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Weekly Links 10.28–11.03

The Nirvana Concert “Sabotaged” by Kurt Cobain to Spite an Angry Crowd (kottke.org)
The 20 best art museums in America (kottke.org)
Retro 80s Versions of Tech Company Logos (kottke.org)
Household Surrealism: Clothesline Animals (kottke.org)
The Best of Japan’s Mundane Halloween Costumes for 2024 (kottke.org)
TIL that the dunk tank has extremely racist origins. (kottke.org)
Home-cooked web apps (Rach Smith)
A Penny (Chris Coyier)
You can use text-wrap: balance; on icons (Terence Eden)
The best noir movies to watch this Noirvember (Polygon)

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Weekly Links 10.14–10.20

“Secure Custom Fields” is not Advanced Custom Fields (Piccalilli)
Cabel Sasser, Panic – XOXO Festival (2024) (YouTube) — This video has been showing up in all my social feeds, and it did not disappoint.
Moom 4 Is Excellent, But Not Available in the Mac App Store (Daring Fireball) — I’ve been trying Moom this week, and I like it so far. I have been needing to find a replacement for Divvy, which looks to now be abandoned.
The Secretive Dynasty That Controls the Boar’s Head Brand – the New York Times (Daring Fireball)
Things Are Not Going Well at Automattic (Daring Fireball)
DHH Argues Against Passkeys (Daring Fireball)
Apple Passwords’ Generated Strong Password Format (Daring Fireball)
Therapy is now horrible (The Oatmeal)
Floor Maps of Iconic NYC Fast Food Joints (kottke.org)
Charles Schulz on Being a Good Citizen (kottke.org)
A Bonkers Japanese Skateboarding Show (kottke.org)
Artfully Arranged Junkyard Objects (kottke.org)
Tinkerers Are Taking Old Redbox Kiosks Home and Reverse Engineering Them (kottke.org)
Strolls with stops use more energy than continuous walking, scientists show (kottke.org)
Finders Keepers: Halloween (Louie Mantia)
Super Mario Bros. (Louie Mantia)
2004 was the first year of the future — It’s 2004 week at The Verge.
Say Hello to Croissant (Aaron Vegh) — “a super-fun, super-easy way to cross-post your social media posts to Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon”
My solar-powered and self-hosted website (Dries Buytaert)

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Weekly Links 11.06–11.12

Cloudy with a Chance of Insanity: Unsticking iCloud Drive (TidBITS, Glenn Fleishman)
Skip links on ikea.com (Manuel Matuzovic)
Naming Variables In CSS (Jonathan Dallas)
Gummy vitamins as a candy replacement (Dave Rupert)
Califia Farms Café Oat for Baristas Blend (Dave Rupert)
Fun water (Dave Rupert)
Stories: Building a home for my shitty sci-fi (Dave Rupert)
Vibe Check №29 (Dave Rupert)
So you’ve been publicly accessibility-shamed (Dave Rupert)
Ableist interactions (Hidde de Vries)
The Nature Conservancy’s Photo Contest Winners for 2023 (kottke.org)
Time Lapse Video of a Massive Lego Build of The Great Wave off Kanagawa (kottke.org)
The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned (via kottke.org)
Improv of Lord of the Rings’ Sauron as Trump (kottke.org)
The History of the Electric Guitar Solo (kottke.org)
You can drink the tap water in these 50 countries — maybe (via kottke.org)
The 10 Rules of Being Human (kottke.org)
The Whimsical Web (via kottke.org)
Why I Get Sick Selling A Curriculum To Homeschool Parents (via kottke.org)
Creating a Gentle World on a Little Leaf (kottke.org)
Searching for Humanity in Fortnite’s Battle Royale (kottke.org)
The Finalists in the 2023 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards (kottke.org)
Deaf People Show Us How to Swear in Sign Language (kottke.org)
Attribute Superpowers Taken All The Way (Chris Coyier)
Exit Animations (Chris Coyier)
Answers to Common (Web) Design Questions (Chris Coyier)
0 KB Social Media Embeds (Chris Coyier)
When not to use a subdomain (Chris Coyier)
Thoughtful (Chris Coyier)
An Intermittent Platform Bug (Chris Coyier)
Everything about SEO is obnoxious (Chris Coyier)
Movies Watched, September 2023 (Khoi Vinh)
The 16 best PC games (November 2023) (Polygon)
The 7 Best Pens of 2023 (Wirecutter)
Weeknotes 23:36 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 23:37 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Never ask “Can you see everything?” again. (Marc Reichel) — I’m in the market for a new monitor, and I just recently realized that screen sharing could be a problem with ultrawide monitors.
iOS Tip: ‘Smart Activation’ for Do Not Disturb Turns Off Notification During Screen Recordings (Daring Fireball)
“I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.” (Airbag Industries)
8 Questions You Need to Ask When Choosing Your University’s CMS (Lullabot)
Try Galaxy on your non-Android phone — Very impressive!
Wilco Loft Sans (SimpleBits)
Code Gardening (CSS { In Real Life })
Handling Null, Undefined and Zero Values in JavaScript (CSS { In Real Life })
NaN or Not a Number? (CSS { In Real Life })
CSS Nesting is Here (CSS { In Real Life })

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Weekly Links 07.10–07.16