- 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: writing
Weekly Links 01.26–02.01
- My favorite series of 2025 (Lynn Fisher)
- Logitech Options+ Alternatives for MacOS (Robb Knight)
- Changing Roles (Geoff Graham)
- 2025 by the numbers (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknote #1982 (Robb Knight)
- 88×31 Button Curios (Robb Knight)
- My favorite movies of 2025 (Lynn Fisher)
- In The Beginning There Was Slop (Jim Nielsen)
- 3 + 4 (Adactio)
- Mutual aid and asking people what they need (Go Make Things)
- Weeknotes 26:02 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Lunchtime (kottke.org)
- When the tech leopard eats your face (Go Make Things)
- Fix for Slow Open and Save Dialog on MacOS (Robb Knight)
- Food I recommend in Chicago in 2025 (Cassidy Williams)
- 2025 Year in Review (Letterboxd)
- Configure your repositories with .github (Cassidy Williams)
- The best thing I bought this year: a portable mechanical keyboard (The Verge)
- The best version of my site so far… (Dave Rupert)
- Weeknotes 26:03 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- New Year, New Website — Same Old Me (Jim Nielsen)
- The Keyboard I Never Wanted (Tyler Sticka)
- Pinning homebrew dependencies (Cory Dransfeldt)
News
- Apple’s new AirTag has more range and a better speaker
- OpenAI’s president is a Trump mega-donor
- Lego’s new Lord of the Rings set puts Sauron’s head on your shelf
- Moltbot, the AI agent that ‘actually does things,’ is tech’s new obsession
- Ted Lasso season 4 hits Apple TV in the summer
- Google adds Gemini AI-powered ‘auto browse’ to Chrome
- Kane passes Modano for most points by U.S.-born player
- The LEGO Group and Crocs Enter Multi-Year Global Partnership
- Dynacap made my favorite mechanical keyboard into an electrocapacitive one
Weekly Links 01.12–01.18
- The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe (no.heger)
- The Plex Dance ™ — Remove all cached metadata and xml data for an item.
- Media Diet (Chris Coyier)
- So Many Websites (Robin Rendle)
- Splinter.js — I made a more accessible text splitting tool (Stuff & Nonsense)
- Updates to my Toon Text styles gallery and generator (Stuff & Nonsense)
- I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows (The Verge)
- Coming up with blog topics (Cassidy Williams)
- On Kindness, Power, and Hypocrisy (kottke.org)
- BTW № 4: People Make Amazing Things Edition (Jason Santa Maria)
- ADHD restlessness (Go Make Things)
News
- Apple picks Google’s Gemini AI for its big Siri upgrade
- The first Lego Pokémon sets launch in February, including a $650 diorama
- Apple Creator Studio suite is launching to take on Adobe
- Animal Crossing’s big 3.0 update has fans itching to return to the cozy life
- Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content
- Parents can put a time limit on YouTube Shorts scrolling
- Civilization VII is coming to Apple Arcade
- Everything new in Animal Crossing: New Horizon’s 3.0 update
- Over 100 episodes of classic Sesame Street have arrived on YouTube
- Star Wars shakeup: Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy steps down
- Lego’s new Legend of Zelda set revealed, up for pre-order
- Disney deleted a Thread because people kept putting anti-fascist quotes from its movies in the replies
Weekly Links 08.18–08.24
- 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
Weekly Links 07.14–07.20
- Not a joke: there is a new Commodore 64 coming out (kottke.org)
- Taking Journalism’s ‘Experts Said…’ Chicanery About Facts to Its Natural, Absurd Conclusion (kottke.org)
- Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP (kottke.org)
- Photos Show the Vast Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects (kottke.org)
- Bloc Party’s Tiny Desk Concert (kottke.org)
- Star Wars Lofi (kottke.org)
- Network Pinheads at CBS Are Ending ‘The Late Show’ (Daring Fireball) — See also Colbert’s Cancellation Is a Dark Warning (via kottke.org)
- Who writes the documentation? (Cory Dransfeldt)
- Cursed Knowledge (Immich, via Frontend Masters Blog)
- A stack of browsers (Rachel Smith)
- This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii (Alex Haydock)
News
- Texas governor says his emails with Elon Musk are too ‘intimate or embarrassing’ to release
