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“Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.” · URSULA K. LE GUIN

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

  • “Scientists have found that people are being... Jason Kottke

    “Scientists have found that people are being exposed to more toxins than previously known, and beyond damaging lungs, wildfire smoke may affect hearts, brains and other organs.” (Resear…

    Today · 14:34
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    • Ring of Fire in the Sky
    • How to make a good Star Wars movie for once ....
    • And also a trailer for season 2 of Star Wars: Ahsoka ....
    • Trailer for VisionQuest , the third leg of the...
    • In Bourgogne, they’ve been recording grape date harvests...
    • Post-pandemic vaccination rates of US kindergarteners...
    • Whoa, Columbia House (12 cassettes for 1¢) is finally...
    • The area known as Tornado Alley continues to shift...
    • “ Sand temperatures above 29°C now produce 95–99%...
    • 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...
  • Ebb, Meet Flow: Intrinsic Design in a Nutshell Jeffrey Zeldman

    In 2020, the gifted makers of websites at Clearleft shared methods to achieve fluid responsive design. “Utopian” web design was (and still is) their half-kidding name for this approach, which Appl…

    Today · 11:24
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    • For students who make websites
  • When The Boys Came Out To Play by John Mackel Jeremy Keith

    I went to plenty of great sessions when I was in Belfast. One of the best was during Belfast Tradfest, out at The Hatfield with Bríd Harper, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, and Michael Rooney. I ended…

    Today · 09:26
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    • Polytropus
    • Chíne tréile
  • The Quiet Grief of Adult Friendship Tina Roth Eisenberg

    “Friendship, has always depended on a certain irrational generosity. A willingness to waste time together magnificently. To listen to the same anxiety for the fifth time. To sit through silence.…

    Today · 04:28
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    • The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
    • Evil Wears a Top Hat
    • What Kind of Difference
    • Eclipse Viewers (1932)
  • Almost Invisible Rob Weychert

    David Allingham, 2010 I find that a terrible movie that broadcasts its amateur maker’s steep learning curve is usually more interesting than a terrible movie made by a professional for…

    Yesterday · 21:59
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    • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 8/15
    • Wrong
  • 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.…

    Yesterday · 09:14
  • 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…

    Yesterday · 03:21
  • 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…

    Three Days Ago · 18:00
  • 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…

    Four 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…

    Four 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…

    Four 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…

    Four Days Ago · 06:31

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