- The best books we read in 2025 (The Verge)
- The 10 best sci-fi and fantasy movies of 2025, ranked (Polygon)
- The best JRPGs of 2025 (Polygon)
- The 10 best horror TV shows of 2025, ranked (Polygon)
- Zelda: ToTK on Switch 2 was my 2025 GOTY (Polygon)
- The 10 best sci-fi and fantasy TV shows of 2025, ranked (Polygon)
- The best PS5 games from 2025 (The Verge)
- 2025’s best video game remakes and remasters (Polygon)
Tag: movies
Weekly Links 12.15–12.21
- The 50 best games of 2025, as chosen by Polygon (Polygon)
- The 10 best horror movies of 2025, ranked (Polygon)
- The 15 best under-the radar indie games of 2025
- The worst games of 2025, including MindsEye, Bubsy 4D, and more
- The best thing I bought this year: The Nintendo Switch 2 (The Verge)
News
- Apple TV adds Google Cast streaming, but only on Android
- A first interview with Mozilla’s new CEO on AI, Firefox, and the web
- Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
- Ex-Alabama coach Nick Saban buys minority stake in Predators
- Disclosure Day’s first trailer teases close encounters of a new kind
- The Muppet Show returns for one night only on Disney Plus in 2026
- The Oscars will stream on YouTube in 2029
- The TikTok US sale is finally happening
- The RAM shortage is here to stay, raising prices on PCs and phones
- Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’ — 😆
- Hoffmann family enters into formal agreement for controlling interest of Penguins franchise
- Sidney Crosby passes Mario Lemieux as Penguins’ top scorer
Weekly Links 12.08–12.14
- Goodbye VS Code! (Kevin Powell)
News
- Paramount tries to kill Netflix Warner Bros. deal
- Analogue is restocking its 4K N64 and making it more colorful
- Supergirl’s first trailer introduces the Woman of Tomorrow
- Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI, sends iconic characters to the slophouse
- Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic announced from former Mass Effect dev
- Clair Obscur wins Game of the Year in record-breaking Game Awards haul
- The Game Awards 2025: Full winners list
- Penguins acquire Stuart Skinner, Brett Kulak, draft pick from Oilers for Tristan Jarry
- Google Translate brings real-time speech translations to any headphones
Weekly Links 11.24–12.07
- I tested a bunch of Switch 2 screen protectors, and these are the best (The Verge)
- Grid Paper (Dave Rupert)
- My Number One “Resource Not Found” (Jim Nielsen)
- Web Monetization is Still Inching Along, But Still Too Difficult (Frontend Masters Blog)
News
- ‘Jmail’ is like Gmail, but with Jeffrey Epstein’s emails
- RAM prices are so out of control that stores are selling it like lobster
- You won’t want to hide Ikea’s colorful new Bluetooth speakers
- Wyze’s new security camera watches your yard from inside your home
- Watch how Apple made its new puppet-packed holiday ad
- Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
- Netflix kills casting from phones
- Hands-on: Sony’s A7 V uses a partially stacked sensor for silent shooting
- Apple’s head of UI design is leaving for Meta
- Amazon’s dynamic pricing is causing chaos for school budgets
- New Carmageddon game announced for 2026
- Netflix to buy Warner Bros. and HBO for $82.7 billion
- Star Wars’ original theatrical cut returns to theaters in 2027
Weekly Links 11.17–11.23
- Weeknote #1975 (Robb Knight)
- Weeknotes 25:46 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- More CSS random() Learning Through Experiments (Frontend Masters Blog)
News
- Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair trailer is beautifully violent — “Tarantino’s four-hour masterpiece arrives on Dec. 5”
- Nintendo blocks some third-party Switch 2 docks, but isn’t saying why — I want to get a portable dock or hub my Switch 2 for travel, but it seems that most USB-C hubs aren’t compatible.
