- 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: React
Weekly Links 01.13–01.19
- HTML: the Most Significant Computing Language Ever Developed (kottke.org)
- The 2024 Architecture and Design Awards (kottke.org)
- “Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad. Skip is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather. Trip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.” (kottke.org)
- On Transient Slash Pages (Robb Knight)
- Automating My Now Page (Robb Knight)
- Now (January 2025) (Robb Knight)
- Blog Question Challenge (Robb Knight)
- Technologies and frameworks we use in our design studio (Piccalilli)
- Smidgeons (Maggie Appleton)
- 25, 20, 15, 10, 5 (Jeremy Keith)
- Conference line-ups (Jeremy Keith)
- Notion Tour – P.A.R.A. Setup (YouTube / David Malan)
- How To Implement PARA Method in Obsidian (Simple Guide) (Matt Giaro)
- WordPress is in trouble (Gavin Anderegg)
- Another day of stochastic harassment for old time’s sake (Heather Burns)
- Nest Cams (Chris Coyier)
- The Garden vs The River (Chris Coyier)
- My ADHD diagnosis process (Brad Frost)
- I got the ADHD, too (Dave Rupert)
- Weeknotes 25:02 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Studio Notes #15 (SimpleBits)
News
- Mastodon’s CEO and creator is handing control to a new nonprofit organization
- Free Our Feeds wants to build a social media ecosystem ‘resistant to billionaire influence’
- DirecTV launches MySports streaming bundle with live NFL, NBA, and MLB games — This is priced way too high at $70, less than a 15% cheaper than the cost of a full-blown streaming cable service.
- Report — Three Stanley Cup rings missing from Malkin’s home
- Malkin’s Cup rings found at his home; burglary probe ongoing
- Nest Protect support arrives in the Google Home app
- Super Bowl LIX will stream for free on Tubi
- Drupal CMS 1.0 is now available!
- The Nintendo Switch 2 has officially been announced
- Penguins place starting goalie Tristan Jarry on waivers
- FDA bans use of Red Dye No. 3 in foods
- David Lynch has died
- Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban law
- Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok
- Pens G Nedeljkovic makes history with goal, assist in same game
Weekly Links 09.09–09.15
- The Banned Somersault Long Jump (kottke.org)
- The staggering death toll of scientific lies (kottke.org)
- ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine (kottke.org)
- Big Hockey Players, Itty-Bitty Rink (kottke.org)
- On the Regular (kottke.org)
- Tuneshine is a “lo-fi digital album art display for streaming services” (kottke.org)
- Here’s what happens to your skin & immune system when you get a tattoo (kottke.org)
- The AiPhone 16 (parody) (YouTube)
- How to Monetize a Blog (modem.io) — Viewing on desktop is recommended 😆
- What Is React.js? (Webbed Briefs)
News
- Astro Bot’s getting a free DLC update this year
- HBO’s the franchises takes superhero franchises to task in new trailer
- AMD is turning its back on flagship gaming GPUs to chase AI first
- James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader, has died at 93 — 😢
- Sony’s PS5 Pro has a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling
- Chrome is making it easier to keep track of browser tabs
- The US finally takes aim at truck bloat
- Astro Bot’s Nintendo influence is a good thing
- Flipper Zero 1.0 firmware update supercharges the hacking handheld
- Donald Trump goes all in on anti-immigrant lie about Haitian migrants
- Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris in response to fake AI Trump endorsement
- Ikea’s smart home hub now supports Matter
- Google Search will take you ‘Wayback’ with links to the Internet Archive
- Glorious unveils its new GMMK 3 keyboard with Hall Effect switches
- Steam’s improved family sharing is out now for everyone
- Sony’s latest PS5 update can help protect controller batteries
- OpenAI releases new o1 reasoning model
- 11ty is joining Font Awesome — Amazing news!
