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Walkman.land is a lovingly detailed archive for portable cassette players, cataloging over a thousand Walkman models with stats, photos, tags, and even polls about how people listen to music today.

⁣⁠‌⁣⁠⁠​⁣‍⁠⁠‌‍⁠⁣​⁣​⁠​‌‍​​‌​​​‌­‌‌‍‍⁠⁣The official site for The Odyssey lets you preview how the film looks across different theatrical formats with a clever trailer that shifts aspect ratios so you can actually see the framing change in real time. That alone feels very Nolan. He’s one of the few directors who still makes film format feel like a creative choice, not just a premium screening label. And for The Odyssey, it makes a lot of sense. It’s a story built on distance, danger, the sea, bodies fighting against nature, and the feeling of being small in front of something much bigger. The format itself becomes part of the film’s language.

An unreleased Kendrick Lamar track!

I want one of these sets and honestly I’d probably put the stickers on everything I own.

The Amazon region launched a new tourism brand called Visit Amazonia. FutureBrand designed it to capture both the natural environment and the cultural richness of the area. The project also includes a “Made in Amazonia” mark to help local products get more visibility. What makes it work is how everything connects. The region, its culture and the economy all have one unified visual language now.

Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun.

Breathtaking

Jo Malinis and And A Half designed Ayala Display Sans and Ayala Sans for Ayala Malls, and every time I spot it in the wild I do the Leonardo DiCaprio OUATIH pointing meme. Bonus points to Ayala for working with actual designers too, especially at a time when a lot of malls and stores are just pumping out AI-generated marketing materials.

I’m glad Quiche Browser is getting more attention. Been using it as my go-to iOS browser for about two years now and it just works.

Bitch is a hardworking multitasker, happy to switch from noun to verb to adjective.

What a house!

Mary Oliver’s poems got me through the pandemic in ways I still can’t fully explain. Hoping this makes it to Philippine cinemas somehow.

Another great video from Anton of halfof8 about his five-hour stopover in Hong Kong.

AI-generated photos used purely for clout or worse, for spreading fake news, is a real problem here in the Philippines. A lot of it comes from DDS accounts with nothing original to say, so they just let the machine cook up whatever image fits their agenda. It’s lazy and it’s dangerous.

Jony Ive doing Jony Ive things

50 Years of Thinking Different.

Another one these map posters but this one is more accessible. Already created some for me and my partner!

Guess the album in 10 tiles or fewer

WANT. NEED. PLEASE.

I can think of a lot of animals but having a timer makes it difficult. I only got 43!

iA makes the case that Europe’s dependence on Microsoft Office has quietly become a geopolitical liability, and that replacing it with open-source clones like LibreOffice just trades one trap for another. Connecting something as mundane as margins treated as “signals of authority” sounds like a stretch, but it actually makes a lot of sense

Sometimes I wish I could be Lynn Fisher so I could code all the fabulous things I imagine, but honestly the real reason I want to be her is the sheer number of concerts she’s been to.

TIL the plastic safety cover over important buttons is called a molly guard, named after an engineer’s daughter who was invited to a datacenter and promptly pressed the big red button. Apparently she did it again later the same day, which honestly makes the naming feel well-earned.

Gosh, I just told myself this year to not buy any new calendar apps, but here I am, PLANNING to spend $10 on Dot. It’s such a beautiful app!

Current is a new RSS reader built around a “river” of stories that arrive, linger, and then fade so you never feel like you’re behind on a backlog. I love the philosophy of this reader but $10 a month for an RSS reader is just too much for me. Just me?

Protect yourself and your workers by displaying this “Private Property! No ICE” sign on your business’ front door or window. ICE agents MUST have a valid judicial warrant signed by a federal judge to enter and arrest!

Marcin Wichary’s “Unsung” is a running notebook of small, meticulous observations about software craft, UI mechanics, and how tiny interaction details add up to how tools feel over time.