- ChatGPT Atlas adds Arc-like vertical tabs
- Google cracked Apple’s AirDrop and is adding it to Pixel phones
Weekly Links 11.10–11.16
- Inktober? Completed It Mate (Robb Knight)
- My Truck Desk by Bud Smith — via kottke.org
- Weeknotes 25:44 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Pull Request Templates (Go Make Things)
- Weeknote #1973 (Robb Knight)
- The Great (Refrigerator) Divide (Chris Coyier)
- Weeknotes 25:45 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Review your own git pull requests (Go Make Things)
- Clues by Sam (Dave Rupert)
- Inkwell Games (Dave Rupert)
News
- Wyze’s new scale measures segmented body composition with a handle
- Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick
- Aqara’s new presence sensor runs for up to three years on battery power
- Apple launches a Digital ID and says it’ll be accepted by the TSA
- Valve reveals new hardware: Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and more
- Valve enters the console wars
- The Steam Frame is a surprising new twist on VR
- Half-Life 3 rumors swirl in the wake of Valve’s Steam Machine announcement
- Dbrand is turning the Steam Machine into a Companion Cube
- Sony is making a Horizon MMO — here’s the video and details
- George Lucas’ narrative art museum opens next year in LA
- Fallout season 2 trailer teases New Vegas’ Kings, super mutants and more
- The first Toy Story 5 teaser threatens the toys with a tablet
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie shoots for the stars in first trailer
- Red Dead Redemption coming to Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X with enhancements
- Satechi’s new puck sticks a bunch of ports to the back of your phone
- Mozilla announces an AI ‘window’ for Firefox
- US Mint presses final pennies as production ends — via kottke.org
Weekly Links 11.03–11.09
News
- Apple brings its App Store to the web
- We now have a Nintendo Store app for iOS and Android
- The Nintendo Store finally has an app, and it’s hiding a long-requested feature
- 8BitDo’s latest wireless controllers can now shake-to-wake the Switch 2
- Films from YouTube and Google Play are no longer available on Movies Anywhere
- Ikea’s new smart home collection is entirely Matter-compatible
- Miss Piggy is getting a ‘dark’ movie from Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone
Weekly Links 10.20–10.26
- Code portability (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Some well-made things. (Ethan Marcotte)
- Meet my new Modular grid generator (Stuff & Nonsense)
- Using Notebook Navigator and Cupertino in Obsidian (Cassidy Williams)
- A carried leaf. (Ethan Marcotte)
- Mister Rogers Visits Sesame Street (1981) (kottke.org)
- I turned an old Mac into a NAS — here’s why you should too
- Mac Mini as a Low Idle Home NAS
- Building a private & personal cloud computer (Chase McCoy)
- A Clock: An Online Remake of Christian Marclay’s The Clock (kottke.org)
- JavaScript’s ??= Operator: Default Values Made Simple — via Frontend Masters Blog
- Prevent scrollbar jump (Go Make Things)
- Your brain’s job (The Oatmeal)
- My Mission (Louie Mantia)
- A social media ethos (Dave Rupert)
- Vibe Check №39 (Dave Rupert)
- A modest proposal for new holidays to manage your digital life (Dave Rupert)
- Is it Time to Un-Sass? (CSS-Tricks)
- All the concerns that make you a boring developer (Dave Rupert)
- Theater UX (Dave Rupert)
- Little Reminder About Custom Properties with Invalid Value (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Covering hidden=until-found (CSS-Tricks)
- Liquid Glass on the Web (Frontend Masters Blog)
- A fiscal recalibration (Dave Rupert) — I can really relate to this. 😞
- Before I go: Always buy the $200 Yamaha (Dave Rupert)
- I made a music app (Cory Dransfeldt)
- Using Eleventy to Gobble Up Everything I Do Online (Robb Knight)
- The CODE Keyboard — The WASD CODE Keyboard v3 was my first legit mechanical keyboard.
- Alfred Workflow: Smart Punctuation (Tyler Sticka)
- Multiple Computers (Jim Nielsen)
- Two Excellent New iPhone Camera Apps: Not Boring’s !Camera and Adobe’s Project Indigo (Daring Fireball)
- Recommended RSS readers (Cory Dransfeldt)
- European Tech Alternatives 🇪🇺 (Matthias Ott)
- Can You Recommend a Good Bookmark Manager? (kottke.org) — I’m settling into Raindrop.io, but there look to be a few more good suggestions to try in the comments.
