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  1. September 2026

    1. 🔗 Talib Kweli & Hi Tek (Reflection Eternal) - The Blast –

  2. June 2026

    1. ⭐️ TIL about Solid and FOAF –

    2. 🔗 The Taste of Tea (茶の味) Trailer –

    3. 🔗 John Thomson’s China –

  3. May 2026

    1. 🔗 I’m tired of talking to AI –

    2. 🔗 Reel: Overview Walkthrough (Part 1) –

    3. 📍 Open House –

    4. ⭐️ Practical example of how cool RDF is –

    5. ⭐️ Mastodon kinda hates AI –

    6. 🔗 1990: Whatever Happened to the Cameras of the Future? | Tomorrow’s World | BBC Archive –

    7. 🔗 Ozu in Color – TCM x Every Frame a Painting | TCM Originals –

    8. ⭐️ Principles matter more with agents –

  4. April 2026

    1. 🔗 Blackwater Holylight – Full Performance (Live on KEXP) –

    2. 🔗 Casio SXC-1 portable sampler –

    3. ⭐️ Making Chrome livable –

    4. ⭐️ Same beans, different cups –

    5. 🔗 The Film Everyone Passed On | The ROBOCOP Commentary –

    6. 🔗 The Affordable Car Is Dead –

    7. 🔗 Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine (BBC In Concert, 1974) –

    8. ⭐️ How I use AI daily, April 2026 –

    9. 🔗 THE BLADE (1995): The Edges of Wuxia –

    10. 🔗 Too Old Not To –

    11. 🔗 Artemis II Launches to the Moon –

  5. March 2026

    1. ⭐️ airdrop CLI –

    2. 🔗 ひとひら - 円 (Official Music Video) –

    3. 🔗 Underwater Volcano Eruption (Kavachi) –

    4. 🔗 This ‘89 Pistons Cable Outro Goes Unnecessarily Hard –

    5. ⭐️ TIL: at, atq, and atrun –

    6. 🔗 Introducing pty –

    7. 🔗 Kanemaki Yoshitoshi’s Sixteen-Faced Woman –

    8. 🔗 Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Calculator –

    9. 🔗 Christie’s Rostrum –

    10. ⭐️ Wave Interference –

    11. ⭐️ Florentine Floor –

    12. 🔗 OlmoTrace –

    13. 🔗 The Killer | Official Trailer –

    14. 🔗 Jargalant Altai (Special Version) –

    15. 🔗 Generative AI Vegetarianism –

    16. ⭐️ Gaining Agency –

    17. 🔗 Gugusse et l'Automate –

    18. 🔗 dandelions forever –

    19. ⭐️ csesh – monitoring and reconnecting Claude Code sessions –

    20. 🔗 TIL Acorn can screenshot with layers –

    21. 🔗 toe – Distance Sessions 2020 –

    22. 🔗 Hazel Dickens: They'll Never Keep Us Down and Which Side Are You On? –

  6. February 2026

    1. 🔗 Leica T Leather Holster –

    2. 🔗 CRDT File Sync –

    3. 🔗 Claude Code Remote Control –

    4. ⭐️ The 4 things that make an "agent" today –

    5. ⭐️ Two interesting AI developments –

  7. December 2025

    1. ⭐️ SwiftUI @State Considered Harmful –

  8. November 2025

    1. ⭐️ I Don't Have a CMS Anymore –

    2. ⭐️ The Library Doesn't Just Have a Card Catalog… it has a full-time staff –

    3. ⭐️ The Capability Gradient –

  9. October 2025

    1. 🔗 TIL about Git Notes –

  10. September 2025

    1. 🔗 TIL about strudel –

    2. ⭐️ Server-side DOM serialization with a weather app example –

  11. March 2025

    1. ⭐️ Removing Hugo –

  12. February 2025

    1. ⭐️ Before the BF, there was the T – my first mirrorless camera 🖤 –

  13. January 2025

    1. ⭐️ You Could Configure Your App with Markdown –

  14. December 2024

    1. ⭐️ Reactive DOM nodes + reactive templates for custom elements (web components) –

