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

  • “For the first time, wind and solar generated more... Jason Kottke

    “For the first time, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas worldwide in April 2026.”…

    Yesterday · 14:33
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    • A lovely story by Mary H.K. Choi about her husband and...
    • From the New Yorker, a long and difficult-to-read report...
    • The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate ....
    • Nominations are open for this year’s Tiny Awards ....
    • Interesting question and resulting thread: have you...
    • The New Mister Rogers YouTube Channel
    • My Students Can’t Read . “There is a measurable,...
    • Yeah, I’ll read the hell out of a Wesley Morris profile...
    • Summer Fridays, Open Thread
    • Illustrated break-downs of how common objects work ....
    • “Descartes Against Humanity” and Other Games Designed by...
    • Chipotlai Max is an AI agent that runs on “stolen...
    • The Life and Death of Sports Fans
    • The official trailer for season three of Silo . Looks...
    • On this date in 2004, the Killdozer rampage took place ....
    • Jamelle Bouie: The cruelty is still the point of the...
    • We Are Manipulating the Weather Every Day
    • As time passes, efforts to document the Tiananmen Square...
    • “ Cameron’s World is a web-collage of text...
    • USPS Reissues Popular Mister Rogers Stamps
    • Ted Chiang is emphatic: LLMs are nowhere close to being...
    • Marjane Satrapi, author of the excellent Persepolis, has...
  • Tiny Awards Brad Frost

    This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web. The Tiny Awards exist because we thought it was important to shine a spotl…

    Yesterday · 12:27
  • Amsterdamming Jeremy Keith

    I’m heading to Amsterdam for CSS Day. It’s one of those events I try my best to get to every single year. I have no doubt that this year will be brilliant as usual. There’s another event the…

    Yesterday · 09:53
  • It doesn’t matter if it works Henry Desroches

    There are about a thousand and one debates about the ecology of AI, the ethics of AI, the governance of AI. As the technology advances, the debate with the slipperiest footing is on the actual efficac…

    Yesterday · 06:04
  • Remembering to have fun Jonnie Hallman

    After finding myself low on steam, I shift gears to another project to recharge my creativity while listening to a friend’s advice to have fun.…

    Two Days Ago · 22:00
  • Eighteen Eric Meyer

    The transition from phantom childhood to phantom adulthood feels like it could be a transition for us as well.…

    Two Days Ago · 15:16
  • Sprinter Van Phone Mount + Better CarPlay-Compatible Cable Situation Chris Coyier

    This is the stock look of my 2021 Sprinter van front console area: If it’s not obvious, there’s no great place for a phone. You’ve got the cup holders. Those are actually sorta worka…

    Four Days Ago · 16:49
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    • The New Van
  • Punk is the way. Greg Storey

    Though I know the answer already, my mind sometimes wanders and then wonders if the world is ever going to feel normal again. And the answer is always "nope." There's simply too much ch…

    Four Days Ago · 14:52
  • Lovely Idea: Speaker RSS Feeds – FFconf Marc Thiele

    I really am a big fan of having an archive of what happened throughout all the years of an event. Speakers, slides, videos, additional coverage and s…

    Four Days Ago · 06:20
  • Studio Notes #87 Dan Cederholm

    Hello, hello, Grand Beings. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🌵 As a longtime fan of the old Hilltop Steak House on Route 1 in…

    Four Days Ago · 05:00
  • Do I Have to Post More on Social Media to Grow My Agency? Dan Mall

    Almost every agency owner asks me this at some point: “Do I have to post more on social media to grow my agency?” No, you don’t. In fact, I discourage it for most agency owners. The instinct is…

    Four Days Ago · 05:00
  • The old typography is new again Elliot Jay Stocks

    Optical sizing is a method of setting type that feels appropriate to its context: more readable in long prose and more expressive at scale — a way of getting back qualities tha…

    Four Days Ago · 04:30
  • Remembrance of zeldman.coms past Jeffrey Zeldman

    Look back in anchor tags: a partial review of my site’s 31-year visual history before diving into the new design. The post Remembrance of zeldman.coms past appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents…

    The Other Day · 08:35
  • Making Stickers Jason Santa Maria

    I recently made some stickers for Loud Room and it turned out to be a bit of a journey trying out different vendors. I’m always asking people for recommendations, so I wanted to share my own for sti…

    The Other Day · 08:00

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