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

  • “ Sand temperatures above 29°C now produce 95–99%... Jason Kottke

    “Sand temperatures above 29°C now produce 95–99% female sea turtles instead of the historical 50–50 ratio, creating a reproductive bottleneck that could collapse populations within t…

    Today · 13:33
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    • A.J. Jacobs recently interviewed “the Papa Bear of...
    • Unwinding the Great Tech Power Grab . “If tech seeks to...
    • We live in a world of ordinary abundance & luxuries...
    • Ozu in Color (Every Frame a Painting)
    • Two new episodes of Ric Burns’ 1999 documentary...
    • Yale study : “A single-payer universal health care...
    • Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential...
    • Open Thread for August 2026
    • NOAA: Contiguous US Breaks Its Record for Hottest Month...
    • The Moral Unseriousness of Centrist & Conservative Pundits
    • A recently unearthed conversation with Anthony Bourdain...
    • Supersonic Trebuchet
    • Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs:...
    • “Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.”...
    • G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost . “G.P.S....
    • Some of the most storied problems in mathematics, those...
  • Shadow-piercing local component variables Dave Rupert

    Stuart Robson’s post Solving CSS @layer Ordering in Design Systems with Design Token Metadata, a response to Chris Coyier’s Thinking Horizontally in CSS @layer, came to me at a serendipitous time.…

    Today · 09:14
  • For students who make websites Jeffrey Zeldman

    Meet WordPress.com Education, a new, free product for teachers and students. The post For students who make websites appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Today · 09:12
  • Exactly What He Says (Quote) Marc Thiele

    Exactly what VFX Supervisor Marion Spates says here. […] I mean I hope everyone is excited as I am about what I do. The one thing I try to encoura…

    Today · 03:21
  • Polytropus Jeremy Keith

    Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey comes at just at the right time for me. I spent the last two years reading the Robert Fagles translation, finishing it just a few months ago. When I…

    Yesterday · 05:08
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    • Chíne tréile
  • The desire for something real Simon Collison

    Back in 2018, I was writing articles and speaking to tech crowds about an Internet of Natural Things, trying to convince them that there was an increasing desire to use…

    Two Days Ago · 18:00
  • Wrong Rob Weychert

    NoMeansNo, 1989, ★★★★★ Look, I’m not a conspiracy-minded guy, but a carefully coordinated effort by the international punk intelligentsia to keep me in the dark is the only ex…

    Three Days Ago · 09:55
  • Studio Notes #97 Dan Cederholm

    Summer Greetings, Friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🦈 A group of friends in Quincy, Massachusetts recreated the entire…

    Three Days Ago · 08:17
  • Diddit Gina Trapani

    Link: Diddit — A simple, shareable logbook for iPhone I’ll always be a sucker for great software to…

    Three Days Ago · 07:58
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    • A 2026 detour
  • Structure in Type Design John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts The legendary type designer Adrian Frutiger once described an epiphany he had: “When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added, but rather the white sheet…

    Three Days Ago · 07:42
  • Unforgetful Marco Arment

    I have ADHD. Probably.1 My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework, disappointing everyone around me, and being told by every adult that I was lazy, “just” needed t…

    Three Days Ago · 06:31
  • YULBBS Sean Coates

    It’s 2026 and I’m running a BBS* like it’s 1991. To avoid burying the lede on this: ssh yulbbs.via.sc (telnet also works); or https://yulbbs.via.sc/ in your browser. (I mentioned this on Mastod…

    Four Days Ago · 08:30

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