Cool links of the week
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in weekly posts. Hope you enjoy!
My favorite mouse costs less than USD 10. Who needs a MX Master?
Ductts. A diary for crying and tears. For iOS.
Baseline. A nice theme for Obsidian.
Just Buy Nothing. A fake online store to scratch that shopping itch. According to the creator of the site, “this is either the dumbest idea of all time or something that will actually help people stop giving their money to these corporations that are actively trying to make their sites as addicting as possible while the quality goes down and prices go up…” Tip from Rafael.
Compare Small Form Factor PC Cases. Shows the size and volume of various computers.
“Break glass in case of emergency,” Liquid glass edition. If you enable some accessibility options, macOS 26 “Tahoe” looks like a 1990s OS.
Windows XP-themed Crocs, The Verge. The missing merch from Microsoft’s 50th anniversary celebrations. As expensive (USD 80) as it is ugly.
Term-Shdw. A small application that creates a “comet effect” for the mouse cursor inside the terminal.
Subtitle Edit. Video subtitle editor. Free, for Windows.
I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display. Through the kiloxp.com site you can interact with the display and there’s a live stream of it changing on YouTube.
Threadbare. “Story-driven, collaborative game where players don’t just explore a world—they co-create it.” Still in development, Linux only.
NextDNS gains feature to bypass age verification, r/nextdns.
“Meta AI, what app do you recommend for private messaging?”
A friendly introduction to SVG. Drawing on web pages with code. Who would have thought?
A partial comparison of window management interactions in iPadOS 18 and 26. Maybe it was harder to discover these gestures in iPadOS 18, but it seems like a better thought-out thing (and better overall) than the version 26 implementation.
F-Droid Search Metrics. Statistics from F-Droid, the Android app store from an ideal world.
Cheat Sheets. Repository of quick references for various technologies. Tip from Alexandre.
Known bug in NetBSD’s sleep command, via @ayke@hachyderm.io. The command can’t handle durations longer than 250 billion years. If necessary, put the command in a loop, with each command limited to about 200 billion years.