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  • Explorer? Being lost makes you fully present? The mystery of distance. Desire cherished instead of satisfied. Similar thoughts in this book Derek Sivers

    Explorer? Being lost makes you fully present? The mystery of distance. Desire cherished instead of satisfied. Similar thoughts in this book: sive.rs/book/GettingLost…

    Today · 13:32
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    • Interesting business book 'Alchemy' by Rory Sutherland about ideas that don't make sense in theory but work in practice
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 11/7 Rob Weychert

    🎬 Added to the film diary:Vampyros LesbosJesús Franco, 1971, ★★★PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PABlade RunnerRidley Scott, 1982, ★★★★FlowGints Zilbalodis, 2024, ★★★★Fear CityAbe…

    Yesterday · 22:00
  • Got Them Little Side Projects Moved to CodePen Hosting Chris Coyier

    I had my little Smashburgers in Bend website on Astro on Cloudflare Pages. While I 💜 both of those things, CodePen hosting is more than capable, and that’s obviously extremely fun and satisfy…

    Two Days Ago · 16:42
  • They found a chunk of Mars in the Sahara Desert. A recent... Jason Kottke

    They found a chunk of Mars in the Sahara Desert. A recent reveals that a rock found a few years ago in Mali is more than 4.1 billion years old and “has a mix of igneous minerals that tell…

    Two Days Ago · 15:00
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    • The Match Archive
    • An analysis of 59 studies (including a 24-year Danish...
    • “Are sperm counts declining? Are microplastics and...
    • We Have Star Wars at Home
    • From filmmaker Kevin B. Lee, a story about seeing Platoon...
    • A call for more “mindful underparenting” from...
    • KDO Search Now Available to Everyone
    • Bain Capital Acquires Tibetan Buddhism For $35 Million....
    • Anthropic has new rules for its Opus 5.5 model to “steer...
    • And in other news, the NY Times is trying to buy...
    • Salon, one of the last OG general interest web...
    • Video captured by Amy Yolland of three humpback whales...
    • Subvocal’s glasses turn your silent speech into text at...
    • Foursquare was recently acquired and co-founder Dennis...
    • Grocery Shopping With a Bow & Arrow
    • Paul Ford: “The web browser is very, very, very powerful...
    • Women who die postpartum often do so because they lose...
    • A growing list of brands to avoid because they are...
    • Stunning Image of Our Satellite-Choked Night Skies
    • I Thought I’d Left Authoritarianism Behind. “To anyone...
    • See You Thursday
    • How Human Civilization Began
    • Do you think you could write down the names of 3000...
    • “Our attention is all we have. And we already gave away a...
    • What’s causing this unusually long cloud on Mars?
  • Pseudo-pseudo-classes for maximum interactive demos! Dave Rupert

    Have you ever wanted to display all variants of a Button next to each other in your Storybook like your designer did in Figma? But then you come to a screeching halt when you realize :hover, :active,…

    Two Days Ago · 08:50
  • Studio Notes #109 Dan Cederholm

    Good Morning, Friendly Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🐆 Apparently I’m about a year late to this, but Cheetos…

    Two Days Ago · 07:43
  • Test Post Mark Boulton

    This is a test post. How does it look. Image above.…

    Two Days Ago · 07:19
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    • Let’s try another post to test
    • This is a test post.
  • A Beauty of a Lighter Tina Roth Eisenberg

    I only want to own objects that are beautiful and functional. This lighter by Craighill makes my heart sing.…

    Three Days Ago · 08:14
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    • Give Freely
  • Editing videos with Borumi, FFmpeg, and GitHub Copilot Cassidy Williams

    I generated 32 videos with just two recordings using the power of some really fun tooling!…

    Four Days Ago · 16:39
  • Rosin App Jon Hicks

    Qobuz Theme v1.5 Despite making Jacket app for myself, I'm still tinkering with my custom Qobuz theme, and for version 1.5 I'm presenting it a little differently. First of all, the changes Qobuz were…

    Four Days Ago · 10:15
  • How to test for missing form labels WonderProxy

    Imagine arriving on a website and tabbing to a form field. Instead of hearing "Search, edit, blank" or "Email address, required, edit, blank", your screen reader simply announces "edit field". You kno…

    The Other Day · 22:10

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