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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
  • V7: Say hello to my listening diary Rob Weychert

    Monthly reports of my most-played music, going back to 2005 After finally completing the gargantuan task of manually adding metadata to thousands of my old tweets so they could be more integrated…

    Yesterday · 15:43
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    • Listening: June 2026
    • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 6/27
  • Erling Haaland “brings the intensity of a raiding... Jason Kottke

    Erling Haaland “brings the intensity of a raiding party to the sport”. And: “Haaland can call to mind a shark circling dark waters.”…

    Yesterday · 14:50
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    • 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 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…

    Yesterday · 10:08
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    • 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…

    Two 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…

    Two 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.…

    Two 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.…

    Two Days Ago · 07:00
  • tweet Derek Sivers

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

    Three 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.…

    Three Days Ago · 18:00
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    • An animated radial gradient mask over text in CSS
  • 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…

    Three 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…

    Three Days Ago · 06:01

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