Posts
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Laura Kalbag: “How to Read RSS in 2020”
Laura Kalbag’s quick overview of RSS, its benefits, and some RSS clients.
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NPR’s Code Switch on Friendships and Race
A podcast two-parter from NPR’s Code Switch.
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Netlify Large Media and Eleventy
Some links that helped me figure out image derivatives with Eleventy and Netlify.
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(Almost) everything I read in 2019.
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The Verge: “Emotional Baggage”
A story about the toxic work culture at luggage/lifestyle startup Away.
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Ternary Operators in Template Literals
Folding myself into nested template literals, and then unfurling again.
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Guido van Rossum on “Cryptic Code”
Some quotes on clever code and maintainability by Guido van Rossum
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Apple releases new keyboard with 16-inch screen
Apple actually listened?
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A few notes on the Studio Neat Mark One pen.
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The kids school us on Greek mythology.
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Putting in the Work on Personal Sites
Two folks make the case for investing in personal sites, and a callback to an old Frank Chimero post.
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Everyday Information Architecture
Lisa Maria Martin wrote a book that should be required reading for all folks who build the web.
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Vulture: “‘Heel It Now, Dig?’: Rian Johnson Revisits the Mystery of Brick”
Rian Johnson looks back at Brick.
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Ethan Marcotte: “The World-Wide Work.”
Ethan Marcotte’s talk about web design, power, ethics, and unionization.
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Vulture: “The Paul Hollywood Handshake Is the Absolute Worst”
I hate the handshake™, too.
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Cancel culture, in two different tweets.
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Kottke.org compiles some recent pencil-making videos.
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Christian Heilmann points out some drawbacks to optimizing for terseness.