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Lost in the Met

What a visit to a landmark museum meant to a seventh grader in 2000.

Mar 10, 2026 09:59 PM

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1. Check out Ron’s Musical Retrospective detailing 21 years of listening data from Last.fm. His page is based on a toolkit from Joel’s Listening Autobiography (also 21 years).

   I love the storytelling aspect to these pages, combining a written narrative with compeliing interactive data visualizations, as well as audio previews. From the credits it looks like these pages are made with the Last.fm API for music data, the Discogs API for artwork, D3.js for dataviz stuff, and Apple Music is providing the audio previews.

   Apr 5, 2026 06:27 PM

2. Bookmarked Progressive Web Components by Ariel Salminen.

   Elena is a simple, tiny library (2.6kB) for helping you to build Progressive Web Components. Unlike most web component libraries, Elena doesn’t force JavaScript for everything. You can load HTML and CSS first, then use JavaScript to progressively add interactivity.

   Mar 27, 2026 08:44 PM

3. Baseball allegiances, no explanation:

   1. Mets
   2. a two- or three-inning nap on a Sunday afternoon
   3. Albuquerque Isotopes
   4. Hiroshima Carp
   5. Watching historic plays and calls on YouTube
   6. People still rocking Expos gear
   7. Ice cream sundae served in a little plastic helmet

   Inspired by a popular post on Bluesky yesterday by a user named Meh.

   Mar 27, 2026 05:36 PM

4. Bookmarked Principles for Knowing When to Stop Designing by Ben Brignell.

   This is a good reminder about exercising restraint at a moment when design tooling and workflows are becoming obsessed with how quickly things can be built.

   Mar 25, 2026 05:48 PM

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