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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)

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Weekly Links 07.01–07.14

57 Sandwiches That Define New York City (kottke.org)
Are the “World’s 50 Best Restaurants” Even Restaurants? (kottke.org)
The Science of Having a Great Conversation (kottke.org)
Mel Brooks is producing a sequel to Spaceballs with Josh Gad starring (kottke.org)
Everything You Know About Lightning Safety in the Backcountry Is Wrong (kottke.org)
Calm Down—Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World (kottke.org)
Analysts ordered 75 burrito bowls from 8 Chipotles. Here’s what they found (kottke.org)
View Transitions Break Incremental Rendering (Frontend Masters Boost)
Lazygit (Frontend Masters Boost)
‘This $8 Cardboard Knife Will Change Your Life’ (Daring Fireball)
Warp’s Agent Mode: Natural Language for Terminal Commands (Daring Fireball)
Job Hoppin’ (Robin Rendle)
Fix scroll “bounce” with CSS – Some gotchas (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 24:23 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Being funemployed, and all that jazz (Cassidy Williams)
Hicks.design’s Best 15 Albums (Hicks.design)
Vibe Check №33 (Dave Rupert)
Review: Foursquare 2011 – Mark XXIV (The Rum Barrel Blog)
Review: Mamy Wata White Rum (The Rum Barrel Blog)

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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)

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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!

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Weekly Links 12.04–12.10

How to Cook Turkey With Just Chicken and Cinnamon (kottke.org)
Single Line Comments in CSS (Jim Nielsen)
Testing the Performance of Social Media Embeds (CSS { In Real Life })
Weeknotes 23:41 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Routines, rituals, and habits (Jeff Bridgforth)
When I first learned to write HTML (Jeff Bridgforth)
HTML & CSS for a One-Time Password Input (Chris Coyier)
‘The Lost Voice’ (Daring Fireball)

News

More gift guides

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)

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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 })

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Weekly Links 08.28–09.04

The State of API-Powered Publishing to Social Media Networks (Chris Coyier)
“The Tombstone of Democracy” (kottke.org)
How Cruise Ships Got So Big (kottke.org)
Varying Sizes of Radio Buttons (Chris Coyier)
In America, the Cheese Is Dead (kottke.org)

News

Weekly Links 07.24–07.30

Weeknotes 06.13–06.19

Notes from my week.

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