Nate Dillon – ntdln

Weekly Links 04.08–04.14

Now is your moment to shine (The Oatmeal)
The Best Photos and Videos of the 2024 Solar Eclipse (kottke.org)
We Need to Talk About Trader Joe’s (TASTE, via kottke.org)
The 15 Greatest Documentaries (kottke.org)
Proudly Second Best! (kottke.org)
Movie Posters Perfected (via kottke.org) — “A live, cloud-based library of over 3,600 curated movie posters you can stream to your digital display.”
Notes at 46 (Naz Hamid)
Why by Hand? (Louie Mantia)
Weeknotes 24:14 (Jeff Bridgforth)
How to Stop Kids Ruining Your Apple Music Recommendations (MacRumors)
Killed by Google — The Google graveyard, a free and open source list of discontinued Google services, products, devices, and apps.
Dead Simple Sites — Minimal Website Inspiration

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Weekly Links 04.01–04.07

How to see the solar eclipse (The Verge)
I love reading fantasy again (Cassidy Williams)
I miss human curation (Cassidy Williams)
Tobey Maguire’s Non-CGI Tray Catch Scene in Spider-Man (kottke.org)
‘Mum knew what was going on’: Brigitte Höss on living at Auschwitz, in the Zone of Interest family (The Guardian, via kottke.org)
Weeknotes 24:13 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Cabo Dhabi (Chris Coyier)
WordPress.com has Studio, a native app for running WordPress locally, and GitHub Deployments (Chris Coyier)
GitButler (Chris Coyier)
Tower vs. GitHub Desktop (Frontend Masters Boost, Chris Coyier)
Don’t be clever (Go Make Things)

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You can use ChatGPT for free without a login
Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode
Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers — “After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.” I hate printers, but my Brother laser printer has been the most reliable printer I’ve ever owned.
Alaska is gonna try and use a robot to scare wildlife from around an airport
Sidney Crosby ties Gretzky’s record with 19 point-per-game seasons
Jon Stewart on AI, Lina Khan, and the other things Apple didn’t want him to say
How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide
Apple MacBook Air M3 13- and 15-inch (2024) review
The Matrix is coming back for a fifth movie
Microsoft reveals how much you’ll have to pay to keep using Windows 10 securely
Suika Game is finally out on iOS for North American players
The Disney Plus password-sharing crackdown starts in June
Denis Villeneuve is doing Dune 3
Sidney Crosby nominated for Masterton Trophy
Roku’s idea of showing ads on your HDMI inputs seems like an inevitable hell
Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
iPhones can have emulators now so here are some great iOS controllers

Weekly Links 03.25–03.31

Random Penguins thoughts as the late season slide continues (PensBurgh)
What’s on your desk, Joanna Nelius? (The Verge)
Weeknotes 24:11 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 24:12 (Jeff Bridgforth)
The Ugmonk Gather Desk System: A Comprehensive Review (The Sweet Setup)
Camper Newbie (Go Make Things)
Tyshawn Jones The General (kottke.org)
Chilito candy (kottke.org)
Dinosaurs Park (via Waxy.org)
Closing time (Rachel Andrew)

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Microsoft forgot to update this Windows feature for 30 years
Florida’s DeSantis signs social media law requiring age verification
Canva acquires Affinity to fill the Adobe-sized holes in its design suite — I hear about a lot of people switching to Affinity to avoid Adobe’s subscription model, so hopefully this acquisition doesn’t mean future subscription-based pricing for Affinity (Canva says it doesn’t).
The PS5 is getting an automatic game clip feature that helps other players
Disney Plus has a new Hulu-ified logo
Penguins retrieve missing Jaromir Jagr bobblehead dolls
A native version of Chrome arrives for Arm-based Windows PCs
Wyze’s cheap and questionable security cam levels up with Wi-Fi 6, edge AI, and 2.5K video
3 Body Problem VR headset review: magical tech in need of more apps
Anxiety is a monster in Sony’s new Spider-Verse short film
8BitDo’s latest retro keyboard is an ode to the Commodore 64
Colonoscopy prep: Liquid-only diets unnecessary, GI doctor says (via kottke.org) — I’m way more interested in this story than I want to be. 😐
Heinz Is Putting Up Ketchup Dispensers To Tempt Chicagoans With Forbidden Condiment (via kottke.org)
Large Grocers Took Advantage of Pandemic Supply Chain Disruptions, F.T.C. Finds (via kottke.org)
Bridges aren’t ready for today’s huge ships
The Atari 400 Mini is a cute little slice of video game history
The ‘PS5 Pro Enhanced’ label could mean constant 60fps and ray-tracing
Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections
What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world