- The Pro 3 is 8BitDo’s first controller with swappable buttons
- Nintendo’s Zelda movie has found its princess and hero of time
- Stranger Things 5’s first trailer promises an epic showdown
- Elgato brightens up its Stream Deck and mics with four new colors
- Why a South Park lawsuit could mean season 27 is the show’s last
Weekly Links 07.07–07.13
- Slice of Life (kottke.org)
- Get Up Close to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unrealized Buildings with David Romero’s Digital Models
- When in doubt, go for a walk (kottke.org)
- Shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 Competition (kottke.org)
- My first trip to Budapest, 35 years ago (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknotes 25:25 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknotes 25:26 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknotes 25:27 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Things I would like to learn (Q3 2025) (Jeff Bridgforth)
- RWD on The Big Web Show 15 years ago (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Weeknote #1951 (Robb Knight)
- Weeknote #1955 (Robb Knight)
- Weeknote #1956 (Robb Knight)
- Five Months of Journalling (Robb Knight)
- Stickers, Maths, and Postage (Robb Knight)
- How to Verify an Apple Podcasts Claim in Your RSS Feed (Robb Knight)
- Now (July 2025) (Robb Knight)
News
- Microsoft’s Edge browser now loads sites even faster — Microsoft replacing React in Edge with web components might be related.
- Microsoft Teams now has threaded conversations
- Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts
- The Last of Us Part II’s new mode puts the story in chronological order
- TSA to finally end its dumb shoe removal policy for airport security
- Amazon gets the green light to sell the Nintendo Switch 2
- Ikea’s latest speaker lamp ditches Sonos for Spotify and inexpensive Bluetooth
- Ikea ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes
- Appeals court strikes down ‘click-to-cancel’ rule
- Nintendo is ending its cost-saving Switch game vouchers
- Texas is a different place in the new King of the Hill trailer
- Feeder systems to NHL experiencing massive changes with alteration to CHL transfer agreement
- Dbrand says its new Switch 2 Joy-Con grips fix the detachment issue
- Belkin is ending support for nearly all its Wemo smart home devices
- iFixit: the Switch 2 Pro is a ‘piss-poor excuse for a controller’
Weekly Links 05.12–05.18
- How to make a Link Aggregator in Obsidian (Dave Rupert) — I also recently moved from Notion to Obsidian, and I’ve been looking for ways to improve my workflow with saving and sharing links. I might have to adopt a few of Dave’s ideas.
- BTW № 1: Stuff That Explains You Edition (Jason Santa Maria)
- BTW № 2: Letterforms Edition (Jason Santa Maria)
- Seeking an Answer: Why can’t HTML alone do includes? (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Reading flow ships in Chrome 137 (Frontend Masters Blog)
- contrast-color() ships in Safari Technology Preview (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Using Pages CMS for Static Site Content Management (CSS-Tricks) — I’ve been thinking about migrating my blog to a new CMS, and Eleventy would be a much stronger contender if something like this worked well.
- Weeknotes 25:19 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Hack Club: Post Filtering on EchoFeed (Robb Knight)
- A streaming music translator: I Don’t Have Spotify (kottke.org)
- Eminem’s Lose Yourself, Sung by 331 Movies (kottke.org)
- Forget Psychedelics. Everyone’s Microdosing Ozempic Now. (kottke.org)
- Color Photography of Paris From 1914 (kottke.org)
- Power Houses — Inside the living rooms of notable New Yorkers (kottke.org)
- A Longevity Expert’s 5 Tips for Aging Well (kottke.org)
- Octavia Butler’s Advice on Writing (kottke.org) — “Write, every day, whether you like it or not. Screw inspiration.”
- Gardening and the endless task list (Go Make Things)
- A better linter (Go Make Things) — I need to give Biome a try. Setting up ESLint has been difficult. I’m now addicted to auto-formatting, but I don’t agree with some of the opinionated decisions of Prettier (which are impossible to override).
