- 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: web development
Weekly Links 12.08–12.14
- Goodbye VS Code! (Kevin Powell)
News
- Paramount tries to kill Netflix Warner Bros. deal
- Analogue is restocking its 4K N64 and making it more colorful
- Supergirl’s first trailer introduces the Woman of Tomorrow
- Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI, sends iconic characters to the slophouse
- Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic announced from former Mass Effect dev
- Clair Obscur wins Game of the Year in record-breaking Game Awards haul
- The Game Awards 2025: Full winners list
- Penguins acquire Stuart Skinner, Brett Kulak, draft pick from Oilers for Tristan Jarry
- Google Translate brings real-time speech translations to any headphones
Weekly Links 10.20–10.26
- Code portability (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Some well-made things. (Ethan Marcotte)
- Meet my new Modular grid generator (Stuff & Nonsense)
- Using Notebook Navigator and Cupertino in Obsidian (Cassidy Williams)
- A carried leaf. (Ethan Marcotte)
- Mister Rogers Visits Sesame Street (1981) (kottke.org)
- I turned an old Mac into a NAS — here’s why you should too
- Mac Mini as a Low Idle Home NAS
- Building a private & personal cloud computer (Chase McCoy)
- A Clock: An Online Remake of Christian Marclay’s The Clock (kottke.org)
- JavaScript’s ??= Operator: Default Values Made Simple — via Frontend Masters Blog
- Prevent scrollbar jump (Go Make Things)
- Your brain’s job (The Oatmeal)
- My Mission (Louie Mantia)
- A social media ethos (Dave Rupert)
- Vibe Check №39 (Dave Rupert)
- A modest proposal for new holidays to manage your digital life (Dave Rupert)
- Is it Time to Un-Sass? (CSS-Tricks)
- All the concerns that make you a boring developer (Dave Rupert)
- Theater UX (Dave Rupert)
- Little Reminder About Custom Properties with Invalid Value (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Covering hidden=until-found (CSS-Tricks)
- Liquid Glass on the Web (Frontend Masters Blog)
- A fiscal recalibration (Dave Rupert) — I can really relate to this. 😞
- Before I go: Always buy the $200 Yamaha (Dave Rupert)
- I made a music app (Cory Dransfeldt)
- Using Eleventy to Gobble Up Everything I Do Online (Robb Knight)
- The CODE Keyboard — The WASD CODE Keyboard v3 was my first legit mechanical keyboard.
- Alfred Workflow: Smart Punctuation (Tyler Sticka)
- Multiple Computers (Jim Nielsen)
- Two Excellent New iPhone Camera Apps: Not Boring’s !Camera and Adobe’s Project Indigo (Daring Fireball)
- Recommended RSS readers (Cory Dransfeldt)
- European Tech Alternatives 🇪🇺 (Matthias Ott)
- Can You Recommend a Good Bookmark Manager? (kottke.org) — I’m settling into Raindrop.io, but there look to be a few more good suggestions to try in the comments.
- New Work: Megazoid Microsite (Jason Santa Maria)
- A right to copy. (Ethan Marcotte)
- Coattails (Adactio)
- CAPTCHAs and the punishment of privacy-conscious users (Cory Dransfeldt)
- A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry in the United States (kottke.org)
- Simplify (Adactio)
- Bird Photographer of the Year for 2025 (kottke.org)
- Six months (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Get Okay (Robb Knight)
- The AI Mandate (Go Make Things)
- Space Exploration Logo Archive — via kottke.org
- 39 Coolest Neighbourhoods in the World in 2025 — via kottke.org
- Real Photos That Look Fake (kottke.org)
- Weeknotes 25:42 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- AI Browsers, ad nauseam (Tyler Sticka)
- AI browsers are straight out of the enshittification playbook (Cory Dransfeldt)
- AI Browsers: Living on the Frontier of Security (Jim Nielsen)
- Vibe Check №40 (Dave Rupert)
News
- Ex-NHL great Jaromir Jagr, 53, starts 38th professional season
- Anbernic’s DS clone will be cheaper than Nintendo’s original
- Kohler’s new Dekoda health sensor peers inside your toilet — 💩
- Apple adds a new toggle to make Liquid Glass less glassy
- Universal’s new Shrek theme park sounds like a millennial playground
- Casio’ new ring watch straps a durable G-Shock to your finger
- Aldi unveils jacket potato jacket complete with silver foil poncho — via kottke.org
- OpenAI’s AI-powered browser, ChatGPT Atlas, is here
- Rivian’s Also e-bike is like nothing you’ve ever seen before
- Lomography made a new film camera that charges with USB-C
