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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
  • The AI hater’s guide to code with LLMs . This is... Jason Kottke

    The AI hater’s guide to code with LLMs. This is an interesting and thoughtful read.…

    Today · 13:32
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    • Recently released: Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing...
    • A molly guard is a safety cover that you need to move...
    • Polar explorer and scientist Felicity Aston shares her...
    • Food Is Love is a collection of essays about “how...
    • 14-year old Miles Wu recently won the top prize at a...
    • The 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century...
    • Comments Are Back On
    • Fun fact of the day: at the height of his quadruple axel,...
    • If you haven’t seen this or heard about it (or even...
    • Building a Lego-Powered Submarine
    • Spider-Noir is an upcoming live-action series starring...
    • The Track
    • Fun word search game from Slate: Pears . (I love any...
    • “ ‘CEO said a thing!’ journalism...
    • “Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive...
    • The Origins of One of the Most Beloved Video Games of...
    • Michelle Zauner (Crying in H Mart) on the 30th...
    • “It’s Fine If I Suck Sometimes”
    • “Any serious push to account for the actions of...
    • When Gmail was released as a public beta in 2004, it...
    • Actor-style headshots from the 80s of artists like...
    • Recently Discovered: an NYC Underground Railroad Stop
    • AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions ....
    • Zoning Out Is Good For You
    • In case you didn’t realize, ICE is still...
    • Fontemon is the world’s first video game in a...
    • The GOP goal of destroying the post office is coming...
    • Some Site Goings-On
    • Everyone’s living a life you know nothing about ....
    • “We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals...
    • A recommendation for a recent episode of the Heavyweight...
  • Studio Notes #71 Dan Cederholm

    Greetings, Warriors of the World. Here's issue #71 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🏄‍♂️ Today's visual meditation is a…

    Today · 05:00
  • Quick and dirty linting Stoyan Stefanov

    This post is another installment of the series dedicated to building sightread.org. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. I've been using TypeScript (actually JSDoc + tsc --noEmit) as my linter for a while. Well, T…

    Today · 00:38
  • The Morrigan by Kim Curran Jeremy Keith

    Every culture has its myths and legends. Greece has its gods and warriors. England has its stories of Arthur. Ireland has the Tuatha Dé Danann, The Ulster Cycle, and more. But while the Arthurian…

    Yesterday · 08:39
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    • Concertina
  • Forevergreen Gina Trapani

    Link: Forevergreen — Academy Award®–Nominated Animated Short Film | Now Streaming for a Limited Time…

    Yesterday · 05:00
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    • 3D printed whistles
  • Events I Attend in the First Half of 2026 Marc Thiele

    Here comes a round of events I attend in the first 6 months of this year. I bet there will be more, but those are the ones – in chronological order…

    Yesterday · 04:31
  • Passing script arguments to a Makefile target Matthew Weier O’Phinney

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    Two Days Ago · 09:41
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    • When docker buildx cannot resolve your container registry
  • Works in Progress Jeffrey Zeldman

    New tunes from an old maker. The post Works in Progress appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Three Days Ago · 06:52
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    • Claude Code for Designers
  • Angine de Poitrine – Mata Zyklek (Live on KEXP) Brad Frost

    The fact that A BUNCH OF PEOPLE have sent this to me makes me feel like I’m doing life right.…

    Four Days Ago · 20:36
  • Principles of Great (Accessibility) Work Derek Featherstone

    Thoughts and reflections on some principles that help create conditions for great accessibility work…

    Four Days Ago · 20:07
  • Land of the offended. Home of the outraged. Greg Storey

    I watched yesterday’s sports match at a sports bar. Specifically in a reserved seat at the bar in front of a gigantic OLED screen. I’m in Vegas which means that a good portion of the sea…

    Four Days Ago · 18:29
  • More books on this subject Derek Sivers

    br { clear: both; margin: 2em 0 } figure { clear: both; margin-top: 4em } img { float: left; margin-right: 1em } figcaption { font-size: 1.2em } Nothing & Everything by Val N. Tine Awaken the Gian…

    Four Days Ago · 17:00
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  • Code has _always_ been the easy part Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature…

    Four Days Ago · 10:05
  • Magic Words Dave Rupert

    Skills are the newest hype commodity in the world of agentic AI. Skills are text files that optionally get stapled onto the context window by the agent. You can have skills like “frontend design”…

    Four Days Ago · 09:03

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