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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
  • A playable CSS-only Super Mario Bros game . Wow. Jason Kottke

    A playable CSS-only Super Mario Bros game. Wow.…

    Today · 14:00
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    • A generator for VHS slipcovers, cassette tape inserts,...
    • The Delta Air Lines Seatback Chess Bot Will Destroy You
    • What does it feel like to be struck by lightning?...
    • Trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day . I like that Tom...
    • The Fascinating Engineering of the Titanic: How the...
    • Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing...
    • Riding the Subway to Coney Island in 1987
    • Jamelle Bouie says the SAVE Act will take us back to Jim...
    • “This is an interactive story about In Vitro...
    • The Mysterious Redditor Who’s Changing the Way We...
    • Vertical Societies
    • Twin adventurers are cleverly testing modern vs....
    • The teaser trailer for Dune: Part Three . I am...
    • Extreme Macro Photos of Insect Wings . Hundreds of...
    • Planets and Bright Stars ID Chart
    • Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity . “You...
    • Battery prices continue to fall . “Lithium-ion...
    • “The US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster...
    • Gorgeous: rural Kyoto in the heavy snow .
    • Gullible, Cynical America . “They’ll insist...
    • “In today’s new Gilded Age, the 900-plus...
    • The Holocaust History Podcast : “In this episode,...
    • The Louvre has the Mona Lisa. Here’s what other...
    • The 20 Best Food Scenes in Movies . Ratatouille, Big...
    • Tiny Puppet Sound
    • “Pay enough, and you can jump to the front of the...
    • “This Is Not The Computer For You”
    • The Trump regime is deliberately destroying the...
    • KDO: 28 Years Later…
    • For the first time in awhile, copies of two lost...
    • The Great Friendship Flattening . “I amass bits of...
  • I redesigned my website without touching my keyboard…all while painting a mural Brad Frost

    On Friday night, I needed a break from screens, so decided to work on a bathroom mural that our family has been chipping away at for the last 4 years. But a lot was on my mind, so made the decisio…

    Today · 13:54
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    • Fine Specimens by Elliot Jay Stocks
  • Meets Style Sheets Chris Coyier

    I’ve accepted an invitation to speak at Smashing’s (Online) Conference Meets Style Sheets. It’s free on Wednesday, May 6th. I named my talk In-N-Out Styling. Long time CSS evangelist…

    Today · 09:47
    1 more post
    • Kermit Roosevelt
  • A Fisherman Of The Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin Jeremy Keith

    When I was summing up my reading habits in 2022 I said: I think the lesson this year is: you can’t go wrong with Octavia E. Butler or Ursula K. Le Guin. I stand by that. But maybe I’d reco…

    Yesterday · 10:22
    1 more post
    • That was Web Day Out
  • Return to Tokyo, Part 1 Simon Collison

    I’ve split my summary across three posts, and this roundup details the first five days. Highlights included lots of sumo, a studi…

    Two Days Ago · 10:00
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    • Weird switches
  • Making a New Font from Found Lettering Dan Cederholm

    Last week, I spent our monthly Secret Livestream doing a live demo of starting a new font from scratch in Glyphs. We recorded it, and it's available for Secret Club members to watch whenever they…

    Two Days Ago · 09:55
  • Too Many Notes Jeffrey Zeldman

    Lately, in work conversations, I find myself fighting a lifelong tendency to provide way more context than is absolutely required. If you ask me to okay your work, for example, I may respond with an e…

    Two Days Ago · 04:28
  • Photos of Web Day Out 2026 in Brighton Marc Thiele

    I had a fantastic time. In Many ways. Here are my photos of Web Day Out 2026 in Brighton. (#WebDayOut) Reply via Email…

    Two Days Ago · 02:14
  • Timberborn 1.0, HTTP Lever, and Claude Code Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    Timberborn is very much my kind of game. Complex, cozy, climate change, water system design, beavers. (My friend Schuyler pointed out at one point that my preferred genre of game is “management sims…

    Three Days Ago · 12:27
  • “I Suppose You Would Call It an Interface for the User” Josh Clark

    Nicholas Evans on LinkedIn: I have enough skills in my Claude setup that I need something to help me remember them. Maybe we could call it a menu or something . And it would group things in a way…

    Four Days Ago · 14:56
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    • Why AI agents need to learn to read the room
    • SaaS Is Dead?
    • The Shape of the Thing

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