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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
  • Design Better AMA: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred Josh Clark

    Big Medium’s Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred got real in this AMA on the Design Better podcast with Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery: AI fatigue is real. Speed (over quality) is a race to t…

    Today · 12:53
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    • A Great Design Gathering
    • Kirkus on Sentient Design: “Get It”
    • Reimagining the Mouse Pointer for the AI Era
  • How to Make a Living as an Artist Jason Kottke

    Contemporary pop artist fnnch’s essay on How to Make a Living as an Artist is pretty great. Lots in here that resonates with my experience of turning a creative hobby (KDO) into a busin…

    Today · 12:14
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    • From Universe Today, an ongoing series of articles on A...
    • You Can Make an App for That . “The most important...
    • Our Mob Boss President
    • Mariame Kaba’s letter to young activists :...
    • A pep talk in the face of despair . “Things can...
    • Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who...
    • India’s Hottest District Shuts at 10 AM as Mercury...
    • New-to-me vocabulary: oneshotted , “a term that...
    • Cookie Queens
    • Interview with the guy behind the great Art But Make...
    • The Banality of the Video Podcast . “The sets,...
    • There’s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going…
    • Cucumbers used to be called “cowcumbers” ....
    • No reparations for Black Americans. No student loan...
    • On the heels of turning Orwell’s Animal Farm into a...
    • “Somewhere between ‘Let’s catch up...
    • The fake courtesy machine is a wooden hand-cranked...
    • Marcin Wichary on how to get more fun and utility from...
    • Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise . The Pudding...
    • “I have travelled all over the world in the last 30...
    • Watching an Art Conservator Restore a Damaged Painting
    • Marbles Squared is a puzzle game 30 years in the...
    • Ben Prunty has composed the soundtrack to a new game,...
    • Perhaps businesses are collecting too much data for...
    • Mike Monteiro on how to deal with your suddenly grown-up...
    • What’s Your Favorite Recipe?
    • I have always liked Steve Kerr, but I did not expect to...
    • Handy app: “Point your camera at anything (a dress,...
    • “In 2014, the Dutch scholar Hans Corneel de Roos...
    • Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on who should read...
    • Quaker principles line up quite well with modern...
    • The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses…...
    • The Night Witches: The Female Nazi Hunters of WWII
    • 25 Books That Capture This American Moment . They...
  • WonderSwitcher is now available for iOS and macOS WonderProxy

    Testing your site on a real iPhone used to mean fighting with proxy configuration buried in Wi-Fi settings, hunting down credentials, and re-entering server details every time you wanted to switch loc…

    Today · 11:01
    1 more post
    • Prevention is the highest form of testing: The value of zero bugs
  • Big AI & Design Systems Course updates! Brad Frost

    Chapters 1 & 2 of our AI & Design Systems Course are live! Our course now has over 16 hours of videos, which includes course lessons, community jam sessions, and other demonstrations. TJ,…

    Yesterday · 08:23
    1 more post
    • Grief in the AI Age
  • I think the latest Apple Keyboard was verschlimmbessert Marc Thiele

    In March 2021 I got my last keyboard. Since I don’t like the idea of dongles, I tend to get Apple’s original keyboard. I also quite like how it f…

    Yesterday · 02:38
  • Delaware Shore Rob Weychert

    Raghav Peri, 2018, ½ I’m known to enjoy a film made by clumsy amateurs reaching for something beyond their means, and this unfathomably earnest love letter to the beach towns of Delawa…

    Two Days Ago · 21:59
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    • Hard Boiled
  • La Pedra Go Club in Barcelona Cassidy Williams

    I visited a decades-old Go club in Barcelona!…

    Three Days Ago · 18:00
  • Establishing a weekly user interview routine Jonnie Hallman

    For the first time in years, I start performing user interviews again, and remember how valuable they can be.…

    Three Days Ago · 12:26

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