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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 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 05.06–05.12

Wes Anderson’s Montblanc Commercial (kottke.org)
The Gentle Librarian (kottke.org) — A device like the BOOX Palma has been feeling super compelling to me lately, but I’m not sure I would choose one over an iPad unless the price was a bit lower.
Vibe Check №32 (Dave Rupert)
A weighted vest (Dave Rupert)
Klack — Satisfying sound with every keystroke — An app that produces mechanical keyboard sounds for your Mac 😆
Weeknotes 25.04.24 (Hicks.design)
On having no visual memory (Rachel Andrew)
When your work disappears (Lynn Fisher) — Lynn is taking over oss.love from Netlify.
Weeknotes 24:17 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Europe Trip 2024 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Upcoming custom element support in React (Piccalilli)
Full text RSS is back (Piccalilli)
Detect JavaScript Support in CSS (Ryan Mulligan)
The full trailer for my Netflix series just dropped! (The Oatmeal)

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Weekly Links 03.04–03.10

The Verge’s favorite smart home devices (The Verge)
How to keep your smart cam footage safe and private (The Verge)
Paint Factory (SimpleBits)
The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps (Forte Labs)
Is Matter or Readwise Reader the Read-Later App for You? (The Sweet Setup)
Should JavaScript developers know CSS? (Go Make Things)
Movies Watched, February 2024 (Khoi Vinh)

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Weekly Links 02.26–03.03

Kottke.org Redesigns With 2024 Vibes (kottke.org)
13 Worst Bike Lanes in the World (via kottke.org)
There’s a Reason McDonald’s Coke Tastes Better Than All Others (via kottke.org)
Another Tetris World Record Completely Demolished! What Is Going On?! (kottke.org)
Tailwind vs Semantic CSS
Federation syndication (Jeremy Keith)
Rotten Apple (Jeremy Keith)
A CSS project boilerplate (Piccalilli)
Eleventy Starter Project Updates (CSS { In Real Life })
How I Solved My Font Rendering Problem (CSS { In Real Life })
How to setup dynamic server redirects in Apache with .htaccess (Go Make Things)
The .htaccess cheat sheet (Go Make Things)
Let’s create a Web Component from scratch! (Go Make Things)
Static Site Generators and CMS’s (Go Make Things)
Why is JavaScript fragile? (Go Make Things)
Omnivore is a Really Good, Completely Free Read Later App (The Sweet Setup)
In search of a digital town square (Jeffrey Zeldman)
Working remotely (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 24:08 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Adiós muchachos. (Airbag Industries)
Ah, this feels good. (Brilliantcrank)
No big surprise, Matt does it again. (Brilliantcrank)
Movies Watched, January 2024 (Khoi Vinh)
Getting something from Nothing (Robb Owen) — A review of the Nothing phone.
Streaming fatigue is making DVDs look like the better option (The Verge)
Subscription services are changing our relationship to gaming (The Verge)
How to modernize your retro game collection in a few convoluted steps (The Verge)
What Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran, and other celebs taught me about how to use my phone (The Verge)
The case for 4K Blu-ray in a world of streaming (The Verge)

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Weekly Links 02.12–02.18

Why wrap native elements in a Web Component? (Go Make Things)
Doom Runs on E. Coli Bacteria Now (kottke.org)
Groundhog Day, But With Potato Chips (kottke.org)
50 Places to Eat and Drink Before You Die (Atlas Obscura, via kottke.org)
Exploration team says it spotted what could be Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane (via kottke.org)
Pluralistic: How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024) (Cory Doctorow, via kottke.org)
Kind of annoyed at React (Cassidy Williams, via Piccalilli)
How to align the text of the last paragraph line (Stefan Judis, via Piccalilli)
New GitHub Copilot Research Finds ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’ (Visual Studio Magazine, via Piccalilli)
CoraQuest (Dave Rupert)
Thoughts on a Global Design System (Chris Coyier)
PDF Document Scanners (Chris Coyier)

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Weekly Links 01.29–02.04

Big, beautiful, beefy focus states with :focus-visible (Dave Rupert)
At last, browser choice* (Dave Rupert) — *Only available in the EU. Some restrictions may apply.
A highly configurable switch component using modern CSS techniques (Piccalilli)
It feels like React is getting a bit of a kicking recently (Piccalilli)
Blogroll (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 24:04 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Infinite Craft — Kind of addictive!

