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• Ideas are vulnerable (Robin Rendle)
• My Failed Personal Site Redesign (Jim Nielsen)
• Flat files and data portability (Go Make Things)
• What about searching flat files? (Go Make Things)
• TUIs (Frontend Masters Boost)
• Layering CSS gradients (Cassidy Williams)
• Traveling to technical events: A guide (Cassidy Williams)
• Fever Feels Horrible, But Is Actually Helpful (kottke.org)
• The Intense Process of Designing Political Campaign Logos (kottke.org)
• Livestreams of Watering Holes in the Namibian Desert (kottke.org)
• Vivian Maier: Unseen Work (kottke.org)
• The Reason Social Security Currently Has a Funding Shortfall (kottke.org)
• I improved my iPhone’s battery life by changing these 10 settings (kottke.org)
• Drum Beat Typography (kottke.org)
• Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing (kottke.org)
• Point Break & Kathryn Bigelow’s Revolutionary POV Shots (kottke.org)
• The Evolution of Olympic Performances, 1912 to 2020 (kottke.org)
• Sending Unarmed Responders Instead of Police: What We’ve Learned (kottke.org)
• What’s In the Box? (The Olympics Medalists’ Box) (kottke.org)
• The World’s First Medieval Electronic Instrument (kottke.org)
• ‘We’re not doing anything wrong’: why the word Taiwan is banned at the Olympics (kottke.org)
• The Undisguised Extremism of the Republican Party (kottke.org)
• Ope! Sorry, I’m going to need you to explain what that word means and where it came from. (kottke.org)
• U.S. Athletes Are Taking Full Advantage of Free Healthcare in Olympic Village (kottke.org)
• Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia (kottke.org) — “The next election won’t be decided at a Ballot Box. It’ll be decided at the ammo box.”
• The Disciples (kottke.org)
• How ‘Inside Out’ and Its Sequel Changed Therapy (kottke.org)
• The Spielberg Face (kottke.org)
• The flow state: the science of the elusive creative mindset that can improve your life (kottke.org)
• CSS Chronicles XLII (CSS-Tricks) — A great update on the status of CSS-Tricks!
• Where You Can Still Get A Book Apart Titles (CSS-Tricks)
• On The Ground At Frostapalooza (CSS-Tricks)
• Frostapalooza (Jeremy Keith)
• Frostapalooza (Chris Coyier)
• Media Diet (Chris Coyier)
• My Mom Taught Me (SimpleBits)
• The Verge’s favorite audio gear (The Verge)
• Private Messaging (Louie Mantia)
• Forbidden Fruit (Louie Mantia)

News

• Procreate’s anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives
• Raspberry Pi 5 gets a cheaper 2GB option
• Apple Podcasts now has a web app
• The saga of the National Public Data Social Security number leak continues
• Valve bans Razer and Wooting’s new keyboard features in Counter-Strike 2
• Nvidia’s new G-Sync monitors no longer need a dedicated hardware module
• Atari’s new 7800 console remake can also play your old Atari 2600 cartridges
• US intelligence says Iran hacked the Trump campaign
• Microsoft Teams’ new single app for personal and work is now available
• Civilization 7 launches in February
• Civilization 7 lets you mix and match history — and it’s a blast
• Microsoft confirms Indiana Jones is coming to PS5 after its Xbox debut
• The FTC’s noncompete agreements ban has been struck down
• Volkswagen’s electric ID Buzz van will start at $59,995 in the US
• Lego’s Super Mario: Mario Kart sets will cross the finish line early next year
• The best sci-fi and fantasy books of 2024
• Jets trade Rutger McGroarty to Penguins for Brayden Yager
• Keanu Reeves signs hockey contract with Windsor Spitfires
• Valve officially announces Deadlock, a game ‘in early development’