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

  • West of England Design Forum 🇬🇧 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 12:00
  • Lionel Messi Bathing a Baby Lamine Yamal Jason Kottke

    These have to be some of the most remarkable sports photos of all time: a 20-year-old Lionel Messi bathing a five-month-old Lamine Yamal. Two of the best football players in the worl…

    Today · 11:36
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    • Ted Gioia : “Works like the Odyssey are...
    • Good interview with Craig Mod about how he uses LLMs :...
    • The Moist Towelette Online Museum . Live moist and...
    • The Types of People to Keep Around
    • 100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online ....
    • Robert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films...
    • Trump Dismantled a Federal Climate Website. These Women...
    • A short, hypnotic video by Matthew Wilcock of the music...
    • Swiss project proves the viability of solar panels...
    • Beautiful Hand-Drawn Guide to The Legend of Zelda
    • The LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project , tracing &...
    • On the Britishisms & grammar imported into American...
    • Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from...
    • If Other Jobs Were Like a U.S. Senator’s . “You...
    • “A star located about 1,300 light-years from Earth...
    • Digger
    • TIL about Fredkin’s paradox . “With this kind of...
    • The Universe of Short Film is an amazing site for...
    • Earth’s Holes
    • Ocean Vuong has a photograpy show opening at The...
    • When A.I. Is a Member of the Family . How a family of...
    • The Best Shots From the 2026 Aerial Photographer of the Year Contest
    • A list of the new foods on offer at the Minnesota State...
    • Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out...
    • Exploring NYC With Next Generation Skaters
    • Can we agree to pause the AI race? “If we can’t,...
    • This ancient Egyptian painter’s palette from 3000 years...
  • I made a Plex server Henry Desroches

    There’s a lot to like about Plex from a philosophical standpoint — it’s local-first software centered around sharing your favorite art with your friends. Plex hosts movies, TV, and music — med…

    Yesterday · 12:26
  • Write Like a Human Naz Hamid

    Collaborative writing is rewarding. In the past few months, I’ve been writing a lot. Not as much here, but for Aphera. Between our newsletter, blog, direct email feedback,…

    Two Days Ago · 15:00
  • “I will do.” Greg Storey

    Entitlement sure has come a long way, or so it seems. I remember my father telling me several times how spoiled my generation is—coming at me with sound bites he gleaned from work as if to star…

    Two Days Ago · 12:23
  • Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go Simon Collison

    There are some beautiful moments on Michael Cloud Duguay’s Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go album—a document of place, people, and old church organs. I’m married to a…

    Two Days Ago · 10:20
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    • The long after
  • Choosing Movies Chris Coyier

    Almost surely, if you totaled up the number of hours of movie watching I’ve done and the hours of TV show watching I’ve done, TV dwarves movies. It’s not a conscious choice; just how it shoo…

    Two Days Ago · 08:28
  • Lost time = Lost money WonderProxy

    The alert was concerning because it was for CPU usage by a sync worker. The usage graph showed a drastic increase starting late the day before. Unless many more users were suddenly much more active, s…

    Two Days Ago · 07:00
  • Seth’s Riff’s Tina Roth Eisenberg

    Seth’s Riff’s is a collection of kernels, notions and riffs from Seth Godin. What a treasure trove! GAH!…

    Two Days Ago · 04:10
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    • The Ability to Be Wrong
  • Folded between the pages. Ethan Marcotte

    While I was working on my latest redesign, I added a statement explaining how “artificial intelligence” is used on my website. And in a fit of pique, I slapped this line onto the end: I am…

    Three Days Ago · 22:00
  • Who Do I Talk To?: The Case for PHP Working Groups Ben Ramsey

    I speak at conferences and organize user groups, and I spend a lot of that time encouraging people to contribute to PHP and other open source projects. Inevitably, someone approaches me at an event an…

    Three Days Ago · 16:47
  • A Loving and Well-Loved Man Mike Davidson

    A couple of weeks ago, one of the most unique people in our industry passed away. A quiet man of incredible volume, Om Malik was the person whose voice traveled only a few feet but always filled the r…

    Three Days Ago · 12:07
  • Stalin decided what was good science. Millions starved. Jeffrey Zeldman

    What happens when leaders choose political expediency over science? The post Stalin decided what was good science. Millions starved. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Four Days Ago · 03:46

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