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• Lea Verou on web components — seems reasonable
• Barton Gellman on what could happen if Trump refuses to concede — alert alert alert the end of America is nigh and this article is important (also, Barton wrote Angler, which is a great book)
• In Abeyance — fascinating newsletter about the built world
• Interpolating stop motion up to 60fps via AI — great that it can do this, but I think maybe it loses something essential about stop motion too?
• Jason Kottke on getting rid of euphemisms about slavery — amen

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• Mar Hicks on technology built to last — COBOL sounds more and more intriguing (honestly!)
• Ehsan Noursalehi on the new Microsoft Teams dynamic video conferencing mode — this looks amazing and I want it
• Ehsan Noursalehi’s Why Do We Interface microbook — short read, worth it, and the microbook idea is interesting too
• Obsidian — another note-taking solution (don’t mind me, just poaching ideas for Arc)
• Jessica Kerr on software development as a craft — or not; good food for thought

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• Bryan Braun on his Music Box Fun project — quite enjoyed this (and it makes me want to make something similar, which is always a good sign)
• Doug Belshaw on working in public — great thoughts
• Alex Hope on finding Tony Abbott’s passport number on Instagram — a long read but oh is it hilarious and delightful
• Justin E. H. Smith on the philosophy of the Internet — fascinating throughout
• Bryan Braun (again) on web components — the past few years I’ve avoided frontend dev (I’m allergic to unnecessary stack complexity), but this post gives me hope

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• Austin Klein’s reasons for blogging — I blog for the same reasons
• Farnam Street on being a learning machine — a worthy goal
• Ben Kuhn’s list of programming essays — good collection (and if you have favorites that aren’t in his list, let me know)
• Bartosz Ciechanowski on lights and shadows — this along with his Gears and Tesseract posts are fascinating, with great interactive visualizations
• Min — minimalist web browser (and I’ll mention here that I’m veering closer and closer to spinning up my own WebKit-based keyboard-controlled extremely minimalist browser, so that I can have full control over the UI, but that also seems a little crazy)

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• Ben Kuhn on your attention being your scarcest resource — thinking a lot about this lately since I tend to have too many plates spinning at a time (his blog in general is quite good, by the way)
• Matt Webb on a countdown zine site — this countdown clock idea is intriguing and now I’m thinking about using this idea on some things
• Jake Archibald on AVIF — a new image compression format I’d never heard of but which looks quite promising
• Apocalyptic West Coast fires — whoa (“hot coals the size of marbles falling from the sky”)
• Self-powered wireless keyboard made out of paper — though with electronics printed on it (still cool)

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• The Handmade Network manifesto — I like this a lot (and would love to do more of this kind of coding)
• The Future of Coding weekly newsletter — fascinating posts and conversations, really digging this
• Ivan Reese’s Hest project — visual programming of sorts but with fascinating space/time travel aspects
• Logseq — an intriguing notebook system ala Roam (in the vein of digital gardens)
• Zig — still need more time to go through the overview here in depth, but I like what I’ve seen so far

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• Hundred Rabbits on their tools ecosystem — several of their philosophies here appeal a lot to me, and I love how constraints (electricity, etc. in their case) lead to interesting ways to solve problems
• Brandur on small, sharp software tools — how to avoid getting cut on all the extra complexity (from using many small tools together)
• Carolyn Barber in Scientific American on how Covid can wreck your heart even if you haven’t had any symptoms — a bit terrifying if I’m honest, but obviously still important to be aware of
• Doug Belshaw with a quote from Joseph Tainter on the Ik of Uganda — the societal differences are striking (it’s basically everyone for themselves, starting at the ripe old age of three years old)
• Ratko Jagodic on his VR research using the forearm for both input and display — promising and exciting

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• Jennifer Jacobs’ interview on the Future of Coding podcast — this is the area of HCI I’m most interested in
• Muse — an intriguing spatial canvas idea
• RFC8890, on the Internet being for end users — hear, hear
• Steven Johnson on the spark file — great idea
• The microCOVID Project — a layman’s method for quantifying Covid risk (probably not extremely accurate but interesting nonetheless)

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• Pantelis Kalogiros’s CSS 3D Adventure — impressive hack, which makes me think about other ways CSS’s 3D functionality could be used (for actual projects)
• Ethan Wang on leading-trim in CSS — a much-needed fix, looking forward to this getting implemented
• NASA’s patent for a new way to get to the moon — I…didn’t know these could be patented
• An animation showing how Jupiter’s gravity saves us from asteroids — thank you, Jupiter
• Ben Southwood on the rise and fall of the industrial R&D lab — oh how I wish I could have worked at Bell Labs or Xerox PARC

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• Jose-Luis Jimenez on Covid-19 being transmitted through aerosols — important piece
• Kapow! — cool idea to easily turn shell commands into HTTP APIs (thanks, Richard)
• Tom MacWright on ideas for reinventing the web — interesting thoughts (not sure how feasible in practice, though)
• Robert O’Callahan on some of those ideas — also interesting thoughts
• Tom MacWright again on React and the modern web — somewhat in the same vein because why not and I am a minimalist at heart

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