Further to our conversation pushing back against the ideal that good design is a “nice to have” and that somehow having beautiful public transport infrastructure is a wasteful indulgence: check this out. This is utterly stunning, and as Aucklanders we should be so so proud: youtu.be/RZlclRhB3vo?...

Inside Auckland’s City Rail Link | A First Look at the Architecture of the Three New Stations

YouTube video by Home of Architecture

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Possibly going to be in Sydney this spring with two small/medium kids. First time there, will be hitting a lot of touristy spots. Who’s got Sydney recommendations? Looking for nice places to eat, cool parks, playgrounds, cafes, really anything that’s fun and near the city centre.

Don't worry everyone, I'm busy updating my Reverse Colonialism World Cup Rankings for the round of 32. #worldcup

Heads up, the Lexaloffle terms of use will change later this week to disallow genAI content. The proposed update aims to protect the current BBS culture without excluding usability. Any comments welcome (here or hey at lexaloffle dot com). Draft: pastebin.com/raw/v8cvrdgv #pico8 #picotron

The little algorithm on my personal site continues slowly generating art for everyone who visits, up to 793 little public domain illustrations. Hoping to break 1000 soon. www.matthewhowell.net

Once again, I’m asking you to @ me if you’re a human in #Aotearoa #NZ bsky.app/profile/did:...

whoops we apolitically installed an unaccountable christofascist autocracy, as one does

Lawrence Hurley@lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: Chief Justice John Roberts bemoans that Americans don't understand how the Supreme Court operates and see justices as "political actors". The court at times simply has to make "unpopular" decisions, he adds: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Once again, I’m asking you to @ me if you’re a human in #Aotearoa #NZ bsky.app/profile/did:...

Looking through different baseball advanced stat formulae to come up with a suitable Wins Above Replacement (WAR) for books, using literary prize nominations and wins.

Me, singing, when I see you using your time on the Internet to complain about other people spending their time IRL attending a peaceful protest: 🎶 hey, you should stop, unfollow block 🎶

Accepting recommendations for a fun, small, well-made, nice-looking, CD player that isn’t super expensive and is robust enough to survive regular use by children. Anything? Transport only is fine, built in speakers are fine.

the Forever Wars are still underused for tragicomedy, honestly, but 'Arabic interpreter gets deployed to Afghanistan' is a good starting premise

Travis@someforeignfield.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I spent 45 minutes trying and failing to convince a full bird Colonel with multiple Afghanistan and Iraq deployments that Afghanistan is not an Arabic speaking country. I was helped in this discussion (to no avail) by two Afghan interpreters who were more polite than I was.

Anyone running alternative firmware on their Kobo reader? Anything that supports libraries? I use my Kobo exclusively for Overdrive, but it's been so buggy for the last year that it barely functions (can't browse lists, search rarely works, etc).

"When was the last time you visited a someone's personal website?" If personal web logs count, a few hours ago. If blogs don't count, a few hours ago. (You should see my rss reader)

"Does 200 lines of Python code *understand anything*?" this by @rusty.todayintabs.com is a must-read

A.I. Isn't People

How many Reddit posts does it take to learn to read?

todayintabs.com

As a connoisseur of online color tools, it’s such a delight to discover a new funky take on the palette generator experience. I love the Teenage Engineering / Dieter Rams aesthetic here colorpalette.pro

Color Palette Pro — A Synthesizer for Color Palettes

Generate customizable color palettes in advanced color spaces that can be easily shared, downloaded, or exported.

colorpalette.pro

Are you an author who sells DRM-free epubs? I’d like to read them, links please.

President of #webcomponents logging on to share a couple good posts from over on the @frontendmasters.com blog... Here we go...

How I Write Custom Elements with lit-html

You can use a smaller part of Lit to build web web components that still take advantage of some of it's best features, particularly if you're cool with Light DOM.

frontendmasters.com

Invoker Commands feel like something the platform should have had decades ago. Comparing its functionality to how we traditionally have to toggle a dialog makes current practice seem straight-up absurd. dbushell.com/2026/02/12/d...

Declarative Dialog Menu with Invoker Commands

The one where I unpack the new CSS behind my menu

dbushell.com

Book menu breakdown 📙 #pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

Nodding and feeling very grateful that we get to have Cory writing so clearly about AI. 👏 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

theguardian.com

Cool: built a little Cloudflare worker to generate public domain art for my personal website, uses a tiny little SQL database and bit of JavaScript to generate SVGs Not cool: site gets hit so hard by bots that Cloudflare's free worker limits are immediately exceeded and the worker shuts down

Pushed two new photos from my personal NYC archives. www.matthewhowell.net/photos/

📝 My OS is my CMS: - Read my site in the browser - Click 'Edit' to tweak a post - Opens iA Writer with that post's markdown file - Edit - Fire shortcut to trigger build - Refresh page I love links and custom protocols! blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/os-as-c...

Creating “Edit” Links That Open Plain-Text Source Files in a Native App

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Hyper-local Auckland news: the flying fox at the playground in Western Park is not operational, cord removed, no signage posted

Hello atmosphere ! Over the last few weeks, a bunch of us have been collaborating on a new set of lexicons for publishing, indexing, and building out social features across long-form reading and writing apps ! 🧵1/7

Standard.site - One schema. Every platform.

Standard.site provides shared lexicons for long-form publishing on AT Protocol. Making content easier to discover, index, and move across the ATmosphere.

standard.site

🎥⭐️ New Video⭐️🎥 Re-creating the Top-Down movement of #Zelda games in #Pico8 ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=frqf...