- 2025 Advice to my old selves (swyx)
News
- Fox One streaming service will arrive just in time for football season
- Duolingo is replacing hearts with energy
- Fallout’s second season premieres in December and will be followed by a third
- Letterboxd announces a curated, limited-run rental service — “Letterboxd – a film tracker app and the only good social network” — so true 😆
- Panthers minority owner suspended for offensive social media posts
- ESPN’s standalone streaming app launches this fall for $30 a month
- Republicans push for a decadelong ban on states regulating AI
- Sony considers PS5 price hikes to cover Trump’s tariffs
- HBO gives up, calls it HBO Max again
- Max was an all-time bad rebrand
- Happy 20-year anniversary, Leeroy Jenkins
- Superman gets grilled in latest trailer
- Minecraft finally adds craftable saddles… after 15 years
- Trump wants to weaken protections against forever chemicals in drinking water
- Walmart’s CFO says higher prices are probably coming this month
- Apple blocks Fortnite’s App Store return as downloads fail in Europe
- Wooting’s 60HE v2 upgrades the best gaming keyboard with improved speed and sound
- Crosby, Fleury have opportunity at making history at Worlds
- Charter and Cox to combine businesses in $34.5 billion megamerger — I can’t wait to switch from Cox to our local fiber service once it becomes available in my neighborhood.
- 8BitDo’s new all-button arcade controller is just 16mm thick
- The State Department reportedly pressured African countries to adopt Starlink
- Microsoft’s Command Palette is a powerful launcher for apps, search, and more
Weekly Links 04.28–05.04
- Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts (kottke.org)
- One Million Chessboards (kottke.org)
- I Just Got Into Harvard. My MAGA Grandparents’ 6-Word Reaction To My Acceptance Devastated Me. (kottke.org)
- Hundreds of Free Images From Studio Ghibli Films (kottke.org)
- Why Lawrence of Arabia Still Looks Like a Billion Bucks (kottke.org)
- A collection of movie mistakes (kottke.org)
- SXSW ’11 (Naz Hamid)
- Reducing spend with Apple (Cory Dransfeldt)
- JAMstack is an entirely unnecessary term (Cory Dransfeldt)
- Weeknotes 25:17 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- The Mayor (Chris Coyier)
- Mars (Chris Coyier)
- Don’t let your voice be flattened by the über theme (Dave Rupert)
- State of Devs: A Survey for Every Developer (CSS-Tricks)
- Koji Kobura Remakes the GoldenEye N64 ‘Pause Music’ (Daring Fireball)
- Studio Notes #30 (SimpleBits)
- A decade of employment (Blake Watson) — “We can always look for ways to improve our work for the people that use it. I’ll never tire of putting the humanity into my work. And I’ll never lose my wonder for the web.”
News
- Two-time Stanley Cup winner Mike Sullivan out as Penguins coach — I really thought Sullivan would stick around to close out the Sidney Crosby era. He’s a great coach, but it sounds like maybe he wasn’t happy about waiting out the Penguins rebuild. Predictably, he wasn’t unemployed for long, as the Rangers gave him a huge pay day.
- Elon Musk’s DOGE ties could save his companies billions: Senate report
- Tesla won’t have to report as many Level 2 crashes after Trump’s rule change
- Nothing’s second modular phone reinvents the rules
- Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI — ☹️
- Bird Buddy’s new Petal backyard nature cameras attract and document more than just birds
- Former Disney employee sentenced to three years for menu hacking
- White House calls Amazon ‘hostile’ after report says it will label tariff price hikes — It sounds like Amazon is not actually displaying the tariff prices, but I really think they should, along with every other online retailer. The tariffs are a tax on consumers, so why not display them separately just like sale tax?
