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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
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    • Issue 052: Summer fonting
  • 👀 Craig Mod interviewed by Debbie Millman on Design... Jason Kottke

    👀 Craig Mod interviewed by Debbie Millman on Design Matters. (I guess those eyes should be ears but an ears-bugging-out emoji doesn’t exist.)…

    Today · 11:22
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    • The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America...
    • I love this short little video montage of actresses...
    • One of the great things about the World Cup and the US:...
    • America: Birth Of A Nation
    • In 1937, the NYT ran a piece about the last living son...
    • Five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read his...
    • Openish Thread (Testing a New Feature…)
    • As it was foretold: the Trump regime gutted the NOAA and...
    • Something for the digital crate-diggers: The 40 Best...
    • “ Dictionary of the Illegible proposes...
    • “ The average paid newsletter costs $10 per month...
    • Hank Green interviews Ze Frank , who kind of invented...
    • Parker Molloy on why the panic about trans women in...
    • Will America Ever Give White-Man Rights to Everyone...
    • The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by...
    • Rebecca Solnit: What Is the United States of America...
    • Report from a cruise full of celebrity impersonators ....
    • Erling Haaland “brings the intensity of a raiding...
    • My Family Has Been Here Since 1621. That Is Not What...
    • There’s been so much crazy to pay attention to over the...
    • Four-Byte Burger
    • I love the aesthetic of Fresco , a video game where you...
    • How Do You Prove Arson When the Evidence Burns Away?
  • Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web Jeffrey Zeldman

    The web is still the best hope we have for a durable, shared memory. But it requires us to be gardeners, not merely tenants. The post Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About…

    Today · 09:07
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    • The End
    • The Human Story of the Open Web
  • What Makes a Conference Great Marc Thiele

    A few days ago, right after I posted my write-up of Head in the Cloud, my friend Sacha Judd, who spoke at beyond tellerrand three times already, publ…

    Today · 06:11
    1 more post
    • Gianni Infantino Acts Disgusting
  • The Secret Agent Rob Weychert

    Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2025, ★★★ Filho is really good at setting a scene and immersing you in a time and place, and just as I was with the titular town in Bacurau, I was fascinated…

    Yesterday · 21:59
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    • Sirāt
    • “Foreigner! Foreigner! This is America! You’re not American! Get the…
    • Starship Troopers
    • Jack
    • V7: Say hello to my listening diary
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Loopy John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts I once taught a research/writing class called “No Google” that lasted until it dawned on me that “Google” was indeed the research tool for the 21st century. T…

    Three Days Ago · 09:44
  • tweet Derek Sivers

    17 conversations in Jakarta, Indonesia: sive.rs/met/at-14…

    Three Days Ago · 08:52
  • Studio Notes #91 Dan Cederholm

    Greetings, Excellent People. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🚩 Felt pennant flags have always been cool and Roman Boujo trace…

    Three Days Ago · 05:00
  • Overlooking the obvious Jonnie Hallman

    A user interview with a friend reveals an obviously missing piece of Cushion…

    Four Days Ago · 06:08
  • Poetic CSS Brad Frost

    Poetic CSS Understand CSS as a system — so you can write, review, and maintain web styles with confidence on a timeline and under budget. My friend Miriam Suzanne has a new course on CSS. I've lea…

    The Other Day · 18:00

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