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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 11/09/2026

Never saw Titanic when it was released so I'm watching it for the first time as it's on Japanese telly. Totally unbelievable. There's no way such a well built ship would sink just from hitting an iceberg.

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 08/09/2026

Nice advertising for Exit 8 in Shibuya Station today, complete with posters from the game. I exited via the less ominous A0.

Shibuya Station passageway with a large yellow Exit 8 advertisement designed like the game’s exit sign, alongside a row of posters recreating the game’s underground corridor.

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 05/09/2026

I’m hoping the progress is: “How about we don’t start offloading the $1 trillion in US Treasuries we’re holding?”

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 22/08/2026

Earthquake early warning system worked, enough time to open some doors and brace, one wine glass casualty.

iPhone lock screen showing an emergency earthquake early warning at 2:01 a.m.: “Strong shaking is expected soon. Stay calm and seek shelter nearby.” The alert says an earthquake occurred in Ibaraki Prefecture. Violent shaking began just a couple of seconds later.

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 25/07/2026

Shibuya Scramble Square has turned on the landing lights. Gundam is now cleared for approach.

Night view of Shibuya, Tokyo, under a dark grey sky. Shibuya Scramble Square stands prominently in the centre, with bright white zigzag lights outlining the top of the building. Several illuminated construction cranes and surrounding high-rises are visible.

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 12/07/2026

First harvest of blueberries from the terrace. At Tokyo prices, this might be my retirement plan.

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 08/07/2026

Forget red card shenanigans. FIFA should use vexillology to decide the quarter-finals: France vs Belgium, Argentina vs Spain, and Norway, England and Switzerland play a mini round-robin, with the loser taking on Morocco.

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 07/07/2026

Trump announces 400% tariff on frites.

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 19/06/2026

worldcup.webdirections.org So for no particular reason, I have built a World Cup app that gives you real-time commentary, text-based, as well as details on past games, tablets, teams etc. And most importantly has a work mode, which looks like a spreadsheet, so you don't get busted at work.

worldcup.webdirections.org

World Cup 2026 — Live

Live World Cup scores, group tables and qualification scenarios — at a glance.

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 03/06/2026

@gruber.foo Thanks for the useful info on dealing with multiple Apple accounts in the latest podcast. Can confirm it's even worse if you've moved countries.

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 01/06/2026

This brings back fond memories of PostPet, where a cartoon bear carried my email across the internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostPet

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 10/04/2026

At this point, if smartphones didn’t need pockets, civilisation would just be walking around in its underpants.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/04/2026

We've launched an official Japanese account! Give it a follow if you're interested in more Japan-specific information.

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Niels Leenheer @html5test.com · 27/03/2026

CSS is DOOMed! I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms. cssdoom.wtf Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

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cssDOOM

DOOM rendered entirely in CSS. Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 27/03/2026

Since Trump insists on putting his name on everything, seems only fair we call this the Trump Shock.

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 27/03/2026

Have a bash script on macOS and want to annoy everyone in the office? Add: say -v Zarvox "By your command"

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 25/03/2026

China’s AI adoption outpaces the West. Japan: チャッピー

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 22/03/2026

It’s 2026 and BrowserStack still only ships Intel binaries for local testing on Macs (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 09/03/2026

@reckless.bsky.social Break the YouTube hegemony and add video podcast support for even more flavour.

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 05/03/2026

Worth opening on desktop and scrolling around:

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 02/03/2026

Recently an elderly relative asked if I'd 'got the pedophile.' Somewhat alarmed, I asked them to clarify. They meant the PDF. The F apparently means 'file'

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 01/02/2026

Pretty good view of the house that refused to sell so they just built Narita Airport around it.

A photo of a house in the middle of airport tarmac, surrounded by a tall fence

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 10/01/2026

For this article alone it’s worth subscribing.

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 08/01/2026

Apart from the US, is there any other country where immigration officials do Call of Duty cosplay?

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 31/12/2025

I will learn to play a new musical instrument this year. Expectations are low.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 03/09/2025

Thetrusize.com, by James Talmage and Damon Maneice, is a website that lets you move a country or state around a Mercator projection map of the world so you can see how big or small a country really is. [thetruesize.com]

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Compare Countries With This Simple Tool

Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.

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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Safari 26 is here!!! Anchor Positioning, Scroll-driven animations, High Dynamic Range images, the new HTML <model> element, the all-new Digital Credentials API, SVG icon support, WebGPU, WebKit in SwiftUI, every site can be a web app on iOS and iPadOS, and much more. webkit.org/blog/17333/w...

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WebKit Features in Safari 26.0

We’re happy to share with you what’s arriving in Safari 26.0!

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 03/09/2025

My previous place in Shibuya faced west, so I often got front-row seats to Tokyo’s spectacular summer sunsets. Now we face east, great views over Tokyo, but sunsets only reach me as reflections in the towers Shibuya has pooped out over the years.

A photo of tall glass buildings reflecting the sunset.

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 27/08/2025

Japan Post (along with many other countries) has halted most shipping to the US so it's come to this.

Ecommerce checkout screen with the message "最近の米国税関規制の変更により、アメリカ合衆国への発送はできません。Due to recent US customs regulation changes, we are unable to ship to the United States."

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 26/07/2025

The nod at the hardware store when you see another whose child painted their toenails

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David Bisset @davidbisset.com · 24/07/2025

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 08/07/2025

Adding a tariff message to our ecommerce site because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ecommerce checkout screen with the message "一部の国では、追加の税金や輸入関税が発生する場合があります。これらは受取人のご負担となります。関税は輸入関税の一種です。
Additional taxes or import duties may apply in some countries. These are the responsibility of the recipient.
Tariffs are a type of import duty."

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 24/06/2025

The Japanese government's latest Mynaportal app update allows you to add your My Number card to your iPhone's Apple Wallet. Servers were a little busy but it works as advertised.

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 24/06/2025

Sounds like the premise of a great heist movie.

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Kyle Barrow @kylebarrow.com · 11/06/2025

I’m all for people doing cosplay, but it’s weird how US immigration and law enforcement always go with Ghost from Call of Duty. One Piece or Ghibli characters would really liven up the vibe.

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Justin McCurry @justinmmccurry.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Guardian photographer David Levene and I travelled to Okinawa a couple of months ago to make this video/text/photography package to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa. A real team effort that would not have been possible without colleagues in Okinawa, London and Sydney.

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Okinawa was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war. 80 years on, are the dead being betrayed?

A quarter of Okinawan civilians died during the US invasion, some after being told to kill themselves. But today the legacy of the war dead is being complicated by the presence of tens of thousands of...

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 28/04/2025

Studio Ghibli has uploaded hundreds of beautiful still images from almost all of their films, including all of the major ones. These individual artworks are free to download “by individual fans to further enjoy Studio Ghibli films”. [kottke.org]