- How Roberto Luongo stepped in for a beer league hockey team
- The entire staff of beloved game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned
- Astro Bot sounds as great as it plays
- Flappy Bird’s original creator says he has nothing to do with the new game
Apple iPhone 16 event
- Apple Watch Series 10 announced with bigger screen and thinner design
- Sleep apnea detection is coming to the Apple Watch
- Apple announces new AirPods
- Apple announces the iPhone 16 with a faster processor and Camera Control button
- The AirPods Pro 2 will soon double as hearing aids
- Apple’s Visual Intelligence is a built-in take on Google Lens
- iOS 18 will launch next week with new ways to customize your homescreen
- iOS 18 allows iPhone users to pause video recordings
- Apple gets FDA authorization to turn the AirPods Pro into hearing aids
Weekly Links 06.24–06.30
- The USPS Honors Alex Trebek With a Stamp (kottke.org)
- Anxiety in Inside Out 2 Is Too Real (kottke.org)
- Oreo Kintsugi (kottke.org)
- Riding With the Street Demon (kottke.org)
- Obvious travel advice
- Removing React dramatically improves performance: a case study (Go Make Things)
News
- The Boox Palma is an excellent e-reader in an Android smartphone’s body
- Mattel is making games like Uno more accessible for colorblind players
- Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse
- 8BitDo’s $29.99 Ultimate 2C controller adds two more shoulder buttons
- ChatGPT’s Mac app is here, but its flirty advanced voice mode has been delayed
- Figma announces big redesign with AI
- Steam is getting an official controller, but Valve isn’t making it
- Uber will pay you $1,000 to ditch your car for five weeks
- GE Lighting’s new Cync smart lights are designed for your kitchen cabinets
- FCC proposes requiring service providers to unlock phones within 60 days
- Sunday Ticket jury orders NFL to pay fans $4.7 billion in damages
- Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly okay to steal content if it’s on the open web
Weekly Links 05.06–05.12
- Wes Anderson’s Montblanc Commercial (kottke.org)
- The Gentle Librarian (kottke.org) — A device like the BOOX Palma has been feeling super compelling to me lately, but I’m not sure I would choose one over an iPad unless the price was a bit lower.
- Vibe Check №32 (Dave Rupert)
- A weighted vest (Dave Rupert)
- Klack — Satisfying sound with every keystroke — An app that produces mechanical keyboard sounds for your Mac 😆
- Weeknotes 25.04.24 (Hicks.design)
- On having no visual memory (Rachel Andrew)
- When your work disappears (Lynn Fisher) — Lynn is taking over oss.love from Netlify.
- Weeknotes 24:17 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Europe Trip 2024 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Upcoming custom element support in React (Piccalilli)
- Full text RSS is back (Piccalilli)
- Detect JavaScript Support in CSS (Ryan Mulligan)
- The full trailer for my Netflix series just dropped! (The Oatmeal)
News
- OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT
- Stack Overflow is feeding programmers’ answers to AI, whether they like it or not
- Logitech’s Mouse Software Now Includes ChatGPT Support, Adds Janky ‘ai_overlay_tmp’ Directory to Users’ Home Folders — Also on Daring Fireball — Can we please stop adding AI to everything? Many people have suggested SteerMouse as an alternative to the Logitech software.
- Meta Threatens to Pull WhatsApp From India Over Encryption Battle
- Switch 2 will be revealed before April 2025, promises Nintendo
- ESPN is coming to the Disney Plus app
- Komoot is helping me get back on my bike after a long hiatus
- Apple adds a 13-inch iPad Air to the mix
- Apple announces new iPad Pros with OLED displays and thinnest design ever
- Apple announces its M4 chip
- The Magic Keyboard for iPad gets a bigger trackpad
- Apple quietly kills the old-school iPad and its headphone jack
- The iPad Air is now heavier than the iPad Pro
- TikTok sues the US government over ban — Predictable. Also on Daring Fireball.
- Amazon Prime Video ads are about to get more intrusive
- People sure are pressed about Apple’s crushing iPad commercial — Also on Daring Fireball.
