Tuesday, July 01, 2025
Substack Did Not See That Coming #
newsletter.anamariecox.com
I'm dismayed every time I see content that I like being published on Substack. (Or any other big content platform to be honest. But Substack in particular.)
Monday, June 30, 2025
Effortless Software Development with Anna Filina at Nerdearla 2023 #
youtube.com
This is a very good talk
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Jeff Bezos alters Venice wedding plans after threat of inflatable crocodiles #
theguardian.com
Jeff Bezos alters Venice wedding plans after threat of inflatable crocodiles
Now that is a headline
Friday, June 27, 2025
The grindification of hobbies #
youtube.com
Not everything needs to be a job.
‘We just want to stop people being murdered’: Kneecap on Palestine, protest and provocation #
theguardian.com
I'm struggling to understand people who don't get what Kneecap are communicating
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
platforms, attention spans, paragraphs #
winnielim.org
I have to admit that my attention span isn't what it used to be as well - but just like Winnie I really like long, well-written blog posts and I should work on making mine a bit more verbose as well.
Sunday, June 22, 2025
The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran | Owen Jones #
theguardian.com
Those last two paragraphs. Wow.
Personal blogs are the best, I love yours and I’ll try and tell you why - Nothing Original Here #
nothingoriginalhere.com
I agree 100%!
Monday, June 16, 2025
the web as a space to be explored #
roytang.net
Just like Roy says: that's the kind of web that is actually interesting. Not the couple of big social media sites.
Enough With The Bullshit #
beew.me
So much bullshit everywhere
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Rubenerd: How to make StackExchange (and others) more fun #
rubenerd.com
Ruben is right: making sure places are fun and human is probably the only way forward for community websites to stand out in the age of LLMs.
Monday, June 02, 2025
Tony Hawk - What's In My Bag? #
youtube.com
Tony Hawk is very Gen X, isn't he? Nice selection of music for the 900th(!) episode of What's In My Bag?
powRSS - Feed the web #
powrss.com
This is a pretty nice little public feed reader. (And I'm not just saying that because my blog is on it.)
You've Never Seen a DJ Set Like This! | On a Boat in Bangkok #
youtube.com
They seem to have fun. And so did I, having watched it.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Proof that Patrick Stewart exists in the Star Trek universe #
ironicsans.ghost.io
Nerds!
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Scientists just made guinea pigs listen to Adele for seven days… and the results are both surprising and worrying #
musicradar.com
Headline.
Monday, May 26, 2025
Zedd: “Clarity” to “The Middle” Unlocking His Hit Song Production SECRETS #
youtube.com
This is surprisingly great. That dude is so passionate about his work, I'm slightly jealous.
pathological demand avoidance #
winnielim.org
Oh no. (Do I really keep getting more signs?)
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Pocket, One of the Only Apps I Ever Liked, Is Shutting Down #
404media.co
Mozilla is really trying to piss off everyone, aren't they?
Can Directories Rise Again? - The History of the Web #
thehistoryoftheweb.com
I think we use the web a lot differently now that we did back then. And yet, I love a good little directory somewhere.
Cursed Knowledge | Immich #
immich.app
Computers are the worst.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
It’s One of the Weirdest Mistakes in Movie History. I Spent Months Investigating How It All Went Wrong. #
slate.com
This is exactly the kind of article that I love
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Hallucinating. #
ethanmarcotte.com
Oh, absolutely.
How AI is killing joy #
leah.is
Leah is absolutely right about this.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
ChatGPT 'Reads' Photo of Coffee Cup and Tells Woman Her Husband is Cheating #
petapixel.com
Good god.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
The Missing Piece in Conversations about “Cultural Decline” #
culture.ghost.io
Maybe a bit of snooty elitism is a good thing, actually?
Monday, May 12, 2025
The Mystery Of Silent Partner, The Artist Behind The YouTube Premiere Song #
uproxx.com
Looks like they finally found the guy. Kudos to him!
Wednesday, May 07, 2025
Story woman arrested after raccoon named chewy found meth #
abcnews.go.com
The Star Wars sequels are getting weird
Thursday, May 01, 2025
State of Devs: A Survey for Every Developer #
css-tricks.com
There are some interesting questions in there, I'm looking forward to the results.
The interim pope is a guy called Kevin. Why do people find that funny? #
theguardian.com
Hehehe. Kevin.