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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
  • Full set of Underworld playing live at EDC Las Vegas... Jason Kottke

    Full set of Underworld playing live at EDC Las Vegas back in May.…

    Today · 14:27
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    • A digital clock where the numbers are made from dozens...
    • Book 1 of the Iliad, Read in Ancient Greek
    • The Black Jeopardy Misses YouTube channel catalogs just...
    • Two Huge Collections of Leonardo’s Codexes Digitally Reunited After 400 Years
    • A searchable archive of the almost 5000 TV episodes that...
    • How Errol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line Solved the Crime
    • Andrea Pitzer writes about the forced labor happening in...
    • Proposed UI rule of thumb : “If I take a...
    • Is this the sloppiest AI slop video of all time? The...
    • If I lived in LA, I would go to this concert at the...
    • Disclosure Day surely sets a world record for the number...
    • Walter White’s Big Hat
    • “Film posters inadvertently photographed by...
    • “If Platner’s past rhetoric about and treatment of...
    • A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night...
    • New Ambient Album From Marconi Union
    • The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech . Like:...
    • Commodore (you know, the 64 folks) is releasing a flip...
    • How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? “Every hour,...
    • Mad Max creator George Miller wants to make one more Mad...
    • Randomly thought of Brendan Dassey today. He’s...
    • The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By...
    • Telescope Ranchers
    • How to get out of bed . “There is no 28 point shot...
    • DJ Shadow and the BBC Symphony Orchestra will be...
    • On Inherent AI Risk: “Extinction-Level Capitalism”
    • Paul McCartney on Song Exploder . I think he was with...
    • The Knicks Starting Five Painted on One Dollar Bills
    • Sports but make it wealth inequality :...
    • The world’s first trillionaire is a killer . “A...
  • Stories Of Ireland by Brian Friel Jeremy Keith

    This is a collection of short stories by one of Ireland’s best playwrights. I think you can tell that these stories were written by someone who’s at home with the stage. The dialogue really shi…

    Today · 13:18
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    • Enhancing with CSS Grid Lanes
    • Speaking in Dublin
    • A tale of two browsers
    • Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
  • Underdubbed Jeffrey Zeldman

    When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbin…

    Today · 07:04
  • In situ Syntax Highlighting in macOS Applications Like Keynote Eric Meyer

    If you do code-heavy talks in Keynote and want to syntax highlight the code, this might be for you.…

    Today · 07:03
  • How You Get the Mentos into the Diet Coke Chris Coyier

    Did you think this was gonna be some grand metaphor blog post? Nope. You probably know: if you put Mentos in Diet Coke, it makes the carbonation go crazy and fizz shoots out of the bottle. It’s…

    Yesterday · 15:18
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  • Mini-apprenticeships with master artists in their studios, worldwide Tina Roth Eisenberg

    VAWAA makes my heart sing. Imagine traveling to spend time with an artist, where they spend time teaching you their craft. In their home. Their studio. Mini-Apprenticeships with master artists. I love…

    Yesterday · 12:09
  • How I'm teaching an AI my writing voice Derek Featherstone

    Teaching an AI your voice usually means copying how your writing looks, with little attention to the reasoning behind your choices. Here's the method I built to capture that reasoning and continuously…

    Yesterday · 10:30
  • Jakob Nielsen: ‘Buy the Book Already’ Josh Clark

    Usability legend Jakob Nielsen offers a thorough review of Sentient Design (plus a detailed comic-strip summary!). His conclusion: “Buy the book already.” Jakob’s review focuses e…

    Yesterday · 06:39
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 6/13 Rob Weychert

    Added to the music library:SweepersSweepers, 2025MagazineYHWH Nailgun, 2026No GasolineWidemouth, 2026Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!Horse Lords, 2026Added to the film diary:Secret Mall Apartmen…

    Four Days Ago · 22:00
  • KeyCon 2026 recap Cassidy Williams

    I spoke at KeyCon, a mechanical keyboard convention!…

    Four Days Ago · 18:00

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