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  • Fourth Amendment?

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly…

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  • You Should Try Markdown

    This week’s thing I like is Markdown. It is a syntax for adding formatting to plain text files in a way that is both still readable as plain text and that can be processed into rich document formats like HTML.…

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  • New Job

    Not quite two years ago, I left my job at GitHub. It was not bringing me any joy, and I was lucky enough to be in a position that I was able to take a long break from having a…

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  • Simple.css

    Simple.css, like its name implies, is a simple CSS framework. It includes styles for standard html elements with very little needed to make an html page look pretty nice and adapt to different screen sizes and light/dark mode. I stumbled…

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  • The Freedom to Let Children Die

    Florida plans to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren, rejecting a practice that public health experts have credited for decades with limiting the spread of infectious diseases. Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, the Florida surgeon…

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  • A Notional Design Studio

    Because, yes: this “America by Design” page is shoddily made, and poorly written. But the authoritarian impulse — to erase histories, to control a narrative, to single-mindedly focus on image and aesthetics — shapes not just the site’s text, but its design as well.…

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