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  • Heat Death of the Internet - takahē

    You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you saw in the window. When you download a second app the prices are different again. You ring

    → 12:13 PM, May 2
  • Illustrations by Ben Pearce, more on his site and Instagram.

    → 9:53 AM, May 2
  • How a Connecticut middle school won the battle against cellphones (🎁 link)

    Gabe Silver, another eighth-grader, echoed that sentiment. When the pouches first arrived, “everyone was miserable and no one was talking to each other,” he said. Now he can hear the difference at lunch and in the hallways. It’s louder. Students are chatting more “face to face, in person,” Gabe said. “And that’s a crucial part of growing up.”

    I know there has been pushback against The Anxious Generation’s use of research, but I tend to agree with Zoë Schiffer from Platformer. Too much phone time (for kids or adults) just feels bad:

    At the same time, we shouldn’t set aside the lived experiences of so many everyday smartphone users. For many of us, constant connectivity feels bad, and doomscrolling can heighten feelings of anxiety and depression. Meanwhile, getting outside and spending time with loved ones face to face can be the antidote to despair. I’m sympathetic to researchers who call attention to that dynamic, even if disputes remain about which claims are grounded in unassailable evidence.

    → 9:45 AM, May 2
  • Brutalist churches (dezeen.com)

    → 2:55 PM, Apr 30
  • COSMIC 🐙 SLOP on X: "orbital city of the future. postcard by soviet space artist andrei sokolov, 1982 https://t.co/B2BiorBKP6" / X

    — COSMIC 🐙 SLOP (@afrocosmist)

    → 1:28 PM, Apr 27
  • Sacred Modernity showcases "unique beauty" of brutalist churches


    Jamie McGregor Smith has spent the last five years capturing brutalist and modernist churches across Europe for his book Sacred Modernity.

    → 1:13 PM, Apr 27
  • Guardabosques' Meticulous Paper Portraits Celebrate Diverse Bat Species in 'Little Friends of Darkness' — Colossal


    For Guardabosques, the mind-boggling variety of bats inspires ‘Amiguitos de la Oscuridad,’ or “little friends of darkness.”

    → 1:07 PM, Apr 27
  • Music for Programming is nice. Reminds me of the old Left as Rain. 🤞 for the return of music blogs.

    → 9:34 AM, Apr 25
  • “Sightings” by Artist Cable Griffith


    A selection of paintings by Cable Griffith from his latest exhibition, “Sightings.”

    → 6:16 AM, Apr 25
  • Is the kottke.org comment section the best community on the web? I’m not a member yet, but I have been a lurker and it seems like a great place to hang out digitally.

    → 11:56 AM, Apr 24
  • Seven Minute Demos:

    People do demos of something they’ve built, or give a lightning talk on whatever topic they like. The demo/talk just has be less than 7 minutes long. There’s no minimum time limit. People can talk for 1 minute, 3 minutes, or take the whole 7. The time limit also lowers the barrier to entry and makes it less intimidating for people to sign up and speak.

    Yeah, 7 minutes feels about right!

    → 9:41 AM, Apr 24
  • The navigation for issue 3 of the HTML Review is too fun! Oh yeah, good links as well.

    → 4:28 PM, Apr 22
  • MY COMMENTS ARE IN THE GOOGLE DOC LINKED IN THE DROPBOX I SENT IN THE SLACK

    Too real.

    → 1:52 PM, Apr 22
  • File:Etna-Eruption-1766.jpg - Wikimedia Commons


    → 8:26 PM, Apr 19
  • Some things for week 16 of 2024.

    • Anyone else enjoy looking at the tracking details of a package. Watching an item wend it’s way through a system of warehouses, trucks / trains, and multiple states. Maybe I’m the only shipping infrastructure nerd out here.

    • “And yet, making observations is a good starting point for giving feedback. The trouble arises when we assume that those observations are both the start and the end, that we’re walking along a very short track.” From What you see by Mandy Brown. Can I say how much I appreciate everything changes? Lot’s of thoughtful writing!

    • The website for the restaurant, Madeline’s is just so great. I was thinking the receipt concept would break down with deeper navigation, but nope!

    • Lake Superior should really be considered an inland sea that is “wild, masterful, and dreaded.”

    • Ok, I want this van.

    → 12:03 PM, Apr 19
  • The Analog Web: “Owning your own piece of the Internet (to borrow a recent phrase from Anil Dash) is itself a radical act. Linking to others at will is subversive all on its own.”

    → 10:00 AM, Apr 17
  • Timex x Raised By Wolves

    → 9:57 AM, Apr 15
  • Paper and pencil: “The tool which allows you to plan, record, create, schedule, sketch, brainstorm and write a love note. Never be without the pair.”

    → 9:53 AM, Apr 15
  • The Death of the Follower: “Something that’s not contorting our online personas in the image of the algorithm to reach ~10% more strangers who probably don’t care, and won’t stick around.”

    → 9:50 AM, Apr 15
  • We Need More Calm Companies: “The path to success isn’t to “grind harder” but to build products that people want that you can sell with healthy profit margins.”

    → 9:46 AM, Apr 15
  • Detail from a geological map of Vermont.

    Source: are.na

    → 9:43 AM, Apr 15
  • Standard Ebooks: “A volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” /via Austin Kleon

    → 9:10 AM, Apr 12
  • The bus terminal for Huelva: “The bus platforms have been designed around a large circular courtyard juxtaposing the garden and the buses. The result is one of the most outstandingly attractive parts of the plan.”

    → 8:56 AM, Apr 12
  • Taliban Militants Fed Up With Office Culture, Ready to Quiet Quit: “Now, the men find themselves shackled with the bureaucracy of running a country as they work civilian jobs and security positions, spend too much time in traffic and on Twitter, and yearn for the tranquility of village life.” Not an Onion article.

    → 6:10 PM, Apr 11
  • Little Owl is part of the 50 birds project.

    → 9:57 AM, Apr 11
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