- Sunny DisneySea (Louie Mantia)
- It really is the year of the website (Andy Bell)
- Meet Loud Room (Jason Santa Maria)
- Weeknotes 26:05 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Stamps: Graphic Art in Miniature (kottke.org)
- Now (January 2026) (Robb Knight)
- The Don’t “Contact Us” Page (Jim Nielsen)
- I went back to Linux and it was a mistake (The Verge)
- ReliCSS (CSS-Tricks)
- React’s ViewTransition Element (Frontend Masters Blog)
- The Browser’s Little White Lies (Jim Nielsen)
- Convert & Compress (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Saying “No” In an Age of Abundance (Jim Nielsen)
- Write about the future you want (Dave Rupert) — “Often people need you to show, not tell the alternative. You need to paint a picture. Not a full complete picture, but one where a person can paint themselves in it. When people want change and bad change is happening all around them, that’s a hopeless place. Build a raft of opportunity that people can latch onto in the rough open waters, instead of hitting them with spears.”
- Container queries are rad AF! (Go Make Things)
- The open source design stack (Piccalilli)
- Kosuke (Louie Mantia)
- Study Finds Obvious Truth Everybody Knows (Jim Nielsen)
- Tokyo Disneyland in the Snow (Louie Mantia)
- Weeknotes 26:06 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- It’s about to get a lot easier for your JavaScript to clean up after itself (Piccalilli)
- Weeknote #1987 (Robb Knight)
- 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century (TIME) — via kottke.org
- jQuery 4 (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Zoning Out Is Good For You (kottke.org)
- Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald’s Mural (Cabel Sasser)
- The start (Piccalilli) — Post 1 of Andy Bell’s personal website redesign open working project
- Base-level planning (Piccalilli) — Post 2 of Andy Bell’s personal website redesign open working project
Tag: art
Weekly Links 11.10–11.16
- Inktober? Completed It Mate (Robb Knight)
- My Truck Desk by Bud Smith — via kottke.org
- Weeknotes 25:44 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Pull Request Templates (Go Make Things)
- Weeknote #1973 (Robb Knight)
- The Great (Refrigerator) Divide (Chris Coyier)
- Weeknotes 25:45 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Review your own git pull requests (Go Make Things)
- Clues by Sam (Dave Rupert)
- Inkwell Games (Dave Rupert)
News
- Wyze’s new scale measures segmented body composition with a handle
- Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick
- Aqara’s new presence sensor runs for up to three years on battery power
- Apple launches a Digital ID and says it’ll be accepted by the TSA
- Valve reveals new hardware: Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and more
- Valve enters the console wars
- The Steam Frame is a surprising new twist on VR
- Half-Life 3 rumors swirl in the wake of Valve’s Steam Machine announcement
- Dbrand is turning the Steam Machine into a Companion Cube
- Sony is making a Horizon MMO — here’s the video and details
- George Lucas’ narrative art museum opens next year in LA
- Fallout season 2 trailer teases New Vegas’ Kings, super mutants and more
- The first Toy Story 5 teaser threatens the toys with a tablet
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie shoots for the stars in first trailer
- Red Dead Redemption coming to Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X with enhancements
- Satechi’s new puck sticks a bunch of ports to the back of your phone
- Mozilla announces an AI ‘window’ for Firefox
- US Mint presses final pennies as production ends — via kottke.org
Weekly Links 10.20–10.26
- Code portability (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Some well-made things. (Ethan Marcotte)
- Meet my new Modular grid generator (Stuff & Nonsense)
- Using Notebook Navigator and Cupertino in Obsidian (Cassidy Williams)
- A carried leaf. (Ethan Marcotte)
- Mister Rogers Visits Sesame Street (1981) (kottke.org)
- I turned an old Mac into a NAS — here’s why you should too
- Mac Mini as a Low Idle Home NAS
- Building a private & personal cloud computer (Chase McCoy)
- A Clock: An Online Remake of Christian Marclay’s The Clock (kottke.org)
- JavaScript’s ??= Operator: Default Values Made Simple — via Frontend Masters Blog
- Prevent scrollbar jump (Go Make Things)
- Your brain’s job (The Oatmeal)
- My Mission (Louie Mantia)
- A social media ethos (Dave Rupert)
- Vibe Check №39 (Dave Rupert)
- A modest proposal for new holidays to manage your digital life (Dave Rupert)
- Is it Time to Un-Sass? (CSS-Tricks)
- All the concerns that make you a boring developer (Dave Rupert)
- Theater UX (Dave Rupert)
- Little Reminder About Custom Properties with Invalid Value (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Covering hidden=until-found (CSS-Tricks)
- Liquid Glass on the Web (Frontend Masters Blog)
- A fiscal recalibration (Dave Rupert) — I can really relate to this. 😞
- Before I go: Always buy the $200 Yamaha (Dave Rupert)
- I made a music app (Cory Dransfeldt)
- Using Eleventy to Gobble Up Everything I Do Online (Robb Knight)
- The CODE Keyboard — The WASD CODE Keyboard v3 was my first legit mechanical keyboard.
