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Anything that catches my eye or worthy of comment, often accompanied by some short thoughts.
This, on those all-too-common historical “everything had to change, so that everything could stay the same” moments, and how we deal with them, resonated with...
This is a perceptive article. I’d add we’re happy with politicians lying in certain circumstances because we understand sometimes they have to. I doubt Johnson...
I loved this piece of flash fiction, via @martinbelam (“stroking my sides” is particularly good). And I would love it even more if there was...
This is quite cool – the dude basically stripped out an iconic (2000-ish?) Mac G4 cube, put a new motherboard and SSD in – et...
Here’s an interesting review of Obsidian. What do we think? It is, as far as I can tell, an app for storing and relating notes....
This is sad, but also very calm in the way it analyses what the government got so wrong after the first lockdown.As I noted yesterday,...
Really glad to see the horror story podcast developing as a genre in and of itself – The Lovecraft Investigations kept me sane during lockdown,...
Ho ho ho.
If this deep dive into the what, how and what!? of unicode and emojis doesn’t cheer you up, then fair enough, but it’s great! 𓂹...
This is great – a “going with the CSS grain”, smart, truly responsive approach to styling longform texts so they’re readable. If I start using...