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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • Miscalibrated Chris Coyier

    I’ve been gaining weight again. More than twenty pounds in the last ~4 months. I’ve been hitting the gym hard and getting measurably stronger, so: Food! See, your boy can eat. The amount I…

    Yesterday · 20:25
  • Studio Notes #72 Dan Cederholm

    Hello, Hypertext Penpals. Here's issue #72 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🍎 I ended up backing a new Kickstarter this week for Coin, a tiny …

    Yesterday · 15:48
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    • New Caps & Tees
    • A Little Chat About Merch Vendors
  • An Introduction to Outsider Artist Henry Darger and His... Jason Kottke

    An Introduction to Outsider Artist Henry Darger and His Bizarre 15,000-Page Illustrated Masterwork.…

    Yesterday · 13:49
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    • The Greek Mythology Family Tree, Explained
    • The Color Game . “Humans can’t reliably...
    • Some of the best drone shots from the 2026 Winter...
    • ‘Viking’ was a job description, not a matter...
    • Loop
    • An app called NonUSA is surging in popularity in Denmark...
    • The Trump regime is still deporting people to wherever...
    • “I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new...
    • The Trial of Gisèle Pelicot’s Rapists United...
    • Watch How Ancient Egyptians Carved Hieroglyphs
    • An appreciation of Flickr’s URL structure ....
    • Toy Story 5 joins the fight against screentime for kids...
    • In-browser puzzle game : “Enclose the horse in the...
    • A data analysis of how women’s clothing...
    • How Finland Defeated Fascism in the 1930s
    • A list of all the media (movies, books, TV shows, plays,...
    • The Brattle theater is playing what they call the...
    • You know who else had a Greenland obsession?...
    • Fries Vansevenant’s Neo-Constructivist Collages
    • Love this cool JS pattern-making script .
    • New from Neal Agarwal: Sandboxels . “It’s a...
    • Some modern collective nouns : a cringe of Cybertrucks,...
    • Business/product advice: launch it three times ....
    • A Sense of Getting Closer
    • Searching for Birds , an engaging visualization of eBird...
    • How to raise children . “It’s wild to me...
    • Team Pursuit speed skaters used to trade off leads like...
    • Vintage Art House Movie Posters by Peter Strausfeld
    • Paul Ford on AI and the Infinite Software Era ....
    • Current is an interesting new RSS reader that...
    • Reimagining the Origins of Winter Sports
    • The goal of the Trump Action Tracker is to...
    • The K-Shaped Economy
    • Why AI Writing Is So Generic, Boring, and Dangerous:...
    • Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street in 1971 doing a...
    • The 19 richest Americans hold more than 2% of the total...
    • Vote Dizzy!
    • Ski Jumping Pairs is my favorite Winter Olympics event....
    • From designer Beth Mathews, a free “Private...
    • What movies can you brag about seeing during their...
    • From a draft of the opening narration of Star Trek :...
  • American healthcare Jeffrey Zeldman

    Cooling my heels at the drugstore. The post American healthcare appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Two Days Ago · 10:48
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    • The salad bar theory of UX professionalism
  • Podcasting Checklist Marc Thiele

    A while ago, when recording an episode for one of my podcasts, I slipped up on a few things that didn’t ruin the conversation or content, but that…

    Two Days Ago · 00:32
  • Ghostwriter by RJD2 Drum/Synth Cover Brad Frost

    For months and months, I’ve been rebuilding our music studio. I’m AAAAALLLLMOST done with it, but it’s close enough to start sharing things. Here’s Melissa and I playing along with a song wit…

    Three Days Ago · 20:44
    2 more posts
    • Fostering Community
    • Announcing Live AI & Design Systems Jam Sessions!
  • Event Feature: Type Drives Commerce John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts In global branding and design, typography drives consumer perception and commercial success. This idea sits at the heart of the Type Directors Club (TDC) Type Drive…

    Three Days Ago · 19:50
  • I am making videos again! Cassidy Williams

    Catch me on YouTube and Twitch, y'all.…

    Three Days Ago · 17:00
  • Globbing files to pass to CLI command options Matthew Weier O’Phinney

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    Three Days Ago · 12:56
  • Counting down to Web Day Out Jeremy Keith

    Not long now ’till Web Day Out — just three weeks! It’s also not that long until the start of a new financial year so if you’ve got training budget that needs to be used this year, send yo…

    Three Days Ago · 08:35
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    • Magic
  • Generative AI has broken the subject matter expert/editor relationship Rachel Andrew

    Some thoughts about managing a publishing pipeline in a world of generative AI.…

    Three Days Ago · 01:25
  • Killpoint Rob Weychert

    Frank Harris, 1984, ★★ As is often the case in low-budget filmmaking, Killpoint is the product of one guy spreading himself too thin, with main man Frank Harris writing, producing, di…

    The Other Day · 21:59
  • RSS-only: Sakamoto Library Simon Collison

    This is a private post, made available via my RSS feed. There’s no public version and no permalink. Please don’t share anything that follows. The great memory of tha…

    The Other Day · 10:00

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