- Walmart shopper data will soon feed targeted ads on Disney Plus and Hulu
- A Disney, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle is on the way
- Warner Bros. Discovery’s first new Lord of the Rings movie is due out in 2026
- Verizon and T-Mobile are trying to gobble up US Cellular
- EA is prototyping in-game ads even as we speak
- Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs
- Bungie’s classic sci-fi shooter Marathon is now free on Steam
- Amazon’s Matter Casting is shaping up so nicely, I want to use it everywhere
- Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile’s ‘unlimited’ plans just got a $10M slap on the wrist
- The DJI Pocket 3 is almost everything I wanted my iPhone camera to be
- The Gamma app brings PS1 emulation to the iPhone
Weekly Links 02.12–02.18
- Why wrap native elements in a Web Component? (Go Make Things)
- Doom Runs on E. Coli Bacteria Now (kottke.org)
- Groundhog Day, But With Potato Chips (kottke.org)
- 50 Places to Eat and Drink Before You Die (Atlas Obscura, via kottke.org)
- Exploration team says it spotted what could be Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane (via kottke.org)
- Pluralistic: How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024) (Cory Doctorow, via kottke.org)
- Kind of annoyed at React (Cassidy Williams, via Piccalilli)
- How to align the text of the last paragraph line (Stefan Judis, via Piccalilli)
- New GitHub Copilot Research Finds ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’ (Visual Studio Magazine, via Piccalilli)
- CoraQuest (Dave Rupert)
- Thoughts on a Global Design System (Chris Coyier)
- PDF Document Scanners (Chris Coyier)
News
- Streaming services are spoiling the Super Bowl
- The ultimate sports streaming service will have to fight itself
- How Slack brought the group chat to work
- Superlist is a lovely, business-focused tasks app from the makers of Wunderlist
- Nvidia’s Chat with RTX is a promising AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC
- You can finally buy a Playdate without waiting for months
- Apple is developing an AI tool for animating images using text prompts
- The first X-Men ‘97 trailer is a return to the days of mutant supremacy
- Microsoft: four Xbox-exclusive games are coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch
- Lego’s new Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs set comes with a teensy controversy
- Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU
- Apple unbanned Epic so it can make an iOS games store in the EU
- The Nintendo Switch 2 will now reportedly arrive in 2025 instead of 2024
Weekly Links 01.29–02.04
- Big, beautiful, beefy focus states with :focus-visible (Dave Rupert)
- At last, browser choice* (Dave Rupert) — *Only available in the EU. Some restrictions may apply.
- A highly configurable switch component using modern CSS techniques (Piccalilli)
- It feels like React is getting a bit of a kicking recently (Piccalilli)
- Blogroll (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknotes 24:04 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Infinite Craft — Kind of addictive!
News
- Arc Search: a new iPhone app combining browser, search, and AI
- Amazon abandons $1.4 billion deal to buy Roomba maker iRobot
- Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not (The Verge)
- The Vision Pro (Daring Fireball)
- Super Nintendo World opens in Florida next year
- Your home’s internet connection could soon be called .internal
- FEMA will pay states to install solar panels and heat pumps
- Art collective MSCHF is streaming movies like Barbie in ASCII for free
- Lawmakers propose anti-nonconsensual AI porn bill after Taylor Swift controversy
- Lego celebrates 25 years of Star Wars sets with — what else? — more Star Wars sets
- The creators of Twitterrific are making an app to read (almost) anything on the web
- Hulu is cracking down on password sharing, just like Disney Plus and Netflix
- Lawmakers want to know how TurboTax used $94 million in tax breaks
- The Arc browser is getting AI-powered Live Folders and Instant Links
- Christian Selig makes the YouTube Vision Pro app that Google wouldn’t
Weekly Links 01.15–01.21
- How Lego builds a new Lego set (The Verge)
- The Verge’s favorite tools to stay organized (The Verge)
- You Should Try Running, According to Me, Your Friend Who Won’t Shut Up About Running (McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, via kottke.org)
- What If The Bear, But a Commercial for Coke? (kottke.org)
- Sixteen Stories for Flickr Commons’ Sixteenth Birthday (Flickr Foundation, via kottke.org)
- The Winners of the Nature Photography Contest (kottke.org)
- Polygon Picks: accessories to improve your home office and desk (Polygon)
- How to read more books as an adult (Polygon)
