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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
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    • beyond tellerrand 🇩🇪
  • If Every Congressman Facing Credible Rape Allegations... Jason Kottke

    If Every Congressman Facing Credible Rape Allegations Resigned, We’d Have No One Left to Govern the Country. “It’s naïve to imagine the government can continue to function without th…

    Yesterday · 15:21
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    • Authoritarian Megalomaniacs Love Gaudy Buildings
    • This looks interesting: Quiche is a highly customizable...
    • “ The internet known within China is a very...
    • Now Online: a Treasure Trove of 1000s of Secret Concert Recordings
    • On the network effect of the weekend : “The...
    • A Collection of Transit Tickets
    • The Death of the Basic American Car . “Today,...
    • An AI bot created by Andon Labs is running its own...
    • “Gerontocracy has always thrived in undemocratic...
    • An interactive explainer on the physics of GPS ....
    • Media companies are increasingly blocking the Internet...
    • The Christophers
    • We love a slime mold around here. “From mottled...
    • This is incredible: Google Has a Secret Reference Desk....
    • The Crystal Skull
    • Great new Patrick Radden Keefe piece on a New Orleans...
    • Fred Again’s Tiny Desk Concert
    • Why Japan Has Such Good Railways . “Their system...
    • Rebecca Solnit: “ The United States is being...
    • Hungarian Opposition Ousts Viktor Orbán After 16 Years...
    • Interviews with five novelists (Jesmyn Ward, Joyce Carol...
    • From Daphni (aka Caribou), a 7hr DJ set . 7 hours!
    • The trailer for Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the...
    • Ultimate Online Phreak Box . “This is a free...
    • A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT . Each...
    • An interview with Ronald Wayne , Apple’s forgotten...
    • Radiohead Covers Joy Division’s Ceremony
    • Oh wow, this is a trippy game inspired by MC Escher . My...
    • A short analysis of what makes Mark Antony’s...
    • Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank...
    • “Stalin’s task in building what Senior calls...
    • Charcuterie is a visual Unicode symbol explorer. Click...
    • Diary Comics From the 1940s
    • Well, this blows: FSG has shuttered their MCD imprint &...
  • BTW № 5: Simply Syndicated Edition Jason Santa Maria

    © NASA 2026, from the Artemis II mission RSS is still one of the best opt-in relationships ever invented. Here are some selections from my subscriptions. Reciprocal RSS links pro…

    Yesterday · 09:15
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Gilway Paradox John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts While trawling ILT for this month’s highlighted typeface, I was struck immediately by the elastic quality and irregular kinetic form of Art Grootfontein’s 2025 Gi…

    Two Days Ago · 21:43
  • Adaptability, Curiosity, & Creative Breadth with Brendan Dawes Brad Frost

    Brendan Dawes is a brilliant multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and technologist. Just one of his many many many creative projects is working on the incredible Eno documentary (directed by on…

    Two Days Ago · 11:37
  • When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break Dave Rupert

    When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and…

    Two Days Ago · 09:10
  • Moon Joy Tina Roth Eisenberg

    Moon Joy. I am here for it. Thank you NASA. These four humans fill my heart with so much hope and love.…

    Two Days Ago · 06:35
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    • Personal Encyclopedias
    • Red Lipped Bat Fish
  • Connecting the Logitech MX Creative Console to Elgato Lights Cassidy Williams

    I used the GitHub Copilot CLI to generate some scripts for me to control Elgato Lights with the Logitech MX Creative Console!…

    Three Days Ago · 18:00
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    • Deep Dish Swift 2026 recap
  • What does AI do to software? Josh Clark

    Benedict Evans surveys what AI does to software, and it certainly doesn’t kill it. He covers the familiar shifts: faster development, new AI-powered features, and likely disruption of incumben…

    Four Days Ago · 12:45
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    • AI is the Closest Thing to a Genie Lamp
    • Commit & Push: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred
    • Lean Stories: AI as Design Material
    • An Anti-AI Moral Stance?
    • This Is Running
    • Look Up from Your Tools: AI for Product over Production
  • Eating my own dogfood again Jonnie Hallman

    Now that I’m freelancing full-time, and using Cushion again, I’ve fallen in love with it all over again, but I also feel every rough spot.…

    Four Days Ago · 05:59
  • Studio Notes #79 Dan Cederholm

    Howdy, my friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🐥 I haven't watched the whole documentary yet, but this clip explaini…

    The Other Day · 07:37
  • Jimmy Carter was right Jeffrey Zeldman

    What Carter did in his speech was something rare in the annals of democratic government: he confronted the people with the truth—about his own failings, about the reality of the world around them, a…

    The Other Day · 05:17

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