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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • tweet Derek Sivers

    Fight Club: I liked it the first time years ago, but watching a second time when you already know the end reveal? Elevates it from good to great. So many brilliant details in the screenplay. What else…

    Today · 15:18
  • Water World Jason Kottke

    Water World, created by Seán Doran from imagery captured by a NASA/NOAA weather satellite, is a gorgeous, swirling, painterly portrait of the Earth’s dynamic atmosphere. Doran calls it…

    Today · 14:30
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    • The Secret to Winning on Jeopardy . “To win on...
    • Paul Brown’s iPod . This is a lovely remembrance &...
    • What Number Was Stephen Colbert Thinking Of?
    • This is impressive: an AI model has disproved an...
    • Three Hours of Unbelievable Moments From Nature, Narrated by David Attenborough
    • “US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola...
    • Trump Destroyed USAID. Now People Are Dying....
    • Free admission to Canadian national parks this summer!...
    • At Long Last, I Have Maxximized My Looks ....
    • What If Lock-In Doesn’t Matter So Much Anymore?
    • All the Star Wars Lightsaber Designs
    • My friend Adriana wrote about her story game based on...
    • How to Make a Living as an Artist
    • From Universe Today, an ongoing series of articles on A...
    • You Can Make an App for That . “The most important...
    • Our Mob Boss President
    • Mariame Kaba’s letter to young activists :...
    • A pep talk in the face of despair . “Things can...
    • Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who...
    • India’s Hottest District Shuts at 10 AM as Mercury...
    • New-to-me vocabulary: oneshotted , “a term that...
    • Cookie Queens
    • Interview with the guy behind the great Art But Make...
    • The Banality of the Video Podcast . “The sets,...
    • There’s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going…
    • Cucumbers used to be called “cowcumbers” ....
    • No reparations for Black Americans. No student loan...
    • On the heels of turning Orwell’s Animal Farm into a...
    • “Somewhere between ‘Let’s catch up...
    • The fake courtesy machine is a wooden hand-cranked...
    • Marcin Wichary on how to get more fun and utility from...
    • Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise . The Pudding...
    • “I have travelled all over the world in the last 30...
    • Watching an Art Conservator Restore a Damaged Painting
    • Marbles Squared is a puzzle game 30 years in the...
    • Ben Prunty has composed the soundtrack to a new game,...
    • Perhaps businesses are collecting too much data for...
    • Mike Monteiro on how to deal with your suddenly grown-up...
    • What’s Your Favorite Recipe?
    • I have always liked Steve Kerr, but I did not expect to...
    • Handy app: “Point your camera at anything (a dress,...
    • “In 2014, the Dutch scholar Hans Corneel de Roos...
  • 🔗 Just You Wait Rob Weychert

    For his 50th birthday, my buddy Chris Shiflett wrote a lovely post chronicling the ups and downs of his life in technology. We participate in tech in different ways but approach it with the same sp…

    Today · 10:25
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    • Delaware Shore
    • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 5/16
  • Creativity Tina Roth Eisenberg

    “Another word for creativity is courage.” – Henri Matisse…

    Today · 08:48
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    • Ragtime: Tiny Desk Concert
  • Just You Wait Chris Shiflett

    I turn 50 today. I feel incredibly lucky to have experienced these particular 50 years. I was born in 1976 — when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple, the year after Bill Gates dropped out…

    Today · 08:37
  • Brigid by Kim Curran Jeremy Keith

    I enjoyed Kim Curran’s debut novel, The Morrigan, so when I saw a copy of her brand new book in the local library, I snapped it up. Like The Morrigan, Brigid is modern retelling of Irish mytholog…

    Today · 08:33
  • Design Better AMA: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred Josh Clark

    Big Medium’s Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred got real in this AMA on the Design Better podcast with Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery: AI fatigue is real. Speed (over quality) is a race to t…

    Yesterday · 12:53
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    • A Great Design Gathering
    • Kirkus on Sentient Design: “Get It”
    • Reimagining the Mouse Pointer for the AI Era
  • 16 Years Flashforum Closed its Doors Marc Thiele

    This year, 16 years ago, I closed the doors of Flashforum.de. Good memories and somehow the start of what now is beyond tellerrand. Reply vi…

    Yesterday · 11:39
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    • I think the latest Apple Keyboard was verschlimmbessert
  • WonderSwitcher is now available for iOS and macOS WonderProxy

    Testing your site on a real iPhone used to mean fighting with proxy configuration buried in Wi-Fi settings, hunting down credentials, and re-entering server details every time you wanted to switch loc…

    Yesterday · 11:01
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    • Prevention is the highest form of testing: The value of zero bugs
  • Big AI & Design Systems Course updates! Brad Frost

    Chapters 1 & 2 of our AI & Design Systems Course are live! Our course now has over 16 hours of videos, which includes course lessons, community jam sessions, and other demonstrations. TJ,…

    Two Days Ago · 08:23
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    • Grief in the AI Age
  • La Pedra Go Club in Barcelona Cassidy Williams

    I visited a decades-old Go club in Barcelona!…

    Four Days Ago · 18:00
  • Establishing a weekly user interview routine Jonnie Hallman

    For the first time in years, I start performing user interviews again, and remember how valuable they can be.…

    Four Days Ago · 12:26

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