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First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

Art

  1. Consistency, But in Excellence Not Appearance (Jim Nielsen)
    8

    Consistency serves a purpose in visual design, but it seems to have become the purpose of a lot of visual design. Look no further than these evolutions of…

  2. Lossless GIF recompression via exhaustive search (Arusekk blog)
    3

    Exploring GIFs, flexiGIF and LZW compression

Film & TV

  1. One Thing I Like About Toy Story 5 (Spectre Collie)
    2

    Toy Story 5 did all the right things but still didn't resonate with me. But it has so many different kinds of horses!

Gaming

  1. Indie games are worth your time (Chris Kirk-Nielsen)
    18

    I don’t know if you play video games, but it’s likely you enjoy games in one form or another. Maybe you play a cozy game on your phone, a card game on your…

Life

  1. In Defense of the Marginal Baby (Casey Handmer's blog)
    5

    This Father’s Day, I took some notes on parenting and put them together here. The purpose of this post is to strongly advocate for people to increment their…

  2. Another Bloody PM (Happily Imperfect)
    3

    I’ll leave it to Ed Davey, of all people, to sum up what I think. “The British people are sick of being let down by an endless merry-go-round of prime…

  3. Challenge Completed: Marathon Races in All 16 Federal States of Germany (Tim Teege)
    3

    I’ve always liked to play. There’s this saying “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” — if that’s true I’m…

Nature

  1. Biking in Zuid-Kennemerland National Park (Peter's Path)
    3

    Biked in Zuid-Kennemerland National Park with a distance of 31.34 kilometres. Zuid-Kennemerland National Park sits on the North Sea coast in the province of…

  2. Mt Houou: an overnight hike in the Southern Alps (Emma Goto)
    4

    Mt Houou (鳳凰山, hou-ou-zan) is one of the peaks in the Southern Alps of Japan. Sitting at an elevation of 2841m, its summer climbing season starts a little…

Tech

  1. My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI Cable (Matthew Brunelle)
    17

    It turns out that a _very_ long HDMI cable, a Steam Controller 2 and Bazzite on a second drive was all I needed to get a comfortable couch gaming experience.

  2. What Was Matt Thinking? (Tedium)
    10

    The high schooler who developed everyone’s forums and guestbooks in 1996 didn’t really think about security when he was building all that software. But Matt’s…

  3. Valve Reveals The Steam Machine Pricing, And Oh Boy Is It A Kick To The Gut (blast-o-rama.)
    5

    Here ya go, folks — check it out here. Thanks to the aforementioned RAM and memory apocalypse happening due to so much of the current pipeline of RAM and…

  4. Accept cookies or pay? No thanks (Danielle's Diary)
    3

    One of my biggest pet peeves when visiting most commercial websites these days is the inevitable data privacy modal dialogue box that pops up on the screen.…

Writing

  1. The social contract of writing (jola.dev)
    10

    About the value of genuine writing in a world being drowned in slop.

  2. Supergirl gets the magazine format treatment (Every Day Is Like Wednesday)
    2

    We've seen these for Batman, Superman and the Justice League before (I posted about the latter here), and now, in this so-called "Summer of Supergirl",…

Still Bubbling

Already featured in a Briefing before. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

  1. Apparently I'm not a woman because I use Linux (Danielle's Diary)
    67
  2. Too much Friction on the Internet (Forking Mad+)
    26
  3. “Outlaw Billionaires” (Multiline Comment)
    39
  4. Blog posts as starting points (James' Coffee Blog)
    13
  5. prettiest girl today (Imperfect)
    7
  6. Small E-Ink Reader That Changed My Reading Habit (Matthew Bogart)
    72
  7. eipi.boo: confessions over ssh (pwnwriter.me)
    7
  8. Handwritten blog (V.H. Belvadi)
    26
  9. the girly wellness aesthetic as a white supremacist dog whistle (ava's blog)
    83

Tiny Bubbles

Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.