I have a new favorite artist and YouTube channel. Anton of halfof8 turns everyday visuals like road signs and laundry into emotional anchors rather than background decoration, and it got me thinking more deliberately about how many small fragments from a place you can weave into a single, coherent scene.

Todd Vaziri pulls together a clear, grounded list of why “just shooting on a real street” is often a logistical nightmare

Amazing work from Puppeteer Studios. This 0:57 animation was 6 months in the making.

Cool cool cool. Planning to do one.

DAVID LYNCH FOREVER

Children on the Firetruck by Perrin Ganal

It’s finally here. 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025 by David Ehrlich

Condé Nast shut down Gourmet magazine in 2009 but kept protecting the name until 2021. Graphic designer Alex Tatusian noticed they’d stopped, so he and some friends chipped in money to grab it for themselves.

Great design doesn’t just create something new, it reveals what was always there, bringing the overlooked and everyday into the spotlight where it belongs.

Incredibly amazed how they pulled this off. This is absolute cinema.

This is how a music roundup should be!

Fran Sans is a display font in every sense of the term. It’s an interpretation of the destination displays found on some of the light rail vehicles that service the city of San Francisco.

Jesus f— christ. This just gave me anxiety.

You learn something new everyday

Explore the scale of living things, from an amoeba to a blue whale

We use the term “since time immemorial” in our household growing up. Fscinating.

I had lots of KZone magazines as a kid. After church, we’d stop at this small store where a woman sold Avon products. While my mom browsed through the brochure and chatted with her, I’d sit by the magazine rack flipping through old KZones or whatever magazine was there. And if we had extra cash, she’d buy me the new issue. Sometimes she’d even bribe me with one to tag along for groceries. Good times.

Tor Browser now has vertical tabs!

Canva unified all of Affinity’s tools (Designer, Photo, Publisher) into a single app and made it completely free forever, no catch, no stripped-back version. That’s genuinely surprising given that these apps previously cost ₱5,000 each. A smart competitive play against Adobe.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER is still one of my favorite songs. Watching Finneas strip it down and choose not to overcomplicate it is what gives the song its life. The more I watch the behind-the-scenes of the production, the more it feels honest, like it was built specifically for Billie’s voice and no one else’s.

I use Grammarly’s browser extension at work because I misspell words when I’m typing fast. That’s literally all I use it for. Just spell check. I had no idea about any of these acquisitions. I’m just hoping Grammarly still catches my typos reliably, though I’m not holding my breath.

Maragsâ is a Filipino-first typeface shaped by the pakupyâ, an accent that marks stress and a final glottal stop so its forms carry the same sharp, decisive cadence found in spoken Filipino.

Small, sturdy community-built digital systems with clear rules for ownership, value, design, and governance. Making the internet more resilient and human.

Hokusai. Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji is a large-format, museum-grade reprint of Hokusai’s Fuji series, edited by Andreas Marks, featuring traditional Japanese binding, iconic prints like The Great Wave, and multilingual commentary. I NEED THIS.

A 27” 4K, 60Hz, 12MP ultra‑wide webcam with AI features smart monitor designed to improve health and productivity at your desk. Looks like a bigger Google Nest Hub but fairly better hardware.

Smash takes down WeTransfer in this cheeky but clever campaign. Privacy, timing, and humor helped Smash win over creatives after WeTransfer’s AI terms change.

When your wedding vows come withfurniture-building and free trial period. Reminds me of that Tugeugarao City Councillor that used ChatGPT for their prayer and forgot to edit it out the assistant disclaimers.

a library of fake logos that you can use for mockups

Kenton Smith, an engineer, spotted a tiny smiley face on a voltage comparator, kicking off a broader hunt for chip art. These “silicon doodles,” common from the 1970s on, ranged from simple initials to playful scenes like a T. rex in a convertible, serving as both creative signatures and quiet anti-theft markers.

Finally, a way to cry over onions and math at the same time. The Pudding breaks down how math can help you get more even onion pieces, but also reminds readers not to stress over perfection in the kitchen.

