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  • Recursion is DEAD and HTML killed it Dave Rupert

    There’s a new web platform feature flighting in Chromium called Declarative Partial Updates. This proposal adds a new <?marker> element which enables out-of-order streaming of content. Rather…

    Today · 09:36
  • Lake Of Souls by Ann Leckie Jeremy Keith

    In some ways, the short story is the ideal format for science fiction. If science fiction is all about ideas, a short story is a way to take an idea and play it out without any obligation to build a…

    Today · 09:31
  • The Best Sandwich Shop in America? Jason Kottke

    YouTuber Rob Martinez travelled to Columbus, Ohio to tell the story of what he calls the best sandwich shop in America, Wario’s Beef and Pork. Here’s part of the transcript of owner S…

    Today · 09:22
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    • Richard Linklater is directing a film adaptation of the...
    • Mapsnap is a program designed to take old Sanborn...
    • JumpStar is the world’s strongest Chinese Checkers AI...
    • Random TV Time: watch old TV pulled from the Internet...
    • Designer Giorgia Lupi: In Defense of the Detour. “I fear...
    • Stalin Boys is a short documentary about a Joseph...
    • Nappy is a site offering free stock photos of Black and...
    • O Superman, Laurie Anderson
    • Mapping Tariffs explores “the potential impacts of...
    • After working hard taking away the civil rights of people...
    • The 2026 Comedy Wildlife Awards Finalists
    • Is American Culture Simply Bad Now? I’ve been hanging...
    • Back in 2005, a group of restorers established a hidden...
    • OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home. Small...
    • The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
    • Don’t Cook That: a collection of real recipes that you...
    • So Many Amazing Control Rooms
    • The Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism. “What’s this middle bit?”...
    • “Influencers are the private equity of culture: draining...
    • Prince Was One of the First Players of The Oregon Trail
    • A “Kelvin wave” powered by El Niño will soon raise sea...
    • The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault...
    • The best multi day hikes in the world. “As an avid hiker,...
    • Lobster is Lobster: a language guessing game. “Lobster is...
    • Ooh, Mestra is a new short story from Madeline Miller...
    • Map of the Lighthouses of the World
    • Looks like Every Frame a Painting is ramping up again!...
  • Help! I’ve fallen out of the Google search index Chad Dickerson

    My blog more or less fell out of the Google Index in late August and I was suddenly unable to find anything in it via Google. (I set up Google Search Console long ago but don’t look at it very o…

    Today · 05:43
  • Dark Forestry Henry Desroches

    Dark Forestry | Henry From Online…

    Yesterday · 12:16
  • WordPress MCP Chris Coyier

    I’ve still got all my WordPress sites on Pressable and happily so; I think they do a good job! They do everything you’d expect a WordPress host to do. The things I specifically like are: O…

    Yesterday · 07:54
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  • Debugging download initiator Stoyan Stefanov

    I was recently debugging why an image was being downloaded. In Chrome devtools, in the network panel, the column for "initiator" was pointing to the end of the HTML document. But that wasn't true and…

    Three Days Ago · 18:08
  • Another Saturday, Another Song. Jeffrey Zeldman

    🎧 “Side Two” LP in progress. At 14 songs, it is nearly complete. I expect to release it before the year’s end. The post Another Saturday, Another Song. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Prese…

    Three Days Ago · 11:17
  • Studio Notes #104 Dan Cederholm

    Howdy, Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. At the risk of celebrating too much, I realize #104 means this little newsletter started…

    Four Days Ago · 05:00
  • Accessibility and the new model of the internet Cassidy Williams

    The internet is changing! Accessibility is getting better! And it's also weird!…

    The Other Day · 13:41

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