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2023
2022
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They don’t only take our labor.
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Can Just Stop Oil make the case for protest?
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The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions
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Are personal Mastodon instances bad for discovery?
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Programming is a Pop Culture
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The Age of Social Media Is Ending
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Does Jeremy Corbyn Need the Labour Party?
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I don't want to go back to social media
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Picture perfect images with the modern img element
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Oh! Brother: MARCIA SCHOFIELD — Anecdotes and Antidotes in B#
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‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today
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In praise of conventional thinking
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Social Media Is Dead
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Big Tech’s Algorithms Are Built With Invisible Labor
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Minimal Dark Mode
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Programming Portals
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Building the main navigation for a website
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CSS Classes considered harmful
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Arts funding in England is a thin gruel that organisations are forced to beg for
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Jah Wobble: In Conversation On Get Carter At 50
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Mick Lynch Is Tired of Workers Getting Screwed
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Pathologically boring men (and girlbosses)
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The Northern Roots of Modernist Sci-Fi
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Handling Long Words and URLs (Forcing Breaks, Hyphenation, Ellipsis, etc)
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Minimal Social Markup
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Some thoughts about blogging and “style”
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You couldn’t write a sentence this bad IF YOU TRIED.
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Striking workers are providing the opposition that Britain desperately needs
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Crossed Rails
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Write HTML Right
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The smallest CSS
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On Ido and Far-Right Subversion
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Hatpin through the Brain
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Atlanta Apple Store Employees Drop Bid for Union Vote Next Week
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The greasy spoon chronicles: a day in the life of the Hope Workers Cafe
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W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles
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A Future City From The Past
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The Blazers have been usurped by the Blokes in cricket’s corridors of power
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Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime
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The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website
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Life on the edge: Land loss on England’s east coast – a photo essay
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‘I come to the library to keep warm’: Norfolk residents battling fuel poverty
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The Librarians Are Not Okay
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Action, inaction and ‘cancel culture’
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What I learned about markdown from interviewing a bunch of people
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On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs
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👍👍 A complete failure: The story of Norwich City’s relegation from the Premier League
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Mastodon's Eugen Rochko Talks Decentralization, Blockchain, And Grifters
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Nature writing’s ill-defined, thriving ecosystem
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Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You
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The Flanders phenomenon: how Belgian buildings went from joke to genius
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What is it Like to Be a Blind Writer Writing for Sighted Readers?
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That Wasn’t Right, Mark: When Fat White Family Met The Fall
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Klaus Schulze Has Died, Aged 74
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It Took The Night To Believe: Greg “The Lord” Anderson Interviewed
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Mastodon and the future of Twitter
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So Elon Musk Bought Twitter
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So, About That Bug Fucking: A Conversation with Chris Panatier
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Designing Better Navigation With Navigation Queries
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Childish Font Sizes
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The Future of the Web Is Marketing Copy Generated by Algorithms
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The Digital Age is Destroying Us
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Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically?
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How Darwin Influenced Marx and Engels
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Meet the Socialist Librarian Running for President of the American Library Association
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Drabinski Wins 2023–2024 ALA Presidency
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The Meaning of Slaughterhouse-Five, 50 Years Later
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The Side Effects of Tailored Digital Experiences
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Farewell to Nakagin Tower
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Kurt Vonnegut’s Socialism From Outer Space
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Bad news
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Optimising Largest Contentful Paint
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The Cult of the Imperfect
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Peak Content is an entropic force
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That big sliding banner? Yeah, it’s rubbish
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Write HTML, the HTML Way (Not the XHTML Way)
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Steve Albini – Didn’t We Deserve a Look at You the Way You Really Are
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Unfortunate, But Not Surprising: Court Blocks Maryland’s Library eBook Law
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The Meaning of Marcelo Bielsa
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Canned web development
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Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization
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Mark Zuckerberg and team consider shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if Meta can not process Europeans’ data on US servers
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Why I used to build websites
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Strategic impotence
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Designing books for readers with early‑stage Alzheimer’s disease
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Levelling Up the United Kingdom: executive summary
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Newsletter No. 25: ‘Painting the Forth Bridge’
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Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet?