Christian Selig walks through a practical workflow for compressing GIFs—from raw ffmpeg to gifsicle

Nick Sherman traces how Black Sabbath’s early albums built their heavy, ominous vibe not just with music but with typography—pulling from strange, niche sources during the phototype and dry-transfer era when designers often assembled letters from catalogs rather than digital fonts.

Ira Glass on Storytelling

Most of us aren’t avoiding people, we’re overwhelmed. Ghosting isn’t always cruelty; sometimes it’s collapse. — by Miski Omar

Sam Kelly’s “Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned?” explores evidence and theories about Shakespeare’s possible drug use, how it might have influenced his writing, and why it doesn’t take away from his reputation as a literary icon.

A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004.

I actually like this a lot. Impressive.

TIL, the maker of the amazing (back in the day, I guess) Topaz Adjust is the person from Topaz Labs. I mean makes sense with the name but never realized until now. Crazy. Photo is from Trey Ratfliff’s review of Topaz Adjust.

Oh my, there’s flood on this page.

Directed by Daniel Mercadante. Made completely of clips found on the web. — via kottke.org

powRSS is a public RSS feed aggregator with a mission to support the open, independent web. Anyone with a personal blog or independent site can join by submitting their RSS feed via email or a form. —by Pablo Enoc

Kante is a very minimal and digital adaption of a Garamondesque style. It is sleak, modern and clean in big sizes and very readable for small texts.

Bringing this back because I’m seeing more people using Substack again.

Yep, we do professionalize the crap out of everything. Give yourself permission to try things just for fun, without turning every interest into a big project. I like how it reminds us that it’s perfectly fine to be an amateur and just enjoy the process. — via Susan Jean Robertson"

Crazy.

No matter what you know, in the grand scheme of things you don’t know shit.

Grocery shopping is genuinely one of my favorite adult activities, but the checkout lines at major stores like mall supermarkets, Landers, or S&R are painfully long. My partner and I have developed this little game to pass the time. We would challenge each other to spot specific words on signs, products, or displays around us. Simple, free entertainment that keeps our minds sharp while we’re stuck waiting to pay for overpriced essentials.

Riccardo Mori talks about how Apple seems to beprioritizing visual consistency across its platforms at the expense of usability and distinctiveness.

Server Mono is a typeface inspired by typewriters, Apple’s San Francisco Mono, ASCII art, command-line interfaces, and programming tools.

The only footer gallery on earth

The Finder logo has changed over the years, but the dark side has been on the left forever.

WWDC25 had me glued to my screen. This Apple refresh feels like a genuine leap forward, and while Liquid Glass might look a bit ridiculous, I haven’t been this excited about an OS in years. It;s giving me joy toe be honest.

via 512 Pixels

Such a great read. I loved how it brought back that wave of nostalgia from seeing the old interfaces again. I remember how all the translucency in iOS 7 made my iPhone and even my iPad 2 feel instantly more expensive. But as someone who’s always been more of a Mac/laptop person, I’m genuinely excited to see how this design direction evolves in the next macOS. — by Sebastiaan de With

A joy to use. The haptics are so satisfying and I am floored by the dynamic lighting that responds to the phone’s movements.

I love lists like these. There are plenty of them all over at /r/macapps/)

Sky, natural computing for the Macintosh. Sky is coming this summer. You can read more at MacStories. - via The Newsprint (Josh Ginter)

Web directories are as old as the web. They were an early (and for a while, the only) solution to the challenge of collecting and discovering interesting and useful links. Before search engines, this was how we found cool stuff online. Another rabbit hole!

Flip through these cards and take turns answering questions to get to know your friends and loved ones even better.

Aims to remove all stress, and focus the game on what I like the best - stacking. No timer, no score, no gravity. Move to the next piece when you are ready, and clear lines when you are ready. — via Chris Glass

Have you ever wondered why those letters were there in the first place, and when exactly they became optional. Great internet history here. — via Initial Charge

I literally just asked Denz if this was just a Manila thing and then it suddenly showed up all over my feed. Great read! And now I finally got my answer. Also kind of funny, because I don’t even eat Ginisang Monggo as a viand or with rice. I grew up having the sweet kind for merienda instead.

