- 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: Tokyo
Weekly Links 01.19–01.25
- The guy who discovered South Park’s creators was shocked by the new season as you were (Polygon)
- Vibe Check №41 (Dave Rupert)
- I like when apps are “finished” (Cassidy Williams)
- Jungle Green (Louie Mantia)
- Weeknotes 25:51 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- No stars (Adactio)
- Weeknotes 25:52 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Dungeon Crawler Carl (Go Make Things)
- Weeknote #1981 (Robb Knight)
- 2026 (Louie Mantia)
- 2025 in review (Cory Dransfeldt)
- Projects Recap 2025 (anhvn)
- 2025: my year in review (Blake Watson)
- v19 (Robin Rendle)
News
- Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL
- Amazon’s CEO says tariffs are starting to ‘creep into’ pricing
- Nintendo is following up Alarmo with a weird Talking Flower in March
- Vimeo lays off ‘large portion’ of staff after Bending Spoons buyout
- The TikTok deal is done, finally
- Nintendo announces new Animal Crossing aquarium tour dates
- ICE has killed another person in Minneapolis
Weekly Links 06.10–06.16
- The 2024 Drone Photos Awards (kottke.org)
- Daylight Computer’s DC-1 Tablet (Daring Fireball) — I want something like this, but they always end up being as much (or more) than a more capable iPad.
- The Basics (.dev) (Geoff Graham)
- Review: Holmes Cay Belize 2006 16 Year Old vs Tamosi Obano-Oyo Belize 2006 (Cane Spirit Society) (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- Review: The Rum Discovery Box (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- Review: Rump@blic Sicilian Legacy Line – Barbados, Jamaican & Jamaican & Venezuelan (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- Review: El Dorado Rum Range (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- CSS Container Queries (CSS-Tricks)
- Weeknotes 24:21 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknotes 24:22 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- In-N-Out — Tokyo, Japan (Louie Mantia)
- iPod (Louie Mantia)
Apple WWDC
- Apple announces iOS 18 with new AI features and more customizable homescreen
- Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18
- The iPhone’s new Game Mode makes it faster and more responsive
- Canon made a special lens for the Apple Vision Pro’s spatial videos
- Apple announces watchOS 11 with new training features and Live Activities
- iOS 18 introduces satellite capabilities to its iMessage app
- Apple made an iPad calculator app after 14 years
- Apple announces iPadOS 18 with a built-in calculator and customizable homescreen
- Apple announces macOS Sequoia at WWDC 2024
- Apple’s InSight feature for Apple TV Plus will tell you who that actor is
- Apple Intelligence: every new AI feature coming to the iPhone and Mac
- Apple is giving Siri an AI upgrade in iOS 18
- Apple’s standalone Passwords app syncs across iOS, iPad, Mac, and Windows
- Apple is putting ChatGPT in Siri for free later this year
- Apple’s AI can make custom emoji and images
- Apple brings support for robot vacuums to Apple Home at WWDC 2024
- iOS 18 will let you record calls — and tells everyone for their privacy
News
- Adobe’s new terms of service say it won’t train AI on customers’ work
- Penguins hire David Quinn as assistant coach
- Capitals announce deal to buy NHL salary data site CapFriendly — This sounds like bad news for fans and the rest of the NHL.
- Epic Games database leak hints at a trove of unannounced games
- Sony buys Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
- Roku TV owners complain that motion smoothing is stuck ‘on’ after an update
- Netflix will settle 15 years of Chestnut vs. Kobayashi with a live hot dog-eating contest
- Apple and OpenAI aren’t paying each other yet, says Bloomberg
- Disney Lorcana’s Shimmering Skies set debuts Wreck-it Ralph — My family got me a Lorcana starter deck for Father’s Day, and I’m already overwhelmed by all the new cards 😆
- Finally, the Apple Watch will let you rest
- iOS 18 will let you use Apple Pay on desktop Chrome by scanning a code
- Arc’s live calendar button makes it hard to miss your next meeting
- New trailer for Netflix’s The Imaginary is for friends and believers
- Did Apple just Sherlock our favorite password managers?
- iOS 18 lets Apple Home users choose their Home Hub
- Philips Hue’s jaunty sunrise smart lamp is called the Twilight
Weekly Links 05.20–05.26
- I got married and over-engineered everything (kottke.org)
- The Lowest Possible Score in Super Mario Bros (kottke.org)
- Ben Pobjoy’s Tips for Long Walks (kottke.org)
- Global Warming Is Influencing Global Timekeeping (kottke.org)
- A Zenith TV cabinet retrofitted with a contemporary smart TV (via kottke.org)
- Biking helps prevent knee pain and boosts longevity, studies show (NPR, via kottke.org)
- Getting Personal about Getting Personal (John Green, via kottke.org)
- How Not to Get Screwed Buying a Used Car (kottke.org)
- Virtual Stan (Stuff & Nonsense)
- Pi-rate radio: how to make your own FM station for less than $35 (The Verge)
- A decade of code (Josh Collinsworth)
- CSS… 5? (Chris Coyier, Frontend Masters Boost)
- We’ve Got Container Queries Now, But Are We Actually Using Them? (Chris Coyier, Frontend Masters Boost)
- Puerto Vallarta (Chris Coyier)
- Fantasy Springs (Louie Mantia)
- Fantasy Springs, Part 2 (Louie Mantia)
News
- Scarlett Johansson told OpenAI not to use her voice — and she’s not happy they might have anyway
- Pixar cuts 14 percent of workforce, shifts focus back to feature films — Also on Daring Fireball
- Windows now has AI-powered copy and paste
- Microsoft is making File Explorer more powerful with version control and 7z compression
- This Microsoft-approved website tracks how Windows games play on Arm
- Google’s new ‘Add to Chromebook’ badge makes web apps easy to install
- The US sues Ticketmaster for driving up live event fees
- You can get rid of AI Overviews in Google Search
- Atari acquires longtime rival Intellivision
- Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
- EcoFlow’s $200 PowerStream is so clever, you might buy a $4,000 solar generator
- ICQ is shutting down after almost 28 years
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
- Razer made a million dollars selling a mask with RGB, and the FTC is not pleased
- GitHub Copilot can now help start a project with AI, not just complete it
- Fallout’s practical effects started with building real power armor
- FCC fines AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon nearly $200 million for illegally sharing location data
- The Arc browser arrives on Windows to take on Chrome and Edge
- Roku plans to start showing video ads on your homescreen
- Studios are betting on 2025 by sacrificing 2024’s blockbusters
- Turns out the Rabbit R1 was just an Android app all along
- Fubo drops Discovery networks and blasts WBD for abusing its power
- Home Assistant’s next era begins now — “How Home Assistant plans to transition from an enthusiast platform to a mainstream consumer product.”
- UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty admits he paid $22 million ransom to hackers
- Here’s what’s coming to Super Nintendo World at Universal Orlando
- Full Bluey episode ‘Dad Baby’ uploaded to YouTube after Disney ban