- Fujifilm updates its X-T30 with 6K video and a film simulation dial
- The BrickBoy kit turns Lego’s Game Boy into a handheld emulator
- Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy
- Fallout 4 is getting a new edition just in time for the TV show
- Nike says its first ‘powered footwear’ is like an e-bike for your feet
Weekly Links 09.29–10.05
- Lego Nintendo Game Boy review: a brick masterpiece just shy of perfection (The Verge)
- Goodbye, paywall (Go Make Things)
- Modern tools are worse (Go Make Things)
- DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought (Jake Lazaroff)
- I’ve tested the latest Switch 2 controllers, and this one is the best (The Verge)
- The weirdest KPop Demon Hunters Halloween costume is just $40 (Polygon)
News
- $55 billion EA buyout hands Madden over to investors including Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner
- GameSir’s clip-on controller turns smartphones into Game Boys
- PlayStation is getting a big, fancy art book full of unused designs
- YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5 million settlement
- Zootopia 2’s directors told the composer ‘Make the score dumber’
- Logitech’s MX Master 4 adds haptic feedback, mostly just for fun
- Keychron made the first almost entirely ceramic keyboard
- Microsoft’s Windows XP Crocs are here
- US government takes equity stake in one of the world’s largest lithium mines
- Behold: The Lego Game Boy has already been modded to play games for real
- Trump admin adds banner attacking ‘Radical Left Democrats’ to government websites
- Perplexity’s Comet browser is available to everyone, everywhere, for free
- Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store — Google too
- Kodak launches Kodacolor 100 and 200 to feed the film resurgence
- Ring’s new Search Party feature is on by default; should you opt out?
- AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood provokes outrage from Hollywood’s real actors and SAG-AFTRA
- Quentin Tarantino’s two Kill Bill movies are finally hitting theaters as a single masterpiece
- Scuba Thief Steals Thousands From Floating Disney Restaurant, Then Disappears Into Water — via kottke.org
- Jane Goodall’s death triggered the premiere of Netflix’s new show
Weekly Links 09.08–09.14
- The Surreality of Japanese Playgrounds at Night (kottke.org)
- How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy (Jim Nielsen)
- A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known (Jim Nielsen)
- Bottomless Subtleties (Jim Nielsen)
- Consistent Navigation Across My Inconsistent Websites, Part II (Jim Nielsen)
- Weeknote #1963 (Robb Knight)
- Weeknotes 40 (Mark Boulton)
- Weeknotes 41 (Mark Boulton)
- Weeknotes 25:34 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknotes 25:35 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknotes 25:36 (Jeff Bridgforth)
News
- OpenAI comes for Hollywood with Critterz, an AI-powered animated film
- It’s time to change your Plex password again
- Canon is bringing back a point-and-shoot from 2016 with fewer features and a higher price (it’s viral)
- Apple announces AirPods Pro 3 with ‘world’s best ANC’ and heart rate sensing
- Apple Watch Series 11 announced with 5G and stronger glass
- Apple’s iPhone 17 drops the Plus, but gains a bigger, faster display
- Apple announces the ultra-slim iPhone Air
- Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro has the biggest battery of any iPhone
- The new iPhones all have Center Stage front-facing cameras
- The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
- Vimeo to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38 billion
- PlayStation launches new app for parental controls
- Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse
- Mario’s going to space in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer
- Retired Marc-Andre Fleury to suit up for Penguins preseason game
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 09.11–09.17
- The China-Apple Cold War Heats Up (Daring Fireball)
- Using AirPods as a Hearing Aid (Daring Fireball)
- Weeknotes 23:29 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weekend Project: Smashburgers in Bend Microsite with View Transitions (Chris Coyier)
- Anyone can dig up a road (Dave Rupert)
- Dissocial Media (Naz Hamid)
- Post by post. (Ethan Marcotte)
- McDonald’s at the Movies and on TV (kottke.org)
- Personality Buckets (Chris Coyier)
- How the Race Was Won (kottke.org)
