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Posts from blogs I read written in the last few days.

  • Moving on Rob Weychert

    We’ve been prepping my childhood home for an estate sale taking place in a few weeks, and my primary task has been getting my remaining unsalable old junk out of there. A lot of it has turned out…

    Yesterday · 22:00
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    • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 5/30
    • Uranium Club at Spruce Street Harbor Park
  • 25 years of The Session Jeremy Keith

    The Session existed in a very basic form since the late 1990s. It was just me posting a different tune every week. But The Session as it is today—a community website where everyone can add tunes…

    Yesterday · 18:04
  • The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time , including... Jason Kottke

    The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time, including Inaccessible Island Rail, Macaroni Penguin, Morepork, Chocolate Boobook, Dickcissel, Carunculated Caracara, and Resplendent Quetzal.…

    Yesterday · 14:05
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    • The Best Thing About The Satanic Panic . “There’s...
    • JS Crossword . “This crossword uses some...
    • Daft Punk, Medieval-Style
    • Frozen To -22 Degrees, BYD’s New EV Just Charged To 97%...
    • They’re doing a film adaptation of Tomorrow, and...
    • The Birds of Palestine
    • TIL that Andreessen Horowitz owns/runs the NYC Tech Week...
    • If You Take the Weasel Job Then You Must Be the Weasel ....
    • Re the Patagonia vs. Pattie Gonia case : the company...
    • Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s...
    • I’ve probably featured this before but always worth...
    • Star Wars Influences: Dam Busters
    • “Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support...
    • In Post-War Japan, the US Used Quiz Culture to Help...
    • Meet the Ukrainian Stunt Pilot Who Shoots Down Russian Drones
    • Power Lines: Maps That Shaped the Way We See the World ....
    • “ Serena Williams has announced her sensational...
    • The Illuminated Windows of NYC
    • Legendary film editor Marcia Lucas died last week ....
    • Roost is a messaging app where messages aren’t...
    • Slow blogging day today; I spent some time on the KDO...
    • Pope Releases Encyclical On Perils Of Disney’s ‘Star...
    • Radiohead’s OK Computer reimagined as Nintendo 64...
    • Andor Gave Us One Of TV’s Best Monologues
    • Infinite Jeffs is an actual physical book you can buy...
    • How Should a Book Sound? And What About Footnotes?...
    • Out now: new Boards of Canada album. Get it wherever you...
  • Productive Magic on the Rosenfeld Review Josh Clark

    Teleportation! Gliding suitcases! Magic wishes! Big Medium’s Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred chatted with Lou Rosenfeld about how Sentient Design applies “productive magic” to imagin…

    Yesterday · 11:03
  • Social RSS (?) Chris Coyier

    What’s up with this? The spirit, of course, is “I want my Google Reader back.” I should be careful though: I imagine if we really did have it back exactly as it was, it would probabl…

    Two Days Ago · 09:20
  • She’s the Boss. Jeffrey Zeldman

    She is not here to eat. She is here to ensure my compliance. The post She’s the Boss. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Two Days Ago · 08:22
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Brutal Types John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts “Brutal” is such a nasty, albeit seductive, word. A quick visit to my desktop Oxford dictionary confirms that the adjective “brutal” is, etymologicall…

    Two Days Ago · 01:42
  • Joining the atmosphere Rachel Andrew

    I don’t post to or visit the social network formerly known as Twitter, but as a very early Twitter user, I can’t quite bring myself to delete all my old posts. There’s so much histor…

    Three Days Ago · 09:52
  • Generating HTTPS URLs with Symfony on DigitalOcean App Platform Ben Ramsey

    I’ve been dealing with a frustrating issue in a Symfony application hosted on DigitalOcean App Platform. Since it took me quite a while to find the solution, I thought I’d share it here in case it…

    Three Days Ago · 09:10
  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    Four Days Ago · 10:00
  • Pair programming with AI Derek Featherstone

    The productivity trap in coding with an AI: you finish faster but maybe understand less. Here's the instruction set I'm experimenting with to make the LLM my learning partner via pair-programming.…

    The Other Day · 21:33
  • Studio Notes #86 Dan Cederholm

    Good morning, my friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 📼 The day after Stephen Colbert's final Late Show, he filmed a…

    The Other Day · 06:00
  • You retreat in time and space Simon Collison

    Heaven and hell. Prophecy and revelation. Longing and love. If you’ve ever found comfort in the uneasy warmth of a Boards of Canada record, you’ll be hypnotised by t…

    The Other Day · 06:00

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