    2. ⭐️ Building templates for custom elements (web components) –

  15. November 2024

    1. ⭐️ How to build custom elements that work no matter what order things are loaded –

    2. ⭐️ How to manage reactive state using Custom Elements (Web Components) –

    3. ⭐️ Why passkeys are good and you should be advocating for their use –

  16. October 2024

    1. ⭐️ The disharmony between “web components” (custom elements) and react-like “framework components” is real –

    2. ⭐️ Reminded of the past, and to not repeat it –

  17. May 2024

    1. ⭐️ How I (Now) Backup My Photos –

  18. April 2024

    1. ⭐️ How I restored and setup my new (to me) $10 iPod shuffle (2nd Gen) with my M1 Mac running Sonoma –

  19. January 2024

    1. ⭐️ Content Authenticity Initiative –

    2. ⭐️ 1984 –

    3. ⭐️ Don’t Be a Sucker (1947) –

  20. December 2023

    1. 🔗 TIL about Promise.withResolvers() –

  21. November 2023

    1. ⭐️ Creating an immediate stereo mute in Eurorack 🤔 –

    2. 🔗 Jordan Ward: Tiny Desk Concert –

    3. 🔗 Cover of Backwater Blues by Sabrina, originally by Lightnin’ Hopkins –

    4. 🔗 TIL about “Weltschmerz” –

  22. October 2023

    1. ⭐️ That photograph on the side of the house on Gartenstraße in Berlin… –

    2. ⭐️ Unbundling AI by Benedict Evans –

    3. 🔗 Possibly Maybe poster by Dotto –

    4. ⭐️ NASA astronaut back on Earth after record-breaking spaceflight –

    5. ⭐️ Fazerdaze – Bigger –

    6. ⭐️ Why Rappers Stopped Writing –

    7. 🔗 electric-sql – Local-first sync for Postgres from the inventors of CRDTs –

    8. ⭐️ Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water –

    9. ⭐️ Convenience and scams –

  23. September 2023

    1. ⭐️ Little Desktop Sculptures by Mohit Bhoite –

    2. 🔗 Oslo Transit Diagram –

    3. ⭐️ Water-Resistant “Research Notes” Notebook –

    4. 🔗 new AsyncFunction – the async version of new Function –

    5. ⭐️ Galileo Galilei’s First Drawings of the Moon After Seeing It Through the Telescope in 1609 –

    6. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 4 – Researching pre-rendering custom elements and/or SSR –

    7. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 3 – Define in a static initialization block –

    8. 🔗 50 Short Rules for a Better Life (From the Stoics) –

    9. ⭐️ The Feather Atlas at the US Fish and Wildlife Service –

    10. ⭐️ “We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” –

    11. ⭐️ Supavisor: Scaling Postgres to 1 Million Connections –

  24. August 2023

    1. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 2 – Data access and UI updates –

    2. ⭐️ S.js and some thoughts about reactive state –

    3. ⭐️ She Was 300 Yards From the Atomic Bomb Center - and Survived Op-Docs –

    4. ⭐️ Ólafur Arnalds live from Hafursey, in Iceland for Cercle –

  25. July 2023

    1. ⭐️ Getting started with View Transitions on multi-page apps by Dave Rupert –

    2. ⭐️ Omega Sports Apple Computer Sneakers • Size 10.5 • on Sotheby’s –

    3. ⭐️ Dive – Olivia Dean –

  26. June 2023

    1. ⭐️ Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops –

    2. ⭐️ Today – Q –

    3. ⭐️ Nation of Language - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) –

