- 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: artificial intelligence
Weekly Links 02.02–02.08
- The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time — via kottke.org
- MTV REWIND – I Want My MTV! — via kottke.org
- Pens, Inks, and Obsidian Bases (Robb Knight)
- Weeknotes 26:04 (Jeff Bridgforth)
News
- Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off
- Ikea’s next cheap Bluetooth speaker is a playful purple mouse
- Google Home finally adds support for buttons
- Bob Iger picks ‘Daddy Josh’ D’Amaro as his Disney CEO replacement
- Everyone is stealing TV
- GuliKit’s tiny dongle lets you connect a PS5 controller to your Switch 2
Weekly Links 01.26–02.01
- My favorite series of 2025 (Lynn Fisher)
- Logitech Options+ Alternatives for MacOS (Robb Knight)
- Changing Roles (Geoff Graham)
- 2025 by the numbers (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknote #1982 (Robb Knight)
- 88×31 Button Curios (Robb Knight)
- My favorite movies of 2025 (Lynn Fisher)
- In The Beginning There Was Slop (Jim Nielsen)
- 3 + 4 (Adactio)
- Mutual aid and asking people what they need (Go Make Things)
- Weeknotes 26:02 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Lunchtime (kottke.org)
- When the tech leopard eats your face (Go Make Things)
- Fix for Slow Open and Save Dialog on MacOS (Robb Knight)
- Food I recommend in Chicago in 2025 (Cassidy Williams)
- 2025 Year in Review (Letterboxd)
- Configure your repositories with .github (Cassidy Williams)
- The best thing I bought this year: a portable mechanical keyboard (The Verge)
- The best version of my site so far… (Dave Rupert)
- Weeknotes 26:03 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- New Year, New Website — Same Old Me (Jim Nielsen)
- The Keyboard I Never Wanted (Tyler Sticka)
- Pinning homebrew dependencies (Cory Dransfeldt)
News
- Apple’s new AirTag has more range and a better speaker
- OpenAI’s president is a Trump mega-donor
- Lego’s new Lord of the Rings set puts Sauron’s head on your shelf
- Moltbot, the AI agent that ‘actually does things,’ is tech’s new obsession
- Ted Lasso season 4 hits Apple TV in the summer
- Google adds Gemini AI-powered ‘auto browse’ to Chrome
- Kane passes Modano for most points by U.S.-born player
- The LEGO Group and Crocs Enter Multi-Year Global Partnership
- Dynacap made my favorite mechanical keyboard into an electrocapacitive one
Weekly Links 01.12–01.18
- The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe (no.heger)
- The Plex Dance ™ — Remove all cached metadata and xml data for an item.
- Media Diet (Chris Coyier)
- So Many Websites (Robin Rendle)
- Splinter.js — I made a more accessible text splitting tool (Stuff & Nonsense)
- Updates to my Toon Text styles gallery and generator (Stuff & Nonsense)
- I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows (The Verge)
- Coming up with blog topics (Cassidy Williams)
- On Kindness, Power, and Hypocrisy (kottke.org)
- BTW № 4: People Make Amazing Things Edition (Jason Santa Maria)
- ADHD restlessness (Go Make Things)
News
- Apple picks Google’s Gemini AI for its big Siri upgrade
- The first Lego Pokémon sets launch in February, including a $650 diorama
- Apple Creator Studio suite is launching to take on Adobe
- Animal Crossing’s big 3.0 update has fans itching to return to the cozy life
- Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content
- Parents can put a time limit on YouTube Shorts scrolling
- Civilization VII is coming to Apple Arcade
- Everything new in Animal Crossing: New Horizon’s 3.0 update
- Over 100 episodes of classic Sesame Street have arrived on YouTube
- Star Wars shakeup: Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy steps down
- Lego’s new Legend of Zelda set revealed, up for pre-order
- Disney deleted a Thread because people kept putting anti-fascist quotes from its movies in the replies
Weekly Links 01.05–01.11
- Review: Ninefold Scottish Oak 3 Years Old (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- Weird Al Yankovic Covers Killing In The Name by Rage Against the Machine (kottke.org)
- A new workshop space for my side projects (Stuff & Nonsense)
