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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
  • How do we talk about atproto to non-developers? Rachel Andrew

    The beauty of AT Protocol is that all of your data from different apps is available on your PDS, your own folder on the internet containing your stuff as JSON. This means that you can switch which app…

    Today · 06:16
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    • Understanding AT Protocol
  • Studio Notes #95 Dan Cederholm

    ☕️ At first, I was admiring the retro branding and site for Orange Handle Coffee, and then realized it was a company devoted entirely to decaf (diners often used orange handles on deca…

    Today · 05:59
  • The Onion: Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem... Jason Kottke

    The Onion: Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation. The actual Wilson on Bluesky: “No professional accomplishment has ever made me ha…

    Yesterday · 19:29
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    • What Are the Most Untouchable Records in Sports?
    • A Telegram Arrived — And I Had to Choose Between My Head...
    • “ A new Airbus passenger jet completed an...
    • The Drawing Room With Mo Welch
    • The Beauty of Doing Nothing Together . “What...
    • The Hell Mouth
    • The legacy of the Luddite movement changes when you zoom...
    • The trailer for Wicker (starring Olivia Colman,...
    • The coffee shop where 162 regulars have their own mug...
    • It’s Cool to Be Weird
    • Walmart is busy building out their fast EV charger...
    • A terrarium iPhone case that houses actual growing...
    • “ Zugunruhe is a German term describing the...
    • Some Interesting Apples
    • Participants in a recently published study spoke 28%...
    • The Thomas Crown Affair? Directed by and starring...
    • OnlyMarms: Funding Science Research on OnlyFans
    • Study: Dinosaurs Were Charbroiled After Chicxulub Impact...
    • Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?...
    • On the experience of the long haul flight . “The...
    • “ The Booker Prize 2026 longlist has now been...
    • Please Use AI . “Be sure to use AI when planning that...
    • Where Do European Country Names Come From?
    • 30 notable sales of rare books by AbeBooks over the past...
    • 19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively...
    • All US Cities Which Used to Have More Than 100,000 People But Don’t Anymore
    • How the Words We Teach English Language Learners...
    • Don’t use AI until you’re 40 . “We have been so...
    • We Used to Be Able to Buy Things in This Country ....
    • A Shortlist of Potential Future Euro Banknote Designs
    • “ Datatype is an OpenType variable font that turns...
    • The Batman Effect : people in an experiment acted more...
    • Once Upon a Time in Space
    • An Uncomplicated Man , Emily Wilson’s review of Nolan’s...
    • Astronauts returning from long missions report a “jet...
    • Trump’s Assault on Science Continues
    • Welp, right at the top of the CDC page on autism and...
  • CodePen 2.0 Chris Coyier

    Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the place…

    Yesterday · 11:52
  • As long as it takes Simon Collison

    A few people have asked, so… Yep, there will be new music from Site Nonsite next year. For almost four years now, I’ve been working on an album of personal stories,…

    Two Days Ago · 06:40
  • A Permanent Home Jeffrey Zeldman

    Your writing needs a permanent home—a domain that you own and control. Every few years, the internet convinces writers that a new digital paradise has arrived. First, it was social media l…

    Two Days Ago · 06:20
  • When the update of the UI redesign was so fast that they missed privacy WonderProxy

    My immediate concern was that the same issue could exist in production. Unfortunately, it did. We treated it as a critical privacy and security incident.…

    Two Days Ago · 04:37
  • Before I go: Double your business with companies you like Dave Rupert

    I’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in tons of different board rooms talking with executives and getting a rundown on different charts and graphs they care most deeply about. As expected,…

    Three Days Ago · 09:29
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    • The new yet familiar CodePen 2.0
  • tweet Derek Sivers

    I write to see what I can write. I code to see what I can code.…

    Four Days Ago · 09:56

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