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Weekly Links 06.02–06.08

Spaceballs 2 – Official Announcement Teaser (2027) Mel Brooks — “We asked ‘what do the fans want?’” — but instead we’re making this movie.”
A Shakedown Camp (Naz Hamid)
When is Drupal Overkill? (Lullabot)
Weeknotes 25:23 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Ramblin’ Rod (Cabel Sasser)

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Apple WWDC news

Weekly Links 04.07–04.13

The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets (The Verge)
22 years later, modders are keeping SimCity 4 alive (The Verge)
Why I love Twinkly Strings and Twinkly Flex (The Verge)
What’s on your desk, Allison Johnson? (The Verge)
We went inside Universal’s new $7 billion Epic Universe weeks early (Polygon)
Epic Universe’s Donkey Kong coaster review: imaginative and bumpy (Polygon)
The 20 best PC games (April 2025) (Polygon)
The Phoenician Scheme (kottke.org)
Studio Notes #26 (SimpleBits)
Studio Notes #27 (SimpleBits)
Weeknotes 25:14 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Googler… ex-Googler. (Adam Argyle)

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’s new trailer is here
Shopify CEO says no new hires without proof AI can’t do the job — Maybe AI should replace the CEO.
The White House group chat screwup reportedly involved a Siri feature
Framework stops selling some of its cheapest laptops due to Trump tariffs — If I were a company selling products affected by tariffs, I would keep my prices the same and show a separate charge for tariffs during checkout, like sales tax, because these tariffs are really just another tax on consumers.
The Shining’s end photograph location has been discovered
CalDigit’s new Thunderbolt 5 docks bring plenty of ports
Trump will hit China with 104 percent tariffs
Universal is building a UK theme park
Apple releases the first trailer for its Murderbot series
WordPress.com will now build you a full website with AI
Trump announces a ‘90-day pause’ on tariffs outside of China — *cough* market manipulation *cough*
Longtime NHL executive Ray Shero dies at 62
Ray Shero was the right GM at the right time for Pittsburgh Penguins (PensBurgh)
Remembering Ray Shero (PensBurgh)
The Busy Bar pixel display can help deter work distractions
Sony is now selling both Last of Us games in one ‘complete’ package — I just purchased The Last of Us Part II Remastered for PlayStation 5, and I can tell you that there is no discount for the Complete edition if you already own one of the games.
Canva is now in the coding and spreadsheet business
Stunts are finally getting their own category at the Oscars
Microsoft is about to launch Recall for real this time
ChatGPT is transforming LinkedIn users into really dull dolls
U.S.-based Original Six teams all miss playoffs in NHL first
European Travel to the U.S. Plummets (Daring Fireball)

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)

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Politics

Hashtag tariff week:

Weekly Links 03.24–03.30

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)

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Weekly Links 09.30–10.06

Music By John Williams (kottke.org)
Shiny and Chrome (kottke.org)
Where I’m at with notetaking apps (Blake Watson)
Modernizing the Original ADB Keyboard From the Apple IIGS (Daring Fireball)
Why Is Jack Smith’s Unsealed Motion, Outlining Trump’s Criminal Actions to Overturn the 2020 Election, Not the Top Story? (Daring Fireball)
CSS Anchor Positioning Guide (CSS-Tricks)
Web Components are Bad, Good, and OK (Frontend Masters Boost)
Eleventy v3.0.0 is now available! (Zach Leatherman) — 🎉
“Nice Guy” Matt Mullenweg, CEO of WordPress.com Cries Foul and Threatens Me With Legal Action (Kellie Peterson) — Yikes.
What’s on your desk, David Pierce? (The Verge)
I stayed. (Jeffrey Zeldman)

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Weekly Links 08.05–08.11

Eleventy v3.0.0-beta.1 is now available!
Drupal 11: What’s New and What’s Next (Lullabot)
What’s on your desk, Jess Weatherbed? (The Verge)
Movies Watched, July 2024 (Khoi Vinh)