- Alfred Workflow: Smart Punctuation (Tyler Sticka)
- Multiple Computers (Jim Nielsen)
- Two Excellent New iPhone Camera Apps: Not Boring’s !Camera and Adobe’s Project Indigo (Daring Fireball)
- Recommended RSS readers (Cory Dransfeldt)
- European Tech Alternatives 🇪🇺 (Matthias Ott)
- Can You Recommend a Good Bookmark Manager? (kottke.org) — I’m settling into Raindrop.io, but there look to be a few more good suggestions to try in the comments.
- New Work: Megazoid Microsite (Jason Santa Maria)
- A right to copy. (Ethan Marcotte)
- Coattails (Adactio)
- CAPTCHAs and the punishment of privacy-conscious users (Cory Dransfeldt)
- A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry in the United States (kottke.org)
- Simplify (Adactio)
- Bird Photographer of the Year for 2025 (kottke.org)
- Six months (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Get Okay (Robb Knight)
- The AI Mandate (Go Make Things)
- Space Exploration Logo Archive — via kottke.org
- 39 Coolest Neighbourhoods in the World in 2025 — via kottke.org
- Real Photos That Look Fake (kottke.org)
- Weeknotes 25:42 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- AI Browsers, ad nauseam (Tyler Sticka)
- AI browsers are straight out of the enshittification playbook (Cory Dransfeldt)
- AI Browsers: Living on the Frontier of Security (Jim Nielsen)
- Vibe Check №40 (Dave Rupert)
News
- Ex-NHL great Jaromir Jagr, 53, starts 38th professional season
- Anbernic’s DS clone will be cheaper than Nintendo’s original
- Kohler’s new Dekoda health sensor peers inside your toilet — 💩
- Apple adds a new toggle to make Liquid Glass less glassy
- Universal’s new Shrek theme park sounds like a millennial playground
- Casio’ new ring watch straps a durable G-Shock to your finger
- Aldi unveils jacket potato jacket complete with silver foil poncho — via kottke.org
- OpenAI’s AI-powered browser, ChatGPT Atlas, is here
- Rivian’s Also e-bike is like nothing you’ve ever seen before
- Lomography made a new film camera that charges with USB-C
- Fujifilm updates its X-T30 with 6K video and a film simulation dial
- The BrickBoy kit turns Lego’s Game Boy into a handheld emulator
- Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy
- Fallout 4 is getting a new edition just in time for the TV show
- Nike says its first ‘powered footwear’ is like an e-bike for your feet
Weekly Links 10.06–10.12
- A cartoonist’s review of AI art (The Oatmeal)
News
- AMD teams up with OpenAI to challenge Nvidia’s AI chip dominance
- CBS News was just taken over by a Substack
- California bans noisy ads on Netflix, YouTube, and other streamers
- Qualcomm is acquiring DIY electronics platform Arduino
- Mastodon snags Bluesky’s starter packs feature and includes the ability to opt out
- Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions
- KPop Demon Hunters’ Huntrix makes live singing debut on SNL
- KPop Demon Hunters Huntr/x performance on Jimmy Fallon was Honmoon-worthy
- Penguins pounce in opener, spoil Sullivan’s return to Rangers — The Penguins played a great game, and the young guys looked good.
