Interesting and useful links bookmarked by Phil Gyford
Nicely-worded post banning use of AI in r/Linocuts, r/printmaking and r/lithography. "No one was instantaneously amazing at any aspect in art. Making shit art is part of the process…"
For the long bit about the pros and cons of risks versus rules, comparing New York and Tokyo.
More for the reminiscing about forums of the early 2000s than the fashion lessons.
After a three year hiatus Buckslip is back with a lovely essay reflecting on the past, present and future of the internet and what it's done.
A code editor that started as a fork of Zed, but without its AI and telemetry. Haven't used it, but looks interesting.
I haven't tried this but it's nice to see new interesting tools/services for bloggers in 2026. By Joan Westernberg. (via The Hiro Report)
So good. Very well done.
I always enjoy these and this is a good one. Greil Marcus on, as so often, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone of old, and more.
I hadn't thought of just using Wagtail as a replacement for Django admin, but might give that a try. (via Django News)
Carryology has been doing some great posts about clothing and accessories over the past couple of months since changing their direction.
Lovely idea - a box that streams the two NTS live channels and outputs via 3.5mm jack or AirPlay, Google Cast, etc.
"In sum—as new technology, AI acts as a creator of new risks; as a capitalist instrument, it acts as an amplifier or accelerator of existing risks and trends in the capitalist system." (via Kottke)
Stuart Murdoch on the design and photos used for their album covers. (via Things Magazine)
An interesting walk to all the locations on the Monopoly board.
Entertaining thread about making early websites. (via Pete Ashton)
Rather him than me, but I enjoyed Matt's post about cautiously letting agents handle a specific email task.
The two essays Simon links to are interesting, and I really like the video too, a calm, thoughtful format.
Sounds familiar.
An app for browsing your Apple Photos library. Doesn't edit photos, their data, or albums - just a nicer way of viewing what's there. (via Michael Tsai)
Adrian Hon interviews Katrine Wind about her larp that teaches Danish teenagers about how seductive fascism can be.
Good interview with David Foster Wallace's sister.
Not sure if I've seen this before. Forked from WordPress 6.2, with no block editor, and various other improvements.
WP continues to be a mess. (via @Edent@mastodon.social)
I like the sound of the set-up and the general idea. A daily print out of Bluesky's "Popular With Friends" feed might be a nice way to ease out of using it. (via Ben Brown)
Simpler, free, and more focused on PDFs, than VueScan. Like VueScan, supports lots of scanners, including older ones.
Trying to get to grips with this.
This is so good if you remember these things. So much detail and so many games. (via b3ta newsletter)
Actual train departure board screens
"Add any public account from Instagram, Facebook, Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, X, TikTok or YouTube to quickly get a [RSS] feed" by Kyle Ford. (via Adactio)
Maybe we'll get fibre? Was originally due to be done in 2019.