- 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: CSS
Weekly Links 11.17–11.23
- Weeknote #1975 (Robb Knight)
- Weeknotes 25:46 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- More CSS random() Learning Through Experiments (Frontend Masters Blog)
News
- Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair trailer is beautifully violent — “Tarantino’s four-hour masterpiece arrives on Dec. 5”
- Nintendo blocks some third-party Switch 2 docks, but isn’t saying why — I want to get a portable dock or hub my Switch 2 for travel, but it seems that most USB-C hubs aren’t compatible.
- ChatGPT Atlas adds Arc-like vertical tabs
- Google cracked Apple’s AirDrop and is adding it to Pixel phones
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 09.22–09.28
- We’re living in a golden age of affordable mechanical keyboards (The Verge)
- Ghost of Yōtei review: PlayStation’s grand attempt at an old Hollywood epic (Polygon)
- Centralia Old-Time Campout 2025 (Chris Coyier)
- The Official Map of the Star Wars Galaxy (kottke.org)
- A short list of tech security tips when traveling (Cory Dransfeldt)
- John Candy: I Like Me (kottke.org)
- What’re Your Top 4 CSS Properties? (CSS-Tricks)
News
- Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro can be easily scratched
- The Mandalorian and Grogu channels classic Star Wars in first trailer
- Jimmy Kimmel’s show will return after censorship outrage
- Trump escalates crackdown by designating ‘Antifa’ a domestic terror group
- Disney Plus is getting another price hike
- This Steam user just got an achievement for owning 40,000 games
- Kimmel returns to television to mock FCC Chair Brendan Carr
- YouTube will now let you hide those pesky end screens
- You can upgrade a Casio watch with Bluetooth, step counting, and games
- Wolverine looks bloody good in first gameplay trailer
- Jimmy Kimmel returns bigger than ever
- First Spaceballs 2 cast photo is also a Star Wars parody
- Raspberry Pi upgraded its keyboard computer with mechanical switches and SSD storage
- Martin Shkreli can be sued for copying Wu-Tang’s one-of-a-kind record
- Evgeni Malkin hoping this isn’t final season with Penguins
- Marc-Andre Fleury bids farewell in last game with Penguins
Weekly Links 08.18–08.24
- Review: Hampden Estate 1753 (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- Review: The Whisky Exchange Rum Show 2025 (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- Review: Black Tot Master Blender’s Reserve 2025 (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- When the Icebergs Came to Town (kottke.org)
- Generous Media (kottke.org)
- Never write your own Date Parsing Library (Zach Leatherman)
- One weird trick to reduce Eleventy Image Build Times by 60% (Zach Leatherman)
- A Note from my Late Grandmother about Eleventy (Zach Leatherman)
- Studio Notes #45 (SimpleBits)
- Obsidian Bases: Star Ratings and Automatic Covers (Tyler Sticka)
- Pixadex (Louie Mantia)
- Buddies (Louie Mantia)
- blakewatson.com turns 20 (Blake Watson)
- Longplay (Jon Hicks)
- That Windy City Keeb Meet 2025 recap (Cassidy Williams)
- Weeknotes 39 (Mark Boulton)
- Newslettered. (Ethan Marcotte)
- Unorganised Thoughts about Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 (Robb Knight)
- Weeknote #1959 (Robb Knight)
- Weeknote #1961 (Robb Knight)
- Weeknotes 25:30 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknotes 25:31 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknotes 25:32 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknotes 25:33 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Hero and semantic ordering (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Often the place of blessing is not our place of preference (Jeff Bridgforth)
- BTW № 3: Analog Edition (Jason Santa Maria)
- Compounding performance issues (Go Make Things)
- Having figure match width of contained image (Jeff Bridgforth)
- The Figcaption Problem (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Fonts for Wireframing (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Ghost vs. Substack, Eleventy vs. WordPress: My Experiences (Richard MacManus)
News
- Grammarly says its AI agent can predict an A paper
- Amazon’s Fallout season two heads to New Vegas
- First Fallout season 2 trailer reveals release date (and Deathclaws)
- Google Home adds scheduling for older Nest thermostats
- UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption
- Nanoleaf’s new 4D V2 lighting kit is better at extending what’s on TV
- Ayaneo’s dual-screen Android handheld is its next modernized Nintendo DS
- Sony is raising PS5 prices, starting tomorrow
- Apple TV Plus is getting more expensive and will cost $12.99 per month
- US government takes 10 percent stake in Intel in exchange for money it was already on the hook for — It seems like there might be some potential conflict of interest here. Also, it looks like one step closer to the United States becoming more like China.
