Month: February 2024

• Why wrap native elements in a Web Component? (Go Make Things)
• Doom Runs on E. Coli Bacteria Now (kottke.org)
• Groundhog Day, But With Potato Chips (kottke.org)
• 50 Places to Eat and Drink Before You Die (Atlas Obscura, via kottke.org)
• Exploration team says it spotted what could be Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane (via kottke.org)
• Pluralistic: How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024) (Cory Doctorow, via kottke.org)
• Kind of annoyed at React (Cassidy Williams, via Piccalilli)
• How to align the text of the last paragraph line (Stefan Judis, via Piccalilli)
• New GitHub Copilot Research Finds ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’ (Visual Studio Magazine, via Piccalilli)
• CoraQuest (Dave Rupert)
• Thoughts on a Global Design System (Chris Coyier)
• PDF Document Scanners (Chris Coyier)

News

• Streaming services are spoiling the Super Bowl
• The ultimate sports streaming service will have to fight itself
• How Slack brought the group chat to work
• Superlist is a lovely, business-focused tasks app from the makers of Wunderlist
• Nvidia’s Chat with RTX is a promising AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC
• You can finally buy a Playdate without waiting for months
• Apple is developing an AI tool for animating images using text prompts
• The first X-Men ‘97 trailer is a return to the days of mutant supremacy
• Microsoft: four Xbox-exclusive games are coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch
• Lego’s new Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs set comes with a teensy controversy
• Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU
• Apple unbanned Epic so it can make an iOS games store in the EU
• The Nintendo Switch 2 will now reportedly arrive in 2025 instead of 2024