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“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” · STEVE JOBS

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

  • “ Sand temperatures above 29°C now produce 95–99%... Jason Kottke

    “Sand temperatures above 29°C now produce 95–99% female sea turtles instead of the historical 50–50 ratio, creating a reproductive bottleneck that could collapse populations within t…

    Today · 13:33
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    • A.J. Jacobs recently interviewed “the Papa Bear of...
    • Unwinding the Great Tech Power Grab . “If tech seeks to...
    • We live in a world of ordinary abundance & luxuries...
    • Ozu in Color (Every Frame a Painting)
    • Two new episodes of Ric Burns’ 1999 documentary...
    • Yale study : “A single-payer universal health care...
    • Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential...
    • Open Thread for August 2026
    • NOAA: Contiguous US Breaks Its Record for Hottest Month...
    • The Moral Unseriousness of Centrist & Conservative Pundits
    • A recently unearthed conversation with Anthony Bourdain...
    • Supersonic Trebuchet
    • Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs:...
    • “Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.”...
    • G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost . “G.P.S....
    • Some of the most storied problems in mathematics, those...
    • The Art of the Copyist
    • Here’s how Rocky’s musical language from the Project...
    • I’m Done Using AI . “It made me lazy. It made me...
  • Shadow-piercing local component variables Dave Rupert

    Stuart Robson’s post Solving CSS @layer Ordering in Design Systems with Design Token Metadata, a response to Chris Coyier’s Thinking Horizontally in CSS @layer, came to me at a serendipitous time.…

    Today · 09:14
  • For students who make websites Jeffrey Zeldman

    Meet WordPress.com Education, a new, free product for teachers and students. The post For students who make websites appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Today · 09:12
  • Exactly What He Says (Quote) Marc Thiele

    Exactly what VFX Supervisor Marion Spates says here. […] I mean I hope everyone is excited as I am about what I do. The one thing I try to encoura…

    Today · 03:21
  • Polytropus Jeremy Keith

    Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey comes at just at the right time for me. I spent the last two years reading the Robert Fagles translation, finishing it just a few months ago. When I…

    Yesterday · 05:08
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    • Chíne tréile
  • The desire for something real Simon Collison

    Back in 2018, I was writing articles and speaking to tech crowds about an Internet of Natural Things, trying to convince them that there was an increasing desire to use…

    Two Days Ago · 18:00
  • Wrong Rob Weychert

    NoMeansNo, 1989, ★★★★★ Look, I’m not a conspiracy-minded guy, but a carefully coordinated effort by the international punk intelligentsia to keep me in the dark is the only ex…

    Three Days Ago · 09:55
  • Studio Notes #97 Dan Cederholm

    Summer Greetings, Friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🦈 A group of friends in Quincy, Massachusetts recreated the entire…

    Three Days Ago · 08:17
  • Diddit Gina Trapani

    Link: Diddit — A simple, shareable logbook for iPhone I’ll always be a sucker for great software to…

    Three Days Ago · 07:58
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    • A 2026 detour
  • Structure in Type Design John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts The legendary type designer Adrian Frutiger once described an epiphany he had: “When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added, but rather the white sheet…

    Three Days Ago · 07:42
  • Unforgetful Marco Arment

    I have ADHD. Probably.1 My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework, disappointing everyone around me, and being told by every adult that I was lazy, “just” needed t…

    Three Days Ago · 06:31
  • YULBBS Sean Coates

    It’s 2026 and I’m running a BBS* like it’s 1991. To avoid burying the lede on this: ssh yulbbs.via.sc (telnet also works); or https://yulbbs.via.sc/ in your browser. (I mentioned this on Mastod…

    Four Days Ago · 08:30

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