- The Minecraft movie is getting a sequel
- Brendan Carr wants to let internet providers charge hidden fees again
- Edifier’s new wireless speaker looks like a gaming PC
- Boox’s new smartphone-sized e-readers come with a steep price hike
- OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door
- Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank
- Amazon awkwardly edited the guns out of James Bond art
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)
News
- Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
- Nikon’s cameras will get more expensive after June 23rd
- The Browser Company explains why it stopped developing Arc
- HBO’s Harry Potter series has found its trio of young leads
- Opera’s new AI browser promises to write code while you sleep
- Nintendo Switch Online N64 games are getting Rewind — but only on Switch 2
- The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink
- LexisNexis leaked social security numbers and other personal data of over 364,000 people
- Apple is reportedly going to rename all of its operating systems
- AI could consume more power than Bitcoin by the end of 2025
- Disney Plus’ new ‘Perks’ pile on discounts and other bonuses
- NYT reports Elon Musk’s drug use went ‘well beyond occasional’ in 2024
- Two former Polygon writers are starting a new site
- Microsoft is updating Notepad with text formatting and Markdown support
- Netflix showed off new trailers for Knives Out 3 and del Toro’s Frankenstein
- Stranger Things season 5 will stream this November
- How college students built the fastest Rubik’s Cube-solving robot yet
Weekly Links 02.24–03.02
- Betty White is getting a stamp from the USPS (kottke.org)
- I Spent 24 Hours Watching The Clock (kottke.org)
- Severance: Music To Refine To (kottke.org)
- Touch Grass (kottke.org)
- Elon Musk, Weirdo Extraordinaire (Daring Fireball)
- The Verge’s favorite kitchen gadgets (The Verge)
- Tools & Rules (Dan Mall)
- Weeknotes 25:08 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Vibe Check №37 (Dave Rupert)
News
- What’s the deal with all these airplane crashes?
- Powerplay 2: Logitech made its magic mousepad cheaper instead of better
- Google Gemini’s AI coding tool is now free for individual users
- Trello’s new update features an inbox, a calendar, and AI organization
- Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases
- Automattic combines its Beeper and Texts.com messaging services
- Microsoft makes Copilot Voice and Think Deeper free with unlimited use
- Framework’s first tiny Desktop beautifully straddles the line between cute and badass
- Framework Desktop hands-on: a possible new direction for gaming desktops
- Amy Gleason officially named as DOGE administrator
- Google makes it easier to remove your contact info from Search results
- Jeff Bezos bans Washington Post opinion writers from opposing ‘free speech and free markets’
- iPhone 16E review: Eh, it’s alright
- Sony drops PlayStation VR 2 price to $399
- Starlink poised to take over $2.4 billion contract to overhaul air traffic control communication
- Trump’s tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico will take effect March 4th
- Microsoft releases a Copilot app for Mac
- EA open-sources four more Command & Conquer games
- Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia now works for DOGE
- Microsoft is shutting down Skype in favor of Teams
- New Apple Watch technology assisting NHL referees — See also The Verge
- Mozilla says its new Firefox terms don’t give it ownership of your data
- Pre-order Bluey Lego sets on Amazon ahead of their June 1 launch
- Hulu prematurely ended its Oscars stream right before the final awards
Weekly Links 01.27–02.02
- Questlove’s Fantastic Video Mix of 50 Years of SNL Music (kottke.org)
- Asteroids vs Space Invaders! Scans of Early 80s Gaming Magazines. (kottke.org)
- ‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream (kottke.org)
- The Public Domain Image Archive (kottke.org)
- What If Letterboxd Ratings Decided the Best Picture Oscar? (kottke.org)
- Winners of the 2024 Close-Up Photographer of the Year (kottke.org)
- “Was Anyone Going to Say Anything?” (kottke.org)
- Who Were the Nazis? (kottke.org)
- Ames & Amherst. (Ethan Marcotte)
- Movies Watched, December 2024 (Khoi Vinh)
- DeepSeek (Maggie Appleton)
- Weeknotes 25:04 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Doubts about Pixelfed (Robb Knight)
- Migrating from Plex to Jellyfin for music (Cory Dransfeldt)
- Media Diet (Chris Coyier)
- Control (Chris Coyier)
- A Little Arm Chair Businessin’ about Chrome (Chris Coyier)
- LocalSend: Open Source Cross-Platform Alternative to AirDrop (Daring Fireball)
- My website has been gaslighting you (Dave Rupert)
- Studio Notes #17 (SimpleBits)
News
- Sources: Fenway Sports Group looks to sell stake of Penguins
- China’s DeepSeek AI is hitting Nvidia where it hurts
- The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, with some help from Google
- Now Apple tells us how to update AirPods
- Google Maps to show Gulf of America and Mount McKinley — 🤦♂️
- Donald Trump wants to claw back clean energy funding
- Climate change made the Los Angeles wildfires more likely
- FCC chair says landlords can force bulk internet service on residents — “Trump’s FCC head says reducing competition will lower prices.” I don’t think that’s how it works. 🤷♂️
- OpenAI has evidence that its models helped train China’s DeepSeek — OMG, the irony! 😆😂🤣
- NordVPN’s new feature gets around networks that block VPNs
- Comcast is rolling out ‘ultra-low lag’ tech that could fix the internet
- Facebook flags Linux topics as ‘cybersecurity threats’ — posts and users being blocked — 😐
- Microsoft makes DeepSeek’s R1 model available on Azure AI and GitHub
- The FAA will be forced to oversee the investigation of a fatal plane crash without a chief administrator.