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Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue
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Yesterday, I finished reading Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Marc Weidenbaum…
2021
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Add a Service Worker to Your Site
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This distraction-free editor is the best writing tool you aren’t using
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Choosing [the] least CO2-emitting form of digital communication
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Your CSS is an interface
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Adrian Chiles Does Not Miss
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Matthew Le Tissier and the Cosmic Right
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Less of “Less”
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Chatbots and the cult of technology
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So Long, Firefox
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The Bright Magic Podcast (Public Service Broadcasting on Berlin)
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Britain’s Mental Health Crisis Isn’t an Accident – It’s a Political Choice
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A thrilling encounter on the most inauspicious of days
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Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
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The internet was built for connection – how did it go so wrong?
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Ready, steady …oh. Can a life coach shake me out of my pandemic-induced ennui?
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When others stay silent about the ills of British capitalism, liars like Johnson rush in
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Seven principles of effective digital navigation
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QAplomb
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Turning a Little Blue
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Are we there yet?
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Making algorithmic dog food for the content factory
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Oliver Dowden: creating our own data laws is one of the biggest prizes of Brexit
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In a climate crisis, text should be default option for communication
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No share list
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CSS Hyphenation
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Dev builds perfect note-taking system which only stores info about building note-taking systems
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Redesign: Everything Broke
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The smartest 1-2%
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123. Constructing the Golem
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A People’s Architecture
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No Social Media Club
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Together in Electric Dreams
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Give Us a Three-Day Weekend at the Beach, Every Week (an interview with Héctor Tejero)
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The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was
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The Strangers’ Case
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Everything Was Dreadful And Then It Was Saved: Richard King Interviews Owen Hatherley
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My cross to bear: what it means to support England in these divided times
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CSS System Colors
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Man in Black at 50: Johnny Cash’s empathy is needed more than ever
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The Labour Party website
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Gadgets have stopped working together, and it’s becoming an issue
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If Apple is the only organisation capable of defending our privacy, it really is time to worry
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On The Ball & Off To The Ballet: Pat Nevin’s The Accidental Footballer
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Mother of Perl
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Is the stereotypical image of ‘Red Wall’ residents actually accurate?
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Satanic bikers, time portals and the Fall: the story of Mark E Smith’s secret screenplay
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The Mistake of A New Laptop
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Book review: ‘Suppose a Sentence’ by Brian Dillon
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Kobo Libra H2O: Liberated from Amazon?
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An open letter to Jason and David
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England’s Fan-Owned Clubs Show that Another Football Is Possible
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SOUNDWAVE : 57 : ROEDELIUS
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Get the FLoC out
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Second Beat Songs Hey Ya!
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When the queen dies
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After the Apocalypse
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Being an Opportunist Has Worked Well for Johnson. Why Not for Starmer?
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I Was Never in The Fall
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Modern G4 Cube is Working 🧊
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Nerdy in the extreme
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Bob Pape was a beloved father and foster carer. Did ‘eat out to help out’ cost him his life?
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Fear in your ear: the unstoppable rise of the horror podcast
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“We call it RSS” — an ambitious founder raises $400M at $8b valuation
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Emoji under the hood
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Improve the readability of the content on your website
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Silence about my race kept my family apart. Could a rescue dog bring us together?
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Ditch the elevator pitch
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Newsletters
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The Guardian view on Europe by train: virtue signalling
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Nextdoor Is Quietly Replacing the Small-Town Paper
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A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling
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The problem is poverty, however we label it
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Character, context and work
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The Stasi Game, by David Young – book review
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The Radicalization Of Giggle Palooza
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Next Gen Static Blogging
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In Critical Defense of Frontend Development
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On Brexit, grief and moving on
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All I want for 2021 is to see Mark Zuckerberg up in court
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Should I build the feature request from customers?
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