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“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” · STEVE JOBS

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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
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    • Issue 052: Summer fonting
  • Musings on GenAI Matthew Weier O’Phinney

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    Yesterday · 15:00
  • Just dropped a couple of days ago: Lane 8’s Summer 2026... Jason Kottke

    Just dropped a couple of days ago: Lane 8’s Summer 2026 Mixtape (4 hours long). Also available on Soundcloud.…

    Yesterday · 14:40
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    • Our Lives Are “an Orchestrated Shuffle of Technology”
    • 👀 Craig Mod interviewed by Debbie Millman on Design...
    • The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America...
    • I love this short little video montage of actresses...
    • One of the great things about the World Cup and the US:...
    • America: Birth Of A Nation
    • In 1937, the NYT ran a piece about the last living son...
    • Five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read his...
    • Openish Thread (Testing a New Feature…)
    • As it was foretold: the Trump regime gutted the NOAA and...
    • Something for the digital crate-diggers: The 40 Best...
    • “ Dictionary of the Illegible proposes...
    • “ The average paid newsletter costs $10 per month...
    • Hank Green interviews Ze Frank , who kind of invented...
    • Parker Molloy on why the panic about trans women in...
    • Will America Ever Give White-Man Rights to Everyone...
    • The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by...
    • Rebecca Solnit: What Is the United States of America...
    • Report from a cruise full of celebrity impersonators ....
  • Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web Jeffrey Zeldman

    The web is still the best hope we have for a durable, shared memory. But it requires us to be gardeners, not merely tenants. The post Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About…

    Yesterday · 09:07
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    • The End
    • The Human Story of the Open Web
  • What Makes a Conference Great Marc Thiele

    A few days ago, right after I posted my write-up of Head in the Cloud, my friend Sacha Judd, who spoke at beyond tellerrand three times already, publ…

    Yesterday · 06:11
    1 more post
    • Gianni Infantino Acts Disgusting
  • 49. Ethan Marcotte

    It’s been, like, hot-hot for the last week, with Boston seized by the same heat wave affecting…well, everywhere else. Personally I’ve never cared for summer, even before it entered its vi…

    Two Days Ago · 22:00
  • The Secret Agent Rob Weychert

    Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2025, ★★★ Filho is really good at setting a scene and immersing you in a time and place, and just as I was with the titular town in Bacurau, I was fascinated…

    Two Days Ago · 21:59
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    • Sirāt
    • “Foreigner! Foreigner! This is America! You’re not American! Get the…
    • Starship Troopers
    • Jack
  • Customizing my Xteink firmware and wallpaper Cassidy Williams

    I got the Xteink X4 device, and it's really fun to hack around with!…

    Two Days Ago · 18:00
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Loopy John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts I once taught a research/writing class called “No Google” that lasted until it dawned on me that “Google” was indeed the research tool for the 21st century. T…

    Four Days Ago · 09:44
  • tweet Derek Sivers

    17 conversations in Jakarta, Indonesia: sive.rs/met/at-14…

    Four Days Ago · 08:52
  • Studio Notes #91 Dan Cederholm

    Greetings, Excellent People. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🚩 Felt pennant flags have always been cool and Roman Boujo trace…

    Four Days Ago · 05:00
  • Overlooking the obvious Jonnie Hallman

    A user interview with a friend reveals an obviously missing piece of Cushion…

    The Other Day · 06:08

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