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Weekly Links 11.18–11.24

State of CSS 2024
- State Of CSS 2024 Results (CSS-Tricks)
- State of CSS 2024 Results (Frontend Masters Boost)
Anchoreum: A New Game For Learning Anchor Positioning (CSS-Tricks)
Coding Font (Frontend Masters Boost)
Surreal Glitch Pulls (kottke.org)
The Wired Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Baby Evacuation Aprons (kottke.org)
First Trailer for Star Wars From 1976 (kottke.org)
Trump’s Historically Small Victory (kottke.org)
How David Copperfield Vanished the Statue of Liberty (kottke.org)
Downhill Skateboarding (kottke.org)
Purple Isn’t Real (kottke.org)
The winners of the 2024 National Book Awards (kottke.org)
The World-Changing Impact of Vaccines (kottke.org)
World map of where you don’t need a permit to buy a gun (kottke.org)
Flush is an app for finding public bathrooms (kottke.org)
Media Diet (Chris Coyier)

News

This house is made for LAN gaming parties
Corsair now has a gaming keyboard and mouse for the Mac
Amazon and SpaceX attack US labor watchdog in court
US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android
DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly
Minecraft to follow live-action movie with theme parks
Leak: Valve is making a Steam Controller 2 and a ‘Roy’ for its Deckard
Aqara’s Smart Valve Controller T1 works in more smart homes with Matter
Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps
The DS Pixel is a crowdfunded keyboard and touchscreen combo device
Google fixes Chrome issue that broke text highlighting on some sites — I thought I was going crazy when I couldn’t highlight text on some websites, but now I realize it was just a Chrome bug. 😆
Peak Design’s Outdoor Backpack is a more versatile everyday bag
Plex’s upcoming app redesign is a big swing at going legit
Apple iMac M4 review: who is this for, exactly?
Onyx Boox Palma 2 review: a slight upgrade on a great e-reader
Sidney Crosby scored his 600th career goal (one of the few bright spots for the Penguins this season):
- Penguins’ Crosby cherishes ‘special’ milestone of 600 goals (ESPN)
- Sidney Crosby scores 600th career goal (PensBurgh)
- Penguins/Utah Recap: Pittsburgh brutalized in another loss, but get milestone Crosby goal (PensBurgh)

Weekly Links 08.26–09.01

“Can You Save One Species by Annoying Another?” (kottke.org)
🚨 New Every Frame a Painting!! 🚨 (kottke.org)
Just use fucking paper, man (Andy Bell)
Bookmark to Bear (Naz Hamid)
Review: Kakira Rum Range (The Rum Barrel Blog)
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes (eieio.games) — Also in video format.

News

Weekly Links 06.17–06.23

Colorful DIY Lego Millennium Falcon (kottke.org)
Seven Samurai’s 4K Restoration (kottke.org)

News

Weekly Links 04.29–05.05

A live-action, 1950s version of The Simpsons and Futurama, imagined by AI (kottke.org)
Return to Hungary (Jeff Bridgforth)
Will Web Components replace React and Vue? (Go Make Things)
Your first Web Component (Go Make Things)
Adding options to your Web Component (Go Make Things)
Progressively enhancing a Web Component (Go Make Things)
Why is Windows 11 so annoying? (The Verge)
Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems (Jim Nielsen)
The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons (Jim Nielsen)
Tokyo Dome (Louie Mantia)
LWF Distilling – White Rum & Spiced White Rum (The Rum Barrel Blog)
Use Your Old Mac as a Server or NAS Drive: Here’s How (Make Use Of)
Designing The Cascade (Robin Rendle)
iPhone 15 Precision Finding — Find Your Friends (YouTube) — Happy Star Wars Day!

