- 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: piracy
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 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 02.10–02.16
- 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