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Posts from blogs I read written in the last few days.

  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • “I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI... Jason Kottke

    “I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession. They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession.”…

    Today · 08:23
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    • Resident Advisor: there are signs that Boards of Canada...
    • A guide to which Apple chargers to use with which Apple...
    • Solar Eclipse From the Far Side of the Moon
    • I missed that author Tracy Kidder died a few weeks ago ....
    • Hollywood, Ending is John Green’s forthcoming...
    • A Catalog of an Entire House/Life
    • Teenager Michael Haskell “ buys abandoned storage...
    • Shoe Pop Dream Gaze , a three-hour playlist from...
    • “What caught my eye as a designer, as with most...
    • Really interesting piece from Jodi Ettenberg about...
    • The Astor Place Riots of 1849 resulted in “the...
    • Transcription by Ben Lerner
    • A visual history of exploring the far side of the Moon ....
    • Livestream: Artemis II is about to fly around the Moon ....
    • New vocabulary word: “RAM harvester” . RAM...
    • Missed this last week: Lane 8 dropped their Spring 2026...
    • Pattern Index, Max Cooper
    • Lessons from fighting cancer that apply to resisting...
    • “The promise of the open web was colonized by...
    • Louisiana, Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, and...
    • We’re expected to believe that the NY Times is a...
    • As Slow As Possible . Very very very slow versions of...
    • I have to say that I was a little bit charmed by the...
    • Rosalía Berghain Live
    • A women had sex with identical twins (within a 4-day...
    • Tracker dashboard for the Artemis II mission using...
    • This Is Us
    • Does what it says on the tin: acid techno mix in...
  • Weird Kid Tina Roth Eisenberg

    Love this print and sentiment by James Victore.…

    Today · 07:04
    2 more posts
    • The Lonely Funeral Project
    • Worldwide Sidewalk Joy Map
  • Beeswacks Pre-Release Dan Cederholm

    Today, I'm excited to share the pre-release of Beeswacks (our latest typeface) with Secret Club members.✨Secret Club members get all of our fonts including pre-releases plus additional per…

    Today · 05:00
  • An update on life and work Brad Frost

    I’ve gone a lot of hard and scary experiences that’s made me deeply value stability. After enduring varied traumas, I really turned on the afterburners to make up for being ripped away from…

    Yesterday · 22:01
    1 more post
    • Storybook MCP with Dominic Nguyen
  • TinyStart Jeremy Keith

    Sometimes I look back through my blogging archives and notice what’s changed over time. For example, I used to write quite enthusiastically about the arrival of a new operating system from Apple.…

    Yesterday · 10:44
  • CSS Grid Lanes Matthew Weier O’Phinney

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    Yesterday · 09:38
  • Inverted themes with light-dark() Dave Rupert

    We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’t difficult, but delivery has trade-offs. Most…

    Yesterday · 09:31
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    • Ozempic dreams
    • Before I go: People like it when other people make things
  • When Using AI Leads to ‘Brain Fry’ Josh Clark

    A BCG study of US-based workers found that intensive oversight of AI agents can cause cognitive exhaustion that the researchers call “AI brain fry.” The researchers shared their results in Harva…

    Yesterday · 08:02
    1 more post
    • How Many Products Does Microsoft Have Named ‘Copilot’?
  • Tiptoes Rob Weychert

    Matthew Bright, 2002 “I’m not mad, just bewildered,” says Kate Beckinsale about halfway through Tiptoes, a deeply weird cinematic act of little-people advocacy. You might assume she…

    Two Days Ago · 21:59
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  • Tips for Designers on Making it Through 2026 to the Other Side Mike Davidson

    If you’re in tech and you don’t have at least a little career anxiety right now, you are either overly confident or you aren’t paying attention. Engineers are jittery. PMs are jitter…

    Two Days Ago · 14:01
  • Apple Music in Tahoe Jon Hicks

    Since I wrote that big-ass music app post last year, Apple Music's desktop app has seen some nice updates, not least due to the release of their new design language, ‘Liquid Glass’, in MacOS 26 Ta…

    Three Days Ago · 13:00
  • Help Me Understand How To Get Jetpack Search to Search a Custom Post Type Chris Coyier

    I’ve got a Custom Post Type in WordPress. It’s called docs because it’s for documentation pages. This is for the CodePen 2.0 Docs. The Classic Docs are just “Pages” in Wo…

    Three Days Ago · 09:53
  • Run: Family Jog Marc Thiele

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    Four Days Ago · 06:42

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