- 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: Spider-Man
Weekly Links 03.31–04.06
- When will physical video games go away? — I wouldn’t mind going fully digital (as I did on PC) if there was actual competition in digital purchasing. There is only one place to buy digital PS5 games, and the digital version is consistently more expensive than buying a physical copy.
- Studio Notes #25 (SimpleBits)
- item-flow (Robin Rendle)
- Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout (Piccalilli)
- Forty-Seven (Naz Hamid)
- The Mac Is Where I Am (Louie Mantia)
- Weeknotes 25:13 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Versions (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Dunkey Direct 2 (Spaghetti Night) (YouTube)
- A no-hassle static site CMS (Go Make Things)
- It’s time to organize. (Ethan Marcotte)
- CSS Clicker — “an idle game themed around making websites”
- The Design of the New Swiss Passport (kottke.org)
- Steve Coogan Plays Four Roles in Dr. Strangelove Stage Adaptation (kottke.org)
- TV Garden: stream television channels from all over the world for free (kottke.org)
- Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech (kottke.org)
- Once Again From the Top (Jason Santa Maria)
- Video Game Backlog Zero (Tyler Sticka)
News
- France Fines Apple $162M for App Tracking Transparency, Taking the Side of Surveillance Advertisers Over Users
- Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSOD, and it might change to black
- Coyote vs. Acme is finally coming to theaters
- Plex is rolling out its big app redesign
- ChatGPT’s improved image generation is now available for free
- Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse hits theaters in 2027
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day puts Tom Holland back in the Spidey suit
- Keanu Reeves is coming back for John Wick 5
- Visible’s Plus Pro plan puts Verizon’s Unlimited Welcome to shame
- Nintendo Switch 2 specs: 1080p 120Hz display, 4K dock, mouse mode, and more
- The Nintendo Switch 2 arrives on June 5th for $449.99
- Lego announces magnificent Beauty and the Beast Castle set
- WordPress.com owner Automattic is laying off 16 percent of workers
- Thunderbird email is going pro to better compete with Gmail
- Superman’s latest trailer introduces his team of robot assistants
- Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ and Microsoft CEOs interrupted by another employee protestor: ‘shame on all of you’
- Tron: Ares blends the real world with the digital in its first trailer
- Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin passes Wayne Gretzky as NHL goals king — Many people thought this record would never be broken, and certainly not this soon.
Politics
Hashtag tariff week:
- Donald Trump announces tariffs that could raise the price of almost everything you buy
- Trump’s tariffs are ‘a debacle of epic proportions’ for the auto industry
- China retaliates with tariff that matches Trump’s
- Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns
- The AI industry doesn’t know if Trump just killed its GPU supply
- DOGE staffers gain access to US Citizenship and Immigration Services data
- More than 1,300 rallies worldwide protest Trump and Musk and ‘Millions’ may have protested Trump and Musk yesterday
- DOGE plans now reportedly include an IRS ‘hackathon’
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 03.25–03.31
- Random Penguins thoughts as the late season slide continues (PensBurgh)
- What’s on your desk, Joanna Nelius? (The Verge)
- Weeknotes 24:11 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknotes 24:12 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- The Ugmonk Gather Desk System: A Comprehensive Review (The Sweet Setup)
- Camper Newbie (Go Make Things)
- Tyshawn Jones The General (kottke.org)
- Chilito candy (kottke.org)
- Dinosaurs Park (via Waxy.org)
- Closing time (Rachel Andrew)
News
- Microsoft forgot to update this Windows feature for 30 years
- Florida’s DeSantis signs social media law requiring age verification
- Canva acquires Affinity to fill the Adobe-sized holes in its design suite — I hear about a lot of people switching to Affinity to avoid Adobe’s subscription model, so hopefully this acquisition doesn’t mean future subscription-based pricing for Affinity (Canva says it doesn’t).
- The PS5 is getting an automatic game clip feature that helps other players
- Disney Plus has a new Hulu-ified logo
- Penguins retrieve missing Jaromir Jagr bobblehead dolls
- A native version of Chrome arrives for Arm-based Windows PCs
- Wyze’s cheap and questionable security cam levels up with Wi-Fi 6, edge AI, and 2.5K video
- 3 Body Problem VR headset review: magical tech in need of more apps
- Anxiety is a monster in Sony’s new Spider-Verse short film
- 8BitDo’s latest retro keyboard is an ode to the Commodore 64
- Colonoscopy prep: Liquid-only diets unnecessary, GI doctor says (via kottke.org) — I’m way more interested in this story than I want to be. 😐
- Heinz Is Putting Up Ketchup Dispensers To Tempt Chicagoans With Forbidden Condiment (via kottke.org)
- Large Grocers Took Advantage of Pandemic Supply Chain Disruptions, F.T.C. Finds (via kottke.org)
- Bridges aren’t ready for today’s huge ships
- The Atari 400 Mini is a cute little slice of video game history
- The ‘PS5 Pro Enhanced’ label could mean constant 60fps and ray-tracing
- Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections
- What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world