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

  • 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…

    Today · 10:15
  • See You Thursday Jason Kottke

    I’m taking the day off from the site today — feeling crispy from a little too much work lately. Besides, everyone’s gonna be too busy huffing US midterm election results to pay any at…

    Today · 07:30
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    • What’s causing this unusually long cloud on Mars?
    • The soundtrack for Wipeout XL (aka Wipeout 2097) was...
    • 10 Years of Kottke.org Membership
    • Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data...
    • Simon Willison: The October Inflection Point for Vibe...
    • Arkivism is a search and visual discovery engine for...
    • Ted Chiang: “There’s no way to write fiction and...
    • Let’s get this out of the way: Olivia Colman will be...
    • Are contemporary technologies like GPS, phones, and AI...
    • Love the idea of a volta, a pivotal point. “The moment...
    • The Collectively Drawn World
    • Babe, wake up! New potato just dropped. It tastes like...
    • Trailer for season four of The Gilded Age, which started...
    • Readwise announces Readwise Books. “We’ve built Readwise...
    • The Ten Best Captain Picard Episodes of Star Trek
    • Great Art Explained: Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio....
  • 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…

    Yesterday · 22:10
  • beyond tellerrand Speaker Archive Marc Thiele

    Same as for the talks archive counts for the speakers list. And don’t forget: many of them have spoken multiple times. Otherwise it would be even l…

    Yesterday · 11:08
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    • beyond tellerrand Talk Archive
  • Write mo' Dave Rupert

    I decided not to do #NaNoWriMo this year. Part of that is because I’ve never done it. Never even attempted it. Don’t even want to. Writing a novel is a life goal of mine, but cramming it all into…

    Yesterday · 06:34
  • Making features generic in CSS Rachel Andrew

    CSS has two new positional alignment keywords as part of CSS Box Alignment Level 3: flow-start and flow-end. These are defined as aliases for the existing flex-start and flex-end keywords. Therefore,…

    Two Days Ago · 09:39
  • Palaces Of The Crow by Ray Nayler Jeremy Keith

    I really liked Ray Nayler’s The Mountain In The Sea. I also liked The Tusks Of Extinction. But reading those back-to-back gave me pause: At times it seems to relish in describing the worst tha…

    Two Days Ago · 07:30
  • Detour Rob Weychert

    🎬 Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945, ★★★★½ The very definition of lean and mean. 🖤 Tagged: November 2026, film diary, film and television, review, Edgar G. Ulmer Reply via…

    Three Days Ago · 19:59
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    • Listening: October 2026

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