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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 11.06–11.12

Cloudy with a Chance of Insanity: Unsticking iCloud Drive (TidBITS, Glenn Fleishman)
Skip links on ikea.com (Manuel Matuzovic)
Naming Variables In CSS (Jonathan Dallas)
Gummy vitamins as a candy replacement (Dave Rupert)
Califia Farms Café Oat for Baristas Blend (Dave Rupert)
Fun water (Dave Rupert)
Stories: Building a home for my shitty sci-fi (Dave Rupert)
Vibe Check №29 (Dave Rupert)
So you’ve been publicly accessibility-shamed (Dave Rupert)
Ableist interactions (Hidde de Vries)
The Nature Conservancy’s Photo Contest Winners for 2023 (kottke.org)
Time Lapse Video of a Massive Lego Build of The Great Wave off Kanagawa (kottke.org)
The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned (via kottke.org)
Improv of Lord of the Rings’ Sauron as Trump (kottke.org)
The History of the Electric Guitar Solo (kottke.org)
You can drink the tap water in these 50 countries — maybe (via kottke.org)
The 10 Rules of Being Human (kottke.org)
The Whimsical Web (via kottke.org)
Why I Get Sick Selling A Curriculum To Homeschool Parents (via kottke.org)
Creating a Gentle World on a Little Leaf (kottke.org)
Searching for Humanity in Fortnite’s Battle Royale (kottke.org)
The Finalists in the 2023 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards (kottke.org)
Deaf People Show Us How to Swear in Sign Language (kottke.org)
Attribute Superpowers Taken All The Way (Chris Coyier)
Exit Animations (Chris Coyier)
Answers to Common (Web) Design Questions (Chris Coyier)
0 KB Social Media Embeds (Chris Coyier)
When not to use a subdomain (Chris Coyier)
Thoughtful (Chris Coyier)
An Intermittent Platform Bug (Chris Coyier)
Everything about SEO is obnoxious (Chris Coyier)
Movies Watched, September 2023 (Khoi Vinh)
The 16 best PC games (November 2023) (Polygon)
The 7 Best Pens of 2023 (Wirecutter)
Weeknotes 23:36 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 23:37 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Never ask “Can you see everything?” again. (Marc Reichel) — I’m in the market for a new monitor, and I just recently realized that screen sharing could be a problem with ultrawide monitors.
iOS Tip: ‘Smart Activation’ for Do Not Disturb Turns Off Notification During Screen Recordings (Daring Fireball)
“I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.” (Airbag Industries)
8 Questions You Need to Ask When Choosing Your University’s CMS (Lullabot)
Try Galaxy on your non-Android phone — Very impressive!
Wilco Loft Sans (SimpleBits)
Code Gardening (CSS { In Real Life })
Handling Null, Undefined and Zero Values in JavaScript (CSS { In Real Life })
NaN or Not a Number? (CSS { In Real Life })
CSS Nesting is Here (CSS { In Real Life })

News

Weekly Links 10.16–10.22

NHL Rank: Top-100 player predictions for the 2023-24 season — Malkin snubbed again.
NHL Rank reaction: Biggest snubs, Bedard’s next spot, more
Comedy and Tragedy (kottke.org)
macOS Sonoma: 50 New Features and Changes Worth Checking Out (MacRumors)
Enjoying creative work outside the Creative Cloud. (Airbag Industries)
I’m done. (Airbag Industries)
The 50 Greatest Music Videos of All Time, Ranked (kottke.org)
The New York Skyscraper That Almost Fell Over (kottke.org)
Arc Usage Update (Chris Coyier)
Weeknotes 23:33 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 23:34 (Jeff Bridgforth)
How Far Does $1 From 1999 Go Today? (PerThirtySix, via kottke.org)
How Large Before It Goes In? (kottke.org)
FitVids has a web component now (Dave Rupert)
Style Scoped (Chris Coyier)
Build on 1Password for Visual Studio Code at Hacktoberfest! (1Password)
Great story about going to see Galaxy Quest in an empty theater near the end of its run (kottke.org)
While Ikea was refurbishing a building for a new store in London, they covered it with scaffolding that looks like a giant, blue Ikea bag (kottke.org)
event.target.closest (Jeremy Keith)
Styling External Links with Attribute Selectors (CSS { In Real Life })
Crawlers (Jeremy Keith)
Jason Snell Reviews the iPhones 15 Pro (Daring Fireball)
Burger King Botched the Curling on an Apostrophe in a TV Commercial and I Am Very Much Here to Shit on Them for Doing So (Daring Fireball)
Martin Scorsese Breaks Down His Most Iconic Films (kottke.org)

