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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • Pocket forests . “The Miyawaki method of... Jason Kottke

    Pocket forests. “The Miyawaki method of reforestation inserts small, densely packed wild acreage into urban environs. It’s proving wildly successful.” The key is densely planting dive…

    Today · 11:13
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    • Could This Fish Be a Notebook? “David Byrne...
    • A24’s Young Anthony Bourdain Movie
    • Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in black & white with the...
    • Microshifting . “From a creativity standpoint,...
    • The Booksellers is a 2019 feature-length documentary film...
    • New Banksy: Blinded by Nationalism
    • Designer Jenny Volvovski’s collection of...
    • I’m not a fan of the first part of this music...
    • According to this peer-reviewed paper, the...
    • NASA has released some 12,000 unseen photos from the...
    • The Contiguous 41 States
    • A 55-minute mix of Boards of Canada B-sides and rarities .
    • “They Would Never Use the Death Star on Us”:...
    • The Visual Comedy of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs
    • How Sylvester Stallone Rescued the First Rambo Film With...
    • Ohhhhh dear, Richard Dawkins: Is AI the Next Phase of...
    • Unruly Play : “A collection of 169 works of play...
    • Ada Palmer & Bruce Schneier: AI Learns Language From...
    • Who Merits the Longest NY Times Obituaries?
    • Am…am I “alternatively influential” ?...
    • The Supreme Court Is Corrupt. This Is What We Can Do About It.
    • The Film That Attacks You
    • I fixed a few bugs on the Rolodex yesterday — some of...
    • “Since 1900, scientists have observed more than 20...
    • On the futility of border walls . “The Ozymandian...
    • The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’ ....
  • Vibe Check №42 Dave Rupert

    Forgive me, Reader. It’s been five months since my last vibe check. That’s a lot of ground to cover and it’s not possible to get into everything that happened. Like in real life conversations, i…

    Today · 07:41
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    • The duality of language models in the browser
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Puffery John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts Sometimes I get a hankering to see someone use a good old Blackletter, spikey Fraktur, or rounded Textura that transports me back to medieval Europe when a printer’…

    Today · 01:18
  • Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World Tina Roth Eisenberg

    “The prosperity of the community grows from the flow of relationships, not the accumulation of goods.” – The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (via)…

    Yesterday · 12:09
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    • You Need A (Gentle) Deadline!
    • Concious Endeavor
  • The absorbingly impenetrable typography of Analogical Force and Geometric Love Rob Weychert

    Analogical Force, an electronic music label based in Madrid, found its way onto my radar earlier this year when I picked up Oh Mr. James’s fun I’m Not Here EP. Most of the label’s output hone…

    Yesterday · 10:32
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    • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 5/2
  • Determining if a reboot is required on Linux Matthew Weier O’Phinney

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    Yesterday · 07:35
  • 1993 communal internet shaped me: https://sive.rs/netizen Derek Sivers

    1993 communal internet shaped me: sive.rs/netizen…

    Two Days Ago · 19:42
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    • Netizen
  • Shipping todometer, version 3! Cassidy Williams

    I updated my app todometer after several years of it lying dormant, and it's better than ever!…

    Four Days Ago · 18:00
  • Studio Notes #82 Dan Cederholm

    Greetings, Friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🏊‍♂️ Lithuanian artist, Ray Bartkus’, Floatin…

    Four Days Ago · 08:26
  • The PHP License, Simplified Ben Ramsey

    I’ve been fascinated with copyright since high school and with open source licensing for most of my career. Yes, I’m a nerd, but I really do find it compelling to think about how humans communicat…

    The Other Day · 18:00
  • Early swifts Simon Collison

    Three soaring above at 7pm today, 30th April—much earlier than usual. Previously: 2025, 9th May (but I’d been away for the preceding week); 2024, 7th; 2023, 7th; 202…

    The Other Day · 13:15

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