- Microsoft makes OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model free for all Copilot users
- Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office
- The Video Game History Foundation has opened a digital library
- Google’s ‘Ask for Me’ uses AI to call local businesses for you — I hope this is good, I hate making phone calls 😆
- Nvidia’s latest AI trick made our mediocre webcam mic sound practically professional
- FCC head Brendan Carr orders investigations into NPR and PBS
- Disney’s Star Wars hotel jumps from deep space to office space — Sad, but almost no one could afford to stay at that hotel.
- Wild’s Fleury shuts out Canadiens in likely Montreal send-off
- Donald Trump’s data purge has begun
Weekly Links 12.02–12.08
- Christian Marclay: The Clock (kottke.org)
- The eras of CSS (Robin Rendle)
- PlayStation Controllers (Louie Mantia)
- Marufuku Nintendo (Louie Mantia)
- Journal—Going Offline is online …for free (Jeremy Keith)
- AI for Web Work (Frontend Masters Boost)
- Attempting a Safari Move (Chris Coyier)
- Parallel Gratitude (Naz Hamid)
- Weeknotes 24:25 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknotes 24:26 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Joining Nebula (Go Make Things)
News
- Raspberry Pi’s new keyboard computer can power an optional $100 display
- Lego Fortnite is getting a big expansion with a GTA-style roleplaying city
- Google reveals quantum computing chip with ‘breakthrough’ achievements
- The dead are still raging in 28 Years Later’s first trailer
- I want to push the big red AC buttons on Genki’s USB-C packed power strip
- WordPress parent company must stop blocking WP Engine, judge rules
- iOS 18.2 is rolling out today, adding ChatGPT integration and more Apple Intelligence tools
- Wallace & Gromit studio Aardman is working on a Pokémon project
- Gemini 2.0: what’s new in Google’s new flagship AI model
- Google built an AI tool that can do research for you
- Google is testing Gemini AI agents that help you in video games
- The Onion’s acquisition of Infowars was blocked by a judge — ☹️
- Microsoft wants to make the Xbox app the home of PC gaming
- The Vision Pro’s ultrawide Mac display is very close to being a killer app
- Krispy Kreme got cyberattacked — I guess this explains why I couldn’t get my order to complete last week.
- Astro Bot is getting a new holiday-themed level for free
- Steam is adding a new default option for game updates
- YouTube quietly made some of its web embeds worse, including ours
- The Game Awards 2024: Full winners list
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch (M4 Pro and M4 Max) review: still on top
Weekly Links 10.28–11.03
- The Nirvana Concert “Sabotaged” by Kurt Cobain to Spite an Angry Crowd (kottke.org)
- The 20 best art museums in America (kottke.org)
- Retro 80s Versions of Tech Company Logos (kottke.org)
- Household Surrealism: Clothesline Animals (kottke.org)
- The Best of Japan’s Mundane Halloween Costumes for 2024 (kottke.org)
- TIL that the dunk tank has extremely racist origins. (kottke.org)
- Home-cooked web apps (Rach Smith)
- A Penny (Chris Coyier)
- You can use text-wrap: balance; on icons (Terence Eden)
- The best noir movies to watch this Noirvember (Polygon)
News
- Marc-Andre Fleury made his last visit to Pittsburgh before his retirement this summer:
- Microsoft Teams is getting threads and combined chats and channels
- Apple updates the iMac with new colors and an M4 chip
- Apple’s new Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad have USB-C
- Apple announces redesigned Mac Mini with M4 chip — and it’s so damn small
- ESPN is launching a game inside Fortnite
- GitHub Copilot will support models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI
- Chrome introduces new ‘Performance’ tools to wrangle the tabs gobbling up your memory
- An Elon Musk-funded super PAC is putting out fake pro-Harris ‘Project 2028’ ads
- More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI
- Fantastical for Windows: an excellent calendar app comes to PCs — Also on Daring Fireball
- The Playdate Stereo Dock has been shelved
- Apple updates the MacBook Pro with M4 Pro and M4 Max chips
- The MacBook Air gets a surprise upgrade to 16GB of RAM
- Miniot’s split-flap clock is what nostalgia sounds like
- Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year
- WordPress cofounder asks court to dismiss WP Engine’s lawsuit
- Playdate is getting a second season of games in 2025
- Wyze added a big color screen to its latest budget-friendly smart scale
- Why is Nintendo targeting this YouTuber?
