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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • Software Practices from the Scrap Heap? Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    I’m going to keep writing half baked things about AI, because it’s what I’m spending a noticeable number of hours thinking about these days, and because I don’t think it’s possible to be ful…

    Today · 07:53
  • The Besnard Lakes at the Hare and Hounds Jon Hicks

    "Is this your idea of romance?" was how Leigh responded to the news that I'd bought tickets for us to see The Besnard Lakes play in Birmingham on Valentines Night. Kings Heath's The Hare and Hounds i…

    Today · 07:30
  • Everybody Needs a Rock Naz Hamid

    A new homepage and site improvements. Looking at the Colophon from it’s last update, I mentioned that a refresh had happened in February 2025. A year later, another refresh has landed.…

    Yesterday · 15:20
  • The Good & Not Good Chris Coyier

    I’ve spent more time with religious people in the last year than perhaps I have in my whole life. It’s got me thinking about religion with more curiosity than I ever have. So I’m hav…

    Yesterday · 09:54
  • If what you want is to see tiny people all over your... Jason Kottke

    If what you want is to see tiny people all over your plate, you 100% absolutely have to try Lanmaoa asiatica. The mushroom is a popular food during mushroom season, but if undercooked has t…

    Two Days Ago · 15:47
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    • A Brief History of Japanese Art
    • On historical accuracy in movies (Wuthering Heights,...
    • The AI hater’s guide to code with LLMs . This is...
    • Recently released: Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing...
    • A molly guard is a safety cover that you need to move...
    • Polar explorer and scientist Felicity Aston shares her...
    • Food Is Love is a collection of essays about “how...
    • 14-year old Miles Wu recently won the top prize at a...
    • The 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century...
    • Comments Are Back On
    • Fun fact of the day: at the height of his quadruple axel,...
    • If you haven’t seen this or heard about it (or even...
    • Building a Lego-Powered Submarine
    • Spider-Noir is an upcoming live-action series starring...
    • The Track
    • Fun word search game from Slate: Pears . (I love any...
    • “ ‘CEO said a thing!’ journalism...
    • “Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive...
    • The Origins of One of the Most Beloved Video Games of...
    • Michelle Zauner (Crying in H Mart) on the 30th...
    • “It’s Fine If I Suck Sometimes”
    • “Any serious push to account for the actions of...
    • When Gmail was released as a public beta in 2004, it...
    • Actor-style headshots from the 80s of artists like...
    • Recently Discovered: an NYC Underground Railroad Stop
    • AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions ....
    • Zoning Out Is Good For You
    • In case you didn’t realize, ICE is still...
    • 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...
  • Studio Notes #71 Dan Cederholm

    Greetings, Warriors of the World. Here's issue #71 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🏄‍♂️ Today's visual meditation is a…

    Two Days Ago · 05:00
  • Quick and dirty linting Stoyan Stefanov

    This post is another installment of the series dedicated to building sightread.org. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. I've been using TypeScript (actually JSDoc + tsc --noEmit) as my linter for a while. Well, T…

    Two Days Ago · 00:38
  • The Morrigan by Kim Curran Jeremy Keith

    Every culture has its myths and legends. Greece has its gods and warriors. England has its stories of Arthur. Ireland has the Tuatha Dé Danann, The Ulster Cycle, and more. But while the Arthurian…

    Three Days Ago · 08:39
  • Forevergreen Gina Trapani

    Link: Forevergreen — Academy Award®–Nominated Animated Short Film | Now Streaming for a Limited Time…

    Three Days Ago · 05:00
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    • 3D printed whistles
  • Events I Attend in the First Half of 2026 Marc Thiele

    Here comes a round of events I attend in the first 6 months of this year. I bet there will be more, but those are the ones – in chronological order…

    Three Days Ago · 04:31
  • Passing script arguments to a Makefile target Matthew Weier O’Phinney

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    Four Days Ago · 09:41
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    • When docker buildx cannot resolve your container registry

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