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  1. Covid. — Roden Newsletter Archive

    Craig Mod on catching covid while in England. The non-mask-wearing here continues to baffle me.

  2. 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)

  3. 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”.

  4. 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.

  5. [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.

  6. 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.“

  7. 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.

  8. Stephanie Burt · Diary: D&D · LRB 9 June 2022

    Role-playing games, concluding an excellent issue of the LRB.

  9. William Davies · Destination Unknown: Sociology Gone Wrong · LRB 9 June 2022

    On inequality, capitalism, sociology, nation states, colonialism.

  10. Jonathan Meades · Hatpin through the Brain: Closing Time for the Firm · LRB 9 June 2022

    On the British monarchy.

  11. 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)

  12. 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)

  13. 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.

  14. VOX Music Player for Mac & iPhone: Unlimited Solution for Music Lovers

    Another alternative to Apple’s Music apps. (via Atlas Minor)

  15. 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)

  16. The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website

    Nice overview the history of making websites. I like “jamming” to describe the casual way of putting together old PHP websites. (via Adactio)

  17. howisFelix.today? · Felix Krause

    Amazing example of lifelogging, including code and explanation. “… the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time.” (via Kottke)

  18. Sensor Watch | Crowd Supply

    Put an ARM Cortex M0+ microcontroller board inside your Casio F-91W digital watch. A pretty neat idea.

  19. Simon Reynolds · Serious Mayhem: The McLaren Strand · LRB 10 March 2022

    On the career of Malcolm McLaren.

  20. Basic Techniques: How to Make Any Chinese Stir Fry (小炒基础) : Cooking

    Very informative description, from the Chinese Cooking Demystified YouTube channel. (via Ask MetaFilter)

  21. Elderblog Sutra: 13

    On what the demise of Twitter, or an Elon Musk-ruled Twitter, might mean for the distribution of blogging.

  22. Increasing the surface area of blogging

    On how to make RSS and blogging more visible. It is definitely hard to “point at” blogging.

  23. Broken Links, by Hari Kunzru

    Excellent on the differences between life, culture, things before and after the arrival of the internet.

  24. I was so much younger then – I’m older than that now. Early days at Melody Maker – David Stubbs

    On when he joined the Maker in the late 80s. I read it, rather than NME, because the local library got it in. (via Warren Ellis)

  25. Shame. – Dirty Feed

    On the reasons to keep your old writing online, compared with Robin Sloan and Frank Chimero’s decisions to delete a lot of theirs.

  26. Music | Precious Recordings of London

    “Classic BBC radio sessions by artists we like in lovingly curated vinyl packages with exclusive sleeve notes and pics.” Prolapse, Hefner, Heavenly… (via @sweepingnation)

  27. Infinite Mac

    A working System 7 Mac (and macos8.app too) in my browser. With games. Amazing. (via @benbrown)

  28. Atlas Minor • Believe

    “C. and I have met quite a few nostalgic students. They’re making video poems to the 1990s. They deliver speeches in auditoriums about the stress of screens. They rhapsodize about a simpler time, and they sound like ancient poets, pining for a lost golden age.”

  29. Why the Nineties rocked - UnHerd

    Douglas Coupland. “In the 1990s we still had the future, a place that you could travel to, that would be cool when you got there … Right now we merely have a future, and a murky one at that…”

  30. Vlog #014 - Studio progress, rambling & time management, oh my! - YouTube

    I always enjoy Rev Dan Catt’s Vlogs and particularly liked the bit of this where he discusses how he splits up his time.