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  1. A short history of body copy sizes on the Web

    I would like more histories of specific features of web design over the decades. (via Adactio)

  2. The twenty tens: my lucky decade – Matt Edgar writes here

    If you’re looking for inspiration for how to think about your work/life over the next decade, this look back on Matt’s 2010s is lovely. (via @gilest)

  3. my favorite posts of the decade — Ask a Manager

    Lots of good stuff, both oh-my-god-amazing and very useful.

  4. The Secret Life and Strange Death of Quadriga Founder Gerald Cotten | Vanity Fair

    Very entertaining, from a distance. (via Money Stuff)

  5. Overload and isolation: the decade that warped popular culture | Culture | The Guardian

    Simon Reynolds. “Slowly but surely, streaming is killing the idea of a mainstream. … Occasionally, your streaming selection will coincide with large numbers of other people – the waning flickers of the monoculture drawing you all to the same spot.”

  6. How I structure my vanilla JS projects | Go Make Things

    Some tips in here.

  7. The Vanilla JS Toolkit

    A nice collection of JavaScript methods, plugins, etc that don’t require any extra frameworks or libraries.

  8. Domestic Cozy: 9

    High Peasant (Boomers), Premium Mediocre (Millennials), Domestic Cozy (Gen Z), Favela Chic (Gen X). From a low cost vs private pleasure 2x2.

  9. Free for developers

    “This is a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings that have free tiers for developers.” (via Simon Willison)

  10. Instant Class – Popula

    A nice piece on British coffee and class signifiers. (via Mark Hurrell)

  11. This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web

    On making simple websites to last a minimum of ten years. (via Adactio)

  12. The Online Photographer: Best Film Cameras for Newbies

    Re “Mike’s Comment” below the cameras, I bet there’s a similar sweet spot in the development of most technologies – cars, computers, others that don’t start with “c” – and that it should have a name.

  13. ‘Boomerspeak’ Is Now Available for Your Parodying Pleasure | WIRED

    Fascinating. I use ellipses a lot myself but I don’t think I use them as randomly, or to end messages, as much as some older people seem to. Which comes across as passive aggressive apparently… (via Waxy)

  14. Batch Notes. No.3 — Paynter Jacket Co.

    I enjoy these notes covering the thinking, planning, testing and making of their jackets.

  15. Said the Gramophone: Best Songs of 2019

    A highlight of every year since 2005.

  16. Do One Thing Well List 2019 - Hiut Denim Co - Medium

    Lots of very nice things, if you’re stuck for Christmas gifts for someone in this particular demographic.

  17. I Found A Drain And Drained A Flooded Street During A Storm | MetaFilter

    “A person going by the name post 10 clears blocked storm drains and posts unexpectedly satisfying videos of doing so to YouTube.” Very satisfying.

  18. Build your own React

    I’ve only read a bit of this but aside from what seems like an interesting article, it’s a lovely example of going step-by-step through writing some code. (via @RandomEtc)

  19. My Python Development Environment, 2020 Edition | Jacob Kaplan-Moss

    As the previous edition, interesting. I’ll stick with pipenv instead of poetry for now, as I’m happy with it. I should use pipx but not sure how to go from my current mess to that. (via Simon Willison)

  20. Mwie Ltd (13 Nov., 2019, at Interconnected)

    Matt’s thoughts on five years of being an independent consultant are interesting. I daren’t think too closely about my *mumble* years of freelancing.

  21. Notes: We’ve Got Blog (2002) (Kicks Condor)

    “…my notes on the book We’ve Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture … a pretty decent compilation of blog posts from … mostly 1999-2002.” Great. Fascinating excerpts and commentary.

  22. Greg Rutter’s Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You’re a Loser or Old or Something

    Pretty good. (via Kicks Condor)

  23. HOW - Pure CSS - cyanHarlow

    Nicely done explanation of how Diana Smith uses CSS properties in her amazing CSS art, and what hat art looks like without each property. (via Waxy)

  24. All The Places | A growing set of web scrapers designed to output consistent geodata about as many places of business in the world as possible.

    Handy, and a nice example of making scrapers to work with loads of different sites. (via Simon Willison)

  25. The Book of Dreams | Argos

    I always wanted to put all the catalogues online, and they’ve done it. Gold. It’s a shame they don’t have usable indexes, as that’s how I navigated them in the 80s.

  26. Elderblog Sutra: 8

    “I’ve neither succeeded spectacularly enough at what I do that I can afford to ‘make bad movies for the rest of my life’ … nor have I failed so miserably that it’s an easy call … to just toss it all as worthless sunk cost, and start afresh with whatever resources and talents I have left.”

  27. What happened to Early Retirement Extreme? An update from Jacob Lund Fisker

    The father of “Financial Independence / Retire Early” on what he and his wife have been doing for the past decade or so of not having to work.

  28. Sweet Moderation, Heart of this Nation

    On why Britain, its media, and Rory Stewart aren’t moderate and centrist. (via @markhurrell)

  29. My ethical investment strategy - Matthew Somerville

    This is good. But there’s still no easy way to balance low-cost passive investing with investing ethically (whatever that means to you).

  30. dotfiles/setup.sh at master · lazerwalker/dotfiles

    Impressed by this kind of thing but I don’t think I set up a new Mac often enough to do this. (via FaveJet)