- Review: Hampden Estate 1753 (The Rum Barrel Blog)
 - Review: The Whisky Exchange Rum Show 2025 (The Rum Barrel Blog)
 - Review: Black Tot Master Blender’s Reserve 2025 (The Rum Barrel Blog)
 - When the Icebergs Came to Town (kottke.org)
 - Generous Media (kottke.org)
 - Never write your own Date Parsing Library (Zach Leatherman)
 - One weird trick to reduce Eleventy Image Build Times by 60% (Zach Leatherman)
 - A Note from my Late Grandmother about Eleventy (Zach Leatherman)
 - Studio Notes #45 (SimpleBits)
 - Obsidian Bases: Star Ratings and Automatic Covers (Tyler Sticka)
 - Pixadex (Louie Mantia)
 - Buddies (Louie Mantia)
 - blakewatson.com turns 20 (Blake Watson)
 - Longplay (Jon Hicks)
 - That Windy City Keeb Meet 2025 recap (Cassidy Williams)
 - Weeknotes 39 (Mark Boulton)
 - Newslettered. (Ethan Marcotte)
 - Unorganised Thoughts about Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 (Robb Knight)
 - Weeknote #1959 (Robb Knight)
 - Weeknote #1961 (Robb Knight)
 - Weeknotes 25:30 (Jeff Bridgforth)
 - Weeknotes 25:31 (Jeff Bridgforth)
 - Weeknotes 25:32 (Jeff Bridgforth)
 - Weeknotes 25:33 (Jeff Bridgforth)
 - Hero and semantic ordering (Jeff Bridgforth)
 - Often the place of blessing is not our place of preference (Jeff Bridgforth)
 - BTW № 3: Analog Edition (Jason Santa Maria)
 - Compounding performance issues (Go Make Things)
 - Having figure match width of contained image (Jeff Bridgforth)
 - The Figcaption Problem (Frontend Masters Blog)
 - Fonts for Wireframing (Frontend Masters Blog)
 - Ghost vs. Substack, Eleventy vs. WordPress: My Experiences (Richard MacManus)
 
News
- Grammarly says its AI agent can predict an A paper
 - Amazon’s Fallout season two heads to New Vegas
 - First Fallout season 2 trailer reveals release date (and Deathclaws)
 - Google Home adds scheduling for older Nest thermostats
 - UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption
 - Nanoleaf’s new 4D V2 lighting kit is better at extending what’s on TV
 - Ayaneo’s dual-screen Android handheld is its next modernized Nintendo DS
 - Sony is raising PS5 prices, starting tomorrow
 - Apple TV Plus is getting more expensive and will cost $12.99 per month
 - US government takes 10 percent stake in Intel in exchange for money it was already on the hook for — It seems like there might be some potential conflict of interest here. Also, it looks like one step closer to the United States becoming more like China.
 - Bluesky blocks Mississippi under new age verification law