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Weekly Links 06.24–06.30

The USPS Honors Alex Trebek With a Stamp (kottke.org)
Anxiety in Inside Out 2 Is Too Real (kottke.org)
Oreo Kintsugi (kottke.org)
Riding With the Street Demon (kottke.org)
Obvious travel advice
Removing React dramatically improves performance: a case study (Go Make Things)

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Weekly Links 06.10–06.16

The 2024 Drone Photos Awards (kottke.org)
Daylight Computer’s DC-1 Tablet (Daring Fireball) — I want something like this, but they always end up being as much (or more) than a more capable iPad.
The Basics (.dev) (Geoff Graham)
Review: Holmes Cay Belize 2006 16 Year Old vs Tamosi Obano-Oyo Belize 2006 (Cane Spirit Society) (The Rum Barrel Blog)
Review: The Rum Discovery Box (The Rum Barrel Blog)
Review: Rump@blic Sicilian Legacy Line – Barbados, Jamaican & Jamaican & Venezuelan (The Rum Barrel Blog)
Review: El Dorado Rum Range (The Rum Barrel Blog)
CSS Container Queries (CSS-Tricks)
Weeknotes 24:21 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 24:22 (Jeff Bridgforth)
In-N-Out — Tokyo, Japan (Louie Mantia)
iPod (Louie Mantia)

Apple WWDC

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Adobe’s new terms of service say it won’t train AI on customers’ work
Penguins hire David Quinn as assistant coach
Capitals announce deal to buy NHL salary data site CapFriendly — This sounds like bad news for fans and the rest of the NHL.
Epic Games database leak hints at a trove of unannounced games
Sony buys Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
Roku TV owners complain that motion smoothing is stuck ‘on’ after an update
Netflix will settle 15 years of Chestnut vs. Kobayashi with a live hot dog-eating contest
Apple and OpenAI aren’t paying each other yet, says Bloomberg
Disney Lorcana’s Shimmering Skies set debuts Wreck-it Ralph — My family got me a Lorcana starter deck for Father’s Day, and I’m already overwhelmed by all the new cards 😆
Finally, the Apple Watch will let you rest
iOS 18 will let you use Apple Pay on desktop Chrome by scanning a code
Arc’s live calendar button makes it hard to miss your next meeting
New trailer for Netflix’s The Imaginary is for friends and believers
Did Apple just Sherlock our favorite password managers?
iOS 18 lets Apple Home users choose their Home Hub
Philips Hue’s jaunty sunrise smart lamp is called the Twilight

Weekly Links 05.27–06.02

Hello, 18F. (Ethan Marcotte)
Modern WordPress – Yikes! (Chris Coyier, Frontend Masters Boost)
A Pickpocket’s Story (kottke.org)
America’s best decade, according to data (kottke.org)
A Documentary Film About Jim Henson (kottke.org)
“My Bike Is Everything to Me” (kottke.org)
slash pages — “Slash pages are common pages you can add to your website, usually with a standard, root-level slug”
The different static site generators (and which one to choose) (Go Make Things)
Your site or app should work as much as possible without JavaScript (Go Make Things)
The different ways to build a resilient website or web app (Go Make Things)
A simpler way to build dynamic user interactions (Go Make Things)
Why paying down tech debt matters (Go Make Things)
Weeknotes 24:19 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Nice keyboards make me want to write blogs (Cassidy Williams)
Apple Music 100 Best Albums (Hicks.design)
The gift of a three-month sabbatical (Jeffrey Zeldman)
An Organizer’s Retrospective on the 11ty Conference (Zach Leatherman)

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Weekly Links 05.13–05.19

Ryan Malone story shows how much hockey has changed in the last 20 years (PensBurgh)
Review: Paris Rhum Fest 2024 (The Rum Barrel Blog)
Review: Appleton Estate Rum Range (The Rum Barrel Blog)
Weeknotes 24:18 (Jeff Bridgforth)
The wrong way to do Web Components (Go Make Things)
I’m worried about the tabbing behaviour, rather than the syntax and name of CSS masonry (Piccalilli)
A quick light-dark() experiment (Dave Rupert)
Movies Watched, April 2024 (Khoi Vinh)
The Forged Apple Employee Badge (Cabel Sasser)

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