Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox
Niki observes that Apple's new visionOS design violates the long-established standard (that was already being eroded by 'imaginative' Web designers) that checkboxes are square and radiobuttons are round.
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The Underground Blog
Chris McLeod's started a blog that's ONLY available via a feed reader. How cool is that?
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I don't want your data
Manu doesn't want your data, and I don't either.
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Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning
What if Weird Al wrote the original versions of the songs the covered, and the other artists did the parody covers? With "thanks" to AI voice deepfake technology, and some work by Andy Baio, we can answer that question.
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Out of the Trees
In 1976, Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams made a single episode of a sketch comedy show which was broadcast only once before the master tapes were destroyed. It took significant work to recover, but that's small potatoes compared to the ephemeral media we create today.
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Groundhog Day
After a break of nine and a half years, webcomic Octopuns is back!
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Woodward Draw
Over the course of three days, I completed excellent 4-letter-word-puzzle-game Woodward Draw, and I think you should give it a go too.
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Paul Labyrinth
An open-source program that combines WikiData with a random generator to come up with almost-invariably inaccurate but sometimes hilarious facts.
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The Miracle Sudoku
Three years after first enjoying it, I re-watched this spectacular video of... a man playing sudoku. It's way better than it sounds, I promise!
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Making a Home of Each Other (The Eggs)
Lucy Bellwood shared the story of how her wife produced a breakfast dish they called The Eggs, and it's the first and only "here's a recipe, but first my life story" article I've ever loved.
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Thoughts on Editing Posts
Kev Quirk commits to continuing NOT to edit his old blog posts. I'm in the same boat.
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Satoru Iwata's first commercial game has a secret
After a long hiatus, Codex has returned with a vlog about Satoru Iwata's history as a game developer. Nostalgic fun.
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Automattic Acquires ActivityPub Plugin for WordPress
WPTavern reports that Automattic is to acquire Matthias Pfefferle's ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, and I couldn't be more excited!
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The tape library robot that served drinks
@SecurityWriter shares a story about repurposing a backup tape management robot as a barkeep.
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Kev Quirk: Ten Years of Blogging
My thoughts on Kev Quirk's learnings from ten years of blogging.