- Bluesky blocks Mississippi under new age verification law
Weekly Links 06.02–06.08
- Jaromir Jagr’s Stanley Cup Finals streak is absolutely mind-blowing (SBNation)
- How to copy stuff to a user’s clipboard with vanilla JavaScript (Go Make Things)
- How to build a copy-to-clipboard HTML Web Component (Go Make Things)
- Take My Hand, Precious Lord (Dave Rupert)
- A clarified stance on blocking AI crawlers (Cory Dransfeldt)
- Introducing: Webbed Sites (Webbed Briefs)
- Weeknotes 25:22 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Artificial Intelligence is a Microwave (SonSpring)
- The State of CSS 2025 Survey is out! (CSS-Tricks)
News
- 28 Years Later honors digital heritage with a 20-camera iPhone rig
- Ukraine’s drone strike isn’t just an attack — it’s first-person media warfare
- Bing lets you use OpenAI’s Sora video generator for free
- Wyze’s latest smart bulb is also a camera
- Elon Musk calls Trump’s budget bill a ‘disgusting abomination’
- The single best wireless controller I’ve ever used
- Marvel’s Fantastic Four gets ‘universe’s biggest’ popcorn bucket
- James Bond game 007 First Light gets first trailer
- Astro Bot: five new Vicious Void Galaxy levels, Special Bots launch this July
- The witchhunt is on in Wicked: For Good’s first trailer
- Penguins hire former Rangers assistant Dan Muse as head coach
- 8BitDo’s controllers work with the Switch 2 after a firmware update
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 05.19–05.25
- When to use map() vs. forEach() (Matt Smith)
- Fastest Rubik’s Cube Solve Ever (kottke.org)
- Colin Jost & Michael Che give each other jokes to tell on SNL’s Weekend Update (kottke.org)
- NYC Restaurant Interior or Black & White Drawing? (kottke.org)
- Biking Is Therapy (kottke.org)
- [This website] is a repurposed smartphone running on solar power (kottke.org)
- Bring That Beat Back (Naz Hamid)
- Opinionated vs. Flexible Software (Naz Hamid)
- Moving from Notion to Obsidian (Dave Rupert)
- Vibe Check №38 (Dave Rupert)
- Obsidian Miscellany (Tyler Sticka)
- Weeknote #1949 (Robb Knight)
- Weeknotes 25:20 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Star Wars Outlaws is better than you think it is (Polygon)
- SVG to CSS Shape Converter (CSS-Tricks)
- How I Manage My Read Later List (Marcel Wichmann)
- Work styles and ADHD (Go Make Things)
- The magic developer wand (Go Make Things)
- The Last of Us writers break down the season 2 ending and 4 other big changes (Polygon)
News
- Sesame Street’s next season will stream on Netflix
- 23andMe and its user data will soon belong to a pharmaceutical giant
- GitHub’s new AI coding agent can fix bugs for you
- Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open-source
- Microsoft’s Edit on Windows is a new command-line text editor
- Trump signs the Take It Down Act into law
- Nearly half of streaming subscriptions are for plans with ads — I wonder how many of these ad-supported subscriptions are ones bundled with other services. For example, I get ad-supported Hulu included with my phone plan. I rarely watch anything on Hulu (because of the ads), and if it wasn’t free, then I wouldn’t bother with it at all.
