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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.

  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • In case you didn’t realize, ICE is still... Jason Kottke

    In case you didn’t realize, ICE is still terrorizing communities, kidnapping people off the streets, and destroying property in Minnesota. “The target of the kidnapping was taken away by…

    Today · 12:27
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    • Fontemon is the world’s first video game in a...
    • The GOP goal of destroying the post office is coming...
    • Some Site Goings-On
    • Everyone’s living a life you know nothing about ....
    • “We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals...
    • A recommendation for a recent episode of the Heavyweight...
    • The Guardian: here’s how Substack makes money...
    • How Edo (Tokyo) transformed from a city on the brink of...
    • “ Printing Films is a collection of vintage films...
    • Why don’t filmmakers just film on location instead...
  • Passing script arguments to a Makefile target Matthew Weier O’Phinney

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    Today · 09:41
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    • When docker buildx cannot resolve your container registry
  • 3D printed whistles Gina Trapani

    Link: 3D Printed Whistles I got a 3D printer for fun and making stuff and now it’s my whole personali…

    Today · 07:00
  • Concertina Jeremy Keith

    I watched a good film last night. Tornado from the same writer and director of the also-excellent Slow West. Tornado is a Scottish Samurai Western set in the 1790s. Although it’s not likely that…

    Yesterday · 09:16
  • Works in Progress Jeffrey Zeldman

    New tunes from an old maker. The post Works in Progress appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Yesterday · 06:52
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    • Claude Code for Designers
  • Angine de Poitrine – Mata Zyklek (Live on KEXP) Brad Frost

    The fact that A BUNCH OF PEOPLE have sent this to me makes me feel like I’m doing life right.…

    Two Days Ago · 20:36
  • Principles of Great (Accessibility) Work Derek Featherstone

    Thoughts and reflections on some principles that help create conditions for great accessibility work…

    Two Days Ago · 20:07
  • Land of the offended. Home of the outraged. Greg Storey

    I watched yesterday’s sports match at a sports bar. Specifically in a reserved seat at the bar in front of a gigantic OLED screen. I’m in Vegas which means that a good portion of the sea…

    Two Days Ago · 18:29
  • More books on this subject Derek Sivers

    br { clear: both; margin: 2em 0 } figure { clear: both; margin-top: 4em } img { float: left; margin-right: 1em } figcaption { font-size: 1.2em } Nothing & Everything by Val N. Tine Awaken the Gian…

    Two Days Ago · 17:00
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    • What next?
    • Reframing death
    • You are what you pretend to be
  • Code has _always_ been the easy part Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature…

    Two Days Ago · 10:05
  • Magic Words Dave Rupert

    Skills are the newest hype commodity in the world of agentic AI. Skills are text files that optionally get stapled onto the context window by the agent. You can have skills like “frontend design”…

    Two Days Ago · 09:03
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 2/7 Rob Weychert

    Added to the film diary:Bad SisterDoug Campbell, 2015PersonaIngmar Bergman, 1966, ★★★★Double MommyDoug Campbell, 2016 Tagged: February 2026 Reply via email…

    Four Days Ago · 22:00
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    • Double Daddy
  • Tokyo music haul Simon Collison

    I’ve just returned from my third trip to Japan — my first in almost eight years. I have some general notes and photos to post when time allows. In the meantime, here…

    Four Days Ago · 09:00

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