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  • “I often wonder about the costs of the “digital echo.” What is the psychological cost of knowing that your actions aren’t just your own, but create information that can be observed and analyzed by others? As more aspects of our lives generate digital echoes, they force an ambient awareness of being perpetually witnessed rather than simply existing.”

    Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds

    11 April 2025
  • Homeownership is a lifelong commitment to discovering what it takes to modernize a legacy system and the lengths to which and compromises you will make in doing so.

    Dan Hon

    11 April 2025
  • “Books can be picked up at any time, and an idea that was written down in the past can be released back into the present, and help to influence a future.”

    How to organize your books

    11 April 2025
  • Source: dezeen.com

    11 April 2025
  • MF DOOM Instrumentals, something to listen to while you work.

    4 April 2025
  • a cutaway illustration of a cave from a children’s book. Includes a mole disco party, caveman slumbering with a mammoth, and tiny submarine exploring a cave lake

    From: cutaway house illustrations appreciation post & fan club by way of Meanwhile.

    24 March 2025
  • A pencil that has been painted to look like a cigarette

    “No Smoking” Mini Pencil

    24 March 2025
  • “A premonition is growing. I believe large swaths of the internet will be ceded, like it or not, to the creatures of the digital night: ghostly bots, cackling trolls, the baying hounds of attention. I imagine this future internet as a vast, boiling miasma, punctuated by signal towers poking up into the clear air: blogs & shops, beacons of reality & sincerity, nodes of a human overlay network.”

    Shopkeeper

    18 March 2025
  • 15 March 2025
  • Words: mundus sine caesaribus

    13 March 2025
  • Look: starlinkmap.org. We are surrounded.

    7 March 2025
  • Sites I like: coffeereceiptstories.com

    7 March 2025
  • “Meanwhile, my little home-cooked apps each do the one thing they are supposed to do, sparkle-free. These apps are substantially finished the day I “launch” them, and, unlike modern commercial software, they are allowed to just: be finished.”

    Five years of home-cooked apps.

    7 March 2025
  • Look: The illustrations of Evan Choen.

    7 March 2025
  • Look: The illustrations of Kari Modén.

    7 March 2025
  • Standing in the Doorway by Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, and Dylan Day. My Bandcamp Friday scoop. What you got?

    7 March 2025
  • Sites I like: Walkman.Land.

    4 March 2025
  • “When I was 7 I threw a ring I loved out of a car window as we searched for my dog who had run away, as an act of sacrifice to get her back. Well, guess what? She came back. And I’m still doing little spells to this day.”

    Casting Little Spells.

    4 March 2025
  • Look: Buildings as Isolated Facades.

    4 March 2025
  • Read: A lone dolphin has been yelling into Baltic Sea for years.

    3 March 2025
  • Listen: Welcome to the Jam: The looney story of the decades-old ‘Space Jam’ website. A conversation with the team that built the site, also serves as a look at what making websites used to be like way back in the day.

    3 March 2025
  • Sites I like: 18f.org. “But we came to the government to fix things. And we’re not done with this work yet.” Fuck yeah ❤️‍🔥

    3 March 2025
  • Look: The Perception of Doors.

    3 March 2025
  • Read: Jonathan Goldstein Joins Pushkin Industries to Revive Acclaimed “Heavyweight” Podcast. Yes!

    1 March 2025
  • Watch: Little Joys (2 minutes)

    28 February 2025

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