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

  • Improving Conversation on KDO Jason Kottke

    I’ve been really pleased with how KDO comments are working lately — you folks have been lively, informative, fun, and pushing conversations beyond what I can individually manage. And th…

    Today · 22:08
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    • Prompting as Self-Portrait. “We need the blank page and...
    • Nearly 4M Records of Enslaved People in 20 Former British...
    • Why I Did Not Leave Nazi Germany in Time. “Many of us...
    • The Worst Way To Get To Space. I’d never heard the story...
    • All the Percents on Star Trek: TNG
    • My friend Matt was recently here for a week in Tokyo and...
    • Crossword Clues Where It’s Clear the Puzzle’s Creator Got...
    • Unseen Places: Rediscovering the Art of Observation by...
    • Every US Electrical Outlet Explained
    • Japanese book rave. A club in Tokyo spread carpets on the...
    • Weball allows you to roll up websites into a Katamari...
    • Is This Weird Quiz Game the Toughest F1 Video Game Ever?
    • I just went down a rabbit hole of incense seals. So cool.
    • Bill McKibben: I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We...
    • In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US,...
    • Chasing a Plane Across the Moon
    • Abolish Frat Culture. “This is going to be uncomfortable...
    • Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some...
    • Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life...
    • Bertrand Russell Shows How to Respond to Fascists Who Want to Debate
    • The Global Rise of Electoral Dictatorships. Is the U.S....
    • A short (too short?) video from Little White Lies on...
  • Goblin Village Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    I’ve started working on a game about being a frustrated and ineffectual manager of a goblin village. Most of the work is writing narrative snippet and then asking Claude to turn it into code. On the…

    Today · 19:00
  • Atomic Wall Clocks Chris Coyier

    Look at this clock. It’s a clock. I bought it once because I needed… a clock. It’s $29, which is totally reasonable for… a clock. Then it was Daylight Saving Time one day, and…

    Today · 16:37
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    • EPS?
    • Dave’s Rule of Life
    • Media Diet
    • Multipage
    • Justice for CSS
  • A nation of murder witnesses Rob Weychert

    When I first heard about Secretary of War Defense and human tribal tattoo Pete Hegseth’s announcement that the jihadist mass-murderer Nidal Hasan would be executed by firing squad and it would be…

    Today · 10:10
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    • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 10/10
    • Dr. Giggles
    • Dja Dja
    • Lady Terminator
  • All watched over by algorithms of loving grace. Ethan Marcotte

    Lord, but I’m tired of recommendation engines. Tired in my bones. I watched a video of a musician I listened to obsessively in high school, but not much since then. He was playing an old favo…

    Two Days Ago · 22:00
  • Craft & Work London 2026 – My Photos Marc Thiele

    Keir and Craig once more did a fantastic job in organising and running Craft & Work 2026 in London. A great day with lots of good conversations.…

    Two Days Ago · 03:23
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    • Apple Charger with C7 Figure‑8 Power Cord
  • Studio Notes #105 Dan Cederholm

    Hello, My Friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🪡 Came across Valeria Duque’s series of embroidered photographs and…

    Three Days Ago · 08:35
  • Exile on Silicon Valley Naz Hamid

    The golden window of tech may have expired. In 2010, I came across a video of Mick Jagger being interviewed (text version here). It was for a re-release of Exile on Main Str…

    Four Days Ago · 21:35

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