Articles by tobr
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Grok Is Glitching and Spewing Misinformation About the Bondi Beach Shooting (gizmodo.com)

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[flagged] Hammersmith Bridge – Where did 25k vehicles go? (nickmaini.substack.com)

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It's Been a Very Hard Year (bell.bz)

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Build Your Own Router with URLPattern() (jschof.dev)

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[flagged] Roblox CEO Makes a Fool of Himself in Car-Crash Interview (kotaku.com)

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Is Looking Ahead the Same as Guessing? (inkwellgames.com)

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Claude Is Listening (robinsloan.com)

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Perfecting Baseline (piccalil.li)

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The Overly Humble Programmer (jimmyhmiller.com)

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Text on a Curve (flickr.com)

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Shop Sans is a typeface for curved text paths (futurefonts.com)

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Alchemy (joshcollinsworth.com)

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'A perfect coincidence': rare red lightning captured in New Zealand skies (theguardian.com)

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An extraordinary colonial spider community sustained by chemoautotrophy (pensoft.net)

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Can text be made to sound more than just its words? (2022) (arxiv.org)

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Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts (dynomight.net)

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Receipts: A brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web (zeldman.com)

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An Abundance of Inspiration (robinrendle.com)

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NaN, the not-a-number number that isn't NaN (piccalil.li)

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OpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the Web Worse (adrianroselli.com)

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Where's the AI design Renaissance? (learnui.design)

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The Underscore Music Player (kottke.org)

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Ohno Type School: A (2020) (ohnotype.co)

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Lánczos Interpolation Explained (2022) (mazzo.li)

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A guide to creating accessible PDFs using free tools (piccalil.li)

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UX Entropy (allenpike.com)

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DFACE.app (harvey.studio)

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Ready for Developer Testing: Scoped View Transitions (bram.us)

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The Riven (1997) Navigator (glthr.com)

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Infinite Mac: Resource Fork Roundtripping (persistent.info)

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Welcome to Macintosh: Andy Hertzfeld interview [video] (youtube.com)

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One List to Rule Them All (nerdy.dev)

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Interviewing the couple in the Will Smith AI crowd video (waxy.org)

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A History of the Apple Human Interface Group (1998) (cwi.nl)

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An Update on New Computer and Dot (new.computer)

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Git Diagramming "The Weave" (daverupert.com)

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GitHub – 2swap/swaptube: YouTube video renderer (github.com/2swap)

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Highland Pro, Screenwriting Software for Mac (quoteunquoteapps.com)

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I guess I was wrong about AI persuasion (dynomight.net)

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Time Is on My Side (frankchimero.com)

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Palindromer (github.com/hackerpoet)

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We shouldn't have needed lockfiles (tonsky.me)

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A modest proposal for new holidays to manage your digital life (daverupert.com)

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Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog (patreon.com)

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Adventures in Data Corruption (transistor.fm)

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Is the doc bot docs, or not? (robinsloan.com)

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The Rise and Fall of Chisanbop [video] (youtube.com)

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Don't Get Fooled: The Rise of AI-Generated Plant Scams (bobsmarket.com)

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Building Ramps to Extend Corgispace (vbuckenham.com)

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Roons (whomtech.com)

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Scroll snapping, state queries, monster hunter, and gamification (utilitybend.com)

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Subst(hacked): How Deceptive Design Fuels Their Growth (builtformars.com)

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The Myst Graph, 4: What's Next? (glthr.com)

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AI web scrapers: a data point (zarfhome.com)

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Decorative Text Within HTML (shkspr.mobi)

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AirPod Noises (airpodnoises.net)

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Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster (allenpike.com)

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Proof that Patrick Stewart exists in the Star Trek universe (ironicsans.ghost.io)

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I Want No One Else to Succeed (kottke.org)

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I made a new kind of slide rule: Helical 3D-printable slide rule [video] (youtube.com)

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Saying Bye to Glitch (pketh.org)

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The weight of an entire industry trying to convince you that you're inadequate (buttondown.com/monteiro)

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The Shareholder Supremacy (wheresyoured.at)

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Surrendering to the Surface (robinsloan.com)

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Making of Clavis Cælestis: A Synopsis of the Universe (c82.net)

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You can style alt text like any other text (piccalil.li)

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Moving from Notion to Obsidian (daverupert.com)

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The Weird 1970s Mechanical PONG [video] (youtube.com)

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Organizing a Design System via Folksonomy (ericwbailey.website)

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Merlin's Wisdom Project (github.com/merlinmann)

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Post-Chat UI (allenpike.com)

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An online exhibition of pretty software bugs (glitchgallery.org)

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Claimify: Extracting high-quality claims from language model outputs (microsoft.com)

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Figma Dreamweaver (productpicnic.beehiiv.com)

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Growing Chili Peppers: A Home Guide (jmswrnr.com)

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The Myst Graph, 3: Creating the Graph Using DeMystify (glthr.com)

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Apple Turnover (hypercritical.co)

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The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind (alex.party)

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The History of Album Art (matthewstrom.com)

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The ‘Profound’ Experience of Seeing a New Color (theatlantic.com)

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Visiting Us (epic.com)

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Experimenting is above all a process (205.tf)

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Introduction to A5 (a5geo.org)

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Figma tells AI startup to stop using the term 'Dev Mode' (theverge.com)

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[flagged] I'm getting fed up of making the rich, richer (bell.bz)

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First Look at the Modern Attr() (ishadeed.com)

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Trapping Images in Feedback Loops with the HD Video Feedback Fractal Device (youtube.com)

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Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams Review – Zuckerberg and Me (theguardian.com)

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The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst (glthr.com)

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New York and Erie Railroad Organizational Diagram (c82.net)

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Making of the New York and Erie Railroad Organizational Diagram (c82.net)

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Is AI a Silver Bullet? (ian-cooper.writeas.com)

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Solving the internal / external API riddle (val.town)

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Grid First, Flex Third (alex.party)

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You should know this before choosing Next.js (eduardoboucas.com)

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Can generative AI write contextual text descriptions? (tetralogical.com)

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Infinite Mac OS X (persistent.info)

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The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI Reshaping Teamwork (ssrn.com)

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The Cybernetic Teammate (oneusefulthing.org)

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Ride the Wave (fs.blog)