Link Roundups
These serve three purposes:
Get me to close some open tabs on a regular basis
Help me keep an archive of things I’ve come across that have stuck with me
Sharing that archive with y’all
I hope you enjoy them.
Links, May 15th, 2026 offline Youtube; protecting oneself (in a variety of ways); on working, or scamming, or not; some stuff about code and what the internet has become
Links, April 3, 2026 of scorpions and frogs; of videogames and reality; of making things, and making things worse
Links, March 20, 2026 Zen Fascism, Mapping the Unmappable; Computers suck: on power users, resource management, and dysfunction; AI is a fascist project
Links, March 6th, 2026 working in tech; depression & supplements; on the hardware affordability crisis and its consequences; some tools for making PCBs, software, and capturing web pages as markdown
Links, Feb 27, 2026 Musical expression, tech, and Jimi; Snakes on a SSH; What feminism holds for men; Art, Joy, and Copyright Infringement; Behind the curtain on Identity Verification and LLM Tokens; Google's Authentication Antics; more on LLM harms and ethics in tech
Links, February 13th, 2026 pro-human; tactile; communities; ffmpeg; detecting preclinical dementia; a roundup of just some of the real costs of LLM addiction
Links, Jan 2nd, 2026 the death of creative business; work ethics; LLMs again; Liquid Glass (again); new botnet threat
Links, December 12, 2025 ducks & ADHD; a short story about confidence; note-taking; cyber-espionage & journalism; the nature of research; the nature of portals
Links, November 12th, 2025 building culture; restorative justice; html magazine; open source funding; digital governance; nuclear AIs
Links, October 10, 2025 sudoku, psychoacoustics, sampling, smol software, dewaffling tech, and *sigh* more on software "supply chains"
Links, September 26, 2025 bad things afoot with the Ruby language; Good medical news; Weird custom dice; Great geek videos; self-host video sites
Links, August 15, 2025 on generative art; web contrast; developing while blind; on friction; the ramblings channel
Links, July 25, 2025 Naming Things; Dubai is the city of wonton capitalism; LLMs are bad for your intelligence
Links, July 11, 2025 the effect of LLMs on Law; Hilarious reading of an RFC; Digital Sovereignty; Make Fun of Business Leaders
Links, June 13, 2025 email surveillance; turing-complete markdown; good internet; software industry soothsaying; more *sigh* on LLMs
Links, June 6, 2025 CLI domain search tool; on Bell Labs; Mu the Lost Continent Myth; Making RSS feeds more like podcasts; Signal & Recall; Confidence vs Social Dominance; LLMs are Going Just Great
Links, May 30th, 2025 the nature of music; tool choice; burnout; keeping optimism; the importance of giving a damn; technology & consent; more on the bullshitting plagiarism machines
Links, May 23rd, 2025 Apple's leadership; Martha Wells talks TV; Optimism; Design, Version control, and Centralization; Vibe Coding and AI may actually kill you
Links, April 25, 2025 On being "technical"; On being cynical; open source; data formats; cell phone bans; AI, climate change, and you
Links, April 11, 2025 CSS Layout Proposal, ffmpeg Cookbook, about the Fediverse, More Bad Things About Chatbots
Links, Feb 28, 2025 what is your work?; parental controls; phishing & digital wallets; calculator apps; BMI is racist; scrolling & feel; personal websties
Links, February 7th, 2025 The man who saved the world; Against Access; Prompt UIs; Against Personal Branding; Enhanced Terminal Keyboards
Links, January 17th, 2025 Playing God; Tarpits; Beyond Colonialism; Artists, Art-Making, and Image Formats; Ethics & Technology; Web Development is Collapsing
Links, January 10, 2025 ANSI art, OSS Synth, Visual Programming, disappointing tech, corporate structure dark patterns, personal info tip
Links, January 3, 2025 Viewing recommendation, macOS keyboard tool, software & sound, software as theory building, abandoning the quantified self
Links, December 6, 2024 Artistic Creation as Self-Preservation, SciFi Armor Analysis, GPSR & the Trade Wars, Social Media, Advertizing, LLM Econommics don't add up, Tech Personalities
Links, November 19, 2024 Slack Communities, Daylight Saving Time is bad, RSS is good, Unix tool replacements, Burnout, and the nature of Celebration
Links, October 4, 2024 UI feel, understanding furries, social media & forgetting, more on multi-factor & web components
Links, September 27, 2024 “the software supply chain”, the sonos app, switching password managers, real estate & arbitrage, web components
Links, August 30, 2024 broken design processes, the kids are still hacking (and it's alright), scaling down & run-your-own nanoservices, preferred numbers
Links, August 16, 2024 plugdata, wezterm, phone cameras back to basics, selfhosting, linkrot, the cost of too much javascript
Links, August 9, 2024 git & worse is better, public domain imagery, hypercard, done with deno, imposter syndrome, color palettes for power users
Links, August 2, 2024 kinworking vs networking, SSG for dataviz, framing "technical debt", a webcomic, technology & serendipity, and writer's block
Links, July 26, 2024 designing for expertise, RSS, open source licensing, CrowdStrike, SVG, poisoning AI, & modular music creation
Links, July 19, 2024 web frameworks & tooling, writing & websites, technology as aids for thinking, sound design outside-the-box
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