Field Notes just announced their new “Colors” quarterly edition for the spring : the Two-Rivers Edition. The biggest change from the usual is the number of variations : they are thousands of them, making your notebook quite unique.

We hand-set several designs using Hamilton’s collection of vintage type and ornaments. Hamilton then printed our designs in two random colors on a 1961 Heidelberg GT 13″×18″ windmill press. Randomizing the designs, papers, and colors resulted in thousands of variations. Further variations were introduced thanks to the nature of wood type, letterpress printing, and the music playing in the print shop during the 200+ hours on press.

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When you are publishing a blog, the writing may not be the easiest thing to do. This is more true when you are not writing in your mother tongue. You may have an idea, and some things to say on it, but you maybe don’t have the right words to express them in the best way.

This is a huge deal breaker, because mastering the language that you’re speaking in is what makes your text stand-up compared to the others. So you’re discouraged. You stop elaborating your ideas, and you end up not thinking about them at all. This is bad, because, then, you have nothing to publish on the website that you spend so many hours to make and polish, and you stop thinking about the things that you deal with everyday. You’re not so smart anymore.

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Coinbase Blog :

Today we’re announcing that we’ve decided to shut down our bitcoin Tip Button. The project has seen some good usage since we launched it, with about 10,000 users accepting bitcoin tips across a variety of websites.

Well, it didn’t lasted long (I’m removing all of them now).

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Welcome to the new version of Lawgier.net.

After updating the website’s logo, I decided to change its design. Inspired by other Squarespace blogs like Above Avalon (discovered via The Newsprint’s Sunday Edition), I decided to go to a less centered view, and to put more things on the sides.

You’ll find the navigation links on the left with the new logo, instead of being at the top, and a new side bar on the right with a list of the most recent posts, my Twitter feed and a search bar.

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