Tagged “links”
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The limitations of TV’s style bandwidth.
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TCM’s new interview series with filmmakers.
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Mandy Brown: “A unified theory of fucks”
Where to give your precious fucks.
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Mandy Brown: “Writers and talkers and leaders, oh my!”
Communication modes, power, and ways to build collective understanding.
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NY Times: “Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That?”
A look at the college value proposition.
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Mandy Brown: “Energy makes time”
An argument for putting your art first.
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Vice: “Goodbye to Netflix DVDs, The Last Good Tech Company”
Aaron Gordon looks back at Netflix before metrics and the algorithm ate everything.
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Netflix to Shut Down DVD Service
Goodbye, red envelopes.
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NY Times: “What Killed Penmanship?”
A fading skill.
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Amazon To Shut Down DPReview.com
Something something Faustian bargain.
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Don’t fear the tool, worry about who is swinging it.
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Slate: “My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along”
Physical media! It’s good!
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Vulture: “TV Has Always Disappeared. This Feels Different.”
Kathryn VanArendonk on Warner Bros. Discovery’s slash-and-burn show reductions at HBO Max.
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Virginia Sole-Smith: “Perfectionism and the Performance of Organizing”
How much organizing is too much?
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A Working Library: “Official Myths”
Mandy Brown on remote/IRL cultures, supporting junior staff, and the flexibility needed to deal with climate/pandemic effects.
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The Cut: “Reading is a Competition Now”
Jess Thomson, reflecting on the effect Goodreads has had on her reading hobby.
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Katie Baker: “The Day the Good Internet Died”
Katie Baker on Google Reader and internet nostalgia.
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Rikke Mathiasen’s photographs documenting her scoliosis
A Washington Post photoessay.
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Slant Magazine’s Top-20 List of Trip-Hop Albums
Looking back 20+ years at a musical moment.
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Rumors of the iPhone Mini’s demise.
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RSS and Email Newsletters using Feedbin
Forwarding newsletters to Feedbin’s account-level email address.
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A tool to generate Atom feeds from email newsletters.
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“25 Best Films of 2020” Video Countdown by David Ehrlich
Always tightly-edited, always a good source of films I missed.
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Katy DeCorah’s Automated Reading Log
Automated reading log entries using Github Actions.
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Criterion’s Most Anticipated Films of 2021
Upcoming projects for 2021, featuring some of my favorite filmmakers.
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Remembering one of my favorite NYC record stores.
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NY Times: “Spare a Thought for the Indies”
Indie bookstores and how they’re coping with the pandemic, illustrated by Bob Eckstein
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Dave Rupert: “Technical debt as a lack of understanding”
Metaphors for technical complexity and refactoring.
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The New Yorker: “How to Misread Jane Austen”
Louis Menand on interpreting the politics of Jane Austen and her work.
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Marius Masalar: “iPhone 11 Camera Retrospective”
Marius Masalar reflects on a year spent shooting with an iPhone 11.
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The Guardian: “Big oil’s answer to melting Arctic: cooling the ground so it can keep drilling”
Lighting fires as the world burns.
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NPR: “How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled”
We’ve been recycling plastic for nothing.
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Mandy Brown: “The case for rereading”
A meditation on how books rewire our brains and give us shelter so we can flourish.
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Nimit Shah: “My Landscape of Literature”
Nimit Shah on how they visualized their history of reading.
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The Ringer: “The Future of Film Talk Is on Letterboxd”
The Ringer takes a look at Letterboxd, the social film discovery network.
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Ethan Marcotte: “The design systems between us”
Link to Ethan Marcotte’s post about teamwork, communication, design systems, and gaps in process.
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Sally Rooney’s short story prequel for Normal People.
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Austin Kleon: “If you are having trouble reading…”
Austin Kleon’s advice for reading during this pandemic.
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NYT: “‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic”
Mad Max: Fury Road, in the words of those who created it.
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Captain Awkward: “How do I set goals if I don’t want anything?”
Grappling with career goals in the midst of a pandemic.
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The Sweet Setup: “Using an iPad for Photography Workflows”
The Sweet Setup updates their look at turning the iPad into your go-anywhere photography workstation.
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Jeff Chu: “It Is Not Well with My Soul, But I’m Trying (Part 2)”
Jeff Chu remembers Rachel Held Evans, one year after her death.
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Emily VanDerWerff: “On editing”
Notes on editing mixed in with a meditation on narration in Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise”
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Video Editing Comes to Darkroom
Embracing video in Darkroom
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Robin Rendle: “Friendship Homework”
Robin Rendle on friendship, books, and links.
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Mandy Brown on leading remote teams in a pandemic.
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Ethan Marcotte: “Through a design system, darkly.”
Ethan Marcotte on pattern-led and process-led approaches to design pattern systems.
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Ben Brooks’ review of the ALT keyboard, and links to features on custom keyboard builder Tae Ha Kim.
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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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The Verge: “Emotional Baggage”
A story about the toxic work culture at luggage/lifestyle startup Away.
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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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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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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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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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Brett Terpstra teases nvUltra, a successor to nvALT.
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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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Upgrading From an iPhone SE to an XR
Michael Tsai on the various tradeoffs between the two models.
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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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Serenity Caldwell’s iPad (2018) Review
Serenity Caldwell’s awesome new iPad (2018) review.
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Ethan Marcotte’s Career Advice
Ethan says write more.
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Robin Rendle on RSS and reading the Internet today.
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A link to The Sweet Setup’s iPad photo workflow post, and some notes on my personal workflows.
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Susan J. Robertson on “Aging Out” of Tech
A link to Susan’s post about being a woman in tech.
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Jorge Arango on Design Artifacts
Jorge Arango on choosing appropriate design artifacts.
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Screenshots with Chrome Dev Tools
Taking full-page screenshots with Chrome’s Dev Tools
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A new illuminated version of the ESV, with illustrations by Dana Tanamachi.
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Post to Instagram from the Web
Instagram’s new web app (finally) lets you post images.
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Another venerable print magazine shifts to online-only.
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A classic text editor hits EOL.
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The Sweet Setup Reviews MarsEdit
A new look at a long-time blogging app.
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The State of iBooks in Early 2017
Link to Michael E. Cohen’s report “The State of iBooks in Early 2017”.
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MacStories reviews Nebo, a note-taking app with handwriting recognition
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Reflecting on Erin Kissane’s graduation-themed essay for The Pastry Box Project.