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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • The words shark (the animal) and shark (a predatory... Jason Kottke

    The words shark (the animal) and shark (a predatory scoundrel) may have two different origins. “This would make ‘shark’ possibly the only word borrowed from a Mayan language into Engl…

    Today · 10:00
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    • Parachord is “a new kind of music player that...
    • Every Fashion Designer, Explained . If you don’t...
    • 300+ issues of the UK music magazine NME from 1969-1983...
    • “ The Tenth Muse is an art discovery engine. Over...
    • Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries . There’s the...
    • Paris now has a cycling network bigger than Amsterdam...
    • The Human City
    • Gender Play in Nineteenth-Century Theater . “The...
    • A study pitted adults vs little kids to see which was...
    • Dawn Wilcox’s quest to chronicle the life & death...
    • Checking in with Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests,...
    • This is maybe the best baseball catch you’ll ever...
    • Miuccia Prada is worth $4.8 billion. How good of a...
    • “Birds in the United States are not only declining,...
    • A playable CSS-only Super Mario Bros game . Wow.
    • A generator for VHS slipcovers, cassette tape inserts,...
    • The Delta Air Lines Seatback Chess Bot Will Destroy You
    • What does it feel like to be struck by lightning?...
    • Trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day . I like that Tom...
    • The Fascinating Engineering of the Titanic: How the...
    • Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing...
    • Riding the Subway to Coney Island in 1987
    • Jamelle Bouie says the SAVE Act will take us back to Jim...
    • “This is an interactive story about In Vitro...
    • The Mysterious Redditor Who’s Changing the Way We...
    • Vertical Societies
    • Twin adventurers are cleverly testing modern vs....
    • The teaser trailer for Dune: Part Three . I am...
    • Extreme Macro Photos of Insect Wings . Hundreds of...
    • Planets and Bright Stars ID Chart
    • Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity . “You...
    • Battery prices continue to fall . “Lithium-ion...
    • “The US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster...
    • Gorgeous: rural Kyoto in the heavy snow .
    • Gullible, Cynical America . “They’ll insist...
    • “In today’s new Gilded Age, the 900-plus...
    • The Holocaust History Podcast : “In this episode,...
    • The Louvre has the Mona Lisa. Here’s what other...
    • The 20 Best Food Scenes in Movies . Ratatouille, Big...
    • Tiny Puppet Sound
    • “Pay enough, and you can jump to the front of the...
    • “This Is Not The Computer For You”
    • The Trump regime is deliberately destroying the...
  • People are not friction Dave Rupert

    The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect of AI is a pretty well documented phenomenon: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports i…

    Today · 09:54
  • Studio Notes #76 Dan Cederholm

    Greetings, friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🔥 Yet another briefly-engaged-in hobby I had growing up: Collecting matc…

    Today · 06:00
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    • Making a New Font from Found Lettering
  • Hack: claude -p Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    claude -p is a quick hack that I find myself using more. Calling one of the various LLM APIs is easy. But requires key management. For me on a personal project that’s no big deal. In a work context…

    Today · 05:49
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    • Timberborn 1.0, HTTP Lever, and Claude Code
  • Return to Tokyo, Part 2 Simon Collison

    Days 6 to 10 brought several trip highlights, including an outstanding café, trippy outdoor bathing in Karuizawa, and a perfect fe…

    Today · 05:00
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    • Return to Tokyo, Part 1
    • Weird switches
  • Look into the future of the web platform Rachel Andrew

    Last week I spoke at the very lovely Web Day Out in Brighton. My talk was about browser support, based on the work I’ve done over the past almost five years on Baseline. I ran through the variou…

    Today · 03:08
  • Early-bird tickets for UX London Jeremy Keith

    You should come to UX London in the first week of June. Why? Because it’s going to be awesome, that’s why! You probably knew that already. You probably already decided to get a ticket because y…

    Yesterday · 08:53
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    • A Fisherman Of The Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin
    • That was Web Day Out
  • Notes for my future self on how to set up a camera for streaming Cassidy Williams

    I had to set up my Sony a6400 fresh, and here's all the settings I used!…

    Two Days Ago · 18:00
  • I redesigned my website without touching my keyboard…all while painting a mural Brad Frost

    On Friday night, I needed a break from screens, so decided to work on a bathroom mural that our family has been chipping away at for the last 4 years. But a lot was on my mind, so made the decisio…

    Two Days Ago · 13:54
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    • Fine Specimens by Elliot Jay Stocks
  • Meets Style Sheets Chris Coyier

    I’ve accepted an invitation to speak at Smashing’s (Online) Conference Meets Style Sheets. It’s free on Wednesday, May 6th. I named my talk In-N-Out Styling. Long time CSS evangelist…

    Two Days Ago · 09:47
  • Too Many Notes Jeffrey Zeldman

    Lately, in work conversations, I find myself fighting a lifelong tendency to provide way more context than is absolutely required. If you ask me to okay your work, for example, I may respond with an e…

    Four Days Ago · 04:28
  • Photos of Web Day Out 2026 in Brighton Marc Thiele

    I had a fantastic time. In Many ways. Here are my photos of Web Day Out 2026 in Brighton. (#WebDayOut) Reply via Email…

    Four Days Ago · 02:14

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