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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • A pep talk in the face of despair . “Things can... Jason Kottke

    A pep talk in the face of despair. “Things can always get better, but it doesn’t happen via inertia. It happens because a lot of people tried.”…

    Today · 08:34
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    • Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who...
    • India’s Hottest District Shuts at 10 AM as Mercury...
    • New-to-me vocabulary: oneshotted , “a term that...
    • Cookie Queens
    • Interview with the guy behind the great Art But Make...
    • The Banality of the Video Podcast . “The sets,...
    • There’s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going…
    • Cucumbers used to be called “cowcumbers” ....
    • No reparations for Black Americans. No student loan...
    • On the heels of turning Orwell’s Animal Farm into a...
    • “Somewhere between ‘Let’s catch up...
    • The fake courtesy machine is a wooden hand-cranked...
    • Marcin Wichary on how to get more fun and utility from...
    • Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise . The Pudding...
    • “I have travelled all over the world in the last 30...
    • Watching an Art Conservator Restore a Damaged Painting
    • Marbles Squared is a puzzle game 30 years in the...
    • Ben Prunty has composed the soundtrack to a new game,...
    • Perhaps businesses are collecting too much data for...
    • Mike Monteiro on how to deal with your suddenly grown-up...
    • What’s Your Favorite Recipe?
    • I have always liked Steve Kerr, but I did not expect to...
    • Handy app: “Point your camera at anything (a dress,...
    • “In 2014, the Dutch scholar Hans Corneel de Roos...
    • Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on who should read...
    • Quaker principles line up quite well with modern...
    • The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses…...
    • The Night Witches: The Female Nazi Hunters of WWII
    • 25 Books That Capture This American Moment . They...
    • Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains ....
    • On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism ,...
    • World History Timeline
    • New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan...
    • The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence...
    • Sarah Rose (who is blind): “Meta glasses are...
  • Prevention is the highest form of testing: The value of zero bugs WonderProxy

    There are multiple opportunities in the software development lifecycle where testers bring huge value without raising a single bug. In this article, we'll cover those activities. …

    Today · 08:00
  • Big AI & Design Systems Course updates! Brad Frost

    Chapters 1 & 2 of our AI & Design Systems Course are live! Our course now has over 16 hours of videos, which includes course lessons, community jam sessions, and other demonstrations. TJ,…

    Yesterday · 08:23
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    • Grief in the AI Age
  • I think the latest Apple Keyboard was verschlimmbessert Marc Thiele

    In March 2021 I got my last keyboard. Since I don’t like the idea of dongles, I tend to get Apple’s original keyboard. I also quite like how it f…

    Yesterday · 02:38
  • Delaware Shore Rob Weychert

    Raghav Peri, 2018, ½ I’m known to enjoy a film made by clumsy amateurs reaching for something beyond their means, and this unfathomably earnest love letter to the beach towns of Delawa…

    Two Days Ago · 21:59
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    • Hard Boiled
  • A Great Design Gathering Josh Clark

    Leonardo De La Rocha describes his takeaways from Design Futures Assembly, a remarkable gathering of the tech industry’s top design leaders. It was a small-ish invite list, just 60 of us inclu…

    Two Days Ago · 15:06
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    • Kirkus on Sentient Design: “Get It”
    • Reimagining the Mouse Pointer for the AI Era
  • La Pedra Go Club in Barcelona Cassidy Williams

    I visited a decades-old Go club in Barcelona!…

    Three Days Ago · 18:00
  • Establishing a weekly user interview routine Jonnie Hallman

    For the first time in years, I start performing user interviews again, and remember how valuable they can be.…

    Three Days Ago · 12:26
  • The closing talks at UX London 2026 Jeremy Keith

    When I told you about the schedule for UX London 2026, I said: After your afternoon workshop there’ll be one final closing talk at the end of each day before we head to the bar. These closin…

    The Other Day · 08:59

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