ntdln – The personal blog of Nate Dillon.

Weekly Links 07.28–08.03

What’s on your desk, Cameron Faulkner? (The Verge)
The Verge’s favorite backpacks, totes, and other bags for 2025 (The Verge)
Time Flies when you’re thinking about dying (Polygon)

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Weekly Links 07.21–07.27

Why I love my little round Dell USB-C mobile adapter (The Verge)
Teaser trailer for Pixar’s next film, Hoppers (kottke.org)
Weeknotes 25:29 (Jeff Bridgforth)

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Weekly Links 07.14–07.20

Not a joke: there is a new Commodore 64 coming out (kottke.org)
Taking Journalism’s ‘Experts Said…’ Chicanery About Facts to Its Natural, Absurd Conclusion (kottke.org)
Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP (kottke.org)
Photos Show the Vast Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects (kottke.org)
Bloc Party’s Tiny Desk Concert (kottke.org)
Star Wars Lofi (kottke.org)
Network Pinheads at CBS Are Ending ‘The Late Show’ (Daring Fireball) — See also Colbert’s Cancellation Is a Dark Warning (via kottke.org)
Who writes the documentation? (Cory Dransfeldt)
Cursed Knowledge (Immich, via Frontend Masters Blog)
A stack of browsers (Rachel Smith)
This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii (Alex Haydock)

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Weekly Links 07.07–07.13

Slice of Life (kottke.org)
Get Up Close to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unrealized Buildings with David Romero’s Digital Models
When in doubt, go for a walk (kottke.org)
Shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 Competition (kottke.org)
My first trip to Budapest, 35 years ago (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 25:25 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 25:26 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 25:27 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Things I would like to learn (Q3 2025) (Jeff Bridgforth)
RWD on The Big Web Show 15 years ago (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknote #1951 (Robb Knight)
Weeknote #1955 (Robb Knight)
Weeknote #1956 (Robb Knight)
Five Months of Journalling (Robb Knight)
Stickers, Maths, and Postage (Robb Knight)
How to Verify an Apple Podcasts Claim in Your RSS Feed (Robb Knight)
Now (July 2025) (Robb Knight)

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Weekly Links 06.30–07.06

On this date in Penguins history: Phil Kessel comes to Pittsburgh (PensBurgh)
Best Switch 2 games to play in summer 2025 (Polygon)
I tested a bunch of Switch 2 screen protectors, and these are the best (The Verge)
What’s on your desk, Kallie Plagge? (The Verge)

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Weekly Links 06.23–06.29

This Sahara Railway Is One of the Most Extreme in the World (kottke.org)
Stupid-Americans feel about Trump the way Irish-Americans felt about JFK in 1960 (kottke.org)
Cheating Expert Answers Casino Cheating Questions (kottke.org)
KelpUI (CSS-Tricks)

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Weekly Links 06.16–06.22

Malkin’s Final Bow? (PensBurgh) — 😢
Crawlspace (The Oatmeal)
Mario Kart World has 14 ways to dodge a blue shell (Polygon)
Hitchcock’s only R-rated movies make a wild Netflix double feature (Polygon)
Why the 28 Years Later team skipped 28 Months Later (Polygon)
A new Ring Fit Adventure on Switch 2? Nintendo, please say yes (Polygon)
The 5 best Die Hard knockoffs (Polygon)
Media Diet (Chris Coyier)
Unbreaking. (Ethan Marcotte)
One Week with TRMNL (Robb Knight)
Self-Hosted Podcast Solutions and Also Apple Can Suck a Big One (Robb Knight)
The unsung principles of RedwoodSDK (Dave Rupert)
Sleep Paralysis (Jon Hicks)
Well Dressing (Jon Hicks)
Uses (Jeremy Keith) — “I’m not rejecting large language models because they’re useless. They can absolutely be useful. I just don’t think the usefulness outweighs the ethical issues in how they’re trained.”
It’s True: The JAWS Shark is Public Domain (Ironic Sans)
Weeknotes 25:24 (Jeff Bridgforth)
When In Rome (kottke.org)

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Weekly Links 06.02–06.08

Spaceballs 2 – Official Announcement Teaser (2027) Mel Brooks — “We asked ‘what do the fans want?’” — but instead we’re making this movie.”
A Shakedown Camp (Naz Hamid)
When is Drupal Overkill? (Lullabot)
Weeknotes 25:23 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Ramblin’ Rod (Cabel Sasser)

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Weekly Links 06.02–06.08

Jaromir Jagr’s Stanley Cup Finals streak is absolutely mind-blowing (SBNation)
How to copy stuff to a user’s clipboard with vanilla JavaScript (Go Make Things)
How to build a copy-to-clipboard HTML Web Component (Go Make Things)
Take My Hand, Precious Lord (Dave Rupert)
A clarified stance on blocking AI crawlers (Cory Dransfeldt)
Introducing: Webbed Sites (Webbed Briefs)
Weeknotes 25:22 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Artificial Intelligence is a Microwave (SonSpring)
The State of CSS 2025 Survey is out! (CSS-Tricks)

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Weekly Links 05.26–06.01

Some photos, videos, and observations from a visit to a West Virginian snake handling church (kottke.org)
Owls in Towels (kottke.org)
View of Azalea Garden from Mt. Fuji, Hasui Kawase (kottke.org)
The 100 best sports moments of the 21st century (so far) (kottke.org)
Responsive web design turns fifteen. (Ethan Marcotte)
Weeknotes 25:21 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Webkit’s New Color Picker as an Example of Good Platform Defaults (Jim Nielsen)
Could I Have Some More Friction in My Life, Please? (Jim Nielsen)
The Last of Us season 2 failed Ellie in service of safe TV (Polygon)
New for Everyone: Create Unlimited Journals (Day One)

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