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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
  • Mentioned this in passing a few months ago, but wanted to... Jason Kottke

    Mentioned this in passing a few months ago, but wanted to remind you that The Art of Star Wars: Andor is coming out in about a week. Looks great.…

    Today · 14:08
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    • Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice?...
    • How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans...
    • Lifts in Film : a collection of movie & TV scenes...
    • Gerrymandle is a daily game where you “draw electoral...
    • Kelly Hayes interviews Rebecca Solnit . “There is...
    • Cow Trip: A Retired Dad Agrees to Rescue a Baby Cow
    • Tesla Launches New Model Of Explosions . “What’s...
    • How We’ll Fight the Platform War Against Big AI ....
    • Not surprising to KDO readers and I don’t really know who...
    • Yet another unsurprising article about how bigger SUVs...
    • Room Tone
    • Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops...
    • Some Great Deals on Tech Stuff
    • Brexit vote: 10 years on . “‘Absolute...
    • I love this playable 3D-rendered reel-to-reel player...
    • Step into a virtual Criterion Closet . “A walk-in...
    • Scientists have found evidence of mass death due to the...
    • A long oral history of Steven Spielberg and his career ....
    • Meet the Man Behind the Most Beautiful Books in the World
    • The trailer for Klara and the Sun , directed by Taika...
    • AI Economics for Dummies . “The Wall Street...
    • Great piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates on how “the portrait of...
    • A new seismic phenomenon: seismic waves from the 2011...
    • America vs Europe: Two Ways to Build a City
    • Are You in the Weights? “LLMs encode their...
    • Human brains were not designed to deal with an endless...
    • “Henry v Lalas Is the World Cup’s Most Compelling Battle”
    • This is probably the definitive post about web browsers...
  • Finding curated public domain images Dave Rupert

    Xavier de Maistre in an armchair, displaying his “book of discoveries” (Veyssier, 1860) Every so often I like to include a public domain image in a blog post. I’m fond of the woodblock and…

    Today · 06:05
  • Fade to Blue Naz Hamid

    Redesigning as a method of interrogation. Okay, okay, okay. I did it again. Sometimes you design a thing, or redesign it, or evolve it, and you think you're there. But this…

    Yesterday · 20:52
  • The bug that finally convinced me I’d never be able to find all the bugs WonderProxy

    Ever since this bug, I’ve been less interested in striving for perfection. Instead, I try to invest in being prepared to handle unexpected failures.…

    Yesterday · 07:00
  • The Distance between Deciding and Doing Tina Roth Eisenberg

    “The distance between deciding and doing is the single most reliable predictor of whether your life will be extraordinary or ordinary. Not talent, not circumstances, not even the quality of your…

    Yesterday · 05:00
    7 more posts
    • The Real Revolution
    • My Retro TVs
    • MediSearch
    • Art by Luke St Leger
    • Infinite
    • Levels of Agency
    • Flawed and Complex Human
  • V7: Backfilling metadata Rob Weychert

    Six thousand tweets. Ten months. One taxonomy. Last week? Not my favorite week. My dog injured her leg while playing with other dogs in the park. My basement needed some emergency masonry w…

    Two Days Ago · 20:10
    3 more posts
    • Eno
    • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 6/20
    • Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story
  • Hello 1403 Vintage Mono Delve Fonts

    Jeff Kellem and I met at TypeCon in 2015, where at one point he informally shared a type specimen of a work in progress, which would become “1403 Vintage Mono”. The typeface design immediately f…

    Two Days Ago · 15:36
  • Find a new role - worksheet Lara Hogan

    Almost everybody I know is doing some math on longevity in their current role. Whether it’s moral math (should I go work for a place that’s doing more good in the world, despite it being less mone…

    Three Days Ago · 18:00
  • The Dice — 046 Greg Storey

    American Soccer Jon Tesh, get Paleolithic, I/O function for the soul, offline when cloudy, four hands holding light, blink tag forever, and a new Olympic bar.…

    Three Days Ago · 09:45
  • Paris and Épernay Simon Collison

    Photos from a few days in Paris and a short stay in Épernay: great food and fine fizz, record shop cats, showcase sumo, la Coupe d…

    Three Days Ago · 08:00
  • The Giant Test Kitchen Where Cooks Battle A.I. Slop Josh Clark

    The New York Times explores the test kitchens of Big Medium’s longtime client People Inc. to explain the how and why of creating tons of original recipes to counter an onslaught of AI slop. W…

    Four Days Ago · 06:47

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