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“Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.” · URSULA K. LE GUIN

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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • Building an MCP Server for My Lab Chris Shiflett

    I like to make things, and I’ve had a ~/local directory full of projects for as long as I can remember. I have my own ~/local/bin of command-line tools I’ve made over the years, and individual pro…

    Today · 00:00
  • My Son’s Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon .... Jason Kottke

    My Son’s Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon. “As I watched my son play Prodigy, it became clear there wasn’t much learning happening. In about 10 minutes of gameplay, he spent…

    Yesterday · 15:56
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    • The first-ever Enhanced Games (open to those using...
    • Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
    • 250 to 250. We Are America.
    • Tenderly Tracking My Husband . “Knowing when to...
    • Great title for a book: Fascist Yoga . “Ever...
    • Pinterest Has Become Unusable . “When I started...
    • Stephen Colbert Hosts Only in Monroe
    • An unusual new-to-me animal: the aardwolf . It’s a...
    • Essential summertime reading: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like...
    • Eric Rodenbeck on AI as a Design Medium . “In my...
    • Art But Make It Sports is now available in book form....
    • “A woozle effect …occurs when frequent...
    • “A three-month national investigation by Beyond...
  • Promoted Simon Collison

    Celebrations in Market Square this afternoon. A rare moment of joy for us long-suffering Notts County supporters: outplaying the Beckham-owned Salford City FC at Wembl…

    Yesterday · 12:00
    1 more post
    • It’s always been culture
  • How I've been using voice mode with AI Derek Featherstone

    Six patterns from 80 voice-mode conversations, how my use shifted from quick hits to structured huddles, and the habit I'm encoding into accessibility tools.…

    Yesterday · 11:00
  • Gaeltacht cois Tamaise 2026 Jeremy Keith

    Bhí me i Londain an deireadh seachtaine seo caite mar gheall ar an Gaeltacht cois Tamaise. Cúpla lá iontach ba ea iad! Bhí na ranganna ar siúl Dé Sathairn agus Dé Domhnaigh, ceithre huaire a…

    Two Days Ago · 10:02
  • Craft Is Not Culture Naz Hamid

    A time, a place, and humans. Let’s take a moment to consider the font, Instrument Serif. Created by the Portland-based design agency Instrument for their own use — along…

    Three Days Ago · 17:42
  • Required reading: “The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything” Jeffrey Zeldman

    Cameron Cummins-Smith’s grand unifying theory connects the far right’s seemingly disparate obsessions—from trans panic and great replacement theory to anti-feminism and white birth-rate anxiety…

    Three Days Ago · 08:48
    1 more post
    • Lest we forget
  • PHP Tek: A Homecoming Ben Ramsey

    PHP Tek always feels like a homecoming. No matter how much time passes between conferences, or between the person I was the last time I attended and the one I am now, walking into that hotel and findi…

    Four Days Ago · 22:16
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 5/23 Rob Weychert

    Added to the film diary:Cry-BabyJohn Waters, 1990, ★★★★ Tagged: May 2026 Reply via email Shop discount for RSS subscribers: I make art and zines and art zines. Visit…

    Four Days Ago · 22:00
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    • 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
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  • A simple clustering algorithm for lists Cassidy Williams

    I nerd-sniped myself deeply when sorting baby toys and came up with a fun pattern for doing so!…

    Four Days Ago · 18:00
  • The Importance of Tools and the Hedonic Treadmill of “Feels like Magic” Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    Claude Code felt like magic when I used it for the first time (14 months ago?). And then it felt like magic again when the models got good at code at the end of the year. But then I wanted to be able…

    The Other Day · 06:08
  • Studio Notes #85 Dan Cederholm

    Hello, Friends! Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🧢 This week I came across Lost & Foundry, a cool shop that sews vintage p…

    The Other Day · 06:00
  • How Niche is Too Niche? Dan Mall

    Every agency owner I’ve coached worries about picking a niche that’s too small. I get it. The fear is real. But in practice, there’s a much higher chance they overcompensate and pick a niche th…

    The Other Day · 05:00

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