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“You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.” · FRED ROGERS

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  • 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
  • Jack Rob Weychert

    It bothers me that I can’t remember exactly when and where I met Jack. I’m usually pretty good about that. It was probably 2007-ish, probably at SXSW or An Event Apart. I was going to a lot of…

    Yesterday · 15:41
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    • V7: Say hello to my listening diary
    • Listening: June 2026
  • As it was foretold: the Trump regime gutted the NOAA and... Jason Kottke

    As it was foretold: the Trump regime gutted the NOAA and now weather forecasts are less accurate. An atmospheric scientist: “The forecasts I’m able to offer you are less accurate than t…

    Yesterday · 13:25
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    • 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 ....
    • Erling Haaland “brings the intensity of a raiding...
    • My Family Has Been Here Since 1621. That Is Not What...
    • There’s been so much crazy to pay attention to over the...
    • Four-Byte Burger
    • I love the aesthetic of Fresco , a video game where you...
    • How Do You Prove Arson When the Evidence Burns Away?
    • You know sometimes you learn some ancient lore and...
    • Saya Irie’s Intricate Sculptures Recomposed from Eraser...
    • The Last Astronomers . “Many fear that if...
    • Idris Elba DJs a House Party
    • Playwright Georgica Pettus has written a play called...
    • What is queer typography? “I think that covers a...
    • Gah, this is another thing I’m completely fucking pissed...
    • Great piece by Andrea Pitzer on how lost Ezra Klein is...
    • I found this AI Compass quiz genuinely useful for...
    • There’s a Grocery Price Emergency in America....
    • A tour of some playgrounds in NYC designed by kids ,...
    • On decision fatigue : “Why are you so tired? The...
    • If you’ve never seen it (or even if you have), Christian...
    • Phyllis the GOAT and the Senior League Wii Bowling Champions
    • A Retro 70s TV Intro for Andor . “Get ready to...
    • Maybe It Will Happen Today
    • The Writers Who Wrote The Most in History . “Corin...
    • Who wins the 2026 World Cup if “not football” decides?...
  • The Human Story of the Open Web Jeffrey Zeldman

    STOP ME if you’ve heard this one: The members of an extended family spend years curating a shared online photo album. Then the website they posted on vanishes, flushing their collective memories awa…

    Yesterday · 05:43
  • Poetic CSS Brad Frost

    Poetic CSS Understand CSS as a system — so you can write, review, and maintain web styles with confidence on a timeline and under budget. My friend Miriam Suzanne has a new course on CSS. I've lea…

    Two Days Ago · 18:00
  • The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff Jeremy Keith

    The Vaster Wilds is a remarkable book. It somehow manages to be both harrowing and uplifting at the same time. I had read one of Lauren Groff’s previous books, Matrix, and liked it well enough. B…

    Two Days Ago · 10:08
    1 more post
    • A week in Ireland
  • Kyroh Pre-Release Dan Cederholm

    Today, I'm excited to share the pre-release of Kyroh (my latest typeface) with Secret Club members.✨Secret Club members get all SimpleBits® fonts including pre-releases…

    Three Days Ago · 13:54
  • Canonization and the Overhang Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    David Bessis’s “The fall of the theorem economy” is ostensibly about LLMs and the pursuit of pure math, and I found it fascinating in its own right, even while I’m not qualified to evaluate a…

    Three Days Ago · 12:43
  • Designed for a Dead Language A List Apart

    Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin. Understanding why that happened is a more useful design lesson than anything the apps themselves will teach you.…

    Three Days Ago · 10:22
  • Hidden in plain sight: Hacking permissions through the URL WonderProxy

    I’ve seen a bug or two, and over time, I’ve got my own way of discovering loopholes in the system under test.…

    Three Days Ago · 07:00
  • tweet Derek Sivers

    16 conversations in super-multicultural Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur: sive.rs/met/at-13…

    Four Days Ago · 20:41
  • Whitespace in Astro 7.0 Cassidy Williams

    The way whitespace is rendered is different in the latest version of Astro, and here's how you can fix it.…

    Four Days Ago · 18:00
  • Using mitmproxy reverse mode for API testing Lorna Mitchell

    mitmproxy is my preferred proxy for API testing these days. I’m using it mostly in reverse mode though, so I thought I’d capture my setup in case it’s useful for anyone else. My main…

    Four Days Ago · 13:06
  • Head in the Cloud 2026 Marc Thiele

    Last Friday I got to open the Head in the Cloud summit by mittwald in Espelkamp. And honestly, I’m still wondering a little how that happened. ;) P…

    Four Days Ago · 06:01

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