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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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  • im Water Chris Coyier

    This promotional video is either too weird or not weird enough, but I like core idea of im Water: a carrying strap for a water bottle designed into the label itself. The family business had a screen p…

    Yesterday · 07:58
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    • Experience with Nectar Beds
  • Debugging download initiator Stoyan Stefanov

    I was recently debugging why an image was being downloaded. In Chrome devtools, in the network panel, the column for "initiator" was pointing to the end of the HTML document. But that wasn't true and…

    Two Days Ago · 18:08
  • Another Saturday, Another Song. Jeffrey Zeldman

    🎧 “Side Two” LP in progress. At 14 songs, it is nearly complete. I expect to release it before the year’s end. The post Another Saturday, Another Song. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Prese…

    Two Days Ago · 11:17
  • Is American Culture Simply Bad Now? I’ve been hanging... Jason Kottke

    Is American Culture Simply Bad Now? I’ve been hanging with my friend Matt while he’s here in Tokyo for a trip, which he refers to as his “America is Cooked Tour” as he keeps running…

    Two Days Ago · 07:24
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    • Back in 2005, a group of restorers established a hidden...
    • OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home. Small...
    • The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
    • Don’t Cook That: a collection of real recipes that you...
    • So Many Amazing Control Rooms
    • The Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism. “What’s this middle bit?”...
    • “Influencers are the private equity of culture: draining...
    • Prince Was One of the First Players of The Oregon Trail
    • A “Kelvin wave” powered by El Niño will soon raise sea...
    • The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault...
    • The best multi day hikes in the world. “As an avid hiker,...
    • Lobster is Lobster: a language guessing game. “Lobster is...
    • Ooh, Mestra is a new short story from Madeline Miller...
    • Map of the Lighthouses of the World
    • Looks like Every Frame a Painting is ramping up again!...
    • Amazon is releasing some new Kindle models, including a...
    • A raw, revealing interview with an 80-year-old Sylvester...
    • A 15-minute tour of former NFL coach Mike Tomlin’s...
    • You can destroy kottke.org if you want. Or any other site!
    • Ominous Thunderstorm Rolling Across the Fields
    • Eternal Family is a media service that shows “a...
    • Blackbird Spyplane’s Jonah Weiner on his past career as a...
    • “There are more self-storage facilities in the U.S. than...
    • The “Insane” Cinematography of Pride and Prejudice
    • The Tell, a very long read about Thomas Goldstein...
    • “Sky burial is a funeral practice in which a corpse is...
    • Craig Mod made a cool mini-site cataloging all of the...
    • On The Joy Of Ownership
    • Manchester City guilty over Premier League charges after...
  • Studio Notes #104 Dan Cederholm

    Howdy, Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. At the risk of celebrating too much, I realize #104 means this little newsletter started…

    Three Days Ago · 05:00
  • Accessibility and the new model of the internet Cassidy Williams

    The internet is changing! Accessibility is getting better! And it's also weird!…

    Four Days Ago · 13:41
  • Listening: September 2026 Rob Weychert

    🎧 My most-played music for the month Top artists Artist Plays Fugazi 92 Carla dal Forno 65 Sade…

    The Other Day · 21:59
  • More than words Rachel Andrew

    While I’ve done a lot of reference documentation writing, my favourite type of work is writing tutorials and “how to” content. I enjoy the challenge of understanding a technology and…

    The Other Day · 12:27
  • Twenty five years of writing on adactio.com Jeremy Keith

    On this day, twenty five years ago, I wrote my first journal entry on this website. Twenty five years! A quarter of a century! That’s a significant portion of the lifetime of the World Wide Web i…

    The Other Day · 07:06

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