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

  • Emptying the Tabs… Jason Kottke

    Ok, we’re gonna go a little old school today. I’m talking the late 1990s and early 2000s, back before permalinks (sorry), RSS, and social media turned blog posts & tweets into their own…

    Yesterday · 10:12
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    • Dolly Parton and Kermit the Frog Sing Everyday People (1987)
    • In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s family is asking for...
    • RIP Dolly Parton, a gem and a hero. She died today at...
    • “Ultimately there are people who want to live, not...
    • “ At least 1-in-4 of all the people who have played...
    • More Fucked Today than Yesterday . “I keep wanting...
    • Flock banned Benn Jordan from their recent convention...
    • Target’s now-pulled children’s Halloween costume is so...
    • Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field...
    • Just quickly reupping this post to remind you things...
    • Meat proxy (noun) : “A person who forwards...
    • Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? “Any stream, from the...
    • Opinion columnist Karen Attiah won her arbitration...
  • Mandolino Jeremy Keith

    I try to see my friends Dan and Sue as often as I can. The problem is that I live in Brighton and they live in Baltimore (that’s Baltimore, Maryland not Baltimore, West Cork). We sometimes make i…

    Yesterday · 08:37
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    • Paddy On The Hardwood by Rus Bradburd
  • The hidden complexity of input fields: All the questions I ask before I trust it WonderProxy

    Input boxes are the foundation of many software functions. Login screens, search bars, fields connected to APIs, and other tools on the back end that the user never sees.…

    Yesterday · 04:20
  • Hype! Rob Weychert

    Doug Pray, 1996, ★★★½ The interviews get pretty repetitive in this rock doc about the post-“Smells Like Teen Spirit” feeding frenzy in Seattle, but they’re well worth sitting…

    Two Days Ago · 21:59
  • Events I Attend in the Second Half of 2026 Marc Thiele

    Like I did for the first half of the year, here is my list of events I attend from August 2026 on. Some of these I help to organise, some are run by…

    Three Days Ago · 02:02
  • Her Glamorous Life Jeffrey Zeldman

    Snow White—17 years old—didn’t come meowing for food when I entered the kitchen at 6 a.m. An hour later I found her lying motionless on the sofa. I stared until she moved, slightly, nestling her…

    Four Days Ago · 05:15
  • Multiple-column layout, rows, rules, and floats Rachel Andrew

    Recently implemented in Chrome are two of my top asks for CSS—the concept of rows in multiple-column layout, and gap decorations for rows and columns in grid, flexbox, and multicol. Rows (using colu…

    Four Days Ago · 04:05

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