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Daring Fireball
16 Jan 15:34 • John Gruber

Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018–2026

blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-design-convergence-review-2018-2026/

Keith Broni, writing at Emojipedia, has a good illustrated survey of how most emoji sets have converged in meaning — almost entirely toward Apple’s designs: There are several structural reasons why Apple’s designs so often become the gravitational center of emoji converg...

xkcd.com
16 Jan 15:06

International Station

Welcome to the International Space Station Exclamation Point!

kottke.org
16 Jan 15:03 • Jason Kottke

At the Stone Skimming World Championships in Scotland (at an old slate...

At the Stone Skimming World Championships in Scotland (at an old slate quarry), it’s distance that counts, not the number of skips. “Anyone who is familiar with slate could instinctively tell you that it’s a particularly good rock for skimming.”

Dan’s Polaroids
16 Jan 15:01

16.01.2026

Inside a greenhouse with a narrow path in the middle and small
plants in pots to either side. — Grow grow, little plants!

Radiolab
16 Jan 15:00 • WNYC Studios

The Punchline

50:33

This episode, first aired in 2019, brings you the story of John Scott, the professional hockey player that every fan loved to hate. A tough guy. A brawler. A goon. But when an impish pundit named Puck Daddy called on fans to vote for Scott to play alongside the world’s...

FeedCity
16 Jan 14:09

New logo icon

FeedCity now has an updated logo icon. Here is the previous and the new icon side by side (the old one left/first): It’s for sure an incremental update, but the larger RSS icon makes it a little more recognisable in small sizes. Plus, it looks a little more polished. The site and its manifest.json file now also include a maskable version without the surrounding circle. This way, operating systems can crop or mask it as they see fit when installing FeedCity as an app (PWA), making the icon look more native to the platform. (If you had FeedCity already installed as an app, you need to reinstall it to make the new icon show.) /Daniel

Features | The Verge
16 Jan 12:00 • Justine Calma

How to fireproof a city

Down the street from the Los Angeles Angels' stadium in Anaheim, a crowd gathers to watch two homes burn. In less than 30 minutes, one structure is reduced to its smoldering, blackened wood frame, while the other, thanks to simple changes to its design, is remarkably unscathed. Of course, this was the point of the […]

Daniel Pietzsch
16 Jan 11:08

🎬 Checker Tobi 3 - Die heimliche Herrscherin der Erde

letterboxd.com/danielpietzsch/film/checker-tobi-3-die-heimliche-herrscherin/

Kackfurzgute Unterhaltung für Jung und Alt. Lustig, kurzweilig, lehrreich. Nix zu meckern an diesem Kinonachmittag.

Simon Willison's Weblog
16 Jan 00:15

Open Responses

Open Responses This is the standardization effort I've most wanted in the world of LLMs: a vendor-neutral specification for the JSON API that clients can use to talk to hosted LLMs. Open Responses aims to provide exactly that as a documented standard, derived from OpenAI's R...

kottke.org
15 Jan 21:51 • Jason Kottke

By All Measures. “Our scales are too imbalanced; we are unable to...

By All Measures. “Our scales are too imbalanced; we are unable to think the unthinkable. It goes without saying that it can be paralyzing, demoralizing, to be an individual acting as part of the collective, globe-sized world.”

kottke.org
15 Jan 20:15 • Jason Kottke

Visualizations of the growing undersea network of submarine cables, 2013-2025....

Visualizations of the growing undersea network of submarine cables, 2013-2025.

kottke.org
15 Jan 19:18 • Jason Kottke

The Florentine Codex

The Florentine Codex is a 16th-century illustrated encyclopedia of indigenous Mexico, “the most reliable source of information about Mexica culture, the Aztec Empire, and the conquest of Mexico.” Courtesy of the Getty, the entire document is online and searchab...

kottke.org
15 Jan 18:18 • Jason Kottke

Many of us have “lost the future” during the radical uncertainty brought...

Many of us have “lost the future” during the radical uncertainty brought about by polycrisis. “I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me — now I, like many others, find it difficult to be productive.”

kottke.org
15 Jan 17:03 • Jason Kottke

From XKCD, some common sailing rigs, including the ketch, schooner, offset rig,...

From XKCD, some common sailing rigs, including the ketch, schooner, offset rig, and oops all spinnakers.

Simon Willison's Weblog
15 Jan 16:36

The Design & Implementation of Sprites

The Design & Implementation of Sprites I wrote about Sprites last week Here's Thomas Ptacek from Fly with the insider details on how they work under the hood. I like this framing of them as "disposable computers": Sprites are ball-point disposable computers. Whatever ma...

kottke.org
15 Jan 15:45 • Jason Kottke

Bread Infographic

London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business: From their post: This comes off the back of a big decision to increase our bakers’ pay ahead of the new London Living Wage coming in April 2026. Th...

kottke.org
15 Jan 15:18 • Jason Kottke

“This should be the year you stop trying so hard to turn...

“This should be the year you stop trying so hard to turn yourself into a better person, and focus instead on actually leading a more absorbing life.”

Features | The Verge
15 Jan 14:00 • Stevie Bonifield

I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows

It was an overcast January morning in 2025 the day I decided to delete my operating system. The Ubuntu installer warned me that it would remove everything on my hard drive, permanently wiping the entire Windows 10 installation I'd been running for years at that point. I hesitated for a second - maybe I should […]

Dan’s Polaroids
15 Jan 12:09

15.01.2026

Overall dark (blue) image. The sky in the upper 3/4ths, the
ground below. A large leafless tree fills the frame. A stone square with a
cross on it stands on the ground in front of the much large tree. — It's dark in the mornings.

Dan’s Polaroids
15 Jan 11:36