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

  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
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    • beyond tellerrand 🇩🇪
  • Nancy Friedman notes the decline in quality in movie... Jason Kottke

    Nancy Friedman notes the decline in quality in movie taglines. “As movies have become louder, flashier, and more expensive, their taglines have atrophied: they’re limp, lackluster, and…

    Yesterday · 14:49
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    • The 16th season of the Dissect podcast is a deep dive...
    • Bodega Cats of New York
    • A few years back, the Mini Cooper’s taillights were...
    • Oh my gosh, look at these tiny snow leopard cubs from...
    • The Astronomy Picture of the Day , in which the...
    • Project Plowshare: Nukes for Peace!
    • “ Here are some things that have been found in...
    • Historian Eric Cline, author of 1177 BC, explains how...
    • Hollywood’s World Map of California
    • Researchers have found that some aspects of sperm...
    • What Was the Very First Plant in the World?...
    • The Brennan Self-Balancing Monorail
    • I mentioned this book in a previous post but it deserves...
    • The People’s Clock: a Timepiece Made of People
    • The Great American GLP-1 Experiment . In the last few...
    • A rare event to capture on video: an underwater volcanic...
    • From a few weeks ago: Bush’s Tiny Desk Concert ....
    • Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose . “From a...
    • Two Japanese aquariums have released their 2026...
    • Vintage Pan-Am Luggage Tags
    • Fun trompe-l’œil graph paper drawings .
    • Don’t Just Replace Chavez — Rethink Monuments ....
    • The Testaments TV Series
    • Listen to the NYC Subway play some Train Jazz ....
    • The Engineer Guy Bill Hammack has written a book based on...
    • It’s Happening: More Signs of Life From Boards of Canada
    • If Every Congressman Facing Credible Rape Allegations...
    • Authoritarian Megalomaniacs Love Gaudy Buildings
    • This looks interesting: Quiche is a highly customizable...
    • “ The internet known within China is a very...
    • Now Online: a Treasure Trove of 1000s of Secret Concert Recordings
    • On the network effect of the weekend : “The...
    • A Collection of Transit Tickets
    • The Death of the Basic American Car . “Today,...
    • An AI bot created by Andon Labs is running its own...
    • “Gerontocracy has always thrived in undemocratic...
    • An interactive explainer on the physics of GPS ....
    • Media companies are increasingly blocking the Internet...
    • The Christophers
    • We love a slime mold around here. “From mottled...
    • This is incredible: Google Has a Secret Reference Desk....
    • The Crystal Skull
    • Great new Patrick Radden Keefe piece on a New Orleans...
    • Fred Again’s Tiny Desk Concert
    • Why Japan Has Such Good Railways . “Their system...
    • Rebecca Solnit: “ The United States is being...
    • Hungarian Opposition Ousts Viktor Orbán After 16 Years...
    • Interviews with five novelists (Jesmyn Ward, Joyce Carol...
  • Studio Notes #80 Dan Cederholm

    Good Morning, Good People. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. ♟️ I've had a very on/off relationship with chess. Lear…

    Yesterday · 06:32
  • Pete’s Presence Jeffrey Zeldman

    It was a spring that felt more like winter last week in New York; suddenly it feels like summer. After my air-conditioned bedroom, the living room and kitchen was like a walk-in oven. A weirdly yellow…

    Yesterday · 05:27
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    • The Courage to Stop
  • Emergent Strategy Dan Mall

    You spent months defining your positioning, your niche, your offer, and your messaging. So how did some of your best clients come from something you never planned? Legendary management thinker Henry…

    Yesterday · 05:00
  • PHP DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat Reset Character Matthew Weier O’Phinney

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    Two Days Ago · 09:30
  • Threat models Jeremy Keith

    People talk about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of large language models as though all tasks are comparable. But it strikes me that there are three broad categories of work that large language…

    Two Days Ago · 09:09
  • Albums app Jon Hicks

    In my big ass Music App post, I’d mentioned the iOS/iPadOS app Albums, but since the debut of the MacOS catalyst app, I'm due a revisit to see how it fits with my criteria. Art view, with UI eleme…

    Three Days Ago · 14:00
  • I don't want a screenshot of your Claude conversation Dave Rupert

    The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life and it’s beginning to have an impact on my general mood. Most of the time it’s well-intended; coworkers working through a…

    Three Days Ago · 09:17
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    • When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break
  • Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI Josh Clark

    Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI…

    Three Days Ago · 07:31
  • BTW № 5: Simply Syndicated Edition Jason Santa Maria

    © NASA 2026, from the Artemis II mission RSS is still one of the best opt-in relationships ever invented. Here are some selections from my subscriptions. Reciprocal RSS links pro…

    Four Days Ago · 09:15
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Gilway Paradox John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts While trawling ILT for this month’s highlighted typeface, I was struck immediately by the elastic quality and irregular kinetic form of Art Grootfontein’s 2025 Gi…

    The Other Day · 21:43
  • Adaptability, Curiosity, & Creative Breadth with Brendan Dawes Brad Frost

    Brendan Dawes is a brilliant multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and technologist. Just one of his many many many creative projects is working on the incredible Eno documentary (directed by on…

    The Other Day · 11:37
  • Moon Joy Tina Roth Eisenberg

    Moon Joy. I am here for it. Thank you NASA. These four humans fill my heart with so much hope and love.…

    The Other Day · 06:35
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    • Personal Encyclopedias
    • Red Lipped Bat Fish

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