Links
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Cy Cordner | No Mercy / No Malice
This is just a nice, quite heartwarming, story.
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Karan Mahajan on Twitter: “Some years ago, I was lucky to take a class…” / Twitter
A 69 page PDF of writing quotes shared by Denis Johnson. I love the obviously copied-and-pasted fonts and formatting of this.
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Scaled Industries
Detailed 3D printed squares of cities for sale. Very nice.
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Energy Flash: rave before rave
Scroll down for the/a origin of raves at George Melly and Mick Mulligan’s West End Jazz Club.
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Running a Successful Membership / Subscription Program — by Craig Mod
Another good update, after two years of running his program. I love this kind of “lessons learned / how to” thing.
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SmolCSS
Very little snippets of very modern CSS doing a single thing. As I’m a long way from the cutting edge CSS wise, this is useful. By Stephanie Eckles. (via @simonw)
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A short essay on pricing pen plotter art
An excellent, interesting and useful post from Rev Dan Catt on pricing your art (any kind of art really).
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Homebrew Python Is Not For You // Justin Mayer
I think I’ve escaped this by using pyenv (and/with pipenv) but it’s such a mess. (via @simonw)
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Disqus, the dark commenting system
If comments are important enough to to have on your site, host your own (not what this article concludes, but what I say).
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archives.design
I like this idea, curating a topic-specific collection of material from the Internet Archive.
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What do you always recommend to people? | Ask MetaFilter
Many cool tools, life hacks, etc.
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Papercraft Models — Rocky Bergen
For a rainy day. (via Things Magazine)
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GitHub - jaakkopasanen/AutoEq: Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses
BRB I’m just heading off down a rabbit hole.
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Best Linocut Inks for Block Printing on Paper and Fabric — Linocut Artist | Boarding All Rows
Also, maybe for future me. Or past me.
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Choosing Good Papers for Hand Printing Linoleum Blocks — Boarding All Rows
For possible future reference. Who knows.
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My Five Favourite Pfeils - Colin Blanchard
For linocuts.
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Intaglio Printmaker | Intaglioprintmaker
Online shop for tools and materials, based in SE1.
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the sun is going down and you’re getting cold - Garbage Day
“Things that make sense on the internet, when spoken out loud, slip away from you as if you were trying to recall a dream.” So good, on social media and the US Capitol riot.
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“down so bad im 3rd wheeling an e-couple 🤦♂️” - Garbage Day
The first bit is very good on the nature of Twitter.
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Pluralistic: 13 Jan 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
How Cory generates the various versions of his daily posts, threads, etc. It isn’t a single, streamlined multi-platform CMS…
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ONS Basemaps Comparison
Nice way to compare places in the UK on new and old maps.
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Everything You Need To Know About Getting Back Into Tumblr - Garbage Day
I’ve been using Tumblr for years but in a way I’ve never really *used* Tumblr and this is a great guide.
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Mug | Set of 2 | By Monoware | A cosy cup in hand
Nice, if smallish, mug.
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Alex Abramovich · Even When It’s a Big Fat Lie: ‘Country Music’ · LRB 8 October 2020
Good, critical review of Ken Burns’ ‘Country Music’ and the rest.
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Andrew O’Hagan · I’m being a singer: Dandy Highwaymen · LRB 8 October 2020
On the New Romantics. “It turns out that the inheritors of punk were not those little indie bands I loved … Male indie kids were completely conventional, scrubbed boys, who went to the same barbers as their fathers, supported the same football teams, and wore the same aftershave.”
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What’s your financial origin story? (Monevator)
Scores of interesting comments from readers about how and when they began saving/investing in order to, hopefully, become financially independent.
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A Simplified Guide to Clothing Production – The Rosenrot | For The Love of Avant-Garde Fashion
I do enjoy rough guides on how to start doing something, written from experience.
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A technical and privacy review of Cloudflare Web Analytics
Interesting look at whether it’s good or not (via Dan in my comments)
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How to Favicon in 2021: Six files that fit most needs — Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Still an enormous faff though. (via Michael Tsai)