- Elgato is letting you stick a Stream Deck on anything
- Fender’s free new recording app lets you simulate its iconic amps and pedals
- Google’s Gemini AI is coming to Chrome
- The FDA is making it more difficult for Americans to get vaccinated for covid
- Fortnite is finally back on US iPhones — “If you get the app from the App Store, it will be a small initial download, and after you actually open the app, it will download the rest of the game. For a colleague, that additional download was 12.95GB.” 😳
- Energy efficiency rollbacks could cost Americans $43 billion in higher utility bills
- OpenAI is buying Jony Ive’s AI hardware company
- PlayStation Stars burns out — PlayStation Stars was a frustrating rewards program (as are most rewards programs now). As a casual gamer, every time I would get close to having enough points for the one reward with any value (a $5 gift card), my points would expire. I often feel like it would be better for a company to have no reward program at all than to have one that is frustrating to use.
- Apple is making a five-part documentary on Martin Scorsese
- Netflix’s new OceanGate documentary makes things seem so much worse
- Verizon wants to wait longer before unlocking your phone
- Anthropic’s Claude 4 AI models are better at coding and reasoning
- Nvidia’s RTX 5060 review debacle should be a wake-up call for gamers and reviewers
- Mozilla is shutting down Pocket — I’ve used Pocket for years. Last year I shopped around for a new read it later app as I was somewhat unhappy with Pocket. I initially decided on Omnivore before deciding to go back to Pocket. I thought I dodged a bullet as Omnivore shut down a few months later, but it looks like my decision to stick with Pocket finally caught up with me.
- Senate Republicans vote to revoke California’s right to set its own tailpipe pollution rules
- Trump threatens Apple with a 25 percent iPhone tariff
- I bet you haven’t seen a first-person shooter quite like this
- Fujifilm’s half-frame camera ditches modern features for retro fun
Weekly Links 05.12–05.18
- How to make a Link Aggregator in Obsidian (Dave Rupert) — I also recently moved from Notion to Obsidian, and I’ve been looking for ways to improve my workflow with saving and sharing links. I might have to adopt a few of Dave’s ideas.
- BTW № 1: Stuff That Explains You Edition (Jason Santa Maria)
- BTW № 2: Letterforms Edition (Jason Santa Maria)
- Seeking an Answer: Why can’t HTML alone do includes? (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Reading flow ships in Chrome 137 (Frontend Masters Blog)
- contrast-color() ships in Safari Technology Preview (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Using Pages CMS for Static Site Content Management (CSS-Tricks) — I’ve been thinking about migrating my blog to a new CMS, and Eleventy would be a much stronger contender if something like this worked well.
- Weeknotes 25:19 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Hack Club: Post Filtering on EchoFeed (Robb Knight)
- A streaming music translator: I Don’t Have Spotify (kottke.org)
- Eminem’s Lose Yourself, Sung by 331 Movies (kottke.org)
- Forget Psychedelics. Everyone’s Microdosing Ozempic Now. (kottke.org)
- Color Photography of Paris From 1914 (kottke.org)
- Power Houses — Inside the living rooms of notable New Yorkers (kottke.org)
- A Longevity Expert’s 5 Tips for Aging Well (kottke.org)
- Octavia Butler’s Advice on Writing (kottke.org) — “Write, every day, whether you like it or not. Screw inspiration.”
- Gardening and the endless task list (Go Make Things)
- A better linter (Go Make Things) — I need to give Biome a try. Setting up ESLint has been difficult. I’m now addicted to auto-formatting, but I don’t agree with some of the opinionated decisions of Prettier (which are impossible to override).
