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Does the world need another weekly tech news podcast? Maybe it does... I'm eagerly anticipating episode one of System Crash, a new show hosted by Brian Merchant (author of Blood in the Machine) and Paris Marx (host of Tech Won't Save Us). The show debuts this Friday.
#podcast #currents #Technology
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Likes Don't call it a Substack. by Anil Dash. Email's been here for years. But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and distribution, and they want to own your content and voice, too. You may not think you care about that…
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you might not need a design system
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Likes You Might Not Need a Design System by Cory Etzkorn. Until a company is huge, the best design system is good communication... ...Whatever you do, don’t fall into the trap of building a design system too early. Default to design freedom. Sprinkle in a few rules later if it helps you move faster.
on Nov 14
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Bookmarked Keeping Pixely Images Pixely (and Performant!) by Chris Coyier. Some handy stuff in here about the image-rendering property in CSS.
on Nov 5
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Bookmarked My Modern CSS Reset by Jake Lazaroff. I'm working on writing CSS for a couple different projects and it's nice to see a handful of posts popping up explaining how other developers start out writing their stylesheets these days.
on Nov 5
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Bookmarked Democratising publishing by John O'Nolan. I remember I was just getting my feet wet as a professional using WordPress when the Ghost crowdfunding campaign launched. More than a decade later, it is impressive to see how successful Ghost has become under it's distributed non-profit...
on Nov 3
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Likes Please publish and share more by Jeff Triplett. Write and publish before you write your own static site generator or perfect blogging platform. We have lost billions of good writers to this side quest because they spend all their time working on the platform instead of writing.
on Nov 2
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Bookmarked You are not a CSS dev if you have not made a CSS reset by Mike Mai. Some really nice, minimal, and elegant stuff here.
on Nov 2
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Radio Free ABQ released its first full length album, Destination today. You can buy/stream the record lots of places, including Bandcamp.
on Nov 1
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The Verge’s endorsement of Kamala Harris
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Like any large open-source project, American democracy is kind of messy, requires a lot of volunteer effort, and often uses way too much memory. But it enables everyone to submit requests for changes so that we might better direct the power of our communities at every level toward solving our...
on Oct 29
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Wore my Woody Guthrie shirt to the polling place today. Get out and vote early! 🇺🇸
on Oct 29
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I've been streaming Cardinals At The Window, a massive collection of 136 tracks by various artists to benefit recovery efforts in Western North Carolina after hurricane Helene. 100% of proceeds to Helene relief and recovery in Western NC. Current recipients of funds are Community Foundation of...
on Oct 28
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Bookmarked Authors Apart by Alan Dalton. Alan Dalton is keeping track of where authors of A Book Apart have made their books available, for purchase or for free, after the publisher closed and ownership and publishing rights were restored to the authors. In my first year into my first real web...
on Oct 28
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I often get H.P. Lovecraft’s monster Cthulhu mixed up with popular glass artist Dale Chihuly. I need some kind of mnemonic device.
on Oct 27
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Bookmarked Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted by Bryan Braun.
on Oct 26
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I added an /ideas page to my site today. Four main ideas for now, because 4 is kind of my lucky number.
on Oct 26
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Likes /stickers by benji. I am also collecting stickers faster than I have places to stick them. I may create a page like this for myself soon.
on Oct 24
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Bookmarked Mother Earth Mother Board. Neal Stephenson's classic text for WIRED, lovingly archived and art directed by Eric Meyer.
on Oct 24
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I futzed with the camera color and contrast so you can see the details of this receipt. Found the receipt for the time I spent exactly $33.33 at a record shop.
on Oct 23
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Tipping my cap to everyone who made this an unforgettable year in baseball.
on Oct 21
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Bookmarked HTML for People by Blake Watson. I feel strongly that anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This book will teach you how to do just that. It doesn’t require any previous experience making websites or coding. I will cover everything you need to know to get started…
on Oct 17
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State of the Browser 2024 talks
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Bookmarked 2024 State of the Browser Speakers by London Web Standards. Video from the most recent State of the Browser conference talks are online.
on Oct 9
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Missed connection: You were the Phillies fan who saw my hat and booed the Mets at Target this morning, while I was just trying to buy macaroni and cheese for my kid.
