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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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The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

This video from Lindsay Ellis discusses empathy, antisemitism, genocide, and Ms Rachel. It is long, but well worth watching. The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel (YouTube – Lindsay Ellis)
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You Should Try Markdown

New Job

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The Freedom to Let Children Die

A Notional Design Studio

The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

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