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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on who should read... Jason Kottke

    Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on who should read books about physics. “The question of ‘What is space-time?’ doesn’t belong only to scientists. It belongs to everyone who has e…

    Today · 15:00
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    • Quaker principles line up quite well with modern...
    • The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses…...
    • The Night Witches: The Female Nazi Hunters of WWII
    • 25 Books That Capture This American Moment . They...
    • Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains ....
    • On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism ,...
    • World History Timeline
    • New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan...
    • The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence...
    • Sarah Rose (who is blind): “Meta glasses are...
    • How Russell Vought Became the Shadow President
    • Omg, Amazon Prime inserted an ad for Febreze in the...
    • A very good, very 2026 headline: Japan Runs Out of Robot...
    • When Your Participation Is Decoration
    • “I believe in myself. That’s why I...
    • Shape of Dreams (Zendaya × Spike Jonze)
    • The Guardian asked authors, critics, and academics to...
    • The 2026 National Recording Registry inductees were...
    • This Tiny Celestial Body Past Pluto Shouldn’t Have an...
    • A Moment That Changed Me: I Saw My First Total Solar...
    • What Childhood Folklore Did You Learn As a Kid?
    • I Want to Live Like Costco People . “Embracing the...
    • Robin Sloan writes about the personalized, AI-written,...
    • What Would J.R.R. Tolkien Think of Palantir?
    • Meet the Sad Wives of AI . “Princess Diana...
    • Just dropped: Foo Fighters’ Tiny Desk Concert ....
    • Stop-Motion Lego Dr. Strangelove
    • Adam Serwer : “Violence serves an authoritarian...
    • A map of the regions of the US , as voted on by Reddit...
    • “So, at about 14, I became the team’s...
    • The World Press Freedom Index at Global 25-Year Low
    • Sounds of the 60s: the IBM 1401 (punchcard collation,...
    • Jamelle Bouie thinks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is...
    • Being Fed Content
    • Study: “A few weeks of X’s algorithm can...
    • Can You See the World When You Close Your Eyes?
    • We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More...
    • Digg has (sorta) relaunched (again) and instead of an...
    • How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant...
    • Remember Desktop Tower Defense ? I played it for a bit...
    • Taken : this is a web page that shows how much data your...
    • Mesmerizing 4K Video of a Cat-5 Super Typhoon
    • Interesting thread about why rural towns don’t...
    • Wallace & Gromit 24/7 Livestream
    • People Who Don’t Like People Are Making All of Our...
    • Grandma Stand
    • Where are the public benches on the internet?...
    • Now open in NYC: a pop-up called The Donald J. Trump and...
    • The Hidden Cassettes . “This is going to sound...
  • The closing talks at UX London 2026 Jeremy Keith

    When I told you about the schedule for UX London 2026, I said: After your afternoon workshop there’ll be one final closing talk at the end of each day before we head to the bar. These closin…

    Today · 08:59
  • Studio Notes #84 Dan Cederholm

    Greetings, Bon Vivants. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🖼️ The level of detail and intricate line work of these art pr…

    Today · 06:00
  • tweet Derek Sivers

    Prepare your “no” and keep it handy: sive.rs/n0…

    Yesterday · 16:07
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  • The Shadow Spec: When a bug becomes canon WonderProxy

    When you fix the bug in legacy code, and it impacts your largest enterprise customer! You have found the shadow spec.…

    Two Days Ago · 08:00
  • Bulleted & Numbered Lists in Adobe InDesign Veerle Pieters

    Bulleted and numbered lists can significantly enhance your layout when styled effectively. I frequently use this technique while designing various printed materials for my long-term client, EmC…

    Two Days Ago · 00:17
  • Font Faces: Nick Shinn John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts Welcome to the debut issue of Font Faces: the people behind the type. We ask type designers from around the globe the same five core questions (plus some potential fo…

    Three Days Ago · 21:06
  • Attention: Fake Reminders Regarding the Renewal of Trademark Rights Marc Thiele

    10 years after you registered a trademark in Germany, you have to renew it, if you want, otherwise the copyright ends after the period you paid for.…

    Three Days Ago · 05:39
  • The Boring Internet | Terry Godier Brad Frost

    The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. YESSSSSS. The Boring Internet by Terry Godier…

    Four Days Ago · 21:24
  • Good products begin with good decisions Chris Shiflett

    Faculty has been a product studio for ten years. This week, we’re launching something new: a productized engagement called the Faculty Sprint. Ten years ago, building products was slower and more e…

    Four Days Ago · 11:22

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