on Oct 6
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Bookmarked WaSP InterAct Curriculum. also starting a Web Standards Advocacy channel on Arena.
on Oct 3
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learning and hiring for web standards
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In reply to Semi-Annual Reminder to Learn and Hire for Web Standards — Adrian Roselli. I think it would be compelling and helpful to somehow feature a short list of companies who do hire for deep knowledge/experience of web standards. Consultancies like Igalia or Bocoup come to mind. And...
on Oct 2
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learn and hire for web standards
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Likes Semi-Annual Reminder to Learn and Hire for Web Standards by Adrian Roselli. There are many reasons companies won’t make deep HTML / CSS / ARIA / SVG knowledge core requirements. The simplest is the commoditization of the skills, partly because framework and library developers have looked...
on Oct 2
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The New York Mets have secured their spot in the postseason in the first game of a postponed double-header against the Atlanta Braves. That eighth inning was incredible. A fitting ending to a season of incredible ups and downs, and I kind of expect Howie Rose to blow out his voice during Game 2.
on Oct 1
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Likes If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed by Josh Collins. It’s a wonderful community, all in all, and despite my inactivity, I still feel invested in WordPress, and interested in seeing it continue to be a productive way to democratize the web. I kind of bristle about the...
on Sep 29
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Bookmarked Board masters: artists’ palettes as works of art – in pictures by Kit Buchan. From Piet Mondrian’s plain white smudge to the vivid flourishes of Egon Schiele, the palettes artists use to create their masterpieces are mysterious, vibrant creations in their own right... Link via James
on Sep 29
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Likes POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world by Molly White. A simple technique offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still maintaining a presence on third-party platforms.
on Sep 28
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Is there a doughnut fund I can pitch in toward for anyone who has had to work customer support at a WordPress hosting company (not Automattic) in the past week?
on Sep 28
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These are loosely held thoughts, not final decisions. I thought I'd just share these [possible breaking changes] if it helps anyone out there.
on Sep 28
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WordPress.com is not WordPress
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Likes WordPress.com is not WordPress . Good grief. What a week. By the way, I heard the person who published this got banned from the Official WordPress.org Slack.
on Sep 27
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I recently bought a license for HEX Franklin. I'm writing a five minute talk to present next week, and of course I'm using this font to design my slides right now.
on Sep 21
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Got some mail from Navy Federal Credit Union today. I am still not used to seeing “Space Force” in print…
on Sep 12
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Bookmarked Complete CSS - Piccalilli. That’s right, you can spend all the time in the world focussing purely on your CSS knowledge, but top level front-end development is much more than writing code. It’s also about communication, planning and pragmatic execution so I’m going to teach you those...
on Sep 11
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El Paso Sector Migrant Death Database
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Bookmarked El Paso Sector Migrant Death Database. The migrant death database published here is an attempt to address the lack of comprehensive, transparent, and publicly available migrant death data for New Mexico, El Paso and border-wide. The accessibility of this information is essential to...
on Sep 8
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Bookmarked Self Inking Custom Made Rubber Stamp. Clearly I'm on an inking kick. So a year or two ago I had to get something notarized, and the notary had one of these cool self-inking stamps. I am thinking about ordering something similar with my phone number and email address on it. Then,...
on Sep 3
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I'm not sure everyone needs a personal monogram, or logo. But everyone should have a custom rubber stamp.
on Sep 3
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Reimagining the Internet is a podcast from the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst. I stumbled across it this weekend and have listened to three interviews so far: Charles Broskoski on the social research platform Are.na Laurel Schwulst on the "PBS of the Internet"...
on Sep 1
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Potato gnocchi: try to convince me this is not just tater tots for adults.
on Aug 28
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Likes WordPress IndieWeb setup with a block theme by ben. Awesome to see more people documenting their stuff!
on Aug 28
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Bookmarked Survey: Mike Essl - Features - Education - e-flux. Design won’t change the world, but it can help. Posters and banners make noise, but the students holding those signs made the difference. Students can use design to mobilize, get the word out, and keep the pressure up, but you gotta...
on Aug 27