Woah! I didn’t know YouTube can do interactive videos?!

Bookmarking this because I definitely want it on my site. I shelved it before because it felt a bit too tricky to figure out the first time I read about Webmentions. But maybe I’ll finally give it a go next time.

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, the handy bookmarking tool used to save articles and webpages for later.

The deep sea is Earth’s final frontier — and in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, scientists are discovering thousands of strange, unnamed species living on the ocean floor everywhere time they drop down a camera. But this alien wilderness is under threat. What happens when industry collides with a world we barely understand?

An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Published since 2025.

TIL that a Filipino engineer and physicist, Gregorio Ynciong Zara invented the first two-way video telephone. More information here.

Copy a link from your favorite streaming service, paste it into the search bar, and voilà! Links to the track on all other supported platforms are displayed. If the original source is Spotify you’ll even get a quick audio preview to ensure it’s the right track.

Neal.fun’s Internet Roadtrip: multiplayer street view where everyone votes on where to go, changing the radio station, and honking the horn

The world-renowned Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, the Netherlands, once again called upon Canon Production Printing to collaborate on a unique project. They wanted to dive into history and research what the famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting looked like in 1665 when Johannes Vermeer created this masterpiece. Led by Mauritshuis restorer Abbie Vandivere and together with Technical University Delft and scanning expert Hirox Europe, Canon took on this challenge to find out ‘Who’s that girl?’ — via kottke.org

what is the best album released by a music act at least 15 years after its debut album?

An innovative platform for automotive solutions.

An identity system for a company building AI that actually understands video. An identity system for a company building AI that actually understands video. An identity system for a company building AI that actually understands video.

This is a love letter to the people who inspire us to be bolder and braver, but also an invitation to show an unwavering belief in someone else. People show us what’s possible every day—and each of us, in our own way, can be those very people. To be a fan is to open your heart, stand courageously in your enthusiasm, and help transform the world.

I’ve always been obsessed with making sure continuity is tight and schedules are followed. But no matter how much we plan and double-check, there are still mistakes that show up later, whether in post or during public screenings. It’s frustrating because these are things we thought we had under control but clearly didn’t. …the process of cleaning up a film for newer formats like Blu-ray and 4K — which is deeply wrong. This is a much bigger topic on which I have very strong thoughts and the hottest of takes. I actually have the same thoughts. trying to clean them up often just erases a lot of the original feel of these films. I’d rather watch something a little rough around the edges than something that looks unnaturally polished.

I came across this while on a quest to find small web games that help me pause and relax my mind. — by Alexander Perrin

A reference manual for people who design and build software. Written and Illustrated by Dan Hollick

Someday I’ll get a house and make have this as one of my inspiration. This just feels home to me.

This brought back so many memories from when I first started working at my current company. We used to do a lot of creative exercises to keep things fun, and my guy Kyle would always come up with ones just like this. We’d always joke that we didn’t know how to draw (which, to be fair, was mostly just me). Kyle would walk us through it, starting with simple shapes until, somehow, we had a bird hand-drawn on our paper. Another time, we did a maneki-neko, and it was just such a fun thing to draw together.

I’ve had this sitting open in a tab for about a week now. The manicule is something I grew up seeing everywhere—books, textbooks, even online, just like the article points out with the mouse pointer (pun intended). But I also think about how much meaning a simple pointing gesture can carry, especially in drag. Whether it’s Bob the Drag Queen’s iconic purse first! or just a sharp shush motion, a pointed finger can say a lot without needing any words.