- A Native viewer on Killers of the Flower Moon’s most life-changing scene (Polygon)
- Five things. (Airbag Industries)
- In My Opinion… (Chris Coyier)
- How and Why to Write One Sentence A Day (Day One Blog, Phoebe Kranefuss)
- A new look to this site (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Remembering Hardboiled Web Design (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Basic accessibility mistakes I often see in audits (Go Make Things)
- How to keep up (Go Make Things)
- The decline of React (Go Make Things)
- WobblyBox, a web component for wobbly boxes (Dave Rupert)
- ‘Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand’ (Daring Fireball)
- Tim Bray: ‘Mourning Google’ (Daring Fireball)
News
- Marc-Andre Fleury solely in second place in all-time wins
- Marc-Andre Fleury talks records and his NHL future with Pat McAfee
- Apple tops Samsung for first time in global smartphone shipments
- Adobe’s latest Premiere Pro update automatically cleans up trashy audio
- Google quietly updates Chrome’s incognito warning in wake of tracking lawsuit
- Apple Vision Pro will launch with 3D movies from Disney Plus
- Apple’s App Store policies now let US developers link to outside payments
- Post-SCOTUS Ruling, Apple Releases Guidelines for ‘External Purchase Links’ in iOS Apps (Spoiler: They Still Demand the Same Commissions)
- Coming to Grips With Apple’s Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement to Its Commissions From Third-Party iOS Apps
- Apple Set to Collect $73 Million in Legal Fees From Epic Games
- Notion Calendar: a new app to keep your schedule organized
- The next iOS update will make it harder to break into your iPhone
- This E Ink climate sensor cuts the cloud and adds Matter
- Why Microsoft might be considering Xbox exclusives on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch
- Hogwarts Legacy was 2023’s bestselling video game, beating Call of Duty
- Here’s our first look at Bethesda’s Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Plex is about to launch a store for movies and TV shows
- The Vision Pro’s most important app is Safari, whether Apple likes it or not
Weekly Links 08.21–08.27
- Chris Coyier — IndigoStack
- Chris Coyier — How do I save links for later?
- Chris Coyier — Beeper
- “Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule”
- Quality Web Fonts
- Chris Coyier — What if you did {X} every single day?
- The Rum Barrel Blog — Review: Punk Croc – MCR Rum Festival Blend
- The Rum Barrel Blog — Recipe: The Bacardi Cocktail That Needs A Revival – Culross
- The Rum Barrel Blog — Review: Mount Gay Black Barrel Cask Strength
- Dave Rupert — Quick thoughts on chips
- Dave Rupert — Scroll shadows with animation-timeline
- Meteorologist Is Naming Heatwaves After Big Polluting Oil Companies
- Dave Rupert — If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?
- Dave Rupert — If I’m already using React, why should I rewrite my app with Web Components?
- Chris Coyier — Need to chuck a quick SVG drawing into some content?
- Amateurs Reached America’s Highest Peak First. Nobody Believed Them.
- Some of the Oldest Photos You Will Ever See
- Studio Em Interiors — How to Display a Tiki Mug Collection
- Leviton’s new outdoor smart plug is the first to work with Matter
- The voice of Mario is stepping away from the character
- X fixed the ‘bug’ that broke images attached to tweets from before 2014
- X tests removing headlines from links to news articles
- Threads on the web is here
- Half-Life 2 is getting remade into a ray-traced beauty thanks to modders
- Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
- The new Atari 2600 Plus will play your old cartridges
- Netflix is going to let DVD subscribers keep unreturned discs for free
- Sony’s portable PlayStation Portal launches later this year for $199.99
- Corsair’s first standing desk is designed for gaming, streaming, and more
- Mythic Computer is trying to change the PC world one wood computer at a time
- Nvidia Q2 2024: $6 billion in pure profit over the AI boom
- GuliKit’s Steam Deck and ROG Ally dock looks like a Super Nintendo
- Apple now supports California’s right-to-repair bill after lobbying against it
- Two years after Safari, Chrome plans to let you move the address bar to the bottom
- Netflix should let us search a movie script like Criterion Channel does
- Cherry is overhauling its classic mechanical keyboard switches
- Windows 11 will soon get a settings homepage that puts your most-used controls in one place
- Why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter
- We all grew up with Disney’s Cinderella in the wrong colors
- The Toxic Avenger’s most infamous kill looks amazing in 4K
- Disney Lorcana: a guide for absolute beginners
Weeknotes 03.21–03.27
Notes from my week.
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