Links
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Joe Moran · Gen Z and Me · LRB 16 February 2023
On Gen Z and generational change.
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Organised fun: who’s it all for? - The Face
Very good. Feeling this more and more every time I visit the London Immersive Experience.(via @antimega@mastodon.social)
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Some simple ways to make content look good - Set Studio
I do like nice clear walkthroughs of design and code like this, including bits of CSS that were new to me. (via Adactio)
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Glass Collisions: Preventing Bird Window Strikes | ABC
Includes a database of 175 tested and rated products for preventing bird strikes.
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Tell me what the glory days of MetaFilter were like : MetaFilterMeta
Memories of the olden days.
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HouseCurve
I used this to generate filters I could apply with SoundSource to correct the sound of my desktop speakers. Or, at least, make the graph look better.
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On Oasis & The Gallaghers - Neil Kulkarni’s Too Much Music
Nicely written, good, true stuff. (via FaveJet)
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Last of Us Arcade Scene | Page 3 | Museum of the Game® Forums
Interesting thread and from this point some fascinating behind-the-scenes explanations. (via MetaFilter’s FanFare)
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Is corecore radical art or gibberish shitposts?
I fear that if I ever watched a corecore video it wouldn’t live up to the descriptions in these two articles by Kieran Press-Reynolds.
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Cocaine, class and me: everyone in this town takes drugs, all the time – they’re part of the civic culture | Life and style | The Guardian
Tabitha Lasley from 2022 on cocaine as a way to get through miserable working-class jobs.
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God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter | WIRED
Paul Ford on Twitter and Mastodon. “The Fediverse apps are all built on a set of rules called the ActivityPub standard, which is a little like HTML had sex with a calendar invite. It’s a content polycule.”
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Learn HTML
A good guide, in case I need to recommend one to anyone. (via Adactio)
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Montaigne
Turns a folder in your Apple Notes into a website (with RSS feed). (via @gilest@mastodon.me.uk)
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The end of Unto This Last.
Oh no, another really sad business tale. Such a shame.
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Our Cafe has closed | Look mum no hands!
Fucksticks. I was thinking about London places that have or might close only this morning and was feeling grateful LMNH was still around.
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Siteleaf - A friendly CMS for your static site
Simple hosted CMS that generates a Jekyll-based website hosted on your GitHub Pages (or similar).
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Webflow: Create a custom website | No-code website builder
Very impressive in-browser site builder, but so comprehensive and detailed that it makes me feel like I don’t know how to make websites.
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The Radical Design of PizzaExpress - Vittles
Digby Warde-Aldam on the chain’s design history. The Berkeley Avenue, Bristol branch was my first Pizza Express, sometime in the early 1990s.
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The Magic of Small Databases
Tom Critchlow wondering about a tool/service to make it easy to create collections of your favourite things on the web. Taggable, searchable, explorable, shareable, exportable, etc.
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Carrd - Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything
Looks like a nice way to get a single-page website online.
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Closer to Johannes Vermeer - Rijksmuseum
I’ve only watched the intro but seems like a really nice way to explore his paintings in detail, if you can handle Stephen Fry’s narration. (via Kottke)
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Will Mr. Free Speech actually do anything? (Garbage Day)
‘If, at any point, I think, “oh wow, an A.I. could totally speed up the way I do this” about anything, I have to accept that that task or creative process no longer has any meaning for me in my life due to corrupting pressures of capitalism and I should, instead, probably spend time thinking about how I can never do it again, rather than automating the process to do it faster.’
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A WIRED compendium - by Dave Karpf
“a list of WIRED articles that best captured the vibe of the magazine through time,” US, 1993–2017. Good but, inexplicably, no ‘Mother Earth Mother Board’.
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The Future of the Yesterweb - Yesterweb Forum
Closing their Discord because a 2500-person realtime chat space is unmanageable. (I’m in a couple of Discords but only dip in occasionally because they’re Too Much.)
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Winnie Lim » on leading a purposeless life
“It is this space that I want. The space to move on, to tinker, to discover things I haven’t even thought of before. To be capable of giving up, letting go, quitting. I don’t wish to be fixed to something.”
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Timezones in Python - Benjamin “Zags” Zagorsky (PDF)
I keep referring to bits of this, so I should save it. Handy examples of right and wrong ways to do times. (via Simon Willison)
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The Mega-Meldrew Point (Updated) – BrokenTV
This year I’ll be as old as Captain Mainwearing in ‘Dad’s Army’. (via the B3ta newsletter)
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Café Royal Books
Lovely series of small photo books. (via the Guardian)
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Tree views in CSS
A collapsible tree view made out of lists and detail elements, no JavaScript. Witchcraft. (via Adactio)
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Supply Studies Syllabus - Supply Studies
“This document … presents a series of readings in areas of interest to the critical study of logistics.” Looks fascinating. (via Scope of Work)