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  1. The Online Photographer: The Worst Player in the NBA

    The post and the featured comments on the gap between good amateurs and pros in various sports and professions.

  2. A quick look at privacy-focused analytics for small sites

    From September 2020. (via Adactio)

  3. Dirty Feed – What The Papers Say

    I enjoyed this investigation into the origin of a joke from ‘Yes, Prime Minister’. (via b3ta)

  4. My current HTML boilerplate - Manuel Matuzović

    Nicely explained. with references. (via Adactio)

  5. Ann Lewis Printmaker - Limited Edition Linocuts

    Lovely muted colour palettes on these.

  6. Paul Catherall

    Very simple, colourful prints of buildings and city views.

  7. Dave Lerner - Reduction Linocuts

    Very smart prints of neon signs, vintage cars etc. I’d never have guessed they were linocuts.

  8. How To Be A Car Photographer — Amy Shore Photography

    …when you start off knowing nothing about cars or cameras. (via Things Magazine)

  9. Margaret Mallows - Prints for Sale | Artfinder

    Mainly for the number of colours she uses in the reduction linocuts (often over a dozen).

  10. Black Pig Printmaking Studio - Linocuts

    Really detailed monochrome linocuts.

  11. Prints of Cityscapes/Landscapes by artist Steve Edwards

    Some interesting effects by etching lino (with caustic soda?).

  12. Core Strength Hip Strength Hip Mobility - coachjayjohnson.com -

    Post-run exercises. An improved version of his Myrtl routine, which I’ve been doing until now. (via Ask MetaFilter)

  13. cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive: Run Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes on macOS Big Sur and macOS Catalina. Xcode 11.7 on macOS Mojave. Final Cut Pro 7, Logic Pro 9, and iWork ’09 on macOS Mojave or macOS High Sierra.

    “Run Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes on macOS Big Sur and macOS Catalina. Xcode 11.7 on macOS Mojave. Final Cut Pro 7, Logic Pro 9, and iWork ’09 on macOS Mojave or macOS High Sierra.”

  14. The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup

    I’m trying to come to terms with how this “simple” setup makes me feel anxious and overwhelmed just reading about it. So many things. (via @simonw)

  15. Artwork Gallery and Shop - Alexandra Buckle

    Some lovely reduction lino prints, without too much of the tweeness that a lot of nature prints have.

  16. MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies | The MIT Press

    A free “digital collection of classic and previously out-of-print architecture and urban studies books”. (via Things Magazine)

  17. All Prints – Ian Phillips

    Really lovely woodblock and linocut prints.

  18. Dynamic asset allocation and withdrawal in retirement - Monevator

    The second of the three posts about living off his investments (the third is less interesting).

  19. Decumulation: a real life plan - Monevator

    The first of three posts in which The Accumulator outlines his financial plans for living off his investments.

  20. A Complete Guide To Accessible Front-End Components — Smashing Magazine

    Very handy collection of links to articles. (via @simonw)

  21. UKEthicalInvesting - making money in a responsible way

    Only just come across this subreddit. Been going since April 2020. Ethical investing often gets dismissed in other investing places, so interesting to have this.

  22. Swim Smooth vs. Total Immersion : Swimming

    I re-learned swimming years ago from the TI book alone, and haven’t thought to read much about it since. So this (9-year-old) critique is fascinating, and makes complete sense to me.

  23. “THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES WITH CRYPTOART WILL BE SOLVED SOON, RIGHT?” | Medium

    To summarise: No.

  24. Chloe Aridjis · At the HKW: Aby Warburg · LRB 5 November 2020

    I hadn’t heard of Warburg’s ‘Bilderatlas Mnemosyne’ before. A “display of almost a thousand images … an attempt to create something like a flowchart of Western civilisation“.

  25. Patricia Lockwood · Eat butterflies with me? · LRB 5 November 2020

    On Nabokov, entertaining.

  26. Peter Geoghegan · Cronyism and Clientelism · LRB 5 November 2020

    Depressing piece from November on the UK’s kleptocracy.

  27. Scenario Magazine

    “The magazine about tomorrow – made in collaboration with writers, thinkers, & artists from around the globe.” Quarterly. hadn’t heard of this. (via Ask MetaFilter)

  28. Anti-Hauntology: Mark Fisher, SOPHIE, and the Music of the Future | MetaFilter

    I found this discussion interesting (can’t read the linked article) although I also wanted to disagree with everyone, for reasons I can’t quite work out. (via Things Magazine)

  29. Following

    Chris Aldrich’s (very long) blogroll. I like the idea of offering an OPML version of it.

  30. TT2020 | More Information

    Creating a more realistic typewriter font. But I don’t understand why the movies mentioned didn’t use a real typewriter. And don’t get me started on “handwriting” fonts. (via Michael Thai)