News

Best Buy is axing physical DVD and Blu-ray business in this depressing digital world
Comcast will begin multi-gig symmetrical internet roll out on non-fiber cable — I’ve been wondering lately how the cable internet companies are going to compete with fiber that is cheaper with much faster upload speeds than cable.
Apple’s new video reactions are making therapy incredibly awkward
X accused of illegally firing employee who criticized Elon’s return-to-work plan
AMD’s Anti-Lag feature is getting gamers banned from Counter-Strike 2
Apple’s cheaper Vision Pro follow-up still won’t be cheap
Minecraft has sold over 300 million copies
Spider-Man 2 review: twice the spider-men, twice the emo fun
NHL 24’s new controls are a flashy mess
Disney brought Robin Williams’ Genie back for a new short, without AI
Stack Overflow lays off over 100 people as the AI coding boom continues
LinkedIn lays off hundreds of employees for the second time this year
About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off
Analogue is making a 4K Nintendo 64
Biden campaign joins Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform
Intel Core i9-14900K review: a refresh in name and nature
Drop’s latest keyboard is equipped with a hot-swappable top case
Ecobee launches a smart video doorbell and new features for its thermostats
Ecobee Smart Doorbell Camera review: bigger view, fewer notifications
Elgato’s new $279.99 Prompter is an all-in-one teleprompter and extra monitor
Apple announces entry-level Apple Pencil with USB-C charging
PS5 cloud streaming details: launch dates and bandwidth requirements
X to start charging new users $1 per year in two countries
Get ready to see a lot more product ads in YouTube videos
13 states will join the IRS direct income tax filing pilot in 2024
PSA: it’s time to update WinRAR due to a big security vulnerability
Marc-Andre Fleury leads Minnesota Wild past Montreal Canadiens
Here comes another Netflix price hike
Microsoft tests support for hearing aids in Windows 11
Nomad’s Hydro Flask Tracker lets you put an Apple AirTag on your water bottle
Google Meet adds skin-smoothing beauty effects for video calls
Discord is going to give out warnings instead of permanent bans
Cities: Skylines 2 is bigger and better in the best ways
OpenAI is expanding availability of DALL-E 3 inside ChatGPT
The Problem With Jon Stewart ending over AI and China coverage
Slack is retiring its status account on X
Blue checks on X are ‘superspreaders’ of Israel-Hamas war misinformation
Elon Musk rants about work from home folks again on Tesla earnings call — “Musk called remote work ‘morally wrong’ and argued it’s unfair to those who can’t have the option, like food delivery workers”. I think it’s morally wrong for Musk to be a billionaire because it’s unfair for me to not have the option to be a billionaire.
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses: a turning point
Brave downloads a VPN service whether you want it or not
Meta will now let you stop Instagram from tracking you across the web

Weeknotes 07.11–07.17

Notes from my week.

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An Event Apart: “Name That Script!”

Trent Walton speaking at An Event Apart Orlando 2018 on October 10, 2018

How many third-party scripts are loading on our web pages these days? How can we objectively measure the value of these (advertising, a/b testing, analytics, etc.) scripts—considering their impact on web performance, user experience, and business goals? We’ve learned to scrutinize content hierarchy, browser support, and page speed as part of the design and development process. Similarly, Trent will share recent experiences and explore ways to evaluate and discuss the inclusion of 3rd-party scripts.

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