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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • Ultimate Online Phreak Box . “This is a free... Jason Kottke

    Ultimate Online Phreak Box. “This is a free online blue box, red box, and silver box.” (With this and a time machine, you could make free phone calls in the 1970s.)…

    Today · 14:59
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    • A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT . Each...
    • An interview with Ronald Wayne , Apple’s forgotten...
    • Radiohead Covers Joy Division’s Ceremony
    • Oh wow, this is a trippy game inspired by MC Escher . My...
    • A short analysis of what makes Mark Antony’s...
    • Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank...
    • “Stalin’s task in building what Senior calls...
    • Charcuterie is a visual Unicode symbol explorer. Click...
    • Diary Comics From the 1940s
    • Well, this blows: FSG has shuttered their MCD imprint &...
    • This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to...
    • The Headless Mary Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi
    • Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for...
    • Hostile Volume is a simple and maddening game where you...
    • International Chess Federation Adds Race Car Piece ....
    • The Fabulous Engineering and Design of Duct Tape
    • Someone ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii ....
    • “Working with agents feels much less like classic...
    • How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years ....
    • Post-Digital Digital Glitch Collages
    • Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John...
    • This sounds like an interesting podcast series from M....
    • Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S....
    • A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
    • What it’s like to take an 11-day filmmaking...
    • Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize are releasing a...
    • The Most Beautiful Moment of the Artemis II Mission . It...
    • The Sunshine Recorder
    • Oh, about that story you may have read about one guy...
    • The latest big exposé on the identity of Satoshi...
    • Stunning Artemis II Phone Wallpapers
    • “I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI...
    • Resident Advisor: there are signs that Boards of Canada...
    • A guide to which Apple chargers to use with which Apple...
    • Solar Eclipse From the Far Side of the Moon
    • I missed that author Tracy Kidder died a few weeks ago ....
    • Hollywood, Ending is John Green’s forthcoming...
    • A Catalog of an Entire House/Life
    • Teenager Michael Haskell “ buys abandoned storage...
    • Shoe Pop Dream Gaze , a three-hour playlist from...
    • “What caught my eye as a designer, as with most...
    • Really interesting piece from Jodi Ettenberg about...
    • The Astor Place Riots of 1849 resulted in “the...
    • Transcription by Ben Lerner
    • A visual history of exploring the far side of the Moon ....
    • Livestream: Artemis II is about to fly around the Moon ....
    • New vocabulary word: “RAM harvester” . RAM...
    • Missed this last week: Lane 8 dropped their Spring 2026...
    • Pattern Index, Max Cooper
    • Lessons from fighting cancer that apply to resisting...
    • “The promise of the open web was colonized by...
    • Louisiana, Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, and...
  • Look Up from Your Tools: AI for Product, Not Production Josh Clark

    Designers coding. Product managers shipping. Developers running hot. Figma to code, code to Figma. Everyone’s atingle about what AI is unlocking in the production process. But friends, we’re on…

    Today · 10:26
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    • When Using AI Leads to ‘Brain Fry’
    • How Many Products Does Microsoft Have Named ‘Copilot’?
  • Studio Notes #79 Dan Cederholm

    Howdy, my friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🐥 I haven't watched the whole documentary yet, but this clip explaini…

    Today · 07:37
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    • Beeswacks Pre-Release
  • Jimmy Carter was right Jeffrey Zeldman

    What Carter did in his speech was something rare in the annals of democratic government: he confronted the people with the truth—about his own failings, about the reality of the world around them, a…

    Today · 05:17
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    • Handwritten notes in the time of AI note takers
  • 🔗 Why do people kick Uber Eats robots? Rob Weychert

    Philly being Philly: Within the first three weeks of the delivery robots’ arrival in Philly, videos emerged of people sitting on them, graffitiing them and eventually kicking one over. And it…

    Yesterday · 12:22
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    • Tiptoes
  • One of My Favorite Conversations… Tina Roth Eisenberg

    My friend Derek Andersen founder of StartupGrind invited me to be on his Podcast called Divot. Loved our conversation, his curious and gentle orientation and most of all, his lighting questions at the…

    Yesterday · 10:22
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    • Weird Kid
    • The Lonely Funeral Project
    • Worldwide Sidewalk Joy Map
  • ⇾ Conference Organising in 2026 (by PPK) Marc Thiele

    Lot’s of things I agree to here and feel the same about. Reply via Email…

    Yesterday · 04:11
  • SQL ENUM Modification Matthew Weier O’Phinney

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    Two Days Ago · 14:34
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    • CSS Grid Lanes
  • My salary history Jeremy Keith

    Times are tough out there. I know that a lot of people are looking for work, which can be a very stressful experience. One of the things that can make the job search stressful is uncertainty. There…

    Two Days Ago · 14:01
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    • TinyStart
  • Corporations desperately want what we all have and what we can build. Greg Storey

    About a year ago I wrote about companies stripping themselves to the studs—not just cutting costs but searching for their Minimum Viable Humans limit. Exploring what the corporation actually ne…

    Two Days Ago · 09:25
  • An update on life and work Brad Frost

    I’ve gone a lot of hard and scary experiences that’s made me deeply value stability. After enduring varied traumas, I really turned on the afterburners to make up for being ripped away from…

    Three Days Ago · 22:01
    1 more post
    • Storybook MCP with Dominic Nguyen
  • Inverted themes with light-dark() Dave Rupert

    We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’t difficult, but delivery has trade-offs. Most…

    Three Days Ago · 09:31
  • Tips for Designers on Making it Through 2026 to the Other Side Mike Davidson

    If you’re in tech and you don’t have at least a little career anxiety right now, you are either overly confident or you aren’t paying attention. Engineers are jittery. PMs are jitter…

    Four Days Ago · 14:01

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