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You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/

A furious, very well written reply to an ableist and arrogant linux developer.

 
Added 9 months ago
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Making Software
https://www.makingsoftware.com/

Wow, an incredible "book" about how digital things work. Can’t wait to see more articles.

 
Added 7 months ago
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How to Become a Time Billionaire
https://archive.is/CBhrS

While the idea is nice: own your time, don’t let notifications and managers own it. There is one important flaw though: the word billionaire. Becoming a billionaire is not a good idea, it is a ridiculous american dream.

 
Added 7 months ago
Words of Type | Encyclopedia
https://wiki.wordsoftype.com/?view=grid

This is an incredible resource: many (really, many) words that letter-professionals use explained in quite a few languages. Wow!

 
Added 9 months ago
Nederland wil van Amerikaanse cloud af, maar weet niet hoe - Follow the Money - Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek
https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/amerikaanse-cloud-ondermijnt-de-soevereiniteit-van-europa?share=KhaJE%2FB4FN0%2Fz88WK9mF049JYxOT0A3DB22NFh0d7xiukJHQFuxkLkp6FlecnyQ%3D

Oef, wat zijn digitale directeuren toch belachelijk voorzichtig.

 
Added 7 months ago
Hiut Denim | No Growth
https://hiutdenim.co.uk/pages/no-growth

I agree with the idea that businesses do not need to grow. Growth is the ideology of a tumor, of a parasite.

 
Added 7 months ago
Don't believe ChatGPT - we do NOT offer a "phone lookup" service
https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/dont-believe-chatgpt

One of the sad stories where a lying bot affects a product.

 
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Toolspace
https://letterror.com/articles/toolspace.html

Very interesting article about the idea that designer should make (hone) their own tools. Some quotes:

It is precisely the task of designers (graphic, industrial or whatever) to discover new possibilities.

Limitations and demands imposed by a client are easier to accept than the arbitrary limitations of your digital tools.

After all, programming graphic programs is much too important to leave to programmers.

Explorers, and that is what they are, do not want to do the same thing twice.

 
Added 9 months ago
HTML Form inspector | Polypane
https://polypane.app/form-inspector/

A tool to see if your HTML form is well formed.

 
Added 9 months ago
Doctored Doom
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/drdoom/

Oof, depressing article about the collapse of education

 
Added 8 months ago
Overview ‹ Your Brain on ChatGPT — MIT Media Lab
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/your-brain-on-chatgpt/overview/

Your brain is less active when you use tools instead of just your brains. Not very shocking. Rather obvious.

 
Added 9 months ago
Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories | drew's dev blog
https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/artisanal-git/

Making a git repo, completely manually. A clever explanation about how git works, and what it does.

 
Added 7 months ago
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen – Random Thoughts
https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/

Brilliant and wonderfully written article which says that everybody who doesn’t use a microwave for all their cooking is missing out.

 
Added 7 months ago
Sceptical about website carbon emission figures - Fershad Irani
https://fershad.com/notes/sceptical-about-website-emissions/

A comment on the value of estimating the carbon footprint of websites.

 
Added 7 months ago
Unraveling the Disability Pride Flag • Buttondown
https://buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archive/unraveling-the-disability-pride-flag/

Very, very long piece about stuff around the disability pride flag, some sort of weird conflict it seems to have with an earlier disability flag. Some interesting observations about what it really means to design with a community as well.

 
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De klok tikt door, maar we hebben de tijd - NRC
https://archive.is/tYmpb

Mooi artikel over tijd, over The Clock, over de expo in Breda, over verschillende soorten tijd.

 
Added 7 months ago
Send Big Files up to 5GB Securely. Tresorit Send: Secure, Fast & Free
https://send.tresorit.com/

A good alternative to wetransfer

 
Added 8 months ago
GitHub - kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic: Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.
https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

Tool for better audio control on Mac

 
Added 7 months ago
The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-force-feeding-of-ai-on-an-unwilling

Numbers about the idea that people do not want AI.

 
Added 8 months ago
Vasilis van Gemert | Time and Random Repetition | letterspace.amterdam 58 | June 11 2025 on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/1095857099

A talk I have about my clocks

 
Added 9 months ago
How Elites Rebrand Power as Virtue - CounterPunch.org
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/how-elites-rebrand-power-as-virtue/

A well informed rant against rutger bregman and his school for moral ambition, a powerwashing school for the elite, for them to feel good, but not to solve the issues they cause irl.

 
Added 7 months ago
72 Seasons
https://veryinteractive.net/pages/72seasons.html

Wonderful, the old Japanese calendar was divided into 72 seasons, each of a few days. I wonder if something like this could be made for my backyard, for instance.

 
Added 9 months ago
Do you speak typography? » Fontstand News
https://fontstand.com/news/essays/do-you-speak-typography/

Very interesting article about the work that went into creating Words of Type.

 
Added 9 months ago
The sound of inevitability | My place to put things
https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/

Some interesting ideas here, most notably that you should decide what the discussion is about. At the moment, silicon valley decides and that’s bad.

 
Added 7 months ago
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