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

  • From filmmaker Kevin B. Lee, a story about seeing Platoon... Jason Kottke

    From filmmaker Kevin B. Lee, a story about seeing Platoon as a child in 1986. What age-inappropriate movies did you see as a kid?…

    Today · 10:30
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    • A call for more “mindful underparenting” from...
    • KDO Search Now Available to Everyone
    • Bain Capital Acquires Tibetan Buddhism For $35 Million....
    • Anthropic has new rules for its Opus 5.5 model to “steer...
    • And in other news, the NY Times is trying to buy...
    • Salon, one of the last OG general interest web...
    • Video captured by Amy Yolland of three humpback whales...
    • Subvocal’s glasses turn your silent speech into text at...
    • Foursquare was recently acquired and co-founder Dennis...
    • Grocery Shopping With a Bow & Arrow
    • Paul Ford: “The web browser is very, very, very powerful...
    • Women who die postpartum often do so because they lose...
    • A growing list of brands to avoid because they are...
    • Stunning Image of Our Satellite-Choked Night Skies
    • I Thought I’d Left Authoritarianism Behind. “To anyone...
    • See You Thursday
    • How Human Civilization Began
    • Do you think you could write down the names of 3000...
    • “Our attention is all we have. And we already gave away a...
    • What’s causing this unusually long cloud on Mars?
    • The soundtrack for Wipeout XL (aka Wipeout 2097) was...
    • 10 Years of Kottke.org Membership
    • Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data...
    • Simon Willison: The October Inflection Point for Vibe...
    • Arkivism is a search and visual discovery engine for...
    • Ted Chiang: “There’s no way to write fiction and...
    • Let’s get this out of the way: Olivia Colman will be...
    • Are contemporary technologies like GPS, phones, and AI...
    • Love the idea of a volta, a pivotal point. “The moment...
    • The Collectively Drawn World
    • Babe, wake up! New potato just dropped. It tastes like...
    • Trailer for season four of The Gilded Age, which started...
    • Readwise announces Readwise Books. “We’ve built Readwise...
    • The Ten Best Captain Picard Episodes of Star Trek
  • Pseudo-pseudo-classes for maximum interactive demos! Dave Rupert

    Have you ever wanted to display all variants of a Button next to each other in your Storybook like your designer did in Figma? But then you come to a screeching halt when you realize :hover, :active,…

    Today · 08:50
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    • Write mo'
  • Studio Notes #109 Dan Cederholm

    Good Morning, Friendly Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🐆 Apparently I’m about a year late to this, but Cheetos…

    Today · 07:43
  • Test Post Mark Boulton

    This is a test post. How does it look. Image above.…

    Today · 07:19
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    • Let’s try another post to test
    • This is a test post.
  • A Beauty of a Lighter Tina Roth Eisenberg

    I only want to own objects that are beautiful and functional. This lighter by Craighill makes my heart sing.…

    Yesterday · 08:14
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  • Editing videos with Borumi, FFmpeg, and GitHub Copilot Cassidy Williams

    I generated 32 videos with just two recordings using the power of some really fun tooling!…

    Two Days Ago · 16:39
  • Rosin App Jon Hicks

    Qobuz Theme v1.5 Despite making Jacket app for myself, I'm still tinkering with my custom Qobuz theme, and for version 1.5 I'm presenting it a little differently. First of all, the changes Qobuz were…

    Two Days Ago · 10:15
  • How to test for missing form labels WonderProxy

    Imagine arriving on a website and tabbing to a form field. Instead of hearing "Search, edit, blank" or "Email address, required, edit, blank", your screen reader simply announces "edit field". You kno…

    Three Days Ago · 22:10
  • beyond tellerrand Speaker Archive Marc Thiele

    Same as for the talks archive counts for the speakers list. And don’t forget: many of them have spoken multiple times. Otherwise it would be even l…

    Three Days Ago · 11:08
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    • beyond tellerrand Talk Archive
  • Making features generic in CSS Rachel Andrew

    CSS has two new positional alignment keywords as part of CSS Box Alignment Level 3: flow-start and flow-end. These are defined as aliases for the existing flex-start and flex-end keywords. Therefore,…

    Four Days Ago · 09:39
  • Palaces Of The Crow by Ray Nayler Jeremy Keith

    I really liked Ray Nayler’s The Mountain In The Sea. I also liked The Tusks Of Extinction. But reading those back-to-back gave me pause: At times it seems to relish in describing the worst tha…

    Four Days Ago · 07:30
  • Detour Rob Weychert

    🎬 Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945, ★★★★½ The very definition of lean and mean. 🖤 Tagged: November 2026, film diary, film and television, review, Edgar G. Ulmer Reply via…

    The Other Day · 19:59

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