All posts from 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.
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The Atlantic features Ardmore’s Viva Video.
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Anne Helen Petersen wants you to take 30 minutes to just read
AHP on her reading routines.
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Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers
Joe Pinsker looks for the factors that create avid readers.
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How a firefighter’s extremist ties divided Haverford
A radio segment recapping the Proud Boys/Bon Air Fire Co. controversy in Haverford Township.
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Sarah Drasner on managing vs coding
Sarah Drasner on how management doesn’t give you that tight feedback/dopamine cycle that coding does.
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Liz Phair releases a memoir, Horror Stories.
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The Disappearing Philly Accent
WHYY’s “The WHY” examines the changing Philadelphia accent.
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Don’t Forget to Validate Your HTML Markup
Validate to save a life.
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Bristol teenager loses sight and hearing due to processed food diet
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Sony Celebrates 40 Years of Walkman in Tokyo
Sony Walkman retrospective in Tokyo
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R.O. Kwon on the Strong Feelings Podcast
The Strong Feelings folks interview author R.O. Kwon.
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Brett Terpstra teases nvUltra, a successor to nvALT.
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MacOS Mojave Screen Recording and CloudApp
CloudApp hijacks the default screenshot behavior on MacOS Mojave.
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M & D finally release a noise-canceling headphone.
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RIP, Rachel Held Evans.
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Robin Rendle on Blogging with Eleventy
Robin Rendle writes about his journey from WordPress to Jekyll to Eleventy.
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Publish/Unpublish Permissions in Drupal 8
Override Node Options module for Drupal 8.
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Forcing a Field Group Sync with Advanced Custom Fields
Kicking WordPress ACF fields in the pants to force a sync.
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Offline Development with Lando
Configuring Lando for offline work.
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Trying out Lou Boquila’s new restaurant in Fishtown.
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Upgrading From an iPhone SE to an XR
Michael Tsai on the various tradeoffs between the two models.
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Playing Whac-a-Mole with Docker, lando, and my aging Macbook.
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Apple Cinema Display (2004) to Macbook Pro (2016)
Daisy chaining to a vintage monitor.
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Jon Hicks on Using an iPad Pro
Jon Hicks on using the iPad Pro for creative work.
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Rum puns.
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Em picks out a watch.
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Books I finished in 2018.