- The Verge’s favorite social networks
- Halloween 2024: Athletes show out with costumes
- Auston Matthews meets fan who dressed as him for Halloween
- Apple is buying Pixelmator — Also on Daring Fireball
- Eight Sleep Pod 4 Ultra review: for sale, good night’s sleep, just $4,700
- Can Nintendo’s Alarmo run Doom? You bet it can
Weekly Links 10.07–10.13
- Chinese Government Hackers Compromise ‘Back Door for the Good Guys’ in U.S. Communication Networks (Daring Fireball)
- The New York Times, Finally: ‘Trump’s Rambling Speeches Reinforce Question of Age’ (Daring Fireball)
- Home Depot Is Slowly Rolling Out Apple Pay Support (Daring Fireball)
- Relax With George Clooney at the End of a Movie (kottke.org)
- New Film by Errol Morris: Separated (kottke.org) — See also: NBC Set Post-Election MSNBC Premiere of Errol Morris Doc ‘Separated’ to Avoid Offending Trump (kottke.org)
- Private Snafu: The World War II Propaganda Cartoons Created by Dr. Seuss, Frank Capra & Mel Blanc (kottke.org)
- Finalists for the 2024 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards (kottke.org)
- Mozilla rebrand takes from early internet aesthetics, to move its cause to reclaim the web (kottke.org)
- Photo Remakes of Famous Art (kottke.org)
- The Best Panoramic Photos of 2024 (kottke.org)
- Every Frame a Painting: What Would Billy Wilder Do? (kottke.org)
- Letterboxd besties — No one on Letterboxd is my exact match 😢
- World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission (kottke.org)
- Covid-19 may increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes and deaths for three years after an infection, study suggests (kottke.org)
- Best goalie masks across the NHL in the upcoming season (ESPN)
- Review: Domaine De Courcelles (1972) 2022 Edition – Rhumhouse (Cane Spirit Society) (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- Review: J. Gow Fading Light XO (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh (Maggie Appleton)
- Design for Real Life: Online for Free AND On Sale for Money (Eric Meyer)
- Dookie Demastered
- Vibe Check №35 (Dave Rupert)
News
- ‘Miracle On Ice’ hockey team up for Congressional Gold Medals
- A Google breakup is on the table, say DOJ lawyers
- How the DOJ wants to break up Google’s search monopoly
- Nintendo is making an alarm clock so you can wake up to Zelda and Super Mario sounds
- A closer look at Nintendo’s adorable Alarmo clock
- You can add wireless controller support to the NES through its unused expansion port
- The Gulf of Mexico is almost as warm as a bath, and it’s stirring up monster storms
- The Internet Archive is under attack, with a breach revealing info for 31 million accounts
- The Internet Archive is still down but will return in ‘days, not weeks’
- Windows 11’s new passkey design includes cloud syncing and 1Password integration
- Threshold’s Wi-Fi sensing plugs offer caregiver monitoring without cameras
- Intel’s new flagship CPUs will run cooler and more efficiently for PC gaming
- Violent threats against FEMA swirl on social media
- FCC chair rejects Trump’s call to revoke CBS license over Harris interview edit
- Apple’s USB SuperDrive might be gone for good
- Steam now says the ‘game’ you’re buying is really just a license
- Cards Against Humanity’s new U.S. election campaign is very unhinged
- You must watch this amazing presentation about a bespoke McDonald’s mural
- WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin