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“The computer is the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.” · STEVE JOBS

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

  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
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    • Issue 049: Time-dilating chaos
  • These Are the People in This Neighborhood Jason Kottke

    Can’t stop, won’t stop. On the heels of the refreshed Rolodex from earlier in the week, I’ve pushed another “Just Enough Social” feature to the site: members bios & profile pics.…

    Yesterday · 14:54
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    • Lots of great defecation physics here: “ 66 percent...
    • The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World...
    • SETI might be missing alien signals because...
    • “For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad”
    • The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of...
    • “If measles-mumps-rubella vaccination rates decline...
    • Director Rian Johnson (Knives Out, Poker Face) wrote the...
    • Earth’s gravity is lumpy . “The gravity in...
    • Big Tuskers
    • This is kind of amazing: World Monitor is a real-time...
    • Yes, let’s retire the restaurant monologue ....
    • From ProPublica, a database of financial disclosures...
    • Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies on HyperCard
    • Web game: list as many animals as you can in 1 minute...
    • The Four Rules for a Good Walk
    • Legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth :...
    • “The entire Sun oscillates in a globally coherent...
    • From late January, a 40-minute talk by Rick Steves on...
    • Timothy Snyder on strongmen . “Once you accept...
    • De La Soul’s Tiny Desk Concert
    • The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit
    • TIL about babysitting co-ops . “The premise is...
    • The KDO Rolodex Is Now a Wee Feed Reader?
    • Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Acquires Original...
    • TIL about burping your house , aka lüften (in Germany),...
    • Color Photos of Rome (c. 1890s)
    • Steve Jobs famously said that computers are a bicycle...
    • LLMs are getting pretty good at unmasking pseudonymous...
    • “ Imagine what it was like for women in colonial...
    • HyperCard Changed Everything
    • Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz. “Is...
    • Takashi Murakami Remixes Monet
    • Remember the “scroll lock” key on your...
    • New Rembrandt Painting Discovered
    • Can You Draw All 50 States From Memory?
    • Recent advances in science have revolutionized our...
    • “ Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with...
    • When lit up at night, this badminton academy in...
    • “Supercharged” solar activity and the equinox...
    • Nine Inch Nails Releases Tron: Ares Remix Album
    • “ A long dive into the features that make my ideal...
    • This is the most 2026 thing I’ve ever heard:...
    • A Boston man discovered a document passed down through...
    • Lumière, Le Cinema!
    • Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi proposes sending a tiny...
    • “ Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of...
    • Why Attack Iran?
  • Mad CSS Chris Coyier

    Round One of Mad CSS is out on YouTube!…

    Yesterday · 13:25
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    • Untitled
    • Me Trying To Take a Selfie in 2001
    • FOREVERGREEN
    • Untitled
  • Studio Notes #74 Dan Cederholm

    Grand Risings, my friends. Here's issue #74 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🚙 Seeing the illustration style of British artist, Tommy Spencer, mad…

    Yesterday · 07:45
  • Troika #60: One Footer in the Unfinished Troika Jon Hicks

    Something a bit special for episode #60! It's the first one to feature other humans, and it's a threesome. In the One Footer in the Grave group chat, Andy Clarke, Marcus Lillington and I had been disc…

    Yesterday · 04:00
  • About my book notes Derek Sivers

    At sive.rs/book I have a collection of my notes from the 420+ books I’ve read since 2007. This page answers questions about it. My notes are not a summary of the book! When I’m reading and…

    Two Days Ago · 17:00
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    • Offline 23 hours a day
  • Making art with CSS gradients and corner-shape and skew, oh my Cassidy Williams

    I combined some fun CSS techniques to make a little diving board drawing!…

    Two Days Ago · 17:00
  • My brother, the rhythmic conceptualist Jeffrey Zeldman

    Remembrance of beats passed. The post My brother, the rhythmic conceptualist appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Two Days Ago · 05:45
    2 more posts
    • What a year that was.
    • Advice for job seekers
  • Socialize the Plan Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    On AI and code review. Anyone who tells you they have this current moment in coding figured out is lying to someone (you or themselves). I’m going to keep sharing half-formed thoughts, and bits of…

    Two Days Ago · 04:45
  • The Ensh*ttificator Marc Thiele

    “The Ensh*ttificator” is a little movie about who it is to blame for all the things getting worse. This video is part of a campaign by the Norw…

    Two Days Ago · 00:00
  • Feedback Jeremy Keith

    If you wanted to make a really crude approximation of project management, you could say there are two main styles: waterfall and agile. It’s not as simple as that by any means. And the two aren…

    Three Days Ago · 09:33
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    • Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood
    • The state of State Of The Browser
  • Selectively ignore lines in git diff Lorna Mitchell

    I have a things-as-code project that outputs mostly text-based formats, but a lot of them. To keep an eye on consistency, I rebuild all the outputs and dump them into a local git repository so I can v…

    Three Days Ago · 00:57
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Curve Display John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts What typographers and designers want most in a font is a family that, under the right conditions, exudes a familiar yet distinctive voice. As I was scrolling around f…

    Four Days Ago · 21:46
  • Propellant. Ethan Marcotte

    Amid everything happening right now, I read with great interest about the technologies used in planning our latest horrid war. According to The Wall Street Journal, Anthropic’s Claude was use…

    Four Days Ago · 21:00
  • Do Not Panic Tina Roth Eisenberg

    This poster by David Schmitt made me smile.…

    Four Days Ago · 13:53
    2 more posts
    • The Thinking Game
    • Instructions before visiting Earth
  • Old Music Friday Brad Frost

    I love this so much. We take so much for granted, so I freaking love to be reminded of the time-traveling magic of recorded music.…

    Four Days Ago · 12:34
    1 more post
    • Real-Time UI
  • A roadmap to a Viking funeral. Greg Storey

    This weekend I met with a long-time friend who was looking for direction on a new role. The legacy program they inherited is operating like it's 2005, the company is burning through money and lea…

    The Other Day · 09:36
  • Baseline Loss Naz Hamid

    What the days look like now. I buzzed my hair down today. I needed to baseline it. I still have a healthy amount of hair, but it’s going. I have a semblance of vanity, but…

    The Other Day · 09:21

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