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“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” · HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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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
  • “What if we taught students to use AI critically,... Jason Kottke

    “What if we taught students to use AI critically, rather than insisting they ignore it or assume they’re using it to cheat?” asks college freshman Maximilian Milovidov. “Students wi…

    Today · 13:01
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    • 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 &...
    • These Are the People in This Neighborhood
    • Lots of great defecation physics here: “ 66 percent...
    • The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World...
    • SETI might be missing alien signals because...
    • “For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad”
    • The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of...
    • “If measles-mumps-rubella vaccination rates decline...
    • Director Rian Johnson (Knives Out, Poker Face) wrote the...
    • Earth’s gravity is lumpy . “The gravity in...
    • Big Tuskers
    • This is kind of amazing: World Monitor is a real-time...
    • Yes, let’s retire the restaurant monologue ....
    • From ProPublica, a database of financial disclosures...
    • Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies on HyperCard
    • Web game: list as many animals as you can in 1 minute...
    • The Four Rules for a Good Walk
    • Legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth :...
    • “The entire Sun oscillates in a globally coherent...
  • Untitled Chris Coyier

    The chances of macOS actually running an automatic update on my machines is super low. Even if I OK the “Update Tonight?” prompt, there is no way it actually goes through, because I’…

    Today · 09:54
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    • Mad CSS
    • Untitled
  • Testing browser support for `focusgroup` Jeremy Keith

    In my previous post, I mentioned that I’ve used the web install API in production. Specifically, I’ve used it on The Session. In order to do that, I had to register for the origin trial. I’ve…

    Today · 09:22
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    • Installing web apps
  • ⇾ 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…

    Today · 01:39
    1 more post
    • The Ensh*ttificator
  • 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)…

    Yesterday · 10:17
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    • No Signal
    • Molly Guard
  • Studio Notes #74 Dan Cederholm

    Grand Risings, my friends. Here's issue #74 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🚙 Seeing the illustration style of British artist, Tommy Spencer, mad…

    Three Days Ago · 07:45
  • Troika #60: One Footer in the Unfinished Troika Jon Hicks

    Something a bit special for episode #60! It's the first one to feature other humans, and it's a threesome. In the One Footer in the Grave group chat, Andy Clarke, Marcus Lillington and I had been disc…

    Three Days Ago · 04:00
  • Making art with CSS gradients and corner-shape and skew, oh my Cassidy Williams

    I combined some fun CSS techniques to make a little diving board drawing!…

    Four Days Ago · 17:00
  • About my book notes Derek Sivers

    At sive.rs/book I have a collection of my notes from the 420+ books I’ve read since 2007. This page answers questions about it. My notes are not a summary of the book! When I’m reading and…

    Four Days Ago · 17:00
  • My brother, the rhythmic conceptualist Jeffrey Zeldman

    Remembrance of beats passed. The post My brother, the rhythmic conceptualist appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Four Days Ago · 05:45
  • Socialize the Plan Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    On AI and code review. Anyone who tells you they have this current moment in coding figured out is lying to someone (you or themselves). I’m going to keep sharing half-formed thoughts, and bits of…

    Four Days Ago · 04:45

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