- New Work: Megazoid Microsite (Jason Santa Maria)
- A right to copy. (Ethan Marcotte)
- Coattails (Adactio)
- CAPTCHAs and the punishment of privacy-conscious users (Cory Dransfeldt)
- A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry in the United States (kottke.org)
- Simplify (Adactio)
- Bird Photographer of the Year for 2025 (kottke.org)
- Six months (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Get Okay (Robb Knight)
- The AI Mandate (Go Make Things)
- Space Exploration Logo Archive — via kottke.org
- 39 Coolest Neighbourhoods in the World in 2025 — via kottke.org
- Real Photos That Look Fake (kottke.org)
- Weeknotes 25:42 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- AI Browsers, ad nauseam (Tyler Sticka)
- AI browsers are straight out of the enshittification playbook (Cory Dransfeldt)
- AI Browsers: Living on the Frontier of Security (Jim Nielsen)
- Vibe Check №40 (Dave Rupert)
News
- Ex-NHL great Jaromir Jagr, 53, starts 38th professional season
- Anbernic’s DS clone will be cheaper than Nintendo’s original
- Kohler’s new Dekoda health sensor peers inside your toilet — 💩
- Apple adds a new toggle to make Liquid Glass less glassy
- Universal’s new Shrek theme park sounds like a millennial playground
- Casio’ new ring watch straps a durable G-Shock to your finger
- Aldi unveils jacket potato jacket complete with silver foil poncho — via kottke.org
- OpenAI’s AI-powered browser, ChatGPT Atlas, is here
- Rivian’s Also e-bike is like nothing you’ve ever seen before
- Lomography made a new film camera that charges with USB-C
- Fujifilm updates its X-T30 with 6K video and a film simulation dial
- The BrickBoy kit turns Lego’s Game Boy into a handheld emulator
- Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy
- Fallout 4 is getting a new edition just in time for the TV show
- Nike says its first ‘powered footwear’ is like an e-bike for your feet
Weekly Links 10.13–10.19
- How to Turn Liquid Glass into a Solid Interface (TidBITS) — via Daring Fireball
- Travel Gear Brands With a Lifetime Warranty: 14 to Trust — via kottke.org
- 2000 Poops (Cassidy Williams)
News
- Apple TV Plus is being rebranded to… Apple TV — From Daring Fireball: “You can watch Apple TV in Apple TV on Apple TV”
- TiVo has sold its last DVR
- Facebook removes ICE-tracking page after US government ‘outreach’
- YouTube has a new video player
- X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries — via Daring Fireball
- Disney bets big on Impossible Creatures as the next Harry Potter
- Google will let friends help you recover an account
- Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro gets an M5 chip bump and faster storage
- Casio goes back to the ‘80s for its Back to the Future calculator watch
- Atari’s resurrecting the Intellivision, one of its biggest competitors in the ‘80s
- 8BitDo’s new collection celebrates the NES’s 40th anniversary
- Organizers say over 7 million showed up to No Kings protests
Weekly Links 10.06–10.12
- A cartoonist’s review of AI art (The Oatmeal)
News
- AMD teams up with OpenAI to challenge Nvidia’s AI chip dominance
- CBS News was just taken over by a Substack
- California bans noisy ads on Netflix, YouTube, and other streamers
- Qualcomm is acquiring DIY electronics platform Arduino
- Mastodon snags Bluesky’s starter packs feature and includes the ability to opt out
- Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions
- KPop Demon Hunters’ Huntrix makes live singing debut on SNL
- KPop Demon Hunters Huntr/x performance on Jimmy Fallon was Honmoon-worthy
- Penguins pounce in opener, spoil Sullivan’s return to Rangers — The Penguins played a great game, and the young guys looked good.
- The Minecraft movie is getting a sequel
- Brendan Carr wants to let internet providers charge hidden fees again
- Edifier’s new wireless speaker looks like a gaming PC
- Boox’s new smartphone-sized e-readers come with a steep price hike
- OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door
- Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank
- Amazon awkwardly edited the guns out of James Bond art