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  1. McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad…

    A nice summary of some architectural principles using McMansions as examples of how not to do it. The rest of the site’s great too. (via Kottke)

  2. Marp - Markdown Presentation Writer

    Open source, multi-platform. Might be worth a look as I found Deckset frustrating and a bit limiting. (via Brett Terpstra)

  3. 39 ways to save on theatre tickets - London Undiscovered

    Surprisingly, a not terrible list, with some things I didn’t know about.

  4. They Could Have Picked… (London Review of Books)

    Eliot Weinberger on all the Republican presidential candidates other than Trump. At this point it’s become easy to forget that they were *all* nutjobs. Still, makes me thankful to live in the UK.

  5. Jared Leto’s ‘Suicide Squad’ Performance Proves Hollywood Has Ruined Method Acting - The Atlantic

    More interesting than its title suggests. On the male Method actors who suggest you have to suffer for the role in order for it to feel like real work. And how differently female Method actors are treated.

  6. There’s No App for That: Adventures in Conserving Old Tech · SFMOMA

    About the difficulties of starting up a mint iPhone 1 and exhibiting it as a working thing. And HyperCard. (via @antimega)

  7. Generating fantasy maps

    A nice post on how the imaginary maps for @unchartedatlas are generated using JavaScript.

  8. Who Are All These Trump Supporters? - The New Yorker

    A good read by George Saunders. “What unites these stories is what I came to think of as usurpation anxiety syndrome—the feeling that one is, or is about to be, scooped, overrun, or taken advantage of by some Other with questionable intentions.”

  9. Building with Make - Device Ready

    A nice introduction to using Make to build your JS files, run other tasks, etc. (via Tom Taylor)

  10. Dashboards and journalism: why we need to do better | Online Journalism Blog

    From 2015, a summary of some dashboard-type screens, mostly focused on the needs of journalists.

  11. A basic Celery on Heroku guide

    This was also a nice write-up, with lots of handy tips, and barely out of date (a miracle, it seems).

  12. Python developer articles - Django celery setup

    Some bits of this were useful. And start-to-finish, not too wordy, examples like this are nice.

  13. ‘Once you can handle the insults, you begin’: inside Philippe Gaulier’s clown school | Stage | The Guardian

    Lots of good nuggets about what it means to be on stage. And Gaulier’s manner sounds very like that of a teacher I had years ago, who was great.

  14. “I’ve never had a goal”

    On the benefit of not setting yourself goals.

  15. German for English Speakers | A free online resource

    Clear, helpful, simply laid out, no distractions. It’s odd, and a shame, that such virtues feel “old fashioned” on the web.

  16. “You carry a 00 number, it means you have License to kill, not GET killed!” | MetaFilter

    Nice comparison of Bond with the full-time, permanent company man, versus Bourne as a freelance flexible worker.

  17. Turning your anxiety into excitement

    I’ve only tried this with not-too-bad, low-stakes anxiety/nervousness but it seems promising so far.

  18. eject_all_disks

    AppleScript to eject all ejectable disks with one click. (via @craigmod)

  19. A final response to the “Tell me why Trump is a fascist”.

    Amazing list. (via @spongefile)

  20. The Satoshi Affair (London Review of Books)

    An entertaining long read by Andrew O’Hagan about Craig Wright proving that he’s Satoshi Nakamoto.

  21. How climate change is rapidly taking the planet apart - flassbeck economics international

    Summary of the situation. Only read with a stiff drink to hand. (via @paulpod)

  22. The Incomplete City — But what was the question? — Medium

    Dan Hill on a fascinating week-long workshop at the Bartlett, with students creating a wall-sized 3D plan of a city.

  23. I’m With The Banned — Welcome to the Scream Room — Medium

    Laurie Penny. A good read, but depressing. I don’t know what you, we, do when people who believe nothing get all the attention.

  24. Shaula Evans on Twitter: “Hey friends…”

    On why you shouldn’t get the ‘Verified’ mark that Twitter now allows anyone to claim.

  25. Ryan A. Chapman — Vagrant: show port forwarding for all virtual machines

    Annoying that there’s no built-in way to get this info, for all running VMs, but this appears to work.

  26. A Sense of Where You Are — Elegant Tools — Medium

    Tom Broxton very good on gathering evidence about how long the designing and building of digital things actually take, so you can convince people your pessimistic-sounding estimates are accurate.

  27. In the US, Brexit has become a shorthand for ‘Sorry your country failed’ | Arwa Mahdawi | Opinion | The Guardian

    I’m glad I haven’t been abroad since Brexit. British friends in the US are saying this has been their experience too.

  28. Why We Need to Pick Up Alvin Toffler’s Torch - The New York Times

    About how futurism isn’t really done any more. Although he only talks to one (maybe) futurist. (via @MikeForester)

  29. Summertime.fm

    Annual summery mix tapes from DJ Jazzy Jeff & MICK. (via Waxy)

  30. A-Z Index of Euromyths 1992 to 2016 (European Commission in the UK)

    Hundreds of myths about EU rules. (via @dracos)