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

  • What Will Starting a Creative Career Look Like in the... Jason Kottke

    What Will Starting a Creative Career Look Like in the Next Few Years? “We can’t keep asking where all the good designers are if we’re unwilling to help anyone become one.”…

    Today · 12:15
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    • Why Does Japan Have Such Good Railways? “Successful...
    • “I Made a Film in Excel, and I Don’t Know Why”
    • Watch the morning fog flow like ocean waves into the town...
    • Advice for the incoming Democratic Congress: 8 Bold Ideas...
    • Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated...
    • A short history of Lego instructions from 1955 to the...
    • Satellite images of sand dunes migrating in Egypt. They...
    • USPS Announces Mythical Creatures Stamps for 2027
    • How to Build a Police State. “Bukele didn’t declare a...
    • How Much Wealth Does It Take to be Safe in the United States?
    • Great title for an article about London’s invasive...
    • 100 Big Unanswered Scientific Questions
    • Another banger from neal.fun: Battle Draw. Sort of an...
    • Crimson Star
    • The most intense shoe salesman you’ll ever meet, a CBS...
    • The Welcome Rain Falling From the Sky
    • Award-winning photographer Stephen Voss is making a book...
    • Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity...
    • 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
  • Adam Grant on Friendship Tina Roth Eisenberg

    Deeply enjoyed this conversation between Adam Grant and Rich Roll.…

    Today · 07:32
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    • Stylescape Generator
    • Expectations
    • Archives.Design
    • Draw.Horses
  • Better Day, Sunshine Jeffrey Zeldman

    I haven’t driven a car in decades (New Yorker). But from my pre-New York life, I remember how sun glare could turn a pleasant road trip into a blinding gauntlet. Enter “Sunward,” a uniquely spec…

    Today · 04:31
  • How to test a hotfix WonderProxy

    Testing a hotfix is a real test of your skills as a quality professional. A hotfix usually comes with a little bit of urgency. Something is broken in production, someone found the problem, the develop…

    Yesterday · 22:10
  • I’m on a slow background mission to reverse the othering in my worldview. De-othering Derek Sivers

    I’m on a slow background mission to reverse the othering in my worldview. De-othering: sive.rs/deothering…

    Yesterday · 13:56
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    • De-othering
    • Fascinating book “I Deliver Parcels in Beijing”. First you learn what it's like to do the no-skill jobs in China, but near the end it takes a twist as he quits to become an insightful writer. My notes
    • Explorer? Being lost makes you fully present? The mystery of distance. Desire cherished instead of satisfied. Similar thoughts in this book
    • Interesting business book 'Alchemy' by Rory Sutherland about ideas that don't make sense in theory but work in practice
  • Quire Mark Boulton

    I’ve been ill with a cold for the past couple of days. I’m not great at it. So, whilst getting distracted by this damn phone whilst trying to watch films, I embarked on scratching an itch…

    Yesterday · 13:37
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    • Is The Future of Design Systems In A Context Layer?
  • A Kind of Blue Naz Hamid

    A wave builds into a tsunami. I went for a run just over two years ago. Then, it was to shake out the results of the 2024 election. A deep disappointment, but also acceptanc…

    Two Days Ago · 20:58
  • 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…

    Four 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!…

    Four Days Ago · 17:00
  • 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…

    The Other Day · 16:42

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