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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
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    • Issue 052: Summer fonting
  • Mister Rogers visits Eric Carle’s studio and paints with... Jason Kottke

    Mister Rogers visits Eric Carle’s studio and paints with him (full episode). Carle wrote and illustrated The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other children’s books.…

    Today · 11:39
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    • Over the past few centuries, humans have decimated bird...
    • Hans Zimmer: Live in Concert
    • Sloan on Fable : “This is literally the core...
    • New Patricia Lockwood for the London Review of Books: A...
    • Just dropped a couple of days ago: Lane 8’s Summer 2026...
    • Our Lives Are “an Orchestrated Shuffle of Technology”
    • 👀 Craig Mod interviewed by Debbie Millman on Design...
    • The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America...
    • I love this short little video montage of actresses...
    • One of the great things about the World Cup and the US:...
    • America: Birth Of A Nation
    • In 1937, the NYT ran a piece about the last living son...
    • Five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read his...
    • Openish Thread (Testing a New Feature…)
    • As it was foretold: the Trump regime gutted the NOAA and...
    • Something for the digital crate-diggers: The 40 Best...
    • “ Dictionary of the Illegible proposes...
    • “ The average paid newsletter costs $10 per month...
  • Introducing Kyroh Dan Cederholm

    Greetings Simple Friends,Today I'm excited to officially release my latest typeface, Kyroh. It's available for sale in the shop, and has also been distributed to all Secret Club members. Kyr…

    Today · 10:59
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    • Studio Notes #91
  • Nextcloud SSRF rules and internal address ranges Matthew Weier O’Phinney

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    Today · 09:12
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    • Musings on GenAI
  • Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web Jeffrey Zeldman

    The web is still the best hope we have for a durable, shared memory. But it requires us to be gardeners, not merely tenants. The post Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About…

    Yesterday · 09:07
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    • The End
  • What Makes a Conference Great Marc Thiele

    A few days ago, right after I posted my write-up of Head in the Cloud, my friend Sacha Judd, who spoke at beyond tellerrand three times already, publ…

    Yesterday · 06:11
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    • Gianni Infantino Acts Disgusting
  • 49. Ethan Marcotte

    It’s been, like, hot-hot for the last week, with Boston seized by the same heat wave affecting…well, everywhere else. Personally I’ve never cared for summer, even before it entered its vi…

    Two Days Ago · 22:00
  • The Secret Agent Rob Weychert

    Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2025, ★★★ Filho is really good at setting a scene and immersing you in a time and place, and just as I was with the titular town in Bacurau, I was fascinated…

    Two Days Ago · 21:59
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    • Sirāt
    • “Foreigner! Foreigner! This is America! You’re not American! Get the…
    • Starship Troopers
    • Jack
  • Customizing my Xteink firmware and wallpaper Cassidy Williams

    I got the Xteink X4 device, and it's really fun to hack around with!…

    Two Days Ago · 18:00
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Loopy John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts I once taught a research/writing class called “No Google” that lasted until it dawned on me that “Google” was indeed the research tool for the 21st century. T…

    Four Days Ago · 09:44
  • tweet Derek Sivers

    17 conversations in Jakarta, Indonesia: sive.rs/met/at-14…

    Four Days Ago · 08:52

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