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“Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.” · LYNNE TRUSS

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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • “This is an interactive story about In Vitro... Jason Kottke

    “This is an interactive story about In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) told from two perspectives: Parent and Child. Select one to continue.”…

    Yesterday · 16:04
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    • The Mysterious Redditor Who’s Changing the Way We...
    • Vertical Societies
    • Twin adventurers are cleverly testing modern vs....
    • The teaser trailer for Dune: Part Three . I am...
    • Extreme Macro Photos of Insect Wings . Hundreds of...
    • Planets and Bright Stars ID Chart
    • Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity . “You...
    • Battery prices continue to fall . “Lithium-ion...
    • “The US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster...
    • Gorgeous: rural Kyoto in the heavy snow .
    • Gullible, Cynical America . “They’ll insist...
    • “In today’s new Gilded Age, the 900-plus...
    • The Holocaust History Podcast : “In this episode,...
    • The Louvre has the Mona Lisa. Here’s what other...
    • The 20 Best Food Scenes in Movies . Ratatouille, Big...
    • Tiny Puppet Sound
    • “Pay enough, and you can jump to the front of the...
    • “This Is Not The Computer For You”
    • The Trump regime is deliberately destroying the...
    • KDO: 28 Years Later…
    • For the first time in awhile, copies of two lost...
    • The Great Friendship Flattening . “I amass bits of...
    • Why Movies Just Don’t Feel “Real”...
    • 10 Hours of Ambient Freezer Drone
    • Recommendations of 25 medieval manuscripts to explore...
    • The Z9GT model EV from China’s BYD “can be...
    • It’s an Open Thread
    • Craig Mod is software bonkers . “I’m...
    • Balcony solar finally seems to be taking off in the US ....
    • Yet another graph showing that when you control for...
  • A Fisherman Of The Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin Jeremy Keith

    When I was summing up my reading habits in 2022 I said: I think the lesson this year is: you can’t go wrong with Octavia E. Butler or Ursula K. Le Guin. I stand by that. But maybe I’d reco…

    Yesterday · 10:22
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    • That was Web Day Out
  • Fine Specimens by Elliot Jay Stocks Brad Frost

    A curated collection of the best in contemporary type design Elliot is back with a new typography book! Elliot Jay Stocks…

    Two Days Ago · 12:49
  • Return to Tokyo, Part 1 Simon Collison

    I’ve split my summary across three posts, and this roundup details the first five days. Highlights included lots of sumo, a studi…

    Two Days Ago · 10:00
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    • Weird switches
  • Making a New Font from Found Lettering Dan Cederholm

    Last week, I spent our monthly Secret Livestream doing a live demo of starting a new font from scratch in Glyphs. We recorded it, and it's available for Secret Club members to watch whenever they…

    Two Days Ago · 09:55
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    • Studio Notes #75
  • Too Many Notes Jeffrey Zeldman

    Lately, in work conversations, I find myself fighting a lifelong tendency to provide way more context than is absolutely required. If you ask me to okay your work, for example, I may respond with an e…

    Two Days Ago · 04:28
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    • A die-cut above
  • Photos of Web Day Out 2026 in Brighton Marc Thiele

    I had a fantastic time. In Many ways. Here are my photos of Web Day Out 2026 in Brighton. (#WebDayOut) Reply via Email…

    Two Days Ago · 02:14
  • Timberborn 1.0, HTTP Lever, and Claude Code Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    Timberborn is very much my kind of game. Complex, cozy, climate change, water system design, beavers. (My friend Schuyler pointed out at one point that my preferred genre of game is “management sims…

    Three Days Ago · 12:27
  • “I Suppose You Would Call It an Interface for the User” Josh Clark

    Nicholas Evans on LinkedIn: I have enough skills in my Claude setup that I need something to help me remember them. Maybe we could call it a menu or something . And it would group things in a way…

    Four Days Ago · 14:56
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    • Why AI agents need to learn to read the room
    • SaaS Is Dead?
    • The Shape of the Thing
  • Kermit Roosevelt Chris Coyier

    I was at a school function the other day where the 2nd graders performed a bunch of Aesop’s Fabels and it was great. It was a double-header with 3rd graders who then read prepared reports on fam…

    Four Days Ago · 11:08
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    • AI is my CMS

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