- 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: politics
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
Weekly Links 09.29–10.05
- Lego Nintendo Game Boy review: a brick masterpiece just shy of perfection (The Verge)
- Goodbye, paywall (Go Make Things)
- Modern tools are worse (Go Make Things)
- DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought (Jake Lazaroff)
- I’ve tested the latest Switch 2 controllers, and this one is the best (The Verge)
- The weirdest KPop Demon Hunters Halloween costume is just $40 (Polygon)
News
- $55 billion EA buyout hands Madden over to investors including Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner
- GameSir’s clip-on controller turns smartphones into Game Boys
- PlayStation is getting a big, fancy art book full of unused designs
- YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5 million settlement
- Zootopia 2’s directors told the composer ‘Make the score dumber’
- Logitech’s MX Master 4 adds haptic feedback, mostly just for fun
- Keychron made the first almost entirely ceramic keyboard
- Microsoft’s Windows XP Crocs are here
- US government takes equity stake in one of the world’s largest lithium mines
- Behold: The Lego Game Boy has already been modded to play games for real
- Trump admin adds banner attacking ‘Radical Left Democrats’ to government websites
- Perplexity’s Comet browser is available to everyone, everywhere, for free
- Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store — Google too
- Kodak launches Kodacolor 100 and 200 to feed the film resurgence
- Ring’s new Search Party feature is on by default; should you opt out?
- AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood provokes outrage from Hollywood’s real actors and SAG-AFTRA
- Quentin Tarantino’s two Kill Bill movies are finally hitting theaters as a single masterpiece
- Scuba Thief Steals Thousands From Floating Disney Restaurant, Then Disappears Into Water — via kottke.org
- Jane Goodall’s death triggered the premiere of Netflix’s new show
Weekly Links 09.22–09.28
- We’re living in a golden age of affordable mechanical keyboards (The Verge)
- Ghost of Yōtei review: PlayStation’s grand attempt at an old Hollywood epic (Polygon)
- Centralia Old-Time Campout 2025 (Chris Coyier)
- The Official Map of the Star Wars Galaxy (kottke.org)
- A short list of tech security tips when traveling (Cory Dransfeldt)
- John Candy: I Like Me (kottke.org)
- What’re Your Top 4 CSS Properties? (CSS-Tricks)
News
- Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro can be easily scratched
- The Mandalorian and Grogu channels classic Star Wars in first trailer
- Jimmy Kimmel’s show will return after censorship outrage
- Trump escalates crackdown by designating ‘Antifa’ a domestic terror group
- Disney Plus is getting another price hike
- This Steam user just got an achievement for owning 40,000 games
- Kimmel returns to television to mock FCC Chair Brendan Carr
- YouTube will now let you hide those pesky end screens
- You can upgrade a Casio watch with Bluetooth, step counting, and games
- Wolverine looks bloody good in first gameplay trailer
- Jimmy Kimmel returns bigger than ever
- First Spaceballs 2 cast photo is also a Star Wars parody
- Raspberry Pi upgraded its keyboard computer with mechanical switches and SSD storage
- Martin Shkreli can be sued for copying Wu-Tang’s one-of-a-kind record
- Evgeni Malkin hoping this isn’t final season with Penguins
- Marc-Andre Fleury bids farewell in last game with Penguins
Weekly Links 09.15–09.21
- Why I ‘upgraded’ to a film camera that’s older than I am (The Verge)
- “He’s The Devil” — A look inside the alleged assaults, lawsuits & shotgun shells involved in the downfall of Christianity’s biggest rock band.
- Weeknote #1966 (Robb Knight)
- Weeknotes 25:37 (Jeff Bridgforth)
News
- Spotify’s free users can finally play the songs they want
- iOS 26 with Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign is out now
- watchOS 26 is now available with a new gesture and Notes on your wrist
- Apple releases macOS Tahoe 26 with more powerful Spotlight search and its own Phone app
- Tim Burton’s Pee-wee movie gets a major Criterion Collection release
- Jimmy Kimmel Live pulled after FCC threat over Charlie Kirk joke
- Here’s the Jimmy Kimmel clip that got him pulled off the air
- Nvidia invests $5 billion into Intel to jointly develop PC and data center chips
- Steam is dropping Windows 32-bit support in 2026
- Microsoft is filling Teams with AI agents
- Notion’s new AI Agents will basically do your job for you
- Ubiquiti’s new desktop NAS looks more like a wireless router
Weekly Links 08.18–08.24
- Review: Hampden Estate 1753 (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- Review: The Whisky Exchange Rum Show 2025 (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- Review: Black Tot Master Blender’s Reserve 2025 (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- When the Icebergs Came to Town (kottke.org)
- Generous Media (kottke.org)
- Never write your own Date Parsing Library (Zach Leatherman)
- One weird trick to reduce Eleventy Image Build Times by 60% (Zach Leatherman)
- A Note from my Late Grandmother about Eleventy (Zach Leatherman)
- Studio Notes #45 (SimpleBits)
- Obsidian Bases: Star Ratings and Automatic Covers (Tyler Sticka)
- Pixadex (Louie Mantia)
- Buddies (Louie Mantia)
- blakewatson.com turns 20 (Blake Watson)
