- 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