- 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: privacy
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 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 02.24–03.02
- Betty White is getting a stamp from the USPS (kottke.org)
- I Spent 24 Hours Watching The Clock (kottke.org)
- Severance: Music To Refine To (kottke.org)
- Touch Grass (kottke.org)
- Elon Musk, Weirdo Extraordinaire (Daring Fireball)
- The Verge’s favorite kitchen gadgets (The Verge)
- Tools & Rules (Dan Mall)
- Weeknotes 25:08 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Vibe Check №37 (Dave Rupert)
News
- What’s the deal with all these airplane crashes?
- Powerplay 2: Logitech made its magic mousepad cheaper instead of better
- Google Gemini’s AI coding tool is now free for individual users
- Trello’s new update features an inbox, a calendar, and AI organization
- Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases
- Automattic combines its Beeper and Texts.com messaging services
- Microsoft makes Copilot Voice and Think Deeper free with unlimited use
- Framework’s first tiny Desktop beautifully straddles the line between cute and badass
- Framework Desktop hands-on: a possible new direction for gaming desktops
- Amy Gleason officially named as DOGE administrator
- Google makes it easier to remove your contact info from Search results
- Jeff Bezos bans Washington Post opinion writers from opposing ‘free speech and free markets’
- iPhone 16E review: Eh, it’s alright
- Sony drops PlayStation VR 2 price to $399
- Starlink poised to take over $2.4 billion contract to overhaul air traffic control communication
- Trump’s tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico will take effect March 4th
- Microsoft releases a Copilot app for Mac
- EA open-sources four more Command & Conquer games
- Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia now works for DOGE
- Microsoft is shutting down Skype in favor of Teams
- New Apple Watch technology assisting NHL referees — See also The Verge
- Mozilla says its new Firefox terms don’t give it ownership of your data
- Pre-order Bluey Lego sets on Amazon ahead of their June 1 launch
- Hulu prematurely ended its Oscars stream right before the final awards
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
Weekly Links 02.03–02.09
- A Programming Note (kottke.org)
- “Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis” (kottke.org)
- Timothy Snyder: Of Course It’s a Coup (kottke.org)
- “The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler” (kottke.org)
- Trump tried to illegally fire US Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub (kottke.org)
- Elon Musk Cheats at Video Games (Daring Fireball)
- LBJ on the Difference between Republicans and Democrats (Daring Fireball)
- Studio Notes #18 (SimpleBits)
- Weeknotes 25:05 (Jeff Bridgforth)
News
- Reviews from Civilization 7 are starting to appear:
- Opera’s new browser might save you from doomscrolling
- Fantastic Four: First Steps blasts off in new trailer
- Jurassic World Rebirth’s new trailer makes it sound like a video game
- Apple Invites is at its best for people already in Apple’s world
- Disney teases ESPN’s expansive sports streaming future
- Herman Miller made a convertible standing desk that actually looks great
- Microsoft Teams is getting a Facebook-like feed and follow button
- What’s on your desk, Nick Statt?
- Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying — This is really bad, and dangerous. ☹️
- Google faked Gemini AI output in Super Bowl ad
Politics
There was a lot of political news this week. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are staging what many are describing as a “computer coup”.
- Data brokers can keep selling your social security number, says new CFPB chief
- Elon Musk is staging a takeover of the federal budget
- Workers are reeling from chaos at federal agencies
- DC is just waking up to Elon Musk’s takeover
- What we know about President Elon’s government takeover
- Elon Musk’s DOGE storms federal weather forecasters’ headquarters
- DOGE staffer Marko Elez resigns after reporters uncover racist posts
- Elon Musk’s coup: what’s happening with DOGE and the US
- Donald Trump’s tariffs, explained
- Trump administration halts $5 billion EV charging program that benefited Tesla
- DOGE wreaked havoc on the government in just one week
- FEMA’s website started deleting ‘climate change’
- Federal judge blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive Treasury records
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
- Apple MacBook Pro 14 (2023) review: entry-level enigma
- PlayStation is cutting off X sharing options
- YouTube’s ad blocking crackdown is facing a new challenge: privacy laws
- Chamberlain shuts off access to MyQ’s APIs, breaking smart home integrations
- Trump’s Dark Plans for a Second Term
- Nintendo is making a live-action Zelda movie
- LG’s new 45-inch ultrawide monitors are a little smaller and a little cheaper
- Grand Theft Auto 6’s first trailer will drop in December
- Apple iMac M3 review
- Ikea launches its first smart LED strip at the right price
- Airbnb will work with smart locks to automatically issue codes for guests
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’s first trailer has too much chill
- Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
- Disney will start testing a combined Disney Plus and Hulu app next month
- SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood studios reach a deal that could end the strike
- Disney delays Deadpool 3 and other Marvel films as actors strike ends
- Why did Disney Plus ban the Bluey episode ‘Dad Baby’?
- Tumblr is downscaling after failing to ‘turn around’ the site
- Mint is going away, but these easy budgeting apps can take its place
- Valve reveals the Steam Deck OLED: $549 buys better screen, battery, and more
- Steam Deck OLED review: better, not faster
- Steam Deck OLED review: much more than a screen improvement
- Humane officially launches the AI Pin, its OpenAI-powered wearable
- Verizon may offer Netflix and Max as a combined $10 streaming bundle
- A24 is making an Elon Musk biopic directed by Darren Aronofsky
- Apple MacBook Pro 16 M3 Max review: the most power for the most money
- Penguins will retire Jaromir Jagr’s No. 68 on Feb. 18
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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