- AirPlay security flaws could help hackers spread malware on your network
- 8BitDo suspends US shipments from Chinese warehouse due to tariffs — Ugh, I was just looking at getting some 8bitdo controllers soon, and I have been wanting a couple of their keyboards as well. 😩
- France accuses Russia of engineering years of high-profile cyberattacks
- Raycast’s iOS app is now available for AI chat and notes
- Donald Trump might actually believe these Calibri labels are real MS-13 tattoos
- WiZ’s new TV light sync box undercuts Philips Hue’s pricing by half
- A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store
- Epic says Fortnite is coming back to iOS in the US
- Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide
- Fortnite’s Star Wars season will let you fly an X-Wing and use Force Lightning
- Polygon sold to GameRant owner Valnet — ☹️
- House Republicans move to stop California from setting its own vehicle pollution standards
- Google dusts off Google Voice and adds three-way calling
- Microsoft goes passwordless by default on new accounts
- TikTok fined $600 million for sending user data to China
- GTA 6 release delayed to May 2026
- Trump issues order to pull funding for NPR and PBS — 😡
- Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
- Trump, Asked if He Has to ‘Uphold the Constitution’, Says, ‘I Don’t Know’
Weekly Links 04.21–04.27
- A lack of frequency increases the pressure to deliver quality (Rach Smith)
- I think I need to change my attitude towards webrings (Andy Bell)
- Media Diet (Chris Coyier)
- Weeknotes 25:16 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- A Web Component UI library for people who love HTML (Go Make Things)
- Newfangled Browser Alternatives (Frontend Masters Blog)
- Streamlining (Stuff & Nonsense)
- Goodbye, Chief (Louie Mantia)
- Studio Notes #29 (SimpleBits)
- The Trailer for Pee-wee as Himself, an HBO Documentary Series About Pee-wee Herman (kottke.org)
News
- Game Boy clone maker Anbernic suspends all shipments to US
- Retro game industry threatened by Trump tariffs
- Duolingo is getting a chess course
- T-Mobile is shuffling its high-end plans
- Bethesda officially reveals Oblivion Remastered, available today
- Google Fi is launching a $35 / month unlimited plan
- The US hikes tariffs on solar products from Asia
- Paul Rudd cosplays 1991 Paul Rudd in throwback Switch 2 commercial
- Elon Musk says he’ll step back from DOGE starting in May
- Ghost of Yōtei hits the PS5 in October
- Everyone wants to buy Chrome:
- OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Google
- Perplexity wants to buy Chrome if Google has to sell it
- Yahoo wants to buy Chrome
- Anker’s first Thunderbolt 5 dock has a built-in power supply
- Nintendo Switch 2 preorders were a total mess — at first and Ordering a Nintendo Switch 2 last night was chaos, predictably — The first order I was able to get through was cancelled immediately, but I was eventually able to place an order for one! 🙌
- LinkedIn will let your verified identity show up on other platforms
- This is Razer’s first vertical mouse
- Czech leaders condemn Russian threats against Dominik Hasek
- Trump goes after websites that raise money for his enemies
- Tabletop game companies sue Trump to stop tariffs
- Google is killing software support for early Nest Thermostats — You really can’t rely on any Google products sticking around for the long term. I know These thermostats are 11 and 14 years old at this point, but how often do people really want to change their thermostat?
- Trump offers a private dinner to his biggest memecoin buyers — Trump’s presidency is just a huge grift at this point.
- Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia
Weekly Links 01.20–01.26
- USPS Announces Goodnight Moon Stamps (kottke.org)
- Two “Secret” Mini-Seasons of The X-Files (kottke.org)
- Pick a Notes App: Your Notetaking Style (Part 1) (YouTube / Tiago Forte)
- 75% of Notetakers Use These 4 Apps (YouTube / Tiago Forte)
- Top 68 Apps to Take Digital Notes (2022) (YouTube / Tiago Forte)
- The First 30 Days Using a Notes App (YouTube / Tiago Forte)
- Change and risk (Robin Rendle)
- Mechanical Pencils (Robb Knight)
- Weeknotes 25:03 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Studio Notes #16 (SimpleBits)
- My approach to running a link blog (Simon Willison, via Daring Fireball)
- API Testing Clients (Frontend Masters Boost) — Insomnia is the one I’ve been using, but I need to give Yaak a try.
News
- IMDb’s CEO, who founded the site 35 years ago, is stepping down
- Microsoft’s Steam-like browser overlay is now available on Windows 11
- Netflix is raising prices again — These prices are getting crazy.
- Plex starts testing its big redesign on Apple TV
- Comcast launches a $70 sports streaming bundle with NFL, NBA, and MLB games — Another overpriced option for sports streaming.
- Oscars 2025: All the nominees, from Dune: Part Two to Wicked — I haven’t watched many of these nominees yet, so it looks like I have some work to do before March.
- Where to watch every Oscar-nominated movie
- Sony Japan ends production of recordable Blu-rays with ‘no successor’ planned
- Threads is officially getting ads — I’m sure this comes as a surprise to no one.
- Gaming subreddits ban X links over Elon Musk’s Nazi salute stunt