Chris Shiflett

  • Home
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • About

Photo Location

Frigid Air Pass, CO
39.0536° N
107.0203° W

“The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.” · LYNNE TRUSS

Site Reader

  • Links

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

  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • Make Way for Beavers Jason Kottke

    A Tube station in West London used to have a flooding problem. Instead of opting for an expensive reworking of the landscape via reservoir & levee, local officials reintroduced a family o…

    Yesterday · 15:30
    17 more posts
    • American Wealth, Sliced Up
    • As part of the Ocean Census project, “scientists...
    • Caught In Joy: Music for Flow, Rest, and Reset
    • A recent study of 2.5M scientific papers found ~146,900...
    • To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant . “If a...
    • “Observe the moth in its monumental fight for life,...
    • Going Focaccia Crazy
    • My Son’s Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon ....
    • The first-ever Enhanced Games (open to those using...
    • Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
    • 250 to 250. We Are America.
    • Tenderly Tracking My Husband . “Knowing when to...
    • Great title for a book: Fascist Yoga . “Ever...
    • Pinterest Has Become Unusable . “When I started...
    • Stephen Colbert Hosts Only in Monroe
    • An unusual new-to-me animal: the aardwolf . It’s a...
    • Essential summertime reading: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like...
  • Did your editor font go default serif on WordPress 7.0? Chris Coyier

    Mine did. Like this: I guess WordPress 7.0 assumes you are using a theme.json file these days. I’m not doing that yet on any of the sites I work on. If you want to embrace that future, you could…

    Yesterday · 08:39
  • The quirky little bug that taught me a valuable testing lesson WonderProxy

    I don’t know if it would even be relevant today, I suspect it is, but very rare if it occurs. But it did make me think differently about filling in fields. And it was so odd that my quirky little bu…

    Yesterday · 08:00
  • A Non-Special Goods Sale Dan Cederholm

    I like to make physical goods that feature our non-physical typefaces. Sometimes we put those goods on sale. Today is one of those days. It's not a special day. But it's a day where everythi…

    Yesterday · 06:00
  • Building an MCP Server for My Lab Chris Shiflett

    I’ve had a ~/local directory full of projects for as long as I can remember. I have my own ~/local/bin of command-line tools I’ve made over the years, and individual projects live in ~/local/{proj…

    Yesterday · 00:00
  • Promoted Simon Collison

    Celebrations in Market Square this afternoon. A rare moment of joy for us long-suffering Notts County supporters: outplaying the Beckham-owned Salford City FC at Wembl…

    Two Days Ago · 12:00
    1 more post
    • It’s always been culture
  • How I've been using voice mode with AI Derek Featherstone

    Six patterns from 80 voice-mode conversations, how my use shifted from quick hits to structured huddles, and the habit I'm encoding into accessibility tools.…

    Two Days Ago · 11:00
  • Gaeltacht cois Tamaise 2026 Jeremy Keith

    Bhí me i Londain an deireadh seachtaine seo caite mar gheall ar an Gaeltacht cois Tamaise. Cúpla lá iontach ba ea iad! Bhí na ranganna ar siúl Dé Sathairn agus Dé Domhnaigh, ceithre huaire a…

    Three Days Ago · 10:02
  • Craft Is Not Culture Naz Hamid

    A time, a place, and humans. Let’s take a moment to consider the font, Instrument Serif. Created by the Portland-based design agency Instrument for their own use — along…

    Four Days Ago · 17:42
  • Required reading: “The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything” Jeffrey Zeldman

    Cameron Cummins-Smith’s grand unifying theory connects the far right’s seemingly disparate obsessions—from trans panic and great replacement theory to anti-feminism and white birth-rate anxiety…

    Four Days Ago · 08:48
    1 more post
    • Lest we forget
  • PHP Tek: A Homecoming Ben Ramsey

    PHP Tek always feels like a homecoming. No matter how much time passes between conferences, or between the person I was the last time I attended and the one I am now, walking into that hotel and findi…

    The Other Day · 22:16
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 5/23 Rob Weychert

    Added to the film diary:Cry-BabyJohn Waters, 1990, ★★★★ Tagged: May 2026 Reply via email Shop discount for RSS subscribers: I make art and zines and art zines. Visit…

    The Other Day · 22:00
    1 more post
    • 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
  • A simple clustering algorithm for lists Cassidy Williams

    I nerd-sniped myself deeply when sorting baby toys and came up with a fun pattern for doing so!…

    The Other Day · 18:00

© 2000–2026 Chris Shiflett.

RSS Feed Bluesky Mastodon LinkedIn