Links
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august and everything after - by Helena Fitzgerald
Lovely, lovely writing about this 1993 Counting Crows album which I have always been a bit embarrassed to love. (via MetaFilter)
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The day the music died? Welcome to Denmark Street and Tottenham Court Road’s new ‘digitally enabled streetscape’ | Architecture | The Guardian
Roman Moore on more dollops of massive-but-shallow private glitz replacing the unique, interesting and characterful bits of London.
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‘The council tenants weren’t going to be allowed back’: how Britain’s ‘ugliest building’ was gentrified | Architecture | The Guardian
Two weeks on, still a bit glum about this article about the redevelopment of Balfron a tower by Oliver Wainright.
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Making the world’s fastest website, and other mistakes - DEV Community
I enjoyed this detailed look into how to make Kroger’s website much faster. All the way through I was thinking, “How will you get the org to adopt your changes?” and inevitably… (via @simonw)
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Does Marie Kondo’s Method Really Work? - The Atlantic
Talking to a bunch of people who tried her method to get rid of belongings, and how things are a few years later. (via Ask MetaFilter)
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Mike Davis on death, organizing, politics, climate change - Los Angeles Times
What it says in the title. An interesting interview. (via FaveJet)
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Tom Blomfield: Monzo growth
How they got to 1 million users. Most interesting for the things that worked differently to expected, for better or worse.
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Adactio: Journal—Directory enquiries
Good quotes and thoughts on younger people having no understanding of folder structures etc. I love, and often think in, hierarchical structures like directories.
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We want to talk about Metafilter. (r/MetaFilterMeta)
Some jaded people discuss MetaFilter away from MetaFilter itself. A bit odd. Unsure if it’s good(ish) or bad.
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The Balletic Millennial Bedtimes of ‘Normal People’ | Lorrie Moore | The New York Review of Books
From 2020. I liked, about millennials, “They have no authentic counterculture…”. If all culture is easily accessible, can there be any counter? (I don’t know if this is right, but interesting.)
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Open Lecture at CIID: “Keeping up with the Kardashevians” – Petafloptimism
Matt Jones on stuff done at BERG and Google, and our anti-anti-utopian future. (Video plus slides & transcript.)
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The Online Photographer: My Second Article for NewYorker.com
It’s such a pleasure reading his excitement about this article, and the difference between his blog posts and a New Yorker article. Lovely article too.
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The Overedge Catalog: The Future of Research Organizations
“devoted to collecting the intriguing new types of organizations and institutions that lie at the intersection of the worlds of research and academia, non-profits, and tech startups.” (via Web Curios)
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Me, But Online
“A collection of minimalist, original personal websites with great typography.” (via Web Curios)
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‘A massive betrayal’: how London’s Olympic legacy was sold out | Olympic legacy | The Guardian
I am shocked, shocked! that the Olympics wasn’t a great way to redevelop part of London. Who could possibly have guessed.
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Covid. — Roden Newsletter Archive
Craig Mod on catching covid while in England. The non-mask-wearing here continues to baffle me.
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How we built a $1M ARR open source SaaS | Plausible Analytics
Always nice to read about how a bootstrapped business grew by doing their nice thing well. (via @simonw)
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Bee Wilson · The Irreplaceable: Palm Oil Dependency · LRB 23 June 2022
On the rise of, and economics of, palm oil that “ended up in everything”.
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Deborah Friedell · A Piece of Pizza and a Beer: Who was Jane Roe? · LRB 23 June 2022
I did not know, or had forgotten, how Roe v. Wade came to be.
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[UPDATE #2] Database/Spreadsheets of ALL Workouts : AppleFitnessPlus
I’m not sure I’ll use this but it’s quite a piece of laborious work.
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I Should Be Able to Mute America
“…we need a way to mute America. Why? Because America has no chill. America is exhausting. … America has effectively built a Green Zone in our cultural consciousness … I should not know who Pete Buttigieg is.“
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wait, what?! — Ask a Manager
A new category collecting the most bonkers letters is well worth a browse if you have a lot of time to kill.
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Stephanie Burt · Diary: D&D · LRB 9 June 2022
Role-playing games, concluding an excellent issue of the LRB.
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William Davies · Destination Unknown: Sociology Gone Wrong · LRB 9 June 2022
On inequality, capitalism, sociology, nation states, colonialism.
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Jonathan Meades · Hatpin through the Brain: Closing Time for the Firm · LRB 9 June 2022
On the British monarchy.
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Patterns | APG | WAI | W3C
“This guide describes how to apply accessibility semantics to common design patterns and widgets. It provides design patterns and functional examples complemented by in-depth guidance for fundamental practices.” Very handy. (via Adactio)
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contextual dissemination Punk zines, punk fanzines
Scans of old punk zines. The excitement is so much more visceral than anything on the web. (via The Wire)
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the shirt crusade, the bacon crisis, and other stories of dramatic reactions to small changes at work — Ask a Manager
People can be awful, one reason I’ve worked alone for the best part of twenty years.
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VOX Music Player for Mac & iPhone: Unlimited Solution for Music Lovers
Another alternative to Apple’s Music apps. (via Atlas Minor)
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Russell Bell | Portfolio - Barbican before the Blitz
I’ve a feeling I’ve seen this before, but apparently didn’t link to it. Lovely and interesting. (via Things Magazine)