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“You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.” · FRED ROGERS

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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
  • Playwright Georgica Pettus has written a play called... Jason Kottke

    Playwright Georgica Pettus has written a play called Truck, which is based on the excellent documentary Hands on a Hardbody. “I thought, ‘This is the best premise for a play, because al…

    Today · 16:10
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    • 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?...
    • From last month but relevant as Europe is seeing record...
    • A story about what being neighborly is all about ....
    • The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent . The 747 is...
    • It’s America’s Birthday. What Are We Celebrating? Some...
    • A Bob Ross painting of a mountain summit is being...
    • “Turn your site into a place people can bump into...
  • 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…

    Today · 13:54
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    • Studio Notes #90
  • 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…

    Today · 12:43
  • A week in Ireland Jeremy Keith

    It started in Dublin. Myself and Jessica got there in the afternoon and I went straight to The Cobblestone in Smithfield for some tunes. Then I went up the street to the headquarters of Na Píobair…

    Today · 10:23
  • 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.…

    Today · 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.…

    Today · 07:00
  • tweet Derek Sivers

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

    Yesterday · 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.…

    Yesterday · 18:00
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    • An animated radial gradient mask over text in CSS
    • On the edge of burnout
  • 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…

    Yesterday · 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…

    Yesterday · 06:01

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