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“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” · HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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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 to Store Ebooks in Instagram Reels and Other Covert Data Storage Tricks Jason Kottke

    Do you remember the video I posted last summer of YouTuber Benn Jordan where he “uploaded a picture of a bird to a bird and then downloaded the bird picture from the bird”? So cool. Jor…

    Today · 11:55
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    • Lidar and other discoveries continue to show that the...
    • Heading On Out…
    • This is an old list but still interesting: the 12 most...
    • Tressie McMillan Cottom’s reading list for fighting back...
    • Emily Wilson takes another crack at a critique of...
    • Surfing Alaska’s Turnagain Arm (home to a twice-daily...
    • In recent years, science has been learning more and more...
    • Huh, here’s the trailer for a new director’s cut (of...
    • Are You Good at Mowing Lawns?
    • “ poetry camera is a new way to see your world....
    • The Phone in Your Hand . “A layer-by-layer teardown of...
    • An 8K Cinematic Tribute to the Artemis II Mission
    • The Past Catalog Archive is a throwback to fun & modest...
    • Reading Maps : Journeys from books & films (Moby-Dick,...
    • Work vs gym: a simple way to decide whether to use AI...
    • “Long live Hyrule jazz!” The Z Suites is “a...
    • How Podcasts Ruined America . This is an odd claim and...
    • Pilcrow, Dagger, and Octothorp, Oh My!
    • What Climate Science Can Tell Us About the Lost World...
    • This is fun: BoxSquad . Limbs & borders are all draggable.
    • “A Los Angeles Costco parking lot [has] become a...
    • Does Christopher Nolan Consider Himself a Bard for a Civilization at Dusk?
    • Google Earth stupidly launched an AI image-gen feature...
    • The Listening Museum : “36 mechanical keyboards...
  • OTP replay: “One time” doesn’t always mean one session WonderProxy

    Something made me pause! This was when I noticed something strange. I had entered the exact same OTP code three times across different browser sessions. Now that is a critical red alert!…

    Today · 07:00
  • I Shot the Serif Dan Cederholm

    Or rather, I took photos of the new Serif goods that are now in the shop. I love a good typography pun, and this one was inspired by a hat I wore 20 years ago from the late and beloved Veer (a wonderf…

    Yesterday · 05:00
  • Backyard Designers: Draft Your Dream Design Team Brad Frost

    Backyard Designers is making its rounds, and I got to see myself as a little character. I saw commentary about it feeling icky in-club kinda stuff, which is why the parody site Brokeass Designers with…

    Two Days Ago · 18:00
  • Kri Kri Greek Frozen Yogurt Veerle Pieters

    A series of illustrations created for the Greek Frozen Yogurt ice cream line by Kri Kri.— via George Probonas…

    Two Days Ago · 00:38
  • Designing Systems That Decide Josh Clark

    “How do we transition our thinking, not for one deeply thoughtful flow or feature, but for a whole system where agents can build things we’ve never seen?” In his essay The Mental-Model Reset:…

    Three Days Ago · 16:28
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    • Boagworld: Designing Beyond the Chatbot
    • Publishers Consider Cutting Off Google
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 8/1 Rob Weychert

    Added to the film diary:DutchmanAnthony Harvey, 1966, ★★★½Nirvanna the Band the Show the MovieMatt Johnson, 2025, ★★★½ Tagged: August 2026 Reply via email Shop dis…

    Four Days Ago · 22:00
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    • Listening: July 2026
  • Aphera 1.0 Naz Hamid

    Software is hard. I’m getting close to 50. Tech has developed a new religion. The power dynamics have shifted, yet again. I asked myself in the last two years, what does w…

    The Other Day · 17:08

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