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Weekly Links 01.22–01.28

The Stanley Water Bottle Craze, Explained (kottke.org)
Cooked (kottke.org) — “add cooked.wiki/ in front of a recipe URL and it’ll show just the recipe”
Happy 40th Birthday, Macintosh (via kottke.org)
Winners of the 12th Annual Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest (kottke.org)
Where Do We Go From Here? (CSS { In Real Life })
Automated weekly links posts with raindrop.io and Eleventy (localghost, via Piccalilli)
Piccalilli Links (Piccalilli)
Low-tech Eleventy Categories (Piccalilli)
Knowledge Management for the win (Jeffrey Zeldman)
Weeknotes 24:03 (Jeff Bridgforth)
The origin of my online handle (Jeff Bridgforth)
Blogging and me (Jeff Bridgforth)
Play at work (Dave Rupert)
One big, one little (Dave Rupert)
The time to unmaintainable is very low (Dave Rupert)
What Can a Website Do? (Dave Rupert)
Users first then do teams (Dave Rupert)
How to create your own search API for a static website with JavaScript and PHP (Go Make Things)
How to create your own search API for a static website with JavaScript and PHP (part 2) (Go Make Things)
How to create your own search API for a static website with JavaScript and PHP (part 3) (Go Make Things)
You Should Take More Breaks During Work. Here’s How to Make Time for Yourself. (Wirecutter)
What You Can Do Today to Revitalize Your Productivity (Wirecutter)
It’s Probably Time to Replace These 17 Household Essentials (Wirecutter)

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Weekly Links 01.15–01.21

How Lego builds a new Lego set (The Verge)
The Verge’s favorite tools to stay organized (The Verge)
You Should Try Running, According to Me, Your Friend Who Won’t Shut Up About Running (McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, via kottke.org)
What If The Bear, But a Commercial for Coke? (kottke.org)
Sixteen Stories for Flickr Commons’ Sixteenth Birthday (Flickr Foundation, via kottke.org)
The Winners of the Nature Photography Contest (kottke.org)
Polygon Picks: accessories to improve your home office and desk (Polygon)
How to read more books as an adult (Polygon)
A Native viewer on Killers of the Flower Moon’s most life-changing scene (Polygon)
Five things. (Airbag Industries)
In My Opinion… (Chris Coyier)
How and Why to Write One Sentence A Day (Day One Blog, Phoebe Kranefuss)
A new look to this site (Jeff Bridgforth)
Remembering Hardboiled Web Design (Jeff Bridgforth)
Basic accessibility mistakes I often see in audits (Go Make Things)
How to keep up (Go Make Things)
The decline of React (Go Make Things)
WobblyBox, a web component for wobbly boxes (Dave Rupert)
‘Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand’ (Daring Fireball)
Tim Bray: ‘Mourning Google’ (Daring Fireball)

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Weekly Links 11.13–11.19

Why Star Wars Was Dubbed Into the Navajo Language (kottke.org)
“I built a trading bot that buys stocks that are being bought by politicians. It is up 20% since it launched in May 2022.” (via kottke.org)
Do You Say “Tennis Shoes”, “Gym Shoes”, or “Sneakers”? (kottke.org)
Trump Wants Us to Know He Will Stop at Nothing in 2025 (via kottke.org)
More Americans Say They’re in a Brain Fog. Long Covid Is a Factor. (via kottke.org)
Winners of the 2023 Natural Landscape Photography Awards (kottke.org)
Stop Using AI-Generated Images (CSS { In Real Life })
Better Vue Application State Management with Vuex Modules (CSS { In Real Life })
Using Flow Diagrams to Manage State in Complex Applications (CSS { In Real Life })
Projects: Finally a home for my projects, side projects, and weird ideas (Dave Rupert)
Weeknotes 23:38 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Always Be Learning (LukeW)
Until the Right Design Emerges… (LukeW)
Happy Anniversary, xScope! (The Breakroom)

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