  27. May 2023

    1. ⭐️ Nopia –

    2. ⭐️ Jordan Ward – CHERIMOYA –

    3. ⭐️ Rich Girl – Scary Pockets – featuring Arielle Kasnetz –

    4. 🔗 Great Wave Off Kanagawa As Pixel Art by James Weiner –

    5. ⭐️ The Man from Laramie –

    6. ⭐️ Learning about Web Components: Part 1 – Getting Started –

    7. 🔗 Mighty Vibe –

    8. ⭐️ Generate a QR Code in your shell with npx, qrcode-svg, and svgo –

  28. April 2023

    1. ⭐️ Testing the Web Share API –

    2. 🔗 Urth Explorer Filter Kit –

    3. 🔗 GaeaStar –

    4. ⭐️ The original Wilhelm Scream recording session –

    5. ⭐️ Moving, a Short Film –

    6. ⭐️ An Interview With Massimo Vitali –

    7. ⭐️ Dreamy Photography Settings –

    8. ⭐️ VIKING Trailer –

    9. ⭐️ Ship the wrong thing to learn what’s right –

    10. ⭐️ Who invented vector clocks? –

    11. 🔗 Gawthorne’s Hut –

    12. 🔗 You Are Not Okay and Tomorrow Will Come –

    13. 🔗 Art by Nathan Walsh –

    14. ⭐️ Slow Learning –

  29. March 2023

    1. ⭐️ The Art of the Copyist by The Met –

    2. 🔗 Polaroid Lab –

    3. ⭐️ Inside Out. Understanding the art of furniture making –

    4. ⭐️ Men I Trust - Show Me How (garage session) –

    5. ⭐️ Olamide Ogunade’s art –

    6. ⭐️ Behringer TORO –

    7. ⭐️ Chompi –

    8. 🔗 Enhancing Directed Content Sharing on the Web (PDF) –

    9. 🔗 Largest known prime number –

    10. 🔗 GPT-4 –

    11. 🔗 MathGPT –

    12. 🔗 Cargobox by Meelis Lillemets –

    13. ⭐️ TIL how to allow notifications when screen recording on macOS –

    14. 🔗 TIL about Beamer for LaTeX –

    15. 🔗 Notes art –

    16. ⭐️ Patch Notes: Hélène Vogelsinger –

    17. ⭐️ The Full Frod Story! Building a frog house for a Frod. –

    18. 🔗 The Shortcut –

    19. ⭐️ I really love these paintings by John Gannam –

  30. February 2023

    1. 🔗 Cassette mixing 🤯 –

    2. 🔗 Dublin Goth New Wave Movement, 1989 –

    3. 🔗 The Circle (Shortfilm) –

    4. 🔗 TIL about the useUnknownInCatchVariables compiler flag for TypeScript –

    5. ⭐️ Mid-day ☀️ 📸 –

    6. ⭐️ Living Alone in the Wild Siberian Forest for 20 years in Yakutia –

    7. ⭐️ Everyone thinks everyone is a scammer these days –

  31. January 2023

    1. ⭐️ Love Trip – Takako Mamiya –

    2. ⭐️ Had to update Whitney – the font here –

    3. ⭐️ Ana Vidović playing classical guitar –

    4. 🔗 Robohands - Green –

    5. 🔗 Casiopea - Mint Jams –

    6. 🔗 Hydraulic Press Interpretive Dance –

    7. 🔗 Modular Office Unit –

    8. 🔗 TIL about IndieKit –

  32. December 2022

    1. ⭐️ NO THANK YOU – Little Sims –

  33. August 2022

    1. ⭐️ God’s Country Trailer –

  34. May 2022

    1. 🔗 New ❤️ album: Invisible Cities by A Winged Victory For The Sullen –

  35. January 2022

    1. ⭐️ Some technologies last –

    2. 🔗 TIL about explain (analyze, buffers) in postgresql –

    3. ⭐️ 3 out of 3 💉💉💉 –

    4. 🔗 TIL about Gaia –

    5. 🔗 Where Is Webb? –

    6. 🔗 The Dark Forest –

    7. 🔗 The James Webb Space Telescope –

  36. May 2021

    1. ⭐️ Collaboration through software: digital paper and card catalogs –

  37. February 2021

    1. ⭐️ TIL about less -S –

  38. January 2021

    1. 🔗 Wonderful Portraits by Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe –

