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  • Absenter, Again Naz Hamid

    My first domain, 26 years on. I bought absenter.org in 2000. It was my first domain, after a few years on Geocities and LiveJournal. The real ones had real domains. Back the…

    Yesterday · 20:53
  • Meet Prometheus, a Gift Link Search Engine Jason Kottke

    Sometime in the past few years, media sites like Bloomberg, The Economist, The Atlantic, Defector, Talking Points Memo, and the NY Times started offering a way for subscribers to share payw…

    Yesterday · 18:49
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    • “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
  • 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…

    Yesterday · 08:05
  • Figma Tips and Shortcuts Jeffrey Zeldman

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

    Two 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…

    Three Days Ago · 19:16
  • Am in the Mountains Marc Thiele

    Don‘t expect any fast email reply this week. Am in the mountains. ☺️ Reply via Email…

    Three Days Ago · 00:21
  • Istanbul Tűrkiye - 12 days in 10 neighborhoods, meeting up with 30 local people for 60 hours of conversation Derek Sivers

    Istanbul Tűrkiye - 12 days in 10 neighborhoods, meeting up with 30 local people for 60 hours of conversation: sive.rs/met/at-16…

    Four Days Ago · 09:14
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 10/17 Rob Weychert

    💿 Added to the music library:I Know About YouIda, 1996Cadence Classics: Their 20 Greatest HitsThe Everly Brothers, 1985Repo Records, Philadelphia, PASuite No. 2 for Flute & Jazz Piano TrioCl…

    The Other Day · 22:00
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    • 35th Philadelphia Film Festival: Animated Shorts Program
    • Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology
  • Introducing our new podcast: Make Great Software with Chris & Gina Gina Trapani

    Gina Trapani Once upon a time, the web was mostly a text-based medium. If you were an introverted writer wh…

    The Other Day · 11:00

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