- Nirvana Before They Were Nirvana: Watch Their 1988 Performance Recorded in a Radio Shack (kottke.org)
- An audio recording of the audience’s reaction to Star Wars in 1977 (kottke.org)
- “The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified” (kottke.org)
- Extinction Burst Explains MAGA Voters’ Racist Anger (kottke.org)
- Kevin Kelly’s 50 Years of Travel Tips (kottke.org)
- My Recent Media Diet, the Endless January Edition (kottke.org)
- Don’t Believe Him (YouTube / The Ezra Klein Show)
- 3 Ways to Fix Hydration Error in Next.js 15 (YouTube / Programming with Umair)
- GitHub Copilot: the agent awakens (YouTube / GitHub)
- I’m Finally Moving On (I have a new browser) (YouTube / Theo – t3․gg)
- Music Questions Challenge (Robb Knight)
- Loading Pixelfed Photos with Eleventy (Robb Knight)
- My First Digital Photo (Robb Knight)
- Lihit Labs Compact Pen Case Review (Robb Knight)
- Notes on the Code Editors with AI Landscape (Frontend Masters Boost)
- Cool People Link to Text Fragments (Frontend Masters Boost)
- A Sneak Peek of the New DanMall.com (Dan Mall)
- Content Strategy For a 200-Page Personal Website (Dan Mall)
- Just a big ol’ markdown file (Andy Bell)
- Love newsletters? You’re gonna love RSS (Andy Bell)
- 11ty Meetup – How I built my Books page (Bob Monsour)
- ‘Torrenting From a Corporate Laptop Doesn’t Feel Right’ (Daring Fireball) — 🏴☠️
- Fox’s New Scorebug Graphic Design, and Our Innate Resistance to Change (Daring Fireball)
- Apple Support: ‘About Migrating Apple Account Purchases Between Accounts’ (Daring Fireball)
- Unpaid ‘Special Factory Employee’ (Daring Fireball)
- Weeknotes 25:06 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Make Any File A Template Using This Hidden MacOS Tool (CSS-Tricks)
- Studio Notes #19 (SimpleBits)
- Less Precious (Naz Hamid)
News
- Punch Out speedrunner first ever to beat Mike Tyson in under 2 minutes
- QMJHL names its rookie of the year trophy after Sidney Crosby
- A 3D-printed VHS cleaner is saving memories from mold
- Amazon’s shopping app will start listing items it doesn’t sell
- Avowed review: it makes the wait for the next Elder Scrolls much easier
- Honda and Nissan cancel their proposed $60 billion merger
- The UK’s war on encryption affects all of us
- Astro Bot getting five new levels for free, starting now
- TikTok is back in the App Store
4 Nations Face-Off
The 4 Nations Face-Off hockey tournament has been fun to watch this week.
- Mitch Marner’s OT goal leads Canada past Sweden in 4 Nations opener
- Sidney Crosby scores 3 assists in Team Canada’s 4-3 win in 4 Nations opener
- Mario Lemieux returns to Montreal for special 4 Nations Face-Off welcome
- Mario Lemieux gets standing ovation in return to Montreal at 4 Nations opening game
- U.S. anthem booed by fans in Montreal at 4 Nations Face-Off
- Tkachuk brothers each score twice as U.S. routs Finland in 4 Nations Face-Off
- Granlund lifts Finland past Sweden at 4 Nations Face-Off
- 3 fights headline 1st period as United States tops Canada
- U.S. outlasts Canada, earns berth in 4 Nations title game
Politics
- Elon Musk’s DOGE activities trigger protests, vandalism for Tesla
- Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion
- OpenAI’s board ‘unanimously rejects’ Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company
- Google Maps now shows the ‘Gulf of America’ and Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America — 🥴
- Donald Trump reignites the lightbulb wars — Ugh
- Trump administration illegally allowed DOGE to access workers’ data, lawsuit alleges
- FCC to investigate Comcast for having DEI programs
- The Trump administration restores federal webpages after court order
- Donald Trump’s January 6th Twitter lawsuit settled for ‘about $10 million’
- Apple has started advertising on X again
- Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook
- State Dept.’s plan to buy $400 million worth of armored Teslas hastily changed to ‘armored EVs’
- FCC chair Brendan Carr is a weapon in Trump’s war on free speech
- RFK Jr., an anti-vax activist, will lead Health and Human Services following Senate confirmation — 🤦♂️
- Elon Musk’s DOGE website has been defaced because anyone can edit it
- The technology team at financial regulator CFPB has been gutted
- Treasury inspector general will investigate DOGE payments access
- Senate Republicans introduce bills to make EVs more expensive