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  • OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home. Small... Jason Kottke

    OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home. Small robot servers in this Japanese bar are controlled by people who can only work from home because of disability or illness.…

    Today · 14:18
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    • The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
    • Don’t Cook That: a collection of real recipes that you...
    • So Many Amazing Control Rooms
    • The Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism. “What’s this middle bit?”...
    • “Influencers are the private equity of culture: draining...
    • Prince Was One of the First Players of The Oregon Trail
    • A “Kelvin wave” powered by El Niño will soon raise sea...
    • The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault...
    • The best multi day hikes in the world. “As an avid hiker,...
    • Lobster is Lobster: a language guessing game. “Lobster is...
    • Ooh, Mestra is a new short story from Madeline Miller...
    • Map of the Lighthouses of the World
    • Looks like Every Frame a Painting is ramping up again!...
    • Amazon is releasing some new Kindle models, including a...
    • A raw, revealing interview with an 80-year-old Sylvester...
    • A 15-minute tour of former NFL coach Mike Tomlin’s...
    • You can destroy kottke.org if you want. Or any other site!
    • Ominous Thunderstorm Rolling Across the Fields
    • Eternal Family is a media service that shows “a...
    • Blackbird Spyplane’s Jonah Weiner on his past career as a...
    • “There are more self-storage facilities in the U.S. than...
    • The “Insane” Cinematography of Pride and Prejudice
    • The Tell, a very long read about Thomas Goldstein...
    • “Sky burial is a funeral practice in which a corpse is...
    • Craig Mod made a cool mini-site cataloging all of the...
    • On The Joy Of Ownership
    • Manchester City guilty over Premier League charges after...
    • Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket....
    • Kim Tschang-Yeul, Water Drops
    • The death of web development education. “The income from...
    • Brent Simmons on how using the stock Mac UI isn’t the...
    • What’s On Your To-Do List?
    • The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris....
    • On commodified, automated intelligence. “If any of these...
    • The MN Stolen Neighbors Quilt
    • In the wake of her divorce, Curtis Sittenfeld revisits...
    • OpenAI isn’t going to release its newest model because...
    • This American Life has a whole episode with Nikole...
    • Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of...
  • Studio Notes #104 Dan Cederholm

    Howdy, Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. At the risk of celebrating too much, I realize #104 means this little newsletter started…

    Today · 05:00
  • Accessibility and the new model of the internet Cassidy Williams

    The internet is changing! Accessibility is getting better! And it's also weird!…

    Yesterday · 13:41
  • Listening: September 2026 Rob Weychert

    🎧 My most-played music for the month Top artists Artist Plays Fugazi 92 Carla dal Forno 65 Sade…

    Two Days Ago · 21:59
  • More than words Rachel Andrew

    While I’ve done a lot of reference documentation writing, my favourite type of work is writing tutorials and “how to” content. I enjoy the challenge of understanding a technology and…

    Two Days Ago · 12:27
  • Experience with Nectar Beds Chris Coyier

    I recently bought a bed setup from Nectar. (This is not an ad; I just prefer linking to things.) I needed a quick setup for a guest room, and an online ad showing the no-hardware bamboo bed frame caug…

    Two Days Ago · 09:28
  • Twenty five years of writing on adactio.com Jeremy Keith

    On this day, twenty five years ago, I wrote my first journal entry on this website. Twenty five years! A quarter of a century! That’s a significant portion of the lifetime of the World Wide Web i…

    Two Days Ago · 07:06
  • How to test a cookie banner that behaves differently in every country WonderProxy

    If you are shipping an international app, then the cookie field is not just another functional component or UI element, but a deep and dynamic feature.…

    Three Days Ago · 22:30
  • llms.txt: agent-optimization wishful thinking Stoyan Stefanov

    Can't remember where I stumbled upon a SEO-type guide that was suggesting agent-optimization via a robot.txt-like file llms.txt which lives in the web root and helps agents use your site. Perfect, I t…

    Three Days Ago · 20:09
  • My Glamorous Life: in Which I am a Target Jeffrey Zeldman

    As I limped home from Physical Therapy, a man walking in the opposite direction suddenly planted himself directly in front of me and slammed me in the head with a heavy bag. It was a cloth bag, like a…

    Three Days Ago · 13:09
  • Viva Las Here. Greg Storey

    Without an announcement or a decision, really, I used the sale of my home and the flurry of events that followed as an excuse to walk away from just about everything. Not permanently, mind you, and it…

    Three Days Ago · 10:52

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