- 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: Linux
Weekly Links 01.12–01.18
- The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe (no.heger)
- The Plex Dance ™ — Remove all cached metadata and xml data for an item.
- Media Diet (Chris Coyier)
- So Many Websites (Robin Rendle)
- Splinter.js — I made a more accessible text splitting tool (Stuff & Nonsense)
- Updates to my Toon Text styles gallery and generator (Stuff & Nonsense)
- I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows (The Verge)
- Coming up with blog topics (Cassidy Williams)
- On Kindness, Power, and Hypocrisy (kottke.org)
- BTW № 4: People Make Amazing Things Edition (Jason Santa Maria)
- ADHD restlessness (Go Make Things)
News
- Apple picks Google’s Gemini AI for its big Siri upgrade
- The first Lego Pokémon sets launch in February, including a $650 diorama
- Apple Creator Studio suite is launching to take on Adobe
- Animal Crossing’s big 3.0 update has fans itching to return to the cozy life
- Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content
- Parents can put a time limit on YouTube Shorts scrolling
- Civilization VII is coming to Apple Arcade
- Everything new in Animal Crossing: New Horizon’s 3.0 update
- Over 100 episodes of classic Sesame Street have arrived on YouTube
- Star Wars shakeup: Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy steps down
- Lego’s new Legend of Zelda set revealed, up for pre-order
- Disney deleted a Thread because people kept putting anti-fascist quotes from its movies in the replies
Weekly Links 01.05–01.11
- Review: Ninefold Scottish Oak 3 Years Old (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- Weird Al Yankovic Covers Killing In The Name by Rage Against the Machine (kottke.org)
- A new workshop space for my side projects (Stuff & Nonsense)
- The ABCD framework for feedback (Cassidy Williams)
- Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help (Jim Nielsen)
- It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
- Weeknote #1978 (Robb Knight)
- Building my Myspace (Cory Dransfeldt)
- Weeknotes 25:49 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- What’s on your desk, Stevie Bonifield? (The Verge)
- I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great (The Verge)
News
- Govee’s latest smart lights can make your ceiling more interesting
- You can charge Belkin’s new Switch 2 power case without opening it
- Belkin’s new 3-in-1 charging dock isn’t limited to the Apple Watch
- Belkin’s new HDMI adapter wirelessly connects to screens from 130 feet
- Ikea’s new $4 USB-C charger is cheaper than Apple’s and Anker’s
- Birdbuddy’s new smart feeders aim to make spotting birds easier, even for beginners
- Anker put a screen on its smallest 45W charger
- Lego announces Smart Brick, the ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years
- Keychron’s new mechanical keyboards offer ultralong battery life at wireless 8K polling rates
- Nvidia’s new G-Sync monitors automatically adjust brightness just like a laptop
- This desktop charger turns your iPhone into a robotic AI assistant
- TP-Link brings an AI assistant to its smart home and home networking apps
- Avengers: Doomsday trailer 3 with the X-Men is now online
- Hugh Jackman gives Robin Hood the Old Man Logan moment in new movie
- You might mistake Satechi’s new Thunderbolt 5 hub for Apple’s Mac Mini
- Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate — I spent a couple of hours trying to fix my mouse by uninstalling/reinstalling the Logitech software before discovering the problem was related to this issue. 🤦♂️
- Ikea’s $10 Kallsup speakers are tiny, colorful, and surprisingly loud
- Sony’s new ‘Hyperpop’ PS5 covers are bursting with RGB color
- Fujifilm’s Instax Mini Evo Cinema captures video with vintage effects
- Disney Plus is getting vertical video — 👎👎
- Nintendo is bringing its cute My Mario collection to the US next month
- South Park’s Fortnite crossover is full of deep cuts (and mech suits)
- GameStop’s future in turmoil as estimated 400 stores close in 2026
- I’ve never used a trackball, but Keychron’s Nape Pro looks like the perfect one
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 01.27–02.02
- Questlove’s Fantastic Video Mix of 50 Years of SNL Music (kottke.org)
- Asteroids vs Space Invaders! Scans of Early 80s Gaming Magazines. (kottke.org)
- ‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream (kottke.org)
- The Public Domain Image Archive (kottke.org)
- What If Letterboxd Ratings Decided the Best Picture Oscar? (kottke.org)
- Winners of the 2024 Close-Up Photographer of the Year (kottke.org)
- “Was Anyone Going to Say Anything?” (kottke.org)
- Who Were the Nazis? (kottke.org)
- Ames & Amherst. (Ethan Marcotte)
- Movies Watched, December 2024 (Khoi Vinh)
- DeepSeek (Maggie Appleton)
- Weeknotes 25:04 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Doubts about Pixelfed (Robb Knight)
- Migrating from Plex to Jellyfin for music (Cory Dransfeldt)
- Media Diet (Chris Coyier)
- Control (Chris Coyier)
- A Little Arm Chair Businessin’ about Chrome (Chris Coyier)
- LocalSend: Open Source Cross-Platform Alternative to AirDrop (Daring Fireball)
- My website has been gaslighting you (Dave Rupert)
- Studio Notes #17 (SimpleBits)
News
- Sources: Fenway Sports Group looks to sell stake of Penguins
- China’s DeepSeek AI is hitting Nvidia where it hurts
- The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, with some help from Google
- Now Apple tells us how to update AirPods
- Google Maps to show Gulf of America and Mount McKinley — 🤦♂️
- Donald Trump wants to claw back clean energy funding
- Climate change made the Los Angeles wildfires more likely
- FCC chair says landlords can force bulk internet service on residents — “Trump’s FCC head says reducing competition will lower prices.” I don’t think that’s how it works. 🤷♂️
- OpenAI has evidence that its models helped train China’s DeepSeek — OMG, the irony! 😆😂🤣
- NordVPN’s new feature gets around networks that block VPNs
- Comcast is rolling out ‘ultra-low lag’ tech that could fix the internet
- Facebook flags Linux topics as ‘cybersecurity threats’ — posts and users being blocked — 😐
- Microsoft makes DeepSeek’s R1 model available on Azure AI and GitHub
- The FAA will be forced to oversee the investigation of a fatal plane crash without a chief administrator.