  39. December 2020

    1. ⭐️ TIL how to fix a formula conflict when updating brew –

    2. ⭐️ TIL about HTTP Client Hints –

    3. ⭐️ TIL about ELIXIR_CLI_DRY_RUN for elixir and iex –

  40. November 2020

    1. ⭐️ TIL ⌃\\ sends SIGQUIT to the foreground process –

    2. 🔗 TIL one can exit iex with ⌃\\ –

  41. October 2020

    1. 🔗 Beogram 4000c • Recreated by Bang & Olufsen –

    2. ⭐️ “I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious—by fits.” –

  42. September 2020

    1. 🔗 Dieter Rams Wallpapers –

    2. 🔗 Connect, No Matter the Speed –

  43. August 2020

    1. ⭐️ GitHub Profile README –

  44. July 2020

    1. 🔗 TIL about hub-sync –

  45. June 2020

    1. 🔗 29 automata in 6 minutes –

    2. 🔗 TIL about AbortController –

    3. ⭐️ Your metrics might be lying to you – an example from Wunderlist –

  46. May 2020

    1. ⭐️ TIL about vim’s spellcheck –

    2. ⭐️ TIL about :term ++curwin –

    3. ⭐️ TIL about :lcd in vim –

  47. April 2020

    1. ⭐️ This Video Has ___ Views –

  48. February 2020

    1. 🔗 Retail fonts · Klim Type Foundry –

  49. January 2020

    1. 🔗 A richer canvas –

    2. 🔗 Realistic pillows sculpted from blocks of white marble –

    3. ⭐️ Going public –

  50. December 2019

    1. 🔗 Elements of AI –

    2. 🔗 The world's most remote buildings on YouTube 📺 –

    3. ⭐️ A ryokan –

  51. November 2019

    1. 🔗 asipai ＋ Hibi Coffee in Kyoto –

    2. ⭐️ Music I love for traveling –

    3. 🔗 Petrichor by Artist Jean Jullien –

    4. ⭐️ I've migrated off medium –

  52. June 2019

    1. ⭐️ How to install the macOS Catalina Beta alongside Mojave –

  53. May 2018

    1. ⭐️ Build your MVP today –

    2. ⭐️ I still don’t know how to use a debugger –

  54. April 2018

    1. ⭐️ Puma RS-0 –

    2. ⭐️ Karhu Synchron Classic –

  55. March 2018

    1. ⭐️ One week with the Atom text editor –

  56. September 2017

    1. ⭐️ Twenty-second Postmortem –

  57. July 2017

    1. ⭐️ A quick tip to help remember where you left off –

    2. ⭐️ A newsletter –

    3. ⭐️ Design a Minimal Product Roadmap instead of building an MVP –

  58. June 2017

    1. ⭐️ On queueing –

    2. ⭐️ ElixirConf EU 2017 in Barcelona –

    3. ⭐️ A way to procrastinate –

  59. January 2017

    1. ⭐️ Swift already has a Result type –

  60. November 2016

    1. ⭐️ I’m getting “engagement” –

  61. August 2016

    1. ⭐️ CloudKit –

  62. May 2016

    1. ⭐️ Be. –

  63. February 2016

    1. ⭐️ The Network Is Never There for You –

  64. November 2015

    1. ⭐️ Winter and small coffee –

  65. October 2015

    1. ⭐️ Two years in Berlin –

    2. ⭐️ Morning –

  66. March 2015

    1. ⭐️ How we allow any request to be safely repeated at anytime for Wunderlist –

    2. ⭐️ My core values –

  67. January 2015

    1. ⭐️ Make workflows for complicated tasks –

    2. ⭐️ Object Oriented System Architecture –

    3. ⭐️ Always use a CDN –

  68. December 2014

    1. ⭐️ Why make a Mash? –

  69. August 2014

    1. ⭐️ Notes on Contentment –

  70. December 2013

    1. ⭐️ Document semi-wacky — wacky things –

  71. July 2013

    1. ⭐️ Use technologies the rest of your team is motivated to use –

    2. ⭐️ Refactor only when you have some sort of tests –

  72. June 2013

    1. ⭐️ Change as little as possible to fix a problem –

  73. May 2013

    1. ⭐️ Be a good programmer –

    2. ⭐️ The Cost of Education –