This bit from a blog post by a Tom MacWright hit pretty close to home.
Both retrospectively and also as a source of encouragement to keep putting stuff out there.
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Cool Links No. 4
https://theindex.fyi/ An index of small and indie websites. Mostly blogs and personal websites. It’s a nice change of pace from the usual web experience.
https://github.com/zakirullin/files.md I really enjoyed reading the documentation. Personally I’m not looking for a note taking system, but the simplicity of this one is attractive.
https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has-a-secret-reference-desk Some useful Google-fu pointers to help cut thru the slop.
https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp Sobering take on the state of ai on the programming world. It’s extravagant but there are some parallels to reality.
Cool Links No. 3
https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/menwhostareatwalls/ A short blog post that inspired me to make more time for practicing meditation.
https://nbailey.ca/post/router/ “How to turn anything into a router” — considering the recent ban on offshore manufactured consimer routers, this might be good information to share.
https://guifi.net/en/whatisguifinet “Free, open and neutral telecommunications network”, a home brew internet provider mainly operating in Catalonia Spain that is free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#history Just a link to the History section of the Linux article on Wikipedia, and a feeling like history is repeating itself.
Reflecting on the previous week
As I come to the end of another Monday back to the grind, I think back to the previous week.
I easily put another ~1200 miles on the car, which does not show any signs of wear. My body on the other hand was pretty sore. However we did stop many times.
Got to drive through some pretty challenging interchanges, some roads with beautiful views of mountains overlooking farmside, some really boring roads with not much to look at, and some old familiar roads that brought me a lot of joy. On the other hand I did not drive through much traffic, which was a nice surprise.
Stopped for food and restrooms when the body called for it, and when our body or minds began to feel restless we stopped for some views, some skate parks, and some gas, but most often we stopped for a short walk on an unfamiliar trail.
The digital camera came along too, so I took a couple hundred photos. Many of these photos are blurry or with horribly wrong exposure settings, but there are a bunch that turned out pretty cool.
Family time was great as well, and long due all around. It was the purpose of the adventure, and I’m very grateful for the short time we spent together. And am really looking forward to future plans.
It was overall a pretty good week, but I’m very happy to be home and off the road.
Back to regularly scheduled programming..
Cool Links No. 2
https://sounds.spriters-resource.com/ Collection of sounds from various older games and systems.
https://kagi.com/smallweb/ Was a cool indie web index, ~~now it’s an ad for kagi~~ and now it’s back again.
https://taylor.town/succession-000 Explains how to not pay taxes by jumping through a series of hoops and using specific language
https://mervi.art/blog/make-time-for-art Encourages the reader to be creative, even when it seems impossible.
Recent Observations
Sometimes when you do what appears to be the right thing, it ends up feeling like you only made things worse. Ignore this and double down on what’s right, the outcome is often far better than you could have imagined.
Also
Sometimes you put effort into a project to show a client what you might do, and they might like your work but want something completely different. But that means you successfully convinced them that they want your work.
Cool Links No. 1
https://ooh.directory/ Collection of blogs written by individuals by category.
https://securityinabox.org/ Practical information and guides to privacy and security on a surveillance forward internet.
https://hitarththummar.xyz/posts/puddles Short entry about unavoidable mistakes that are made along the journey in life.
https://www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2026/02/26/book-covers-of-note-february-2026/ Collection of book cover designs by a particular artist.
https://archive.org/.../The.Other.Way.1975.FilmReel.AAC2.0.x264-archive.ia.mp4 A PBS Nova Documentary about the emerging energy crisis from 50 years ago.