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Today on my lunch break I saw this snake napping on the side of the road…at least I assume it was napping. Its eyes were closed and it didn’t seem to mind that I was creeping in so close.

Thank you @faitherina for reminding me of this. This show was the highlight of many Saturday mornings.

Many landing pages for new tech products follow a very standard layout and structure. It’s one that Apple popularized, and that others have copied repeatedly.

Introducing Carrot pokes fun at the trope, showcasing the familiar vegetable in the popular product marketing format of the day. Here’s the pitch:

Carrot is designed with you in mind. It’s a seamless experience, meticulously crafted, from beginning to end. It’s not just a vegetable, it’s what a vegetable should be.</blockquote>

Aaron, are there prizes for participation?

The Guardian had a short piece celebrating the inventor of the blog, Dave Winer.

Twenty years ago this week, a software developer in California ushered in a new era in how we communicate. His name is Dave Winer and on 7 October 1994 he published his first blog post. He called it Davenet then, and he’s been writing it most days since then. In the process, he has become one of the internet’s elders, as eminent in his way as Vint Cerf, Dave Clark,Doc Searls, Lawrence Lessig, Dave Weinberger or even Tim Berners-Lee.</blockquote>

Andy Baio and Gina Trapani recently expressed the sentiment of what I’m trying to do with this site–I’m making a place where I can write and share short things that either don’t belong on other platforms or shouldn’t only exist on other platforms. They are also reviving their sites to share and writing more personal short-form stuff.

Andy said:

Twitter’s for 140-character short-form writing and Medium’s for long-form. Weirdly, there really isn’t a great platform for everything in the middle — what previously would’ve just been called “blogging.” Mid-length blogging. Middling.

Skottie Young drew this great interlocking cover set for the first three issues of the upcoming Marvel Comics Start Wars series.

Young shared his excitement at getting to do these covers with MTV:

Coffee, it feels so good just to know you’re there.

I’m learning a lot from the fine folks involved with indiewebcamp.com

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For weeks now, pro-democracy protest groups have occupied parts of central Hong Kong, calling for open elections and the resignation of Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. Local police have been urging the demonstrators to leave for days, and have recently stepped up efforts to dismantle barricades on several major roads - only to have many of them rebuilt hours later. Tensions boiled over last night, leading to a violent clash between police and protesters.</blockquote>

Development for MVP means having something serviceable in each stage of the process.

The back yard of our house now features a playground! It was challenging to build and took most of a weekend to complete. I was so glad to have the help of my next door neighbor and good family friend.

The kids love it–I mean spendtwohoursadayoutsideplaying kind of love it. It’s given Gabi a new lease on life.

Watchmen, 1986-87: the moment when Dr. Manhattan discovers the miraculous value of human life.

Can anything be more satisfying to a one year old?

This was taken before a moment the wheelbarrow slipped out from under her.