News

Weekly Links 04.08–04.14

Now is your moment to shine (The Oatmeal)
The Best Photos and Videos of the 2024 Solar Eclipse (kottke.org)
We Need to Talk About Trader Joe’s (TASTE, via kottke.org)
The 15 Greatest Documentaries (kottke.org)
Proudly Second Best! (kottke.org)
Movie Posters Perfected (via kottke.org) — “A live, cloud-based library of over 3,600 curated movie posters you can stream to your digital display.”
Notes at 46 (Naz Hamid)
Why by Hand? (Louie Mantia)
Weeknotes 24:14 (Jeff Bridgforth)
How to Stop Kids Ruining Your Apple Music Recommendations (MacRumors)
Killed by Google — The Google graveyard, a free and open source list of discontinued Google services, products, devices, and apps.
Dead Simple Sites — Minimal Website Inspiration

News

Weekly Links 01.08–01.14

How Google perfected the web (The Verge)
The 25 Best Films of 2023: A Video Countdown (kottke.org)
Footsteps in the Snow (kottke.org)
The Perils and Pleasures of Bartending in Antarctica (Gastro Obscura, via kottke.org)
The Truth About Airplane Safety (kottke.org)
The Clever Engineering Trick That Allows Simple Rice Cookers to Perfectly Cook Rice (kottke.org)
The Stunning Winners of the 2024 Close-Up Photographer of the Year Contest (kottke.org)
The SUPERs (kottke.org)
How the NHL’s first Winter Classic overcame many hurdles (ESPN)
Review: Foursquare 15 Year Old Private Cask Selection – Nickolls & Perks 225th Anniversary (The Rum Barrel Blog)
Review: Camikara 12 Year Old (The Rum Barrel Blog)
Review: Hamilton 151 Overproof (The Rum Barrel Blog)
Own Your Web – Issue 6: The Year of the Personal Website
Quotes from moving house (Dave Rupert)
Accessible Fart Machines (Dave Rupert)
Trying to be the ideal American family with a small fridge (Dave Rupert)
Ecosia (Dave Rupert) — A search engine that plants trees.
MDX with Web Components Part II (Dave Rupert)
Stitch images together with Stitchy (Dave Rupert)
Not a collector, but… (Dave Rupert)
Giving Yourself Stakes (Chris Coyier)
Exposed RSS (Chris Coyier)
Up Ahead Lets You Track the Important Things in Life (The Sweet Setup)
‘Trump Has Taken Presidential Immunity to Its Illogical Extreme’ (Daring Fireball)
The Mom and Son Sitting in Front of the Blown Out Window on Alaska Flight 1282 (Daring Fireball)
Weeknotes 24:02 (Jeff Bridgforth)

News

Weekly Links 11.13–11.19

Why Star Wars Was Dubbed Into the Navajo Language (kottke.org)
“I built a trading bot that buys stocks that are being bought by politicians. It is up 20% since it launched in May 2022.” (via kottke.org)
Do You Say “Tennis Shoes”, “Gym Shoes”, or “Sneakers”? (kottke.org)
Trump Wants Us to Know He Will Stop at Nothing in 2025 (via kottke.org)
More Americans Say They’re in a Brain Fog. Long Covid Is a Factor. (via kottke.org)
Winners of the 2023 Natural Landscape Photography Awards (kottke.org)
Stop Using AI-Generated Images (CSS { In Real Life })
Better Vue Application State Management with Vuex Modules (CSS { In Real Life })
Using Flow Diagrams to Manage State in Complex Applications (CSS { In Real Life })
Projects: Finally a home for my projects, side projects, and weird ideas (Dave Rupert)
Weeknotes 23:38 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Always Be Learning (LukeW)
Until the Right Design Emerges… (LukeW)
Happy Anniversary, xScope! (The Breakroom)

News

Weekly Links 10.09–10.15

Interop 2024 Votes (Chris Coyier)
Dan Mall — Answers to Common Design Questions (Chris Coyier)
Being Picky about a CSS Reset for Fun & Pleasure (Chris Coyier)
If not Wufoo, then what? (Chris Coyier)
Seth Godin on Password Stupidity (Chris Coyier)
Weeknotes 23:32 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Update on Current Tools for WordPress to Social Network Posting (Chris Coyier)
Message Decoder (Chris Coyier)
Read Later in Feedbin (Dave Rupert)
Newsstands From Around the World (kottke.org)
Remy’s Dead Link Solution (Chris Coyier)
The Layers of the Earth (kottke.org)
Our Frasier Remake (kottke.org)
Can Erik Karlsson deliver another Stanley Cup to Pittsburgh? (ESPN+)

News

Weekly Links 06.12–06.18

Smart home

The Verge published several smart home articles this week.

Reddit

There was a lot of drama at Reddit this week.

Weekly Links 05.01–05.07