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

  • West of England Design Forum 🇬🇧 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 12:00
  • Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from... Jason Kottke

    Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from the Internet Archive, images from Wikimedia Commons, & files you’ve uploaded, and create art collages from them. This is great — be…

    Today · 07:38
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    • If Other Jobs Were Like a U.S. Senator’s . “You...
    • “A star located about 1,300 light-years from Earth...
    • Digger
    • TIL about Fredkin’s paradox . “With this kind of...
    • The Universe of Short Film is an amazing site for...
    • Earth’s Holes
    • Ocean Vuong has a photograpy show opening at The...
    • When A.I. Is a Member of the Family . How a family of...
    • The Best Shots From the 2026 Aerial Photographer of the Year Contest
    • A list of the new foods on offer at the Minnesota State...
    • Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out...
    • Exploring NYC With Next Generation Skaters
    • Can we agree to pause the AI race? “If we can’t,...
    • This ancient Egyptian painter’s palette from 3000 years...
    • Fun thread: “sodas with a doctorate” (e.g. Dr. Pepper).
    • VoiceDot : “Every dot on this globe is a real...
    • Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art ....
    • How — and Why — to Cull Your Book Collection . “6....
    • Dancing Boston Dynamics Robot Knows Its Revenge For This...
    • The official trailer for Dune 3 . I am so looking...
    • The Amble One is perhaps the world’s best-designed golf...
    • Taffy Brodesser-Akner: I Survived a Cold Plunge and All...
    • MapTap is like a quicker, easier version of GeoGuessr:...
    • We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t...
    • Do you believe that everybody should have fun or that...
    • Stacks : “Run HyperCard stacks directly on your...
    • XKCD: What if chess included the offside rule? (If...
  • Write Like a Human Naz Hamid

    Collaborative writing is rewarding. In the past few months, I’ve been writing a lot. Not as much here, but for Aphera. Between our newsletter, blog, direct email feedback,…

    Yesterday · 15:00
  • “I will do.” Greg Storey

    Entitlement sure has come a long way, or so it seems. I remember my father telling me several times how spoiled my generation is—coming at me with sound bites he gleaned from work as if to star…

    Yesterday · 12:23
  • Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go Simon Collison

    There are some beautiful moments on Michael Cloud Duguay’s Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go album—a document of place, people, and old church organs. I’m married to a…

    Yesterday · 10:20
    2 more posts
    • The long after
    • I’m available for new projects
  • Choosing Movies Chris Coyier

    Almost surely, if you totaled up the number of hours of movie watching I’ve done and the hours of TV show watching I’ve done, TV dwarves movies. It’s not a conscious choice; just how it shoo…

    Yesterday · 08:28
  • Lost time = Lost money WonderProxy

    The alert was concerning because it was for CPU usage by a sync worker. The usage graph showed a drastic increase starting late the day before. Unless many more users were suddenly much more active, s…

    Yesterday · 07:00
  • Seth’s Riff’s Tina Roth Eisenberg

    Seth’s Riff’s is a collection of kernels, notions and riffs from Seth Godin. What a treasure trove! GAH!…

    Yesterday · 04:10
    4 more posts
    • The Ability to Be Wrong
    • Collection of Vintage User-Interfaces
    • We But Mirror The World
    • Marble Pillows
  • Who Do I Talk To?: The Case for PHP Working Groups Ben Ramsey

    I speak at conferences and organize user groups, and I spend a lot of that time encouraging people to contribute to PHP and other open source projects. Inevitably, someone approaches me at an event an…

    Two Days Ago · 16:47
  • A Loving and Well-Loved Man Mike Davidson

    A couple of weeks ago, one of the most unique people in our industry passed away. A quiet man of incredible volume, Om Malik was the person whose voice traveled only a few feet but always filled the r…

    Two Days Ago · 12:07
  • Stalin decided what was good science. Millions starved. Jeffrey Zeldman

    What happens when leaders choose political expediency over science? The post Stalin decided what was good science. Millions starved. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Three Days Ago · 03:46
  • Studio Notes #92 Dan Cederholm

    Hello there, Very Fabulous Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🎥 Christopher Nolan's upcoming The Odyssey film was fi…

    Four Days Ago · 07:48
  • Medea by Rosie Hewlett Jeremy Keith

    In preparation for my jaunt to a Greek island, I figured it would be good to have some Greek-adjacent reading material with me to peruse on the beach. So I scoured the shelves of my local library to…

    The Other Day · 08:29

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