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, 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 23rd, 2026 the relationship between culture and technology Links, Jan 16, 2026 synthesizers, software's place in the world, the true nature of genAI Links, Jan 2nd, 2026 the death of creative business; work ethics; LLMs again; Liquid Glass (again); new botnet threat Links, December 26th, 2025 information ecosystems; technology; maps; public domain day Links, December 19th, 2025 font-making; computing metaphors; affordability; maps 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, December 5th, 2025 command-line stuff Links, November 12th, 2025 building culture; restorative justice; html magazine; open source funding; digital governance; nuclear AIs Links, November 7th, 2025 math & sound synthesis; creepy tech; document rendering; calendering Links, October 31, 2025 spooky link edition: data broker opt-out; css classes; Links, October 24, 2025 music economics, code&color, tech longevity & resiliency, bathroom availability Links, October 18, 2025 apps vs web; software quality; music streaming; cynicism, friction, and cheat codes Links, October 10, 2025 sudoku, psychoacoustics, sampling, smol software, dewaffling tech, and *sigh* more on software "supply chains" Links, October 3, 2025 Treat modeling, in a variety of forms 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, Sept 19th, 2025 ease of development; the rise of whatever; the nature of resistance 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 18, 2025 Dataviz Inspiration, Work & Ethics, Phone Privacy, more on the pitfalls of LLMs Links, April 11, 2025 CSS Layout Proposal, ffmpeg Cookbook, about the Fediverse, More Bad Things About Chatbots Links, March 21, 2025 Software & Co-Existence, Privacy, Baiting Scammers Links, Feb 28, 2025 what is your work?; parental controls; phishing & digital wallets; calculator apps; BMI is racist; scrolling & feel; personal websties Links, February 21, 2025 The tech of politics and the politics of tech Links, February 14th, 2025 Model Making as Bias; Tech Work & PTSD; Schneier on DOGE; Find Your People Links, February 7th, 2025 The man who saved the world; Against Access; Prompt UIs; Against Personal Branding; Enhanced Terminal Keyboards Links, January 31st, 2025 Urusula K. LeGuin on “Technology”; JavaScript Temporality; more AI poison 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 13, 2024 Your personal website, storing time, how to think about energy efficiency 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 22, 2024 Moderation, Safety, Expertise, Invisibility, Outliers, Consent, Locations Links, November 15, 2024 Consuming, Creating, and What's needed; Making Art against odds; Math & Maps Links, November 8, 2024 technological independence & resiliency, getting serious, building empathy Links, November 1, 2024 Where the Web is going, Spotify rips off artists, Team Stages, 1-bit tiles 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 11, 2024 care networks, domain politics, web forums, economics, software & AI, roblox 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, September 13, 2024 AI Supercuts Links, September 6, 2024 game doors, documentation tips, originality, and collaborative computing 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