- Longplay (Jon Hicks)
- That Windy City Keeb Meet 2025 recap (Cassidy Williams)
- Weeknotes 39 (Mark Boulton)
- Newslettered. (Ethan Marcotte)
- Unorganised Thoughts about Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 (Robb Knight)
- Weeknote #1959 (Robb Knight)
- Weeknote #1961 (Robb Knight)
- Weeknotes 25:30 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknotes 25:31 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknotes 25:32 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknotes 25:33 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Hero and semantic ordering (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Often the place of blessing is not our place of preference (Jeff Bridgforth)
- BTW № 3: Analog Edition (Jason Santa Maria)
- Compounding performance issues (Go Make Things)
- Having figure match width of contained image (Jeff Bridgforth)
- The Figcaption Problem (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Fonts for Wireframing (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Ghost vs. Substack, Eleventy vs. WordPress: My Experiences (Richard MacManus)
News
- Grammarly says its AI agent can predict an A paper
- Amazon’s Fallout season two heads to New Vegas
- First Fallout season 2 trailer reveals release date (and Deathclaws)
- Google Home adds scheduling for older Nest thermostats
- UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption
- Nanoleaf’s new 4D V2 lighting kit is better at extending what’s on TV
- Ayaneo’s dual-screen Android handheld is its next modernized Nintendo DS
- Sony is raising PS5 prices, starting tomorrow
- Apple TV Plus is getting more expensive and will cost $12.99 per month
- US government takes 10 percent stake in Intel in exchange for money it was already on the hook for — It seems like there might be some potential conflict of interest here. Also, it looks like one step closer to the United States becoming more like China.
- Bluesky blocks Mississippi under new age verification law
Weekly Links 07.28–08.03
- What’s on your desk, Cameron Faulkner? (The Verge)
- The Verge’s favorite backpacks, totes, and other bags for 2025 (The Verge)
- Time Flies when you’re thinking about dying (Polygon)
News
- Elgato’s new 4K webcam lets you swap lens filters like a pro camera
- One of Nintendo’s most creative SNES games is now on the Switch
- Seenda’s wireless mouse includes a volume knob with playback controls
- Apple says Trump’s tariffs are adding another $1 billion to its costs
- The LeapMove is a gamified camera designed to get kids off the couch
- IRS head says free Direct File tax service is ‘gone’
- Fujifilm is raising camera prices by up to $800
- Nintendo raises the Switch 1 price from $299 to $339
- Sony sues Tencent over Horizon Zero Dawn ‘rip-off’ Light of Motiram
- Switch 2 SNES games just got a graphics filter that upgrades everything
Weekly Links 07.14–07.20
- Not a joke: there is a new Commodore 64 coming out (kottke.org)
- Taking Journalism’s ‘Experts Said…’ Chicanery About Facts to Its Natural, Absurd Conclusion (kottke.org)
- Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP (kottke.org)
- Photos Show the Vast Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects (kottke.org)
- Bloc Party’s Tiny Desk Concert (kottke.org)
- Star Wars Lofi (kottke.org)
- Network Pinheads at CBS Are Ending ‘The Late Show’ (Daring Fireball) — See also Colbert’s Cancellation Is a Dark Warning (via kottke.org)
- Who writes the documentation? (Cory Dransfeldt)
- Cursed Knowledge (Immich, via Frontend Masters Blog)
- A stack of browsers (Rachel Smith)
- This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii (Alex Haydock)
News
- Texas governor says his emails with Elon Musk are too ‘intimate or embarrassing’ to release
- The Pro 3 is 8BitDo’s first controller with swappable buttons
- Nintendo’s Zelda movie has found its princess and hero of time
- Stranger Things 5’s first trailer promises an epic showdown
- Elgato brightens up its Stream Deck and mics with four new colors
- Why a South Park lawsuit could mean season 27 is the show’s last
Weekly Links 06.30–07.06
- On this date in Penguins history: Phil Kessel comes to Pittsburgh (PensBurgh)
- Best Switch 2 games to play in summer 2025 (Polygon)
- I tested a bunch of Switch 2 screen protectors, and these are the best (The Verge)
- What’s on your desk, Kallie Plagge? (The Verge)
News
- Ryan Gosling is not an astronaut in Project Hail Mary’s first trailer
- Tumblr’s move to WordPress and fediverse integration is ‘on hold’
- Steam can now show you how much frame generation changes your games
- Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
- The Running Man mixes mayhem and humor in first trailer
- AMC now warns moviegoers to expect ‘25-30 minutes’ of ads and trailers
- The FCC won’t enforce a ban on ‘exorbitant’ prison phone call prices
- Trump says he’ll look into deporting Musk as fight over bill escalates — 🤣
- Google makes it easier to let friends and kids control your smart home
- Figma is going public
- Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16 million, clearing way for merger deal — This headline should replace the word “pay” with “bribe”.
- Lego’s buildable arcade machine is packed full of fun hidden details
- Congress passes budget to expand mass deportations, cut social services, and stall clean energy
- The Ploopy Knob is an open-source control dial for your PC