- 2025 Advice to my old selves (swyx)
News
- Fox One streaming service will arrive just in time for football season
- Duolingo is replacing hearts with energy
- Fallout’s second season premieres in December and will be followed by a third
- Letterboxd announces a curated, limited-run rental service — “Letterboxd – a film tracker app and the only good social network” — so true 😆
- Panthers minority owner suspended for offensive social media posts
- ESPN’s standalone streaming app launches this fall for $30 a month
- Republicans push for a decadelong ban on states regulating AI
- Sony considers PS5 price hikes to cover Trump’s tariffs
- HBO gives up, calls it HBO Max again
- Max was an all-time bad rebrand
- Happy 20-year anniversary, Leeroy Jenkins
- Superman gets grilled in latest trailer
- Minecraft finally adds craftable saddles… after 15 years
- Trump wants to weaken protections against forever chemicals in drinking water
- Walmart’s CFO says higher prices are probably coming this month
- Apple blocks Fortnite’s App Store return as downloads fail in Europe
- Wooting’s 60HE v2 upgrades the best gaming keyboard with improved speed and sound
- Crosby, Fleury have opportunity at making history at Worlds
- Charter and Cox to combine businesses in $34.5 billion megamerger — I can’t wait to switch from Cox to our local fiber service once it becomes available in my neighborhood.
- 8BitDo’s new all-button arcade controller is just 16mm thick
- The State Department reportedly pressured African countries to adopt Starlink
- Microsoft’s Command Palette is a powerful launcher for apps, search, and more
Weekly Links 05.05–05.11
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail Turns 50. Watch It Free on YouTube. (kottke.org)
- GSAP is Now Completely Free, Even for Commercial Use! (CSS-Tricks)
- Why is Nobody Using the hwb() Color Function? (CSS-Tricks)
- How to Do Hard Things Every Day (May Focus Digest) (The Sweet Setup)
- Running 11ty and PHP concurrently (Cory Dransfeldt)
- No default exports (Go Make Things)
- Week Links №2: April 2025 (Dave Rupert)
- christopher.org for the next 100 years (Chris Coyier)
- “I’d rather read the prompt” (Chris Coyier)
- Default styles for h1 elements are changing (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Weeknotes 25:18 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- CSS Trick: Handling logos in dark mode (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Two powerful investments to make in your career (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Lessons from a yearlong job search (Jeff Bridgforth)
- The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind. (Alex Riviere) — 😆
- Funsizing (Jason Santa Maria) — “Basically, I’ve always felt best when I was making things, and I miss being more hands-on. But I really miss the flexibility to try different things, work with different people, and learn while I’m doing it.”
- No More Ratings (Robb Knight) — “The problem with this system is I mostly don’t watch bad movies. Or a better way to put it is I kinda like bad movies.”
- Barbara “Nuggie” Schuetz-Hamid (Naz Hamid)
- HTML is like a camera (Robb Owen)
- Studio Notes #31 (SimpleBits)
News
- Trump promises 100 percent tariff on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
- White House seeks to cut funding for brain injury research
- Buffalo put a window on its new hard drive so you can see it at work
- OpenAI abandons plan to drop nonprofit control
- Penguins narrowly miss out on winning lottery draft, end up picking 11th — Worst possible outcome for the Penguins, who continue to have bad luck in the draft lottery (outside of the Sidney Crosby lottery).
- Grand Theft Auto VI’s second trailer sets up its Bonnie and Clyde story
- The REAL ID Act’s long-delayed deadline is finally here, and it’s a mess
- Sonos and Ikea are ending their partnership
- Senate Dems propose ban on presidents investing or endorsing crypto assets
- Trump’s White House has let scammers fleece regular people
- EcoFlow brings its plug-in solar power plant to US homes
- LinkedIn’s new AI search tool lets you describe your ideal job
- Figma’s big AI update takes on Adobe, WordPress, and Canva — Big surprise, the HTML for the websites Figma produces is not very good.
- Trump cuts Energy Star program that saved households $450 a year
- You can now claim for Apple’s $95 million Siri spying settlement
- The next Lord of the Rings movie debuts in December 2027
- Trump illegally fires Democrats at the Consumer Product Safety Commission
- You can now use Apple Pay to buy games on your PS5
- The Trump administration reportedly fired the head of the US Copyright Office after its preliminary report questioning whether training AI on copyrighted material is fair use
- Mexico is suing Google over how it’s labeling the Gulf of Mexico