Weekly Links 03.18–03.24

Moses Supposes (via Waxy.org)
Open Source. Open Doors. (Brian Muenzenmeyer) — Brian’s book about open source software needs a new publisher now that A Book Apart is shutting down.
My 2023 Apple Report Card (Daring Fireball)
Building a Stronger Web Without AI (Louie Mantia)
The Verge’s favorite gardening gadgets (The Verge)
The Verge’s favorite smart home automations (The Verge)
CSS Tricks – I don’t blame you, Chris (Jeff Bridgforth)

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Weekly Links 03.11–03.17

We just watched the worst three-game stretch of the Sidney Crosby era (PensBurgh)
Almost all signs of Ron Hextall have been removed from Penguins roster (PensBurgh)
Weeknotes 24:09 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 24:10 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Use a split keyboard to protect your wrists during work and PC gaming (Polygon)

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Weekly Links 03.04–03.10

The Verge’s favorite smart home devices (The Verge)
How to keep your smart cam footage safe and private (The Verge)
Paint Factory (SimpleBits)
The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps (Forte Labs)
Is Matter or Readwise Reader the Read-Later App for You? (The Sweet Setup)
Should JavaScript developers know CSS? (Go Make Things)
Movies Watched, February 2024 (Khoi Vinh)

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Weekly Links 02.26–03.03

Kottke.org Redesigns With 2024 Vibes (kottke.org)
13 Worst Bike Lanes in the World (via kottke.org)
There’s a Reason McDonald’s Coke Tastes Better Than All Others (via kottke.org)
Another Tetris World Record Completely Demolished! What Is Going On?! (kottke.org)
Tailwind vs Semantic CSS
Federation syndication (Jeremy Keith)
Rotten Apple (Jeremy Keith)
A CSS project boilerplate (Piccalilli)
Eleventy Starter Project Updates (CSS { In Real Life })
How I Solved My Font Rendering Problem (CSS { In Real Life })
How to setup dynamic server redirects in Apache with .htaccess (Go Make Things)
The .htaccess cheat sheet (Go Make Things)
Let’s create a Web Component from scratch! (Go Make Things)
Static Site Generators and CMS’s (Go Make Things)
Why is JavaScript fragile? (Go Make Things)
Omnivore is a Really Good, Completely Free Read Later App (The Sweet Setup)
In search of a digital town square (Jeffrey Zeldman)
Working remotely (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 24:08 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Adiós muchachos. (Airbag Industries)
Ah, this feels good. (Brilliantcrank)
No big surprise, Matt does it again. (Brilliantcrank)
Movies Watched, January 2024 (Khoi Vinh)
Getting something from Nothing (Robb Owen) — A review of the Nothing phone.
Streaming fatigue is making DVDs look like the better option (The Verge)
Subscription services are changing our relationship to gaming (The Verge)
How to modernize your retro game collection in a few convoluted steps (The Verge)
What Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran, and other celebs taught me about how to use my phone (The Verge)
The case for 4K Blu-ray in a world of streaming (The Verge)

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Weekly Links 02.19–02.25

Winners of the 59th Annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest (kottke.org)
43 (Chris Coyier)
console.delight (Frontend Masters Boost)
Apple Sports (Daring Fireball)
Weeknotes 24:07 (Jeff Bridgforth)

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Weekly Links 02.12–02.18

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)

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Weekly Links 02.05–02.11

Why not HTMX? (Go Make Things)
Why is JSX still a thing? (Go Make Things)
Interop 2024 (Piccalilli)

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