychert

    I was at a funeral today and felt all the appropriate funeral feelings but I also could not stop thinking about Coffin Flop 🔗 Go to this link Tagged: March 2026, pe…

    The Other Day · 14:31

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