- Microsoft makes OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model free for all Copilot users
- Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office
- The Video Game History Foundation has opened a digital library
- Google’s ‘Ask for Me’ uses AI to call local businesses for you — I hope this is good, I hate making phone calls 😆
- Nvidia’s latest AI trick made our mediocre webcam mic sound practically professional
- FCC head Brendan Carr orders investigations into NPR and PBS
- Disney’s Star Wars hotel jumps from deep space to office space — Sad, but almost no one could afford to stay at that hotel.
- Wild’s Fleury shuts out Canadiens in likely Montreal send-off
- Donald Trump’s data purge has begun
Weekly Links 04.01–04.07
- How to see the solar eclipse (The Verge)
- I love reading fantasy again (Cassidy Williams)
- I miss human curation (Cassidy Williams)
- Tobey Maguire’s Non-CGI Tray Catch Scene in Spider-Man (kottke.org)
- ‘Mum knew what was going on’: Brigitte Höss on living at Auschwitz, in the Zone of Interest family (The Guardian, via kottke.org)
- Weeknotes 24:13 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Cabo Dhabi (Chris Coyier)
- WordPress.com has Studio, a native app for running WordPress locally, and GitHub Deployments (Chris Coyier)
- GitButler (Chris Coyier)
- Tower vs. GitHub Desktop (Frontend Masters Boost, Chris Coyier)
- Don’t be clever (Go Make Things)
News
- You can use ChatGPT for free without a login
- Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode
- Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers — “After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.” I hate printers, but my Brother laser printer has been the most reliable printer I’ve ever owned.
- Alaska is gonna try and use a robot to scare wildlife from around an airport
- Sidney Crosby ties Gretzky’s record with 19 point-per-game seasons
- Jon Stewart on AI, Lina Khan, and the other things Apple didn’t want him to say
- How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide
- Apple MacBook Air M3 13- and 15-inch (2024) review
- The Matrix is coming back for a fifth movie
- Microsoft reveals how much you’ll have to pay to keep using Windows 10 securely
- Suika Game is finally out on iOS for North American players
- The Disney Plus password-sharing crackdown starts in June
- Denis Villeneuve is doing Dune 3
- Sidney Crosby nominated for Masterton Trophy
- Roku’s idea of showing ads on your HDMI inputs seems like an inevitable hell
- Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
- iPhones can have emulators now so here are some great iOS controllers
Weekly Links 12.04–12.10
- How to Cook Turkey With Just Chicken and Cinnamon (kottke.org)
- Single Line Comments in CSS (Jim Nielsen)
- Testing the Performance of Social Media Embeds (CSS { In Real Life })
- Weeknotes 23:41 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Routines, rituals, and habits (Jeff Bridgforth)
- When I first learned to write HTML (Jeff Bridgforth)
- HTML & CSS for a One-Time Password Input (Chris Coyier)
- ‘The Lost Voice’ (Daring Fireball)
News
- The first GTA 6 trailer is here — Thoughts on Daring Fireball
- GTA 6 won’t launch on PC — will it follow GTA 5’s long delay?
- What happens to GTA Online when GTA 6 comes out
- Dragon Age: Dreadwolf has another new trailer, and promises more details in ‘Summer 2024’
- Verizon’s new Netflix and Max bundle costs $10 / month with ads
- ExpressVPN is now available for the Apple TV
- 23andMe admits hackers accessed 6.9 million users’ DNA Relatives data
- The Twelve South Butterfly 2-in-1 charger is what Apple’s MagSafe Duo should have been
- After unexplained bans, PlayStation users report their accounts have been restored
- PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks
- Keychron’s latest keyboard comes with magnetic, analog Hall effect switches
- Pixar’s Turning Red, Soul, and Luca are getting theatrical releases
- iPhone 13 and iPhone 14 will get Qi2 support with iOS 17.2
- Anker’s Qi2 wireless chargers will fast-charge iPhone 13, 14, and 15 at 15W
- Texas A&M to hire Kansas State’s Collin Klein as OC — The end of this season has been brutal for K-State fans.
- Google Gemini: all the details on the AI model Google hopes can take on GPT-4
- Disney Plus and Hulu’s one-app experience is launching in beta
- Ex-Twitter security head claims the company fired him to flout regulations
- The second season of The Last of Us will debut in 2025
- Mammoth: a simpler, discovery-focused Mastodon app
- Threads has hashtags now
- Notepad on Windows 11 is finally getting a character count
- Linux is getting its own Blue Screen of Death
- Beeper Mini brings iMessage to Android
- Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app
- Apple responds to Beeper’s iMessage for Android: ‘We took steps to protect our users’
- Beeper? I Hardly Knew Her.
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