Oh my god. I love this so much. — by Katherine Yang

How sound is passed down over generations

Discovered at the T69 Complex in the Frida Leakey Korongo West Gully of Olduvai Gorge, the tools were found alongside remains of large mammals. Importantly, these tools were made from limb bones, which are denser than other types of bones and therefore more suitable for crafting durable implements. — via kottke.org

In Philippine psychology, this is similar to the dichotomy of loob (interior) and labas (exterior), except that we are more aware of what’s within us. Most of the time, it’s the outie that we try to control through embodied processes such as timpi (to contain) and sikmura (to stomach). Timpi and sikmura aren’t just practices we consciously choose, they’re more like survival instincts that kick in, especially in Filipino work culture where hierarchy and pakikisama often take center stage. You don’t always realize you’re doing it until you’re already deep in it — holding back a reaction in a tense meeting, smiling through a comment that didn’t sit right, or swallowing discomfort just to keep the peace.

Quick write-up on one of the standout props from Severance Season 2. Seriously, the amount of effort that went into it is wild. Massive credit to the props team (pun fully intended). The level of detail isn’t just impressive! It’s intentional. Everything feels like it belongs in that world, down to the most mundane object. You can tell they’re not just filling space; they’re building layers into the story with every item that shows up on screen.

How can cultures hear the same physical sounds yet translate them into language so differently? Analyzing animal onomatopoeia across languages can demystify how we shape sound into meaning. If a cow’s moo can interpreted so differently across cultures, how many other sounds might we experience uniquely through our linguistic filters? Whether cows go moo, meuh, or 음메, onomatopoeia connects us to the natural world in a way that transcends linguistic boundaries. It invites us to play with sound, to embrace the quirks of language, and to recognize our shared instinct to listen and interpret. In doing so, onomatopoeia reminds us that even the simplest of sounds can tell a universal story, endlessly fascinating in its infinite variations. by Vivian Li

Such a beautiful collection and website! A fun idea too when traveling, if only I could draw like this. — by Odding

I love Markdown so much that I wish it worked in every tool. I still forget that some software doesn’t support it all that well.

The Swiss government unveiled a new design for its passport, created by Geneva-based studio RETINAA. The passport features intricate 3D-modeled reliefs of Switzerland’s landscapes, custom typefaces, and security features that use water as a recurring theme to symbolize movement and connection. The color palette shifts through a gradient inspired by the country’s diverse landscapes, and under ultraviolet light, hidden details emerge, creating a layered, interactive experience. It is so beautifully made. I want to see and hold one in person.

This is exactly how it should be. The example even matches my ideal for how feedback should be given over email. I honestly want to send this to my clients. I try to make things easier for both of us by sending Frame.io links, but some people are just stuck on writing feedback in emails, and they’re not great at it. This is how it should be done.

Babies aren’t very good at adhering to schedules. And so Maggie Appleton made this tiny tool that shows a probability distribution graph of spontaneous labour starting on each day of your pregnancy.

Love this. I live for the term and it’s usually what I do. Friends and family often ask why I much prefer using my laptop than the phone. This is mainly because I go deep down the rabbit hole of an internet walk and sure, I could save things to my read-it-later, but there’s something deeply satisfying about exploring the web on a bigger screen with multiple tabs branching in different directions. The phone just can’t match that experience. — by Spencer Chang and Kristoffer Tjalve

Matt McInerney guessed correctly that the ampersand is one for which we have special affection, and asked if there was anything else we could say about it. How could we not? Ampersand, after all, is H&Co’s middle name.

How long have I been in this place? I cannot say. In the darkness, time has lost meaning. The only days I remember are Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978), the only nights, Nights of Cabiria (Fellini, 1957).

Absolutely love this. Reminds me of the person back in my hometown who makes those custom stamps for my mom. Such a specific craft but one that always fascinated me. — by Marcin Wichary

A filmmaker responds to Lars von Trier’s call for a new muse with a unique application. — via Aeon

It’s time to opt out.

Enshittification, disenshittification, enshittifying, counterenshittificatory, antienshittificatory, and a lot more. This is a long one. But very much on point!

