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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • Handy app: “Point your camera at anything (a dress,... Jason Kottke

    Handy app: “Point your camera at anything (a dress, a paint swatch, a flower, your kid’s drawing) and What Color Is This? names the color instantly.” I like the increasingly specific…

    Today · 08:05
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    • “In 2014, the Dutch scholar Hans Corneel de Roos...
    • Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on who should read...
    • Quaker principles line up quite well with modern...
    • The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses…...
    • The Night Witches: The Female Nazi Hunters of WWII
    • 25 Books That Capture This American Moment . They...
    • Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains ....
    • On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism ,...
    • World History Timeline
    • New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan...
    • The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence...
    • Sarah Rose (who is blind): “Meta glasses are...
    • How Russell Vought Became the Shadow President
    • Omg, Amazon Prime inserted an ad for Febreze in the...
    • A very good, very 2026 headline: Japan Runs Out of Robot...
    • When Your Participation Is Decoration
    • “I believe in myself. That’s why I...
    • Shape of Dreams (Zendaya × Spike Jonze)
    • The Guardian asked authors, critics, and academics to...
    • The 2026 National Recording Registry inductees were...
    • This Tiny Celestial Body Past Pluto Shouldn’t Have an...
    • A Moment That Changed Me: I Saw My First Total Solar...
    • What Childhood Folklore Did You Learn As a Kid?
    • I Want to Live Like Costco People . “Embracing the...
    • Robin Sloan writes about the personalized, AI-written,...
    • What Would J.R.R. Tolkien Think of Palantir?
    • Meet the Sad Wives of AI . “Princess Diana...
    • Just dropped: Foo Fighters’ Tiny Desk Concert ....
    • Stop-Motion Lego Dr. Strangelove
    • Adam Serwer : “Violence serves an authoritarian...
    • A map of the regions of the US , as voted on by Reddit...
  • Grief in the AI Age Brad Frost

     I want to talk about this moment in time, this AI era, through the lens of grief. Grief is a powerful response to loss. When we think about grief, we often think about death, but it’s take…

    Yesterday · 22:48
  • Establishing a weekly user interview routine Jonnie Hallman

    For the first time in years, I start performing user interviews again, and remember how valuable they can be.…

    Yesterday · 12:26
  • The closing talks at UX London 2026 Jeremy Keith

    When I told you about the schedule for UX London 2026, I said: After your afternoon workshop there’ll be one final closing talk at the end of each day before we head to the bar. These closin…

    Three Days Ago · 08:59
  • Studio Notes #84 Dan Cederholm

    Greetings, Bon Vivants. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🖼️ The level of detail and intricate line work of these art pr…

    Three Days Ago · 06:00
  • tweet Derek Sivers

    Prepare your “no” and keep it handy: sive.rs/n0…

    Four Days Ago · 16:07
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    • Prepare your “no” and keep it handy
  • The Shadow Spec: When a bug becomes canon WonderProxy

    When you fix the bug in legacy code, and it impacts your largest enterprise customer! You have found the shadow spec.…

    The Other Day · 08:00

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