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

  • West of England Design Forum 🇬🇧 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 12:00
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    • The search for a Spotify alternative
  • The Amble One is perhaps the world’s best-designed golf... Jason Kottke

    The Amble One is perhaps the world’s best-designed golf cart. It’s street-legal, tuned for off-roading, goes 60 miles on a charge, and starts at $25K.…

    Today · 12:39
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    • Taffy Brodesser-Akner: I Survived a Cold Plunge and All...
    • MapTap is like a quicker, easier version of GeoGuessr:...
    • We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t...
    • Do you believe that everybody should have fun or that...
    • Stacks : “Run HyperCard stacks directly on your...
    • XKCD: What if chess included the offside rule? (If...
    • This is a fun and really well-done triple mashup of...
    • A sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. NES cartridge...
    • This is neat: Robin Sloan is rewriting his 2009 short...
    • Stop chasing life goals and start trying tiny...
    • What’s the Point of Sex, Anyway? “There is yet...
    • The Open Source AI Gap Map shows the current...
    • The End of Reading Is Here . “The decline of...
    • Why The Best Player Alive Barely Runs
    • Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future...
    • British political news: Nigel Farage is facing...
    • City’s Beautification Initiative Hamstrung By Commitment...
    • Medieval Wound Man
    • If Only There Had Been a Sign That the Face-Melting Nazi...
    • Interviews with some of the dwindling number of...
    • World Cup Wallpapers for Your Phone
    • How to talk about “AI” without adding to the...
    • Mister Rogers visits Eric Carle’s studio and paints with...
    • Over the past few centuries, humans have decimated bird...
    • Hans Zimmer: Live in Concert
    • Sloan on Fable : “This is literally the core...
    • New Patricia Lockwood for the London Review of Books: A...
    • Just dropped a couple of days ago: Lane 8’s Summer 2026...
    • Our Lives Are “an Orchestrated Shuffle of Technology”
    • 👀 Craig Mod interviewed by Debbie Millman on Design...
    • The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America...
    • I love this short little video montage of actresses...
    • One of the great things about the World Cup and the US:...
    • America: Birth Of A Nation
    • In 1937, the NYT ran a piece about the last living son...
    • Five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read his...
    • Openish Thread (Testing a New Feature…)
  • Medea by Rosie Hewlett Jeremy Keith

    In preparation for my jaunt to a Greek island, I figured it would be good to have some Greek-adjacent reading material with me to peruse on the beach. So I scoured the shelves of my local library to…

    Today · 08:29
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    • Speak at UX London 2027
    • Gaeilge sa Ghréig
  • The Secret Jeffrey Zeldman

    If I learned one thing in 25 years of running design and education companies, it’s that idealism isn’t a business strategy. If you wonder why my partners and I had to shut down organizations we an…

    Yesterday · 09:32
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    • Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web
  • Introducing Kyroh Dan Cederholm

    Greetings Simple Friends,Today I'm excited to officially release my latest typeface, Kyroh. It's available for sale in the shop, and has also been distributed to all Secret Club members. Kyr…

    Two Days Ago · 10:59
  • Nextcloud SSRF rules and internal address ranges Matthew Weier O’Phinney

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    Two Days Ago · 09:12
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    • Musings on GenAI
  • What Makes a Conference Great Marc Thiele

    A few days ago, right after I posted my write-up of Head in the Cloud, my friend Sacha Judd, who spoke at beyond tellerrand three times already, publ…

    Three Days Ago · 06:11
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    • Gianni Infantino Acts Disgusting
  • 49. Ethan Marcotte

    It’s been, like, hot-hot for the last week, with Boston seized by the same heat wave affecting…well, everywhere else. Personally I’ve never cared for summer, even before it entered its vi…

    Four Days Ago · 22:00
  • The Secret Agent Rob Weychert

    Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2025, ★★★ Filho is really good at setting a scene and immersing you in a time and place, and just as I was with the titular town in Bacurau, I was fascinated…

    Four Days Ago · 21:59
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    • Sirāt
  • Customizing my Xteink firmware and wallpaper Cassidy Williams

    I got the Xteink X4 device, and it's really fun to hack around with!…

    Four Days Ago · 18:00

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