V.H. Belvadi probably has one of the most well-thought website that has a lot of character and this post explains it all. — via Chris Glass

Just found out about Binocular Shot. Part of me is disappointed because I’ve had this weird fascination with films featuring binocular shots ever since watching The Grand Budapest Hotel. Thought I might create something around this someday. But I’m also secretly pleased because now I have a list of films I’ve missed. Time to dive into some new viewing material.

The song started with a Tumblr post from last year, where multiple users shared stories about human resources training courses that used homophobic slurs in the context of what not to say. A user named bigfoots-biggest-fan saw the post last month and completed the dance remix on January 20th. — via Garbage Day

The internet’s favorite sex researcher is a libertarian rationalist OnlyFans star with no real research credentials

It doesn’t matter that the web is the perfect medium for just-in-time delivery of information. It doesn’t matter that web browsers can now do just about everything that native apps can do. In many ways, I wish this were a technical problem. At least then we could lobby for some technical advancement that would fix this situation. But this is not a technical problem. This is a people problem. Specifically, the people who make websites — by Jeremy Keith

Katy Cowan, Creative Boom’s editor and co-host of the new podcast, explains what it’s all about. Some movies change you forever, she says. Some leave you emotionally wrecked, some haunt your dreams, and some take over your life in ways you never saw coming.

The Hydrant Directory is a free design resource created from public infrastructure. Each hydrant has been processed into color palettes for free use by artists and designers. — by Day Rose

Steve Job’s driving motivation

In celebration of Marya E. Gates’s new book, Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words, Marya E. Gates selects one sensational film from each of the nineteen women filmmakers she has interviewed to highlight the breadth of artistic contributions they have made to cinema’s past, present and future. Mira Nair mentioned!

Some workplaces (and plenty of folks with their own preferences) are still using Skype, but it looks like it’s finally time to make the jump to Teams.

It was not a miracle when the earth quaked and petals covered the Carmelite Monastery in Lipa, Batangas. — by Chia Amisola

Fast Company’s Co.Design held a competition to design an infographic diagramming the complex plot of the blockbuster movie Inception. Rick Slusher’s winning entry is fundamentally a timeline of Inception’s dream architecture, with each character’s trajectory represented.

A visual essay inspired by the Louvre, of all damn things — by Caitlin Dewey of Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends

When I first wanted to start blogging, there was this unspoken rule that you HAD to use WordPress to be taken seriously. That, and you needed to monetize immediately with Adsense and other ad platforms. But all I wanted was a simple space to write down my thoughts. I eventually tried Tumblr instead, but that quickly morphed into just another place where I reblogged interesting stuff rather than creating anything original. — by Matt Webb

Craig Mod’s version of leave no trace

A guide for your daily professional interactions by Akash Rajpurohit

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Blogging forces clarity. It makes you structure your thoughts, sharpen your perspective. You stop writing fluff because — let’s be honest — you’re writing for yourself. And if you can’t keep yourself interested, nobody else stands a chance. When you write, you think better. When you think better, you create better. — by Andy Hawthorne

Words of Type is a platform to expand and practice your knowledge in typography.

Recently discovered Marginalia Search on Instagram Reels. Marginalia Search is an independent open source Internet search engine operating out of Sweden. It is principally developed and operated by Viktor Lofgren. Marginalia isn’t seeking to replace Bing or Google, but to complement them, to provide a minority report that keeps them honest.

Written by Craig Ainsley, Narrated by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Animation by Anomaly — via Chris Glass. A gem for Christmas.

I may not be an avid reader, but I’m a sucker for great book cover design so here’s Lithub’s 167 best book covers of 2024]. Reminds me of one of my favorite artists, Elisha Zepeda.

I appreciate restaurants that put real thought into menu design. Here in the Philippines, most places stick to basic wall menus above the cashier or bulky menu books crammed with infographic-style layouts. During peak pandemic, I tried launching a fancy e-menu with QR codes in my hometown. The timing wasn’t great - most folks weren’t ready for digital menus, and not everyone had reliable access to smartphones. A bit ahead of its time, perhaps.