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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
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    • A book! A book tour! A book tour newsletter!
    • Issue 050: Fine Specimens is out today
  • Missed this earlier in the week: The Tournament of Books... Jason Kottke

    Missed this earlier in the week: The Tournament of Books is underway! “Every March, the Tournament of Books is a month-long battle royale among the year’s best novels.”…

    Yesterday · 18:35
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    • This photo of an Icelandic glacier is really something.
    • The People Who Shun Super-Popular Pop Culture ....
    • There are at least 60 Pizza Hut Classics (red roofs,...
    • Africa (Toto) But It Lists Every Country in Africa
    • Steve Scherer was a Reuters’ bureau chief in...
    • Wow, KDO pal and explorer Ariel Waldman has her own show...
    • Georg Cantor is celebrated for revolutionizing...
    • “ 8 in 10 AI chatbots were regularly willing to...
    • Jamelle Bouie Interview on Work Is Four Letters
    • Draw your own constellations .
    • The Baskerville Punches
    • Amount Of Water Man Just Used To Wash Dish To Be Prize...
    • Syndicates of Capital
    • Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin was the first person to go to...
    • Another recent HyperCard discovery (that isn’t...
    • “Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues...
    • Ghost Elephants
    • Github’s uptime lately seems…..concerning?
    • “Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported...
    • The Shape of Paris
    • The Modern Times cafe moved to a pay-what-you-want model...
    • “A group of runners starts jogging around a...
    • Jay Graber is stepping down as CEO of Bluesky to...
    • “What if we taught students to use AI critically,...
    • New web game that takes 2 min to play (and perhaps a...
    • Gugusse and the Automaton
    • GPS jamming and spoofing is becoming commonplace in war...
    • The fish doorbell in Utrecht is back for another season!...
    • The Hidden Hope in the Darkness
    • The NY Times went back through a century of...
    • Dozens of former employees of Noma tell of abuse &...
  • I was inconsiderate but now I’m everywhere Derek Sivers

    When I was in the music business, there was a record producer who lived in New Jersey, but refused to come into New York City. Anyone that wanted to meet with him had to drive all the way down to his…

    Yesterday · 18:00
  • Untitled Chris Coyier

    Jerod Santo: After 13 years, 1042 podcasts, 452 newsletters, and countless friends made along the way… it’s time to say goodbye to The Changelog. I shipped my final News last Monday and Adam s…

    Yesterday · 08:22
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    • Claude is an Electron App
    • Untitled
  • A web font strategy Jeremy Keith

    The Session has been online in some form since the late 1990s. That’s long before web fonts existed. To begin with, Times New Roman was the only game in town if you wanted serif type on a website…

    Yesterday · 08:17
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    • Testing browser support for `focusgroup`
    • Installing web apps
  • A Designer’s Thoughts About This Moment in AI Brad Frost

    I was walking my dog in the woods and decided to share my thoughts about the state of AI and the tension between the trajectory of AI companies and the designers/creators/makers of the world who are…

    Three Days Ago · 17:05
  • 🔗 I was at a funeral today and felt all the… Rob Weychert

    I was at a funeral today and felt all the appropriate funeral feelings but I also could not stop thinking about Coffin Flop 🔗 Go to this link Tagged: March 2026, pe…

    Three Days Ago · 14:31
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    • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 3/7
  • ⇾ Congrats to my Friend Gavin Strange for 25 Years of Jamfactory Marc Thiele

    Gavin Strange celebrates 25 years of creating under the name of Jamfactory. Wow. And Yay! I’ve been celebrating as of late, as at the start of the…

    Three Days Ago · 01:39
  • Protocol Cards Tina Roth Eisenberg

    Protocolcards.com is a digital deck of evidence‑backed nervous system “protocols” you can pull up when you don’t know what to do with yourself. (via Cool Tools)…

    Four Days Ago · 10:17
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    • No Signal
    • Molly Guard

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