- The ABCD framework for feedback (Cassidy Williams)
- Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help (Jim Nielsen)
- It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
- Weeknote #1978 (Robb Knight)
- Building my Myspace (Cory Dransfeldt)
- Weeknotes 25:49 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- What’s on your desk, Stevie Bonifield? (The Verge)
- I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great (The Verge)
News
- Govee’s latest smart lights can make your ceiling more interesting
- You can charge Belkin’s new Switch 2 power case without opening it
- Belkin’s new 3-in-1 charging dock isn’t limited to the Apple Watch
- Belkin’s new HDMI adapter wirelessly connects to screens from 130 feet
- Ikea’s new $4 USB-C charger is cheaper than Apple’s and Anker’s
- Birdbuddy’s new smart feeders aim to make spotting birds easier, even for beginners
- Anker put a screen on its smallest 45W charger
- Lego announces Smart Brick, the ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years
- Keychron’s new mechanical keyboards offer ultralong battery life at wireless 8K polling rates
- Nvidia’s new G-Sync monitors automatically adjust brightness just like a laptop
- This desktop charger turns your iPhone into a robotic AI assistant
- TP-Link brings an AI assistant to its smart home and home networking apps
- Avengers: Doomsday trailer 3 with the X-Men is now online
- Hugh Jackman gives Robin Hood the Old Man Logan moment in new movie
- You might mistake Satechi’s new Thunderbolt 5 hub for Apple’s Mac Mini
- Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate — I spent a couple of hours trying to fix my mouse by uninstalling/reinstalling the Logitech software before discovering the problem was related to this issue. 🤦♂️
- Ikea’s $10 Kallsup speakers are tiny, colorful, and surprisingly loud
- Sony’s new ‘Hyperpop’ PS5 covers are bursting with RGB color
- Fujifilm’s Instax Mini Evo Cinema captures video with vintage effects
- Disney Plus is getting vertical video — 👎👎
- Nintendo is bringing its cute My Mario collection to the US next month
- South Park’s Fortnite crossover is full of deep cuts (and mech suits)
- GameStop’s future in turmoil as estimated 400 stores close in 2026
- I’ve never used a trackball, but Keychron’s Nape Pro looks like the perfect one
Weekly Links 12.15–12.21
- The 50 best games of 2025, as chosen by Polygon (Polygon)
- The 10 best horror movies of 2025, ranked (Polygon)
- The 15 best under-the radar indie games of 2025
- The worst games of 2025, including MindsEye, Bubsy 4D, and more
- The best thing I bought this year: The Nintendo Switch 2 (The Verge)
News
- Apple TV adds Google Cast streaming, but only on Android
- A first interview with Mozilla’s new CEO on AI, Firefox, and the web
- Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
- Ex-Alabama coach Nick Saban buys minority stake in Predators
- Disclosure Day’s first trailer teases close encounters of a new kind
- The Muppet Show returns for one night only on Disney Plus in 2026
- The Oscars will stream on YouTube in 2029
- The TikTok US sale is finally happening
- The RAM shortage is here to stay, raising prices on PCs and phones
- Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’ — 😆
- Hoffmann family enters into formal agreement for controlling interest of Penguins franchise
- Sidney Crosby passes Mario Lemieux as Penguins’ top scorer
Weekly Links 12.08–12.14
- Goodbye VS Code! (Kevin Powell)
News
- Paramount tries to kill Netflix Warner Bros. deal
- Analogue is restocking its 4K N64 and making it more colorful
- Supergirl’s first trailer introduces the Woman of Tomorrow
- Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI, sends iconic characters to the slophouse
- Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic announced from former Mass Effect dev
- Clair Obscur wins Game of the Year in record-breaking Game Awards haul
- The Game Awards 2025: Full winners list
- Penguins acquire Stuart Skinner, Brett Kulak, draft pick from Oilers for Tristan Jarry
- Google Translate brings real-time speech translations to any headphones
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