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“You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.” · FRED ROGERS

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

  • The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea... Jason Kottke

    The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea of a restaurant I’d never been to using a dossier on me to decide, say, where I should sit, what I was likely to order, even w…

    Yesterday · 11:44
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    • “US households are paying 62% more for drinking water...
    • Open Thread #Potato
    • “an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this...
    • The Flipbook of the Rings
    • An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995), courtesy of the...
    • Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window...
    • This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison....
    • The Winners of the 2026 International Pano Awards
    • “Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the...
    • The title of this video is The Fastest Downhill Run Ever....
    • Meet Prometheus, a Gift Link Search Engine
    • “A SpudCell can grow, copy its DNA, divide in two, and...
    • Bastardica is “a foundry for bastard web fonts. Mix,...
    • How did life on Earth arise? Three of the biggest...
    • NYC’s Fastest Bike Messenger (1985)
    • The Library Is Closed. Feel Free to Come In. “In...
    • Tiny People in a Big World is like a birdwatching guide,...
    • Link Loop is basically a 2D version of Portal. Looks fun!
    • Ambient Earth
    • “Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a...
    • Find the Place You Love. Then Move There. “The reward...
    • I remember this 90s TV commercial for 93.7 The Edge, a...
    • Why Do Some Places Just Feel Right?
    • New book from James Gleick about the history of the...
    • “Astronomers for the first time have identified a green...
    • The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300 Million Games
    • Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without...
    • Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through...
    • How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made
    • Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the...
    • NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds...
    • Do you believe in life after death? This is a great...
    • A Tiny 24 FPS E-Ink Game Boy Emulator
    • A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past...
    • Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and...
    • Hyperland, a Prescient 1990 TV Show by Douglas Adams
    • Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours,...
    • Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from...
    • Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Consequence of Donald Trump
  • The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon Jeremy Keith

    This is an infuriating book. So much so that I didn’t finish it. Don’t get me wrong; I love the idea of The Pirate Queen. Telling the life story of Gráinne Ní Mháille is an excellent premise…

    Yesterday · 08:57
  • Bad at email Dave Rupert

    Good friends and family know this, but I am bad at email. Like chronically bad. If you have tried to email me, you know this too and you either never got a reply or received one 9-months later startin…

    Yesterday · 08:57
  • Studio Notes #107 Dan Cederholm

    Hello hello, Good People. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. ⚾️ An ode to the iconic typography of Topps trading cards fro…

    Yesterday · 05:00
  • What Is a Friend? Naz Hamid

    A spectrum of intimacy. A long time ago, I realized the concept of a best friend was flawed. I had “best friends” in high school, people I resonated with deeply and was…

    Two Days Ago · 20:53
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    • Absenter, Again
  • How to test for Clickjacking vulnerability WonderProxy

    Clickjacking is a cyberattack where a malicious attacker tricks an authenticated user by placing a layer over a link or a button to take you to a fake site embedded inside the real one or to authorise…

    Three Days Ago · 08:05
  • Figma Tips and Shortcuts Jeffrey Zeldman

    ℅ Automattic Design: The post Figma Tips and Shortcuts appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Four Days Ago · 05:33
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    • Now Playing: “Side Two”
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Dez Bollardian John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts At long last, I’ve found a newly conceived typeface that allows me to be accessible and expressive all within the same family. This is a face that can be demonstr…

    The Other Day · 19:16

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