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. against narrative identity

. ontological status

. the convenience fallacy

. the ground we presently stand

. the very concept of a thinking tool

. things I'd love to write about

. thinking through writing

. this thing of ours

. to name a world

. when design dictates thought

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: American pragmatism

: Unexpected Wittgenstein

: a naturalist’s world

: matter and form

: philosophical prose

: questioning correspondence

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; aesthetics reading notes

; algorithmic line breaking

; how to design an interface

; markdown deep dive

; useful little tools for web dev

; ways & means to deploy a website

; ways of worldmaking notes

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= calling people 'users'?

= design thinking bad

= science redraws the lines

= screens are scary

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– bookshelf of dreams

– cinema baby

– computational concepts and implementations

– conversations that opened my mind

– good personal blogs

– individuals and groups I admire

– lecture collection (design)

– lecture collection (philosophy)

– novel digital formats

– papers that I found compelling

– papers that I’d like to read in the future

– printed matter

– typefaces, foundries, and type publications to explore

– websites I think are interesting

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— CSS feature requests

— Public domain texts that would be fun to design

— aphoristic prose

— character anecdotes

— component architecture

— cookie requests

— dear visitor

— design for dry subject matter

— dusty stuff from the archives

— editorial on screen

— editorial on screen: [meta]

— editorial on screen: dynamic photo presentation

— editorial on screen: home pages

— editorial on screen: interactives

— editorial on screen: issues

— editorial on screen: reading experience

— editorial on screen: references

— editorial on screen: two-column web readers

— fiction baby

— first paragraphs

— future covers for music playlists

— games I played on my parents’ dinosaur PC

— git mischief

— good smileys :^)

— how do you describe philosophy at a party?

— illustration I think is neat

— illustration: cross section

— illustration: isometric

— illustration: west coast

— institutions that foster compelling design

— list-style archives

— living the designer/publisher dream

— my favorite story music

— my favorite video game music

— obscure and pleasant design terminology

— owls i like

— people reclining

— philosophers with glowing eyes

— planimetric composition

— portals to another world

— prehistoric internet

— presenting work as a continuous scroll

— presenting work: print + process work

— responsive photo arrangement

— restricted palette

— sexy letterforms

— sources of data

— support chat intimacy

— the art of computer designing

— the sum of inline images

— the visual language of the Chicano movement

— type: condensed gothic on green

— type: crunchy serifs

— type: impractical scripts

— type: sans+personality

— type: this font style I don't know what to call

— type: west coast

— type: “vector typography”

— unwarranted design hate

— video games for grownups on the internet

— walk soundtracks

— web-oriented design criticism

— website as a collection of boxes

— website as a home

— website says hello

— websites with "covers"

— websites with overlapping sheets

— what I appreciate in a philosophy teacher

— works in progress on Are.na

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` an ambient wishlist

` some of my favorite channels

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21st century hippies on Are.na

A

Are.na: community best practices

an ode to ambience

an ode to the monospace

B

birds on the wire

C

D

E

eat trash be free

F

facts versus conventions

G

goby feature repository

goby hypothetical use cases

goby references

H

hyperspecific collection channels

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J

Judge a book by its cover channels

L

logic and pedantry

M

N

noodling around

noodling, to noodle

P

programmer brain

R

reflecting ourselves in our surroundings

requesting a 'suggestion' feature

S

SO MANY GARDENS

sublime humility

sublime mechanics

sublime stillness

T

The Serpent Club

The nothing genre

Tractatus Visualizations

thank goodness for JS libraries

thank you for attributing your blocks

the abundance fallacy

the most ambitious crossover 🤝

thematic imagery

to be a generalist

to have healthy dialogue on Are.na

V

verificationism: the remix

W

wait, you can do that?

went to the museum

whirl of organism

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