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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
  • Not surprising to KDO readers and I don’t really know who... Jason Kottke

    Not surprising to KDO readers and I don’t really know who still needs to hear this in June 2026 but: the US is in the middle of a “rolling coup” by ultra-conservatives who are “well…

    Today · 14:20
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    • Yet another unsurprising article about how bigger SUVs...
    • Room Tone
    • Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops...
    • Some Great Deals on Tech Stuff
    • Brexit vote: 10 years on . “‘Absolute...
    • I love this playable 3D-rendered reel-to-reel player...
    • Step into a virtual Criterion Closet . “A walk-in...
    • Scientists have found evidence of mass death due to the...
    • A long oral history of Steven Spielberg and his career ....
    • Meet the Man Behind the Most Beautiful Books in the World
    • The trailer for Klara and the Sun , directed by Taika...
    • AI Economics for Dummies . “The Wall Street...
    • Great piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates on how “the portrait of...
    • A new seismic phenomenon: seismic waves from the 2011...
    • America vs Europe: Two Ways to Build a City
    • Are You in the Weights? “LLMs encode their...
    • Human brains were not designed to deal with an endless...
    • “Henry v Lalas Is the World Cup’s Most Compelling Battle”
    • This is probably the definitive post about web browsers...
    • The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books...
  • The bug that finally convinced me I’d never be able to find all the bugs WonderProxy

    Ever since this bug, I’ve been less interested in striving for perfection. Instead, I try to invest in being prepared to handle unexpected failures.…

    Today · 07:00
  • The Distance between Deciding and Doing Tina Roth Eisenberg

    “The distance between deciding and doing is the single most reliable predictor of whether your life will be extraordinary or ordinary. Not talent, not circumstances, not even the quality of your…

    Today · 05:00
    7 more posts
    • The Real Revolution
    • My Retro TVs
    • MediSearch
    • Art by Luke St Leger
    • Infinite
    • Levels of Agency
    • Flawed and Complex Human
  • V7: Backfilling metadata Rob Weychert

    Six thousand tweets. Ten months. One taxonomy. Last week? Not my favorite week. My dog injured her leg while playing with other dogs in the park. My basement needed some emergency masonry w…

    Yesterday · 20:10
    3 more posts
    • Eno
    • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 6/20
    • Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story
  • Hello 1403 Vintage Mono Delve Fonts

    Jeff Kellem and I met at TypeCon in 2015, where at one point he informally shared a type specimen of a work in progress, which would become “1403 Vintage Mono”. The typeface design immediately f…

    Yesterday · 15:36
  • Find a new role - worksheet Lara Hogan

    Almost everybody I know is doing some math on longevity in their current role. Whether it’s moral math (should I go work for a place that’s doing more good in the world, despite it being less mone…

    Two Days Ago · 18:00
  • 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.…

    Two Days Ago · 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…

    Two Days Ago · 08:00
    1 more post
    • The Major Oak is dead
  • 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…

    Three Days Ago · 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…

    Four 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…

    The Other Day · 22:57

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