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

  • West of England Design Forum 🇬🇧 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 12:00
  • The Dice — 046 Greg Storey

    American Soccer Jon Tesh, get Paleolithic, I/O function for the soul, offline when cloudy, four hands holding light, blink tag forever, and a new Olympic bar.…

    Today · 09:45
  • Paris and Épernay Simon Collison

    Photos from a few days in Paris and a short stay in Épernay: great food and fine fizz, record shop cats, showcase sumo, la Coupe d…

    Today · 08:00
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    • The Major Oak is dead
    • David Hockney
  • The Giant Test Kitchen Where Cooks Battle A.I. Slop Josh Clark

    The New York Times explores the test kitchens of Big Medium’s longtime client People Inc. to explain the how and why of creating tons of original recipes to counter an onslaught of AI slop. W…

    Yesterday · 06:47
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    • Sinceerly: AI to Mess Up Your Writing
  • Studio Notes #89 Dan Cederholm

    Hello there, Esteemed Subscriber of Newsletters. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🖨️ Designer and printmaker, Scott Bom…

    Two Days Ago · 05:00
  • A workaround for hiding empty slots in Chromium Dave Rupert

    Named slots are one of web components’ biggest superpowers ✨. Imagine a Button component with an optional icon; in Web Components we don’t need a separate Button and IconButton, a single Button…

    Three Days Ago · 22:57
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    • Spoons by Sam
  • The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books... Jason Kottke

    The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought. “It is a well-known feature of civil society that nervous middle managers often act far more radic…

    Three Days Ago · 15:54
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    • Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over...
    • Monty Python: The Philosophers’ Football Match
    • “The prevailing emotions among scientists right now...
    • The Founding Story Behind Japan’s Oldest Whisky Maker ....
    • Supermountains, the Boring Billion, and Their Connection to Life on Earth
    • Due to FIFA’s poor security practices, this person...
    • Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has given away half a...
    • Inspired by Ukraine, and Worried by China: Taiwan...
    • Assume You Will Be Hacked . “As AI tools have...
    • Why Lionel Messi is a genius on the football pitch .
    • Watch Baseball Games in Realtime in 8-Bit View
    • Full set of Underworld playing live at EDC Las Vegas...
    • A digital clock where the numbers are made from dozens...
    • Book 1 of the Iliad, Read in Ancient Greek
    • The Black Jeopardy Misses YouTube channel catalogs just...
    • Two Huge Collections of Leonardo’s Codexes Digitally Reunited After 400 Years
    • A searchable archive of the almost 5000 TV episodes that...
    • How Errol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line Solved the Crime
    • Andrea Pitzer writes about the forced labor happening in...
    • Proposed UI rule of thumb : “If I take a...
    • Is this the sloppiest AI slop video of all time? The...
    • If I lived in LA, I would go to this concert at the...
    • Disclosure Day surely sets a world record for the number...
    • Walter White’s Big Hat
  • Stories Of Ireland by Brian Friel Jeremy Keith

    This is a collection of short stories by one of Ireland’s best playwrights. I think you can tell that these stories were written by someone who’s at home with the stage. The dialogue really shi…

    Four Days Ago · 13:18
  • Underdubbed Jeffrey Zeldman

    When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbin…

    Four Days Ago · 07:04
  • In situ Syntax Highlighting in macOS Applications Like Keynote Eric Meyer

    If you do code-heavy talks in Keynote and want to syntax highlight the code, this might be for you.…

    Four Days Ago · 07:03
  • How You Get the Mentos into the Diet Coke Chris Coyier

    Did you think this was gonna be some grand metaphor blog post? Nope. You probably know: if you put Mentos in Diet Coke, it makes the carbonation go crazy and fizz shoots out of the bottle. It’s…

    The Other Day · 15:18
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  • Mini-apprenticeships with master artists in their studios, worldwide Tina Roth Eisenberg

    VAWAA makes my heart sing. Imagine traveling to spend time with an artist, where they spend time teaching you their craft. In their home. Their studio. Mini-Apprenticeships with master artists. I love…

    The Other Day · 12:09

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