- Relocating a Floating Island (kottke.org)
- Two Events (Chris Coyier)
- Why US Malls Are Dying (And European Malls Aren’t) (kottke.org)
- Bird Buddy (Chris Coyier)
- $38,000 (Chris Coyier)
- Some blogging myths (Julia Evans, via Chris Coyier)
- All of the 8,291 License Plates in America (kottke.org)
- Student-Built EV Car Goes 0-62 mph in Record 0.956 Seconds (kottke.org)
- Disney+ to Air a Real-Time Toy Story Version of an NFL Game (kottke.org)
- Tool Picks (Chris Coyier)
- Reviewing Things That Are Too Big To Review (Chris Coyier)
- Link Categorization (Chris Coyier)
- The 2023 Fall Foliage Prediction Map (kottke.org)
- Movies That Began As Short Films (kottke.org)
- My Favorite Mac Apps in 2023 (Matthias Ott)
- Paradise Lost ’06 (cabel.com)
- Wonder Is Steven Spielberg’s Blockbuster Secret Ingredient (kottke.org)
- “How Do You Know When to Cut?” (kottke.org)
- Doing Essential Things Makes Time For Everything Else (kottke.org)
- 368 Broadway: the NYC Building That Nurtured the Film Careers of Greta Gerwig, Lena Dunham, the Safdie Brothers, and More (kottke.org)
- Multi-page web apps (Jeremy Keith)
- Live Coding Interviews (Chris Coyier)
News
- ESPN’s standalone streaming channel is included in Charter and Disney’s new deal
- FDA approves Pfizer and Moderna covid vaccines with new formula
- Internet Archive appeals loss in library ebook lawsuit
- Apple’s port changing timeline
- Drop’s own-brand keyboards are getting a customizability upgrade
- The next Sims will be free and won’t replace The Sims 4
- Intel makes Thunderbolt 5 official, promising speeds of up to 120Gbps
- 10 years ago, Apple’s Touch ID finally convinced us to lock our phones
- Disney Lorcana asked Disney animators to bring their best for Disney100
- Steam just turned 20 years old and Valve is celebrating
- Flic’s Twist smart home button is now available to preorder
- Lego Venator Attack Cruiser: available Oct. 1 for Lego Insiders
- Sony’s new PS5 update includes Dolby Atmos and the ability to mute the startup beep
- Adobe Premiere Pro adds automatic ‘um’ and background noise removal
- Baldur’s Gate 3 on PS5 is a technically complicated but still enjoyable experience
- PS Remote Play now works on Google’s 4K Chromecast
- Don’t buy a Chromecast just to play PS5
- A key cold medicine ingredient is basically worthless
- Google’s emoji mashup maker is now available in Search
- Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Edge are patched for a big security vulnerability
- Bike tires made from NASA’s bizarre shape-shifting metal are now available to buy – The Verge
- Twelve South’s new HiRise 3 Deluxe is for StandBy Mode and charging all your Apple stuff
- Best gaming headsets: wired and wireless options
- The best new sci-fi and fantasy books to read in fall 2023
- Disney Parks Unveils Future Projects, Surprises at Destination D23 — Some good news in here — re-theming Test Track at EPCOT and replacing the old Dinoland U.S.A. with a tropical land in Animal Kingdom.
- Disney reportedly held talks about selling ABC
- Emoji 15.1 includes head shakes and a phoenix
- X still throttles links to Facebook, Instagram, and other competitors
Apple news
News from this week’s iPhone event.
- Apple’s Vision Pro headset is on track to ship early next year
- Apple announces Apple Watch Series 9, and it has a handy double-tap feature
- Apple’s watchOS 10 is coming September 18th
- Apple announces iPhone 15 with USB-C, a camera upgrade, and the Dynamic Island
- Apple is switching the AirPods Pro charging case to USB-C
- iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max in titanium: price, features, and release date
- Apple brings satellite-powered Roadside Assistance to the iPhone 15 and iPhone 14
- The iPhone 13 Mini is dead
- Apple is releasing iOS 17 on September 18th
- macOS Sonoma comes out on September 26th
- Apple has added Thread to the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone Pro Max
- The iPhone 15 is the first phone to (almost) support Qi2 charging
- The iPhone is getting new ringtones with iOS 17
- Apple brings Grid Forecast to Apple Home to tell you when you’re using clean energy
- Why Apple put a Thread radio in the iPhone 15 Pro
- The iPhone Mini is officially gone, long live the iPhone Mini
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 04.25–05.01
Notes from my week.
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