Alex Ovechkin

Weekly Links 03.31–04.06

When will physical video games go away? — I wouldn’t mind going fully digital (as I did on PC) if there was actual competition in digital purchasing. There is only one place to buy digital PS5 games, and the digital version is consistently more expensive than buying a physical copy.
Studio Notes #25 (SimpleBits)
item-flow (Robin Rendle)
Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout (Piccalilli)
Forty-Seven (Naz Hamid)
The Mac Is Where I Am (Louie Mantia)
Weeknotes 25:13 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Versions (Jeff Bridgforth)
Dunkey Direct 2 (Spaghetti Night) (YouTube)
A no-hassle static site CMS (Go Make Things)
It’s time to organize. (Ethan Marcotte)
CSS Clicker — “an idle game themed around making websites”
The Design of the New Swiss Passport (kottke.org)
Steve Coogan Plays Four Roles in Dr. Strangelove Stage Adaptation (kottke.org)
TV Garden: stream television channels from all over the world for free (kottke.org)
Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech (kottke.org)
Once Again From the Top (Jason Santa Maria)
Video Game Backlog Zero (Tyler Sticka)

Hashtag tariff week:

Create an HTML dialog when you click an image (Cassidy Williams) — This article landed at just the right time for me as I’m looking at replacing a deprecated React lightbox dependency.
HTML Dialog (12 Days of Web)
The Seneca (Daring Fireball) — A hand-made, $3,600 mechanical keyboard 😳
Cursorful (Frontend Masters Blog) — A browser plugin for recording videos of websites
The cheapest Cam Link clone you can buy actually works pretty well (The Verge)
What’s on your desk, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy? (The Verge)
For Fascists, Hypocrisy Is a Virtue (kottke.org)
You deserve a new book design. (Ethan Marcotte)
Five years (Adactio)
Weeknotes 25:12 (Jeff Bridgforth)
[Igalia Podcast] What Happens If They Sell Chrome? (Chris Coyier)
I like having a links page (Andy Bell)
This $28 Garden Tool Cut My Weeding Time in Half (Wirecutter)
The One-Touch Guide to Doing a Weekly Review: How I Go From Chaos to Clarity in 30 Minutes (Forte Labs) — I used to do a weekly review, but with all the things I wanted to accomplish during that time, it would take me hours. I need to simplify and get back in the habit.
A Sublime coding experience (Go Make Things)
Check the speedometer on the brand new Blog Awesome (now with 11ty) (Blog Awesome)
One Line Pen Reviews (Robb Knight)

Notes from my week.