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Little Websites Everywhere

Related affirming web site building article I just read this morning: michellebarker.co.uk/writing/litt...

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So many client sites would start with mock-ups from non-web savvy designers, then have to be completely re-done during the build process, with team friction, which added quite-a-bit more scope. Sadly it's nearly impossible to sell a client on doing it this way — or designing the home page last.

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As to Mastodon and Blue Sky; I've felt a breath of fresh air from the firehouse of content that Twitter had become, and get more specific and curated interactions unique to each of those. Social media is different now — but also it takes time to re-build; That's happening, albeit slowly.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 12/10/2026

I too still feel the loss of Twitter, but when the API was converted to a 10k-a-month subscription a lot of us were kicked-out without warning. Totally user-hostile behavior, so I was out. I didn't want the forced algorithm vs the TweetBot hierarchical synchronized read items with no ads.

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Vector art from Adobe Stock has an .ai file extension even if it's actually EPS. EPS isn't losslessly compressed and is typically 3x the file size of .ai. I have a batch action that re-saves those as native .ai. It's a strange dance.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 12/10/2026

Adobe Illustrator formats are weird about embedding multiple formats within; Each .ai file that has previews enabled has a print-ready PDF file embedded within — that can be read w/o looking at the EPS or AI content, and is a workaround when one gets a corrupted .ai file.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 08/10/2026

"Silver coating adds to Captain D's specularity"

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

wanna know one of the dirty little secrets of how to make a cool science fiction set? this bad boy right here, the NFS 4 Freezer Spacer. this fucker shows up EVERYWHERE in scifi set design ceilings? check! floors? check! walls? check! tables? check! instant scifi vibe

a black freezer pallet spacer made of wide-corrugated plastic with cross ridges and grid holes (the majority are square, but there are vertical strips of long rectangular holes as well)

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/09/2026

This period will go down as one of the greatest moments for Democrat attack ads in history. We're seeing LBJ "Daisy"-level spots daily.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 25/09/2026

I don't see that in Safari 27 on Sequoia (yes, I have skipped Tahoe and won't move to Golden Gate till a few point releases are out). That looks like CSS flex box stretch being mishandled.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 18/09/2026

Trump's rather fixed position and head movements look like he's struggling to read a teleprompter and get through the filming as quickly as possible. I've seen other videos where he moves jerkily like that.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 18/09/2026

In this case I think his hands look better than usual, but the reflection of said hands matches the motion, which AI might mess up, so retouched maybe, but not fully generated.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 18/09/2026

I'm a video pro, though not an expert on detecting AI in all circumstances. Via a quick watch this doesn't look AI-generated though it could have had some post-processing to smooth skin/de-age (not uncommon these days). The resolution is low, which does hide a lot of detail as well.

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 18/09/2026

Screw the narrative. Don’t believe the scare. The Web will never die. Love seeing you all sharing and publishing content on here – and on your personal sites and newsletters! 💚✊

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 17/09/2026

Bravo! This is like the early days of web design, or Flash-driven sites — but with all the improved nuts-and-bolts we now have.

GitHub - ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt: A list of AI agents and robots to block.

Or what's stopping AI bots from scraping it all and offering it through paid subscription? I use a constantly updating robots.txt AI bot kill list for a number of client sites; So does css-tricks (I checked) — though its bot list is almost ~9 months out of date and missing 2/3rds of known bots.

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A list of AI agents and robots to block. Contribute to ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I see too many apps with janky embedded web views (Electron). Perhaps that's what's going on here given that the App Store exists in browsers as-well-as the native apps. Text-overflow is usually a fallback for constrained or specific circumstances; Seeing it in this context is a total WTF.

Is that... text-overflow: ellipsis being misused?

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 12/09/2026

Reports I've seen today show Golden Gate definitely has some bugs; As always they may not affect everyone's daily use. Nothing so far appears to be a universal show stopper, but I did see a lot of reports of kernel panics. Good luck!

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Wondering what the other two rights are...

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 10/09/2026

Gaming industry has always been a rough ride for workers. Timothy Cain (Fallout 1 and 2 + list goes on and on) has a good take on that:

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Industry Instability

YouTube video by Timothy Cain

Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 10/09/2026

Sure, I'd potentially add a site like CSS-Tricks as a "preferred source", but shouldn't the algorithm be capable of simply sorting that out already?

Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 09/09/2026

Same stigma happened with table tags after years of invisible tables being the best way to control web layout. Table tag markup is both semantic and less fuss than defining a similar grid for tabular data in a lot of cases. It's funny how sometimes "display: table" solves other problems as well.

Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 09/09/2026

"Clearfix" veterans (like me) are still shellshocked from years of layout hacking to achieve intended design. But float's original intended layout use is as valid as it ever was — and can be less markup in some situations. It's nice to have layout markup options too!

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 09/09/2026

From my experience designing movie posters, then sharing a comprehensive set of layouts for different uses: Someone else will upload a thumbnail to online service, ignore my specific variations and pick a wrong version — or poorly alter the art to adhere to display rules.

Screenshot of the poster master file layout variations for indie documentary "What the Hell Happened" is on the left, compared to another screenshot on the right showing the movie poster thumbnail that ended up on streaming service FAwesome.com that is a heavily edited version I did not create. The art was "scrubbed" by someone to remove small text that wouldn't be visible — except they went too far and removed handwritten text from the spine labels on a stack of VHS tapes that is used to showcase the five subjects in the film; The spines don't need to be legible when the art is displayed at small sizes so much as fulfill the context of DIY home-recorded VHS tapes with handmade labels.

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Ricky Mondello @rmondello.com · 08/09/2026

New post on my blog about switching password managers in 2026! It covers: - why your iPhone or iPad, and not your Mac, might be the place to start your switch - the recent controversy in password management and some thoughts on values - and more! rmondello.com/2026/09/07/s...

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Switching Password Managers in 2026

Important Note: Although I work at Apple in the password management and app/website authentication spaces, in this post I am speaking only for myself, personally. There is no “news” in this post or any kind of “inside scoop”. Please do share this post, but if I see “Apple’s Ricky Mondello” anywhere, I’ll be sad. My [...]

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 07/09/2026

Indie documentary by a filmmaker friend I worked on is now streaming free with ads; Off-and-on I spent 2.5 years making ~16m of collage-style animation, restoring photos, and more. It's about about life choices we all make and is both fun and therapeutic. fawesome.tv/movies/10827...

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Watch What the Hell Happened Full Movie Free Online - Fawesome TV

Five friends are documented over 33 years, revealing how small choices shape their lives. Their hopes, dreams, successes, and failures create a profound look at life's journey.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 30/08/2026

Weirdly one could edit a vertical video in Quicktime Player's goofy built-in editor easier than doing that!

Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 26/08/2026

I know that feeling; I was born 29 miles from Sevierville where Dolly grew up. I remember the driving through Pigeon Forge and seeing the Silver Dollar City theme park become Dollywood in 1986.

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 25/08/2026

Agree Alex's suggestion on locking-down Spotlight indexing; Not all software assigns ".noindex" when they should. Any temp or rapidly updating directory (esp. with lots of small files) will just drain Spotlights resources — and in most cases those directories gain nothing from being indexed anyway.

Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 25/08/2026

Fresh OS installs are great, but time-consuming. Before going through that process, download a tool called Etrecheck and run it. Even in the free mode it may present information on background apps or startup processes that will help you "weed out" first. It's way nicer than scanning log files.

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EtreCheck

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 25/08/2026

As if Windows XP SP3's changes were written around the needs of proprietary platemaking machine drivers or control software. In my old agency job we ran an old Retrospect OS9 Classic DLT backup system for decades after OS X fully took over. It always worked. Saved thousands on new licenses too.

Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 22/08/2026

@cabel.panic.com Idea for cheap @panic.com t-shirts: 1. Bulk buy Panasonic t-shirts for cheap 2. Remove middle letters from "Panasonic" 3. Remove "For" from the tagline. 4. PROFIT!!!!

Photo of a t-shirt with "Pa nic. for life" written on it. Obviously this used to be a "Panasonic Ideas for life" t-shirt but now it reads as "Panic for life".

Original photo found online, author unknown.

Norcross @floridanorcross.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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story time: so the NASA site build and re-platforming was a massive undertaking, as one might imagine. in addition to leading the dev team (4 of us total) i was personally tasked with building out the new underlying site architecture and then migrating the existing content. not a big deal, right? 🧵

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Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 19/08/2026

I started drawing with 1-bit pixels on 8-bit home computers, but didn't get a handle on it until I owned a 16-bit B&W Macintosh in the eighties; Susan Kare's work was a breath of fresh air and has always been a major inspiration. Also still a huge fan of the Atkinson dither.

Eric Peacock @ericpeacock.design · 18/08/2026

"Human avatars only" = creative way to reduce visual effects and let the actors stand out more.