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title: Dinosaurs, speeding tickets, the shape of learning
date: 2026-01-13
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# Dinosaurs, speeding tickets, the shape of learning

[![Bar Far combines an art gallery and a bar](./assets/hero.webp)](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/12/clementine-keith-roach-christopher-page-bar-far-villa-lontana)

*[_Bar Far_](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/12/clementine-keith-roach-christopher-page-bar-far-villa-lontana) combines an art gallery and a bar*

> “Passion envelopes what precision builds.”
>
> — UNKNOWN

This time we’re colliding web design, dinosaurs, speeding tickets, bakeries and the shape of learning.

Please skip around, read what you want to. Find something interesting in your own internet travels? Send me a link

—JH

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*Article*

## [The Shape of Learning](../../blog/the-shape-of-learning.article.md)

By [Paul Johnson](../../people/paul-johnson.person.md).

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## Dead Cat

*10 curious links that would have killed the cat*

[@include](./01-how-i-do-web-design.link.md)

[@include](./02-bar-far-imagines-what-itd-be-like-to-throw-a-bar-and-an-art.link.md)

[@include](./03-enclose-horse-a-game-where-you-have-limited-walls-to-create.link.md)

[@include](./04-the-wall-street-journal-staff-tricked-anthropics-ai-vending.link.md)

[@include](./05-in-finland-speeding-tickets-are-based-on-speed-and-income.link.md)

[@include](./06-the-best-science-images-of-2025.link.md)

[@include](./07-fancy-bakery-jolenes-logo-was-drawn-by-a-six-year-old.link.md)

[@include](./08-the-god-of-the-woods-and-the-husbands-were-the-two-best.link.md)

[@include](./09-grief-is-unexpressed-love-we-never-get-enough-time-with-each.link.md)

[@include](./10-looks-like-dinosaurs-are-headed-to-the-26-olympics.link.md)

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## New at HQ

*in Greenville, SC*

Over December our developers sneaked in a few tasty updates—a couple dozen, by my count. Two highlights for you:

### ✅ Faster Blocks in Long Steps

Over the holidays we made a significant performance improvement to Blocks—especially in long Steps with lots of [Question Blocks](../../help/create-a-path/content-case-studies/question-blocks-create-a-quiz-test-survey-or-self-check.help.md). If you’ve ever had a big Step, quiz, or test that felt sluggish to design, it should feel noticeably snappier.

### ✅ Upload files from third-party apps

We shipped a substantial upgrade to our [Media Manager](../../help/create-a-path/how-to-add-content-with-blocks/media-manager.help.md)’s file uploader and the file uploader for learners, including:

- Reliably upload files from Google Drive.

- When uploading from Google Drive, Dropbox, or another third-party file location, logins are stored securely so you don’t have to re-sign-in-yet-again so often.

- Uploading files is smoother with pause/resume support and a bit of UI polish.

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This second week of the year finds your humble editor back in the Labs on a couple projects.

I gave my mind a vacation over the holidays. Read a lot, watched movies a lot, drank tea a lot. It’s great to feel my mind figuring things out again without a year’s worth of thoughts in its pockets.

Hope there’s more gas in your mental tank too!

High five,

[Justin Hall](https://www.pathwright.com/about#humans)\